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Glasgow Live
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Chiara Pollock

Lifeline Glasgow charity helping to feed elderly crowdfunding to stay open

A Glasgow charity which helps the elderly community faces closure as its council funding ends today, Friday March 31.

Food Train Glasgow has been deemed as a 'lifeline' for it's benefactors, as volunteers and staff are desperately seeking ways to keep the shopping delivery service in the city going as concerns of its potential closure become a reality.

Glasgow City Council has funded the bulk of the charity's operations since it launched a decade ago. The team now fear that this will have a 'disastrous' impact on older people across the city because sometimes the volunteers are the only people the elderly see.

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