Glasgows Old People's Welfare Association
Address:
Glasgows Old People's Welfare Association
7 Sandyford Place
Glasgow
G3 7NB
T: 01412119924
F: 01412216244
W: www.gopwa.co.uk
Glasgows Old People's Welfare Association
The great and growing proportion of old people in the community is one of the most serious problems confronting the nation. Social workers in Glasgow have been alive to this problem for many years. In 1941 an effort was made to form a Committee to coordinate and extend the activities of the statutory and voluntary bodies interested in the old people of Glasgow, but owing to the pressure of war work, that effort had to be abandoned. After the war the project was revived and, on the 9th January 1948, at a meeting convened by The City of Glasgow Society of Social Service, attended by representatives of over thirty statutory and voluntary bodies, the Glasgow Old People's Welfare Committee was formed.
In 1948 at a public inaugural meeting in the rooms of the Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow, presided over by the late Sir Hector Hetherington, Principal of Glasgow University and attended by 180 people, a resolution was passed unanimously welcoming the formation of the Glasgow Old People’s Welfare Committee, and commending it to the support of every member of the community.