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PHILANTHROPIST Sir Tom Hunter has announced a £7.5 million investment from The Hunter Foundation (THF) to deliver a Scottish Mentoring and Leadership programme for young people in partnership with the Scottish Government. The charity MCR Pathways will roll out their successful Young Scottish Talent mentoring programme, and social enterprise and charity Columba 1400 will expand its Leadership Academies for Young People to improve education outcomes, career opportunities and life chances. Overall, the total investment in the programme is £26.9m, which was agreed before the Holyrood election, with the apolitical THF’s commitment withheld until after the poll. Through the initiative, a network of volunteer mentors will offer tailored support to young people through schools, as the pandemic lockdown eases.
Action group meets to discuss future of closure-threatened McVitieâs factory THE first meeting of an action group set up to explore options for the future of a closure-threatened McVitie’s factory in Glasgow has taken place. Scottish Finance Secretary Kate Forbes co-chaired the meeting of council union and industry experts looking to prevent the factory from shutting down and the loss of up to 468 jobs to redundancy. The factory’s owners, Pladis, announced proposals to close its Tollcross site, subject to a “full and meaningful consultation with employees”, with the global snack firm highlighting “excess capacity” across its UK sites.