Food Train Glasgow could close within weeks if it doesn't secure funding.
Dozens of health and social care experts have backed a campaign to save a Glasgow charity that provides vital support to older people. Food Train Glasgow is facing closure within weeks after its funding application for the next three years was rejected by Glasgow City Council.
Almost 30 leading figures have signed an open letter to Glasgow City Health and Social Care Partnership urging it to step in with the funds to save Food Train’s city branch.Signatories include Scottish Care chief executive Donald Mackaskill, Age Scotland chief executive Mark O’Donnell and Peter Kelly, director of the Poverty Alliance. Others include academics and organisation leaders in areas including food security and malnutrition.
It reads: “The peril that Food Train’s Glasgow branch now faces does not demonstrate a Scotland where people from every walk of life take pride and pleasure in, and benefit from, the food they produce, buy, cook, service and eat each day.“Without Food Train, hundreds of older people across the city will not be able to access food in a way that prioritises choice and dignity. It will instead lead to an increase in food insecurity and malnutrition.
The letter comes after a petition launched by Food Train - calling on the HSCP to find the funds to support its work - reached more than 4,000 signatures.
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