The Bambury is a great place for the local community, offering services such as after school care,…read morea creche and a cafe, as well as ever changing youth projects for local schools and the surrounding community. I first heard about this place when I was at school, intrigued that they had a decent music department and volunteers that were keen to get local kids with an interest in music on board. As a little drummer girl, I was dying to go along and see what was on offer. My friends and I went along and were amazed at the facilities, including a practice room with a drum kit, guitars and amps, as well as decent recording facilities. Absolutely free of charge, we were able to go along and practice, or even just try our hand at something new. On one occasion, there was a drum workshop, where there were all sorts of drums including toms and bongos, which were combined together, with lots of us playing at the same time. Lots of fun and a great local initiative to get kids involved in music and encourage them to get involved in their local community.

Market on the Green is part of the Gorbals Recycles Project. The head office is based in Commercial…read moreRoad in the Gorbals where the shop there is a bike shop. This branch is a charity shop with some cracking merchandise on sale. The charity shop offers free uplift for any old items you may want to give away. Gorbals Recycles aims to prevent land fill by recycling people's old furniture, brick-a-brac etc. They sell really good quality items and clean everything brought into the shop. The volunteers steam clean and tag the garments in the back shop. The shop is although in the city centre is a bit hidden away. It's located at the bottom of Saltmarket near to the high court. It's not got a lot of passing trade hence why I thought I should Yelp this project. Gorbals recycles supports volunteers and unemployed trying to get back into work. It's an excellent project and deserves lots of support. The shop is in a lovely spot where Glasgow Green is just over the road, so if you're ever swinging by to Glasgow Green swing by Market on the Green.

This charity shop offers wheelchair hire for free, however you can make a monetary donation if you…read moreare in a position to do so, but there is no pressure whatsoever to comply My partner broke her ankle and is on a full surgical cast the nurse at Glasgow Royal advised her about this offer, and needless to say we went and were shown around the shop and they advised us as to the most appropriate wheelchair for my partner, without this service it would have meant that on essence she would have been house bound to a grater extent. Again and I have no qualms about saying this we are so lucky to have places. Like this in our Country. Hope you never need to use the service but its there Thanks

Fairly newly-built community centre - attended a local belly dance event there at the weekend…read more Although a little awkward to find, there's plenty of parking (well lit Bridgeton has a reputation (unfounded or not) or not being the nicest of areas) and the staff are friendly. Nice bright clean well laid out facilities. Oh yeah and cheap bar prices!

I used to visit St Margarets hospice quite often when they had one of their charity shops in…read moreSauchiehall street. They took over this old shop quite a few years ago possibly the second biggest charity shop other than the Salvation Army. Inside they have quite a large selection of furniture, Bric a brac, shoes and jewellery. Not often that l ever see anywhere that sells records these days these guys had 100's of them must have been a recent donation. I quite often donate items to this shop they always have a quick turn around of items. Some items can be expensive to buy one of my negatives at this shop when l donate a lot of items and they pick it up you are not given a time when they will be there for collection so feel it's such a waste of a whole day.

Embarrassingly this was the first time I've given blood in a couple of years. Since moving to…read moreGlasgow last year I've been meaning to do it. After seeing on Facebook that they were running low on my blood type (a good thing to keep an eye on) I thought I'd look up when they were open. Turns out you can make an appointment after work on Wednesday and Thursday. They are open until 7 these nights, which is great! No excuse for 9-5 people ;) All the members of staff were brilliant, I go there at 6.05 and had left by 6.50. It probably would have been quicker, but because it had been over two years I had to see a senior consultant. The lady giving out juice and bicutes afterwards was lovely, and really made sure you were feeling fine before letting you leave. All in all this place is a great resource, well run and spotlessly clean. It's in such a convenient location if you're in town as well. I need to make an effort to give blood more often!

Any excuse to visit Nelson Mandela place is welcome. I am so unbelievably proud that the city I…read morecall home renamed the place where the South African Consulate was located in 1986. South Africa was still apartheid and Nelson Mandela was still imprisoned. So any excuse to visit is welcome even if it involves giving up some of my blood. The centre is located in a beautiful building and is as you would expect spotlessly clean. All the staff here are lovely and I can imagine that if you were in the least bit nervous would be amazingly good at talking you down and getting your blood. As far as I am concerned the absolute best bit about donating blood is that you are forced to have a snack and a drink before they let you leave! Obviously with me there has never been any need to use anymore force than "tea, coffee or juice?" and I'm always going to choose a tunnocks tea cake.

New to You is the third branch from the Gorbals Recycles Project. This is another charity shop…read morefocused more on furniture with a few books and toys thrown in. Ooh I forgot, they also have a sweetie counter, I just had to buy me some 10p mix ups. Yum! They had some cracking deals with wardrobes and sofas from £20. Not a lot of items stay there too long, while I was there, a chair was sold and the Gorbals Recycles luton truck turned up in which they were bringing in items as fast as they were taking out. Stock is replenished frequently due to the great bargains they have on offer. The shop is immaculately clean, you can tell it's well looked after. It's a warm and friendly place, equal to their partner shops in town and in the Gorbals. It's such a great project and everyone I've met on the project has been really helpful. Gorbals Recycles supports it's volunteers which you can tell and they also support unemployed trying to get back into work. They also try to prevent land fill through recycling many various items that people no longer want or need. New to You also has some of the bicycles from the Gorbals shop on sale, they said many have taken an interest since they put them on display. This shop is situated in a cracking location in Partick, on the Dumbarton Road line of great charity shops. It's also a hop, skip and a jump from Partick train/subway/bus station. There's also plenty of buses that pass by. It's an ideal spot so I would definitely check what stock they've got, whatever's in the window goes pretty quickly so I'd get in there quick.