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Glasgow's 850th Birthday
2025 will be a big year for Glasgow as we celebrate the city's 850th birthday. It's a milestone and everyone who has or does call Glasgow home is invited to the party.
We want to join and support partners to create a yearlong inclusive, citywide, programme of events and activities that reflect on how the city has transformed, particularly over the last fifty years and how we can inspire accelerated change, for a better, sustainable, future, over the next fifty years.
This anniversary provides an opportunity to:
- Join with partners to reflect on the city's transformation and growth since 1975 when Glasgow 800 was celebrated
- Speed up ambitions for the future centred around the Council's grand challenges of tackling poverty and inequality and increasing prosperity and opportunity
- Continue our fight against the climate emergency and improve our sustainability
- Put the River Clyde at the centre of this storytelling. The lifeblood of the city and is the symbol for community wealth building and climate action for the future.
- Enhance Glasgow's reputation and brand at home and abroad
- Delivering memorable moments and legacy for our city's communities.
Please visit our new website at glasgow850.com to find out more and how you can get involved.