Social Bite began life as a small coffee shop in Edinburgh, in August 2012. They’re now a busy charity and social business providing homes, jobs, food, and support to empower people to transform their own lives. Social Bite’s vision is a society where no one should have to be homeless, and they challenge the
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Posted: July 27, 2023
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Posted: May 19, 2023
Bonjour first opened its doors on 5th June 2021 in the Saltmarket area of Glasgow. Bringing a fresh perspective to Glasgow's Queer nightlife scene, they're a club, events, and community space that
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Posted: March 10, 2023
This month we decided to make our donation to a Glaswegian charity responsible for giving displaced people from all over the world that warm welcome that Glasgow is so well known for. As it happens the majority of Greencity members were not actually born in Glasgow but have chosen to make it their home
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Posted: January 09, 2023
Soul Food Kitchen burst onto the vegan food scene almost 4 years ago with promises of a delicious, plant based menu that will enable you to eat the rainbow while nourishing your body and your soul. And they have not disappointed! We had a word with Bobby Bashir - hotel owner and brains behind the SFK,
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Posted: December 05, 2022
Set in the heart of Glasgow’s city centre, Saramago Café Bar serves fresh, tasty vegan food (including delicious bread, home-baked every day) from the light-drenched foyer of the CCA building. It’s an ideal place to catch up with friends, with a relaxed and airy atmophere during the day and at night. We a
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Posted: September 08, 2022
We were delighted to make our monthly donation to Glasgow Food Not Bombs this month. They’re a group who we really admire with their no nonsense approach to giving away free vegan food to anybody who needs or wants it. The group answered 6 questions to help us learn a little bit more about what they s
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Posted: August 30, 2022
Established in 2011, Dear Green Coffee Roasters is a coffee roaster and supplier of exclusively ‘speciality’ grade coffee beans. They are based a stone’s throw from Greencity and were the obvious choice to ask for help when we wanted to develop a new Organic coffee blend. We loved working with them
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Posted: November 11, 2021
The Minga Indigena are a collective of groups, organizations and communities from indigenous nations throughout Abya Yala (the American continent). The leaders of Indigenous Minga come from the highest communities in the Andes, the deepest forests of the Amazon, the islands farthest away from the continents,
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Posted: August 11, 2021
At Greencity Wholefoods, Scotland’s largest worker co-op wholesaler, we're now delivering food to cafes, restaurants and retailers in an electric powered trike. In an effort to reduce diesel pollution in Glasgow, we're trialling the trike this summer. The Iceni trikes are made in Wiltshire a
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Posted: May 12, 2021
Zero Waste Market are one of our geographically closest customers, located just along Duke Street from Greencity HQ in Dennistoun. They’ve been up and running as a shop since March 2019, and have been a fantastic local fixture ever since. We asked them a few questions to learn more about zero waste, h