Glasgow City Mission

The first 50 nights of Glasgow City Mission's 2022/23 Overnight Welcome Centre have seen hundreds of guests accessing the service who were otherwise at risk of rough sleeping, the charity has revealed.

Glasgow City Mission is to open its Overnight Welcome Centre (OWC) on November 30th.

Glasgow City Mission has renewed its commitment to tackling rough sleeping, building on the experience and expertise of running a winter project for the last 12 years, and is again the mission's aim to make sure no one needs to sleep outside this winter. Each year the organisation has looked at this

Housing associations, drug services and benefits services need to join forces and become far more interlinked if Scotland has a hope of tackling the scourge of drug deaths, according to speakers at SHARE’s Bitesize Briefing on the Role of Social Housing in Tackling Drug Abuse this week. Tackli

Glasgow City Mission has revealed that four men involved with the charity have started new jobs. Two of the organisation's interns finished in June and they are both now employed. Anthony is working in the Recovery Unit at the Mungo Foundation in Glasgow and James is a Homeless Support Worker with A

A total of 401 people came through the doors of Glasgow City Mission’s Overnight Welcome (OWC), which ran from 1 December 2021 until 31 March 2022, new figures have revealed.

The developer behind plans for a new office development in Glasgow's Broomielaw office district is in talks with Glasgow City Mission to relocate the homelessness charity.

Glasgow City Mission is to deliver the Overnight Welcome Centre (OWC) again this winter.

A new report has highlighted a decade of work by Glasgow City Mission to ensure nobody needed to sleep rough in Glasgow during the coldest months of the year.

Glasgow's Winter Night Shelter will open on December 1st this year with a change of name and a new location. Now known as the Overnight Welcome Centre, the emergency accommodation for people at risk of rough sleeping in winter will be provided in a Glasgow hotel, rather than in Lodging Housing Missi

The calm efficiency and first-class service that guests of a modern, boutique hotel might reasonably expect is to be provided in a brand-new multi-agency advice and support hub for people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness. Fitted out in cool colours, contemporary furniture and designer lig

Glasgow City Council is seeking views on a new draft strategy aimed at helping vulnerable people involved in street begging in the city. Public consultation on the document is underway and people are invited to study the strategy then contribute their views via the council's website.

A new strategy which outlines measures to help people involved in street begging in Glasgow will go before councillors tomorrow ahead of public consultation. The draft strategy on Street Begging aims to improve the lives of people long term and help lift them out of poverty so they have no need to b

Charles Maasz, chief executive of Glasgow City Mission, reflects on the recent tragic events in Glasgow which saw a stabbing attack take place at the Park Inn Hotel. It is a fact that in Glasgow we are host to high numbers of people and communities who have fled all manner of situations from al

Night shelters and hotel rooms as a response to homelessness will be actively designed out over the next phase according to plans published today by a collective of 21 leading charities and academic sector organisations. This is the first in a series of Route Maps from the Everyone Home Collective t