A surge in businesses signing up for the Scotland Loves Local Glasgow gift cards now means that there are over 1,200 places to spend the gift cards in.
Hundreds more are working their way through the registration process, with the total expected to reach beyond 1,500 in the coming weeks. Glasgow City Council have now distributed the cards, worth £105, to 85,000 households across the city.
Councillors decided to use the gift cards to help eligible, low-income households cope with the cost of living crisis, as well as to provide a multi-million pound injection into the local economy, with the gift cards only able to be used in city businesses registered to accept them. More than £5 millionhas already been spent using the 73,000 gift cards activated since they were distributed by the council last month, and people who have received the cards but not yet activated them are being urged to do so.
