Unity Centre Glasgow

We’ve been amazed by the response to our recent financial appeal. Thanks to your generous subscription, we’ve been able to reach the target amount of £2,500. This means we have been able to get the outstanding fixtures and fittings needed to open the new charity shop, and are no longer at risk of having the phones cut off in the Centre.

Although the charity shop should now be self-sufficient, the Unity Centre is only able to operate in the way that it does through the generosity of its supporters. Thank you for helping to make it possible.

The UNITY Centre needs your help to stay open.

We need to raise £2,500. Please make a donation today to help us.

Over the three years the Unity Centre has been open in Glasgow over 2,000 asylum seekers and their dependents have registered their personal details with us. On average thirty people come into the Centre every day to sign before they go to report or because they need our help.

At the same time we have given support to over 300 people who have been put into detention without warning by the Home Office. Over half of the people we have helped have been released with their families and returned back to Glasgow to continue their asylum claim.

For the last three years we have been open from 10.30 to 6pm five days a week. And we have done all of this with only volunteers and without funding. No-one is paid to work in the Unity Centre and we rely 100 per cent on donations from supporters.

Over the coming month we hope to start an ambitious new project – the Unity in the Community charity (registered charity SCO40466) which will have a second Unity office and shop at Govan Cross. This charity will allow us extend the sort of services we provide for asylum seekers and refugees and will let us organise more intercultural events to bring people together in the local community.

Please read the full financial appeal here now

For details of how to make a donation click here!

Unity were invited to participate in June’s Govan Fair procession on the 5th of June. With help from the Carnival Arts Centre, our contingent was an awesome sight.

Our float was widely recognised as the missing statue from the square at Govan Cross.

Thanks to all who participated, or who turned out to see the parade! If anyone has any additional photographs, we’d love to see them.