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Beehive Project Helps Fund Life-saving Equipment for Schools in Glasgow

  • Submitted by: Annie Wells, Glasgow, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party.
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 29 June 2022
  • Motion reference: S6M-05119

That the Parliament commends Glasgow firm, City Building, for its fundraising efforts that have helped to support three Glasgow primary schools to install life-saving defibrillators across their school estates; recognises the three recipient schools include Sunnyside Primary in Craigend, Hazelwood School in Bellahouston and St Bernard's Primary in Nitshill; understands that City Building adopted three beehives in 2017, located at the firm's manufacturing facility and its apprentice college in Springburn; further understands that £450 raised from the sale of the honey was used by City Building to purchase the life-saving equipment in partnership with Unite; acknowledges the increasing calls for defibrillators, which have been demonstrated to increase the chance of survival from sudden cardiac arrest, to be located in all schools in Scotland, and notes that Katie Ewan, teacher at Sunnyside Primary School, welcomed the installation of the equipment and said "this has been a tremendous group effort between local businesses, school pupils and their families, and our community and we are all thankful to have now secured a defibrillator" and that "this life-saving piece of equipment is vital to community safety, greatly increasing the chance of survival from a cardiac arrest”.


Supported by: Sharon Dowey, Meghan Gallacher, Dean Lockhart, Douglas Lumsden, Paul Sweeney