A “lifeline” Glasgow charity which delivers food to hundreds of older people is facing the axe.
Its application for funding of £447,000 over the next three years is on a list of bids that members of the City Administration Committee are being recommended to refuse.
“To be hit with this bolt out of the blue less than two days before councillors consider the recommendation is alarming. Hundreds of older people across the whole city will be left without food. READ MORE: 'Her heart chose love in Glasgow': Woman retraces her mother's amazing 1951 trip across Europe "This is a shock, and it is very short-sighted of the council to remove what is a lifesaver service for many of us," said Kirsty, a former art teacher who lives in the west end.
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