8 . Glasgow Business September/October 2012
CHAMBER NEWS
Chamber raises roof for Amy
Music video Your Chamber opened its doors to multi-award winning singer Amy Macdonald, giving her free rein of our roof to film the video for her new single, Pride! The video features people showing off the things
in life that make them most proud, and includes a wide variety of all things Scottish, from Alasdair Gray and his murals at Òran Mór, to footage of Heilan’ coos! The 24-year-old from Bishopbriggs, who has sold
more than three million albums, told of her delight at how the video had turned out. She said: “I’m so glad everyone seems to be enjoying the Pride video. I love all the real people who helped make it. We filmed the video in Glasgow and it wasn’t raining. A bit of respite from this beautiful Scottish summertime.” The song is taken from Amy’s latest album, Life In A Beautiful Light, which reached number two in the charts.
http://bit.ly/MvtOkI video online Get the Singer Amy
Macdonald filmed some of her music video on the Chamber’s roof
Janitor project helps people into work
Training A project which provides lifeline training for the unemployed has helped hundreds of people into work – and put some sparkle into Glasgow’s neighbourhoods at the same time. The Community Janitors
programme, a partnership between Glasgow Housing Association (GHA) and Glasgow Regeneration Agency (GRA), was launched in 2006. Since then it has created training
places for 1293 people and, to date, has helped nearly 700 of them move into employment. A further 80 trainees were recently recruited to the programme, bringing the total training places offered to 1373. Communities have benefited from the cleaning, weeding, grass cutting, hedge trimming and graffiti removal carried out by the janitors – or jannies as they’ve become known.
The janitors and their supervisors
are employed by GRA, but work in GHA neighbourhoods. Recently, GHA and GRA have
started offering jannies the opportunity of an extra six-month placement on top of their initial six months to give them wider experience. More formal training, leading to
qualifications, has been introduced and the jannies get the chance to study for a Chartered Institute of Housing Level 2 certificate in Neighbourhood Maintenance. They’re also given more support to brush up their interview and job application skills through GHA’s Training Academy and have access to a dedicated team of job advisors in the Regeneration Agency. The programme last year had an almost 60 per cent success rate in
converting trainees into employment, which reflects well against similar intermediate labour market employability models. Most move into full-time jobs earning above the minimum wage.
Research has shown that for
every £1 spent on the programme, Glasgow derives £3.80 in economic and environmental value in terms of savings to the benefit system and improvements to neighbourhoods.
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