“It feels like nobody is caring about this place'
The Wyndford has historically been a problem area, she says, but issues came to a head around five years ago with an escalation in violence and other anti-social behaviour.
G20 Works has an on-site cafe and outside car wash with training provided by the owner of one of Glasgow’s most successful businesses. A Buddhist monk, who lives nearby is offering anger-management classes.Despite only being set up last April, and operating on a very small scale, with ten young people, the social enterprise is already making a difference.
She believes the project has great potential, but at the moment it is being operated on a shoestring budget. They were overlooked for council and the Scottish Government funding and rely on a £10,000 grant from the Scottish Drug Fund.“We’ve been developing relationships with these young people for five years and you can see them making better choices.
A Scottish Government spokesperson said:“We know from lived experience that many people who go on to have a drug problem started their drug use at an early age.
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