Glasgow

Advisory Groups help our staff teams by keeping them up to date with developments in their sector and their locality by making a contribution to developing the leadership of the place they live or work.

The Advisory Group members for this area are:

Gerry Docherty
Duncan Gilchrist
Janette Harkess
Tracey Kelly
James McClafferty
Juli McQueen
Candy Munro
Stuart Patrick
Mohammed Razaq
Caroline Stuart
David Thomson

You can find out more about the role of our Advisory Groups here.

'Glasgow' means 'dear green place', and Glasgow indeed has over 70 parks and open spaces - more than any other city its size. Steeped in history, yet defined by innovation, Glasgow's breathtaking Victorian architecture and traditional welcoming embrace have provided a stately inheritance for the city's commercial resurgence and cultural vigour.

As with most cities, Glasgow is a place of great contrasts - and what it's like to live and work here depends on whose eyes you're looking through and what their experiences are.  We have considerable discrepancies between the 'haves' and the 'have-nots' in Glasgow on everything from aspirations for life, to life expectancy; from levels of obesity to educational attainment and innovation, and from levels and types of crimes to culture and entertainment.

Glasgow was declared a Unesco City of Music in 2009 and will host the Commonwealth games in 2014. The city is home to Scotland's principal performing arts organisations including the Scottish Opera, Scottish Ballet, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama and the world famous Glasgow MacIntosh School of Art. Glasgow is also home to more than 20 wonderful museums and galleries, including the world famous Burrell Collection and Glasgow Art Gallery & Museum with Salvadore Dali's "Christ of St John on the Cross" in its collection.

In 2009 the Lonely Planet guidebook tipped Glasgow as one of the top cities in the world to visit in coming years, and Glasgow is listed in the book's 'Top 10 Cities' section - the only UK destination featured.

The city is the second largest and most popular shopping destination in the UK. The growth in boutique hotels and major chains alike has seen the number of hotel rooms rocket from under 1,000 in 1983 to over 18,000 today. Tourism in the Greater Glasgow region now employs some 55,000 people. Throughout Glasgow's history, one thing remains constant - the friendliness of Glaswegian people.