By Karen Peattie IF you are considering entering The Glasgow Business Awards, you can still take advantage of an application drop-in clinic today. Ten-minute slots with the event manager are available between 11.30am and 1pm if you require any assistance with your application or have any questions ahead of the closing date for entries at 5pm on Friday, July 23. Hosted by Glasgow Chamber of Commerce, the awards celebrate the best of the city’s business community with winners selected in a range of business activity across 16 categories. Thirteen categories will be judged competitively and three selected by a panel. They will also reflect the fact that Glasgow will be staging the COP26 UN Climate Change Conference in November, with four categories requiring entrants to demonstrate sustainability.
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TWO young men who were on a ‘bad path’ following the Covid-19 outbreak have revealed how a community boxing club has helped them turn their lives around. Declan Reilly, 20 and Connor Gough, 17, are both employed at Bluevale Community Club through Glasgow Chamber of Commerce and Glasgow City Council’s Step-Up scheme. The two young men were offered the opportunities after they started volunteering with the club and slowly improved their skills and confidence.
L: Connor Gough and R: Declan Reilly. Pics: Colin Mearns Declan was made redundant from his job in retail last year after Covid-19 decimated the sector. He also suffered two family bereavements last year and said he had ‘lost interest’ in boxing. He said: “I got made redundant through Covid and it put me in a kind of bad way. I was earning no money or anything and my uncle died.
Susan Rice Dame Susan Rice is another veteran financier who combines banking and business interests with roles on public boards interest in the arts. She is chair of Scottish Water and the Scottish Fiscal Commission. As chief executive, and then chair of Lloyds TSB Scotland, she became the first woman to head a UK clearing bank in 2000. In 2012, she was also the first woman elected as president of the Scottish Council for Development and Industry. She has long been respected by government. In 2009 she chaired the 2020 Group, set up in response to the Climate Change Bill, which aimed to reduce carbon emissions by 42 per cent of 1990 levels by 2020 and 80 per cent by 2050. In 2014 the Scottish Government announced it had reached the first target six years early.