SDG 10 - Reduced Inequalities

Coffee roasters & café in Glasgow's City Centre, on Gordon Street right outside the Glasgow Central Station. A great locally-run option when arriving to or departing from Glasgow via train!

Category Is Books is a Glasgow's local, independent, queer/LGBTQIA+ bookshop in the city's Southside. Everyone welcome (they're emphatic about that)! Founded & run by a couple, Category Is "hope[s] to create a space for the LGBTQIA+ community to learn about, be inspired by & share in [their] love of queer books, art, history, activism, writing & storytelling."

Housed in a Grade-B listed building that includes the most complete functioning Victorian theatre machinery, & is the second-oldest operational theatre, in the UK (more info at the Building History link below!), the building itself was opened in 1878.

Public library located in the Gorbals area of Glasgow's Southside.

With three screens exclusively showing specialised cinema, Glasgow Film Theatre is Glasgow’s centre for film-lovers. Built in 1939, originally called the Cosmo, GFT is a time-capsule of Art Déco architecture & an era when Glaswegians attended the cinema an average of one time per week. At the same time, through renovations & refurbishment, GFT is today a thoroughly modern venue.

Adelaide's is (in their own words) "more than just a venue : we want everyone who comes into contact with us to feel honoured & welcomed [..by] the vision of Adelaide Place Baptist Church of which we are a part [..]"

Charity shop whose proceeds benefit the Oxfam organisation, offering a wide variety of secondhand books. From fiction to non-fiction to vintage books, Oxfam bookshops are famous for their amazing finds!

Cycling Scotland is the nation’s cycling organisation, a Scottish Charity working in partnership with other organisations, & with funding from Transport Scotland, to help create an environment for everyone in Scotland to cycle easily & safely.  

Located just to the north of Glasgow City Centre, on the banks of the historic Forth & Clyde Canal, the award-winning Lambhill Stables Café at the Canal is the heart of Lambhill Stables, & is run almost entirely by a team of loyal & dedicated volunteers. They focus on providing simple yet healthy food at accessible prices & they use fruit & vegetables from their extensive community garden, whenever possible.

A social enterprise, registered charity, Fair Trade retailer, & educator - "trading fairly in Renfrewshire since 2002." The Rainbow Turtle's Paisley shop (staffed almost exclusively by a dedicated team of volunteers) offers a wide variety of fairly-traded food & drinks, along with an extensive range of ecological household products. Many of these are available to be refilled, thereby reducing waste packaging. They also stock a great range of fairly traded gifts & crafts from around the world, including cards, stationery, jewellery, & fashion accessories, clothing for adults & children, cookware, kitchenware, toys - &, last but not least, pocket-money items for children.

Bike for Good is a cycling charity & social enterprise with two locations in Glasgow - one in Glasgow's South Side just off Victoria Road, & the other in Glasgow's West End on Haugh Road.

Bike for Good is a cycling charity & social enterprise with two locations in Glasgow - one in Glasgow's South Side just off Victoria Road, & the other in Glasgow's West End on Haugh Road.

Located just a short trip to the North of Glasgow City Centre, The Courtyard Pantry & Café is a membership shop & café providing access to good quality food at a low cost for the Glasgow community.

Located in Glasgow's West End, Tchai-Ovna House of Tea is Scotland’s first speciality teahouse, stocking & serving over 80 carefully-chosen, high-grade loose teas. Their teas are harvested ethically, most being (certified) Fairtrade, organic, & direct-sourced.

Suresh & Sons is located in Glasgow City Centre on Argyle Street in Finnieston. From high-quality organic wholefoods at affordable prices, loose fruit & vegetables, an amazing range of in-house-made Indian foods (including amazing vegan samosas!), vegan & gluten-free/'free-from' goods, & select beauty & ecologically-sound household products, Suresh & Sons is one to visit.

The Willow Tearooms (interchangeably used as Tea Rooms) aka Mackintosh at the Willow is located at 215–217 Sauchiehall Street in Glasgow City Centre. Mackintosh at the Willow re-opened to the public in September 2018 after an extensive restoration. The original Willow Tea Rooms building was initially opened by Miss Cranston, designed by the famous Charles Rennie Mackintosh in 1903. You can now dine in the historic tearooms (or on the outside-seating rooftop terrace, when open), learn more at the new interactive visitor centre about the living-history that is the tearooms, & visit the retail store.

Garnethill Synagogue / Garnethill Hebrew Congregation is one of Glasgow's (&, indeed, Scotland's) true hidden gems.

Located in Glasgow's Garnethill area in City Centre, Garnethill Multicultural Centre is a perfect fit for the longstanding strong diversity of the neighbourhood it calls home.

Founded in 1451, University of Glasgow is the fourth-oldest in the UK & the second-oldest in Scotland, with more (architecturally) 'listed' buildings than any other university in the UK. Originally located in the High Street in Glasgow City Centre, UofG was relocated in 1870 to its current location in Glasgow's West End. At that time, the West End consisted of countryside, farms, & country-houses of Glasgow's most wealthy citizens, & adding UofG to the area was a significant part of the city's expansion, by adding the academic elite to the location's social landscape which expanded the horizon for those who might have otherwise remained in City Centre.

Located on Sauchiehall Street in the heart of Glasgow City Centre in the Garnethill neighbourhood, CCA: Centre for Contemporary Arts is Glasgow’s hub for the arts, arts events, cultural organisations, & artists.

Located on Glasgow's Southside near Strathbungo Cross, Bawn is an 'Ethical Textile Atelier', offering textiles by the metre (or 1/2 metre!), haberdashery goods & supplies (including clothing patterns with a contemporary emphasis), books on sewing / textiles / fibre art, fabric remnants (avoiding waste that's common in the textiles industry), & in-shop events.

Small & friendly indie coffee shop serving coffee, cakes, & toasties. Vegan options available. All produce is sourced locally, supporting other small businesses, including locally-baked goods (some vegan!) & a bespoke espresso blend from The Good Coffee Cartel (based in Kinning Park, Glasgow - also listed here on the Green Map!). Beans are available to buy for home brewing in reusable, infinitely-recyclable tins, with a small discount available on refill.

Located in Glasgow's Merchant City area, Mono is a unique & versatile space to eat, drink, & discover new music. Since its opening in 2002, Mono has developed a reputation for good vegan food & good music, & has hosted not only some of the most exciting bands around, both local & international, but also exhibitions, book readings, art performances, & workshops.

Dear Green (a reference to Glasgow, which is often referred to as the 'Dear Green Place' ['glas' means 'green' / 'grey-green' in Scottish Gaelic]) is a local coffee roasters who roast specialty coffee with passion, ethics, & good vibes at the centre of all they do.