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The prize of a lifetime International


This is Milk goes global


This is Milk Ltd, a Glasgow based business transformation company, has successfully completed its first international project – in its first year. The digital delivery project was a complete online overhaul for a Canadian-based personal trainer with global ambitions, UFiiT by Adrianne. The team took a holistic


Pamela Rae, the five millionth visitor, with David McQueen of Glasgow Science Centre


Glasgow Science Centre welcomes its five millionth visitor G


lasgow Science Centre has celebrated welcoming its five millionth visitor since


opening its doors to the public in 2001. Te lucky person, Pamela Rae, her husband, two children, and her father have all been awarded lifetime membership. Tanks to the Centre’s growing


recognition and popularity with visitors from across Scotland and beyond, the Glasgow Science Centre can now proudly say its welcomed almost as many people


through as its doors as live in the whole of Scotland. Pamela and nine additional


guests returned to Glasgow Science Centre to be awarded with their lifetime memberships, as well as a VIP tour, private star-show in the Centre’s full dome digital planetarium, front row seats at the ‘It’s a Gas Science Show’, and a sightseeing boat tour on the River Clyde. Since the Glasgow Science


Centre opened in 2001, it has atracted investment from a


number of public and private investors as well as partnerships with a number of academic institutions. Te Centre has opened several memorable exhibitions, including BodyWorks, its Powering the Future exhibition which addresses the energy trilemma, and Te Crunch which invites visitors to take a fresh look at the sustainability of our food. It has also been home to a number of travelling exhibitions including 1001 Inventions, Inside DNA and Molecular Machines.


UKSE awards a trio of community grants


Three is the magic number for UK Steel Enterprise (UKSE), which has awarded more than £8,000 to a trio of community projects across Lanarkshire and Ayrshire. UKSE, the Tata Steel subsidiary, offers


finance to growing businesses and grants to community projects to support economic regeneration in traditional steel producing areas. Three community groups, Jack’s Garage, Little Art School and Paradventures, have been awarded funding for projects which will benefit the communities of Rigside, Ayr and Lanark. Jack’s Garage, a social enterprise in Rigside,


received £2500 for an initial feasibility study. The Little Art School in Ayr also received


£2500 for a new art programme for young carers. The final recipient was Lanark-based charity Paradventures, which organises and delivers outdoor and residential adventures for disabled young people. Funding of £2350 was used to pay for a professional promotional video to showcase the charity’s services to people with disabilities and encourage them to venture into the great outdoors. Additional funding of £1.5 million has been put in place by UKSE to help support Scotland’s areas affected by recent steel industry job losses, on top of the £10 million already earmarked for UK steel communities over the next five years.


approach, auditing the existing business, looking at customer experience and online presence. Both This is Milk and Adrianne, the owner of UFiiT by Adrianne, were passionate about creating an excellent customer experience. By remote working


with Adrianne, across time zones and oceans, This is Milk identified what was important to him and his customers, and translated this into a completely new website, brand, proposition and an engaging social media presence. This is Milk also designed and executed a launch campaign.


Paradventures’ Gordon McGregor on his 4x4 wheelchair with Anne Clyde of UKSE


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