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Bonfires and fireworks can be dangerous - check out our safety advice

Scottish Fire and Rescue Service share firework and bonfire safety advice

Scottish Fire and Rescue Service (SFRS) have published firework safety advice to keep you safe ahead of bonfire night on 5th November.
Please attend an organised event if possible - you can find a list of local and national organised events on the SFRS website. The fireworks code and firework/bonfire safety guidance is also available on from the SFRS on their website.

Glasgow and Clyde Rape Crisis offering free and confidential support and advocacy

Glasgow and Clyde Rape Crisis offering free and confidential support and advocacy

Glasgow and Clyde Rape Crisis is a place that offers free and confidential support and advocacy for all women and girls who have gone through sexual violence at any point in their lives.

Heating our homes, reducing bills, creating new jobs - and saving the planet

Heating our homes, reducing bills, creating new jobs - and saving the planet

By Jacqueline McLaren
Councillor for the Canal Ward

This week I had the privilege to attend a COP26 event here in the North of Glasgow, organised by our very own ng homes.
The visit was to see first-hand a newly installed District Heating System that ng homes have installed for their tenants in two tower blocks on Balgrayhill Road.

ng homes have housing stock across the North

Macmillan @ Glasgow Libraries launches new cancer support phone service

Macmillan @ Glasgow Libraries launches new cancer support phone service

A new cancer support service has launched to help people living with or beyond cancer, their family, friends or carers, and people who are bereaved.

Barclays support North Glasgow through the Pandemic

Barclays support North Glasgow through the Pandemic

Barclays give a welcomed boost to North Glasgow with a funding award of £100,000 to support the community through the pandemic.
ng homes were chosen by a selection committee from Barclays for the meaningful work they are doing in supporting the immediate needs of people in communities, including low income families, those facing financial hardship, isolated elderly people and key workers.

Bonfires can be dangerous, check out our safety advice

Scottish Fire and Rescue Service publish firework and bonfire safety advice

Scottish Fire and Rescue Service (SFRS) have published firework safety advice to keep you safe ahead of bonfire night on 5th November. With many organised public events cancelled due to Covid-19, people may be considering hosting their own fireworks display. SFRS have urged the public to follow the Government's advice, guidance and to follow social distancing. SFRS have published a fireworks code

The easy to use fire safety quiz helps you stay safe at home and provides potentially life-savings tips

Fire safety quiz helping you to stay safe at home

The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service (SFRS) have launched a new fire safety quiz online to help you stay safe at home.

Margaret Fraser, Head of Regeneration at ng homes collecting face masks from Briege

Kind Glasgow woman donates handmade facemasks to Angels of the North

In North Glasgow we have an incredible group of volunteers who are supporting their local community. Working alongside ng homes, these ‘angels’ have been providing food parcels, preparing and delivering hot meals, helping uplift prescriptions and a whole lot more! When Briege, a young Glasgow woman, heard about this she wanted to help and got in touch with Margaret Fraser, Head of Regeneration at

Volunteers at Springburn Parish Church getting ready to prepare essential food parcels for the North Glasgow community

North Glasgow community supported by incredible Angels of the North

​Do you believe in Angels? At ng homes we certainly do. During these challenging times there has been evidence of ‘Angels’ living amongst us who have been giving their time to support members of the North Glasgow community.

The sessions are led by ng homes Cultural Officer Michael Kam (seen here on the far right) with the group at Tron St Mary's Church in Red Road.

Oriental Exercise is the Right Fit in North Glasgow

ORIENTAL exercise classes run by ng homes are proving popular with Scottish and Chinese people as they work together to get fitter in North Glasgow.

Front l-r: Pupils Sophie Dunne, Tye Kerr, Stuart Gough, John Bambrick, Ben Marshall, Kenzie Stanley & Lewis Thomson. Back l-r: Andy Lyttle, Lynn McSorley, David McIntyre, Mrs Loretta MacNeil & Richard Porter

Balornock Pupils Back on their Bikes thanks to ng2

PUPILS at Balornock Primary school were delighted when local social enterprise company ng2 fixed the lock on their bike shed after it had been vandalised over the recent bank holiday weekend.

New Pitstops Project to Help Unemployed Men in North Glasgow

Are you an adult male and currently out of work? Pitstops can help!

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ng homes is a social landlord based in North Glasgow with properties in Springburn, Balornock, Possilpark and Parkhouse.

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