Libraries, museums, community centres and sports facilities are essential components of Glasgow’s cultural and leisure offering.
How to run the city’s community venues has been a heated debate since covid forced Glasgow Life, the arms-length organisation charged with running the services, to shut the doors in March 2020 - and as residents prepare to go to the polls they all want to know what their candidates plan to do to get local venues re-opened and kept open.
Glasgow Life's income was wiped out overnight by covid. In June last year, council finance director Martin Booth told councillors and campaign groups that earnings had “frankly fallen off a cliff at the start of the pandemic”.
