IN the latest in our series hearing from the important people who keep the Friends of GRI Museum running we speak to volunteer Olive Burnside, who has a unique link to the history of the hospital. If you’d like to join Olive as a volunteer then we’d love to hear from you. Just send us an email …
Photos: FABRIZIO FELLA IT was standing room only when the brilliant Heartwood Quartet performed at the FOGRI Museum last Friday. The room was packed to bursting for the latest of our free-entry lunchtime concerts. Photo: Fabrizio Fella Manchester-based Dylan Latham, Audrey Doyle, Michaela Jones and Jasmine Blackshaw-Britton put on a real show for all of those lucky …
THE Heartwood Quartet will play at the FOGRI Museum this Friday at 1pm in the latest of our free-entry lunchtime concerts. Manchester-based Dylan Latham, Audrey Doyle, Michaela Jones and Jasmine Blackshaw-Britton will perform for us as part of their UK tour which also includes Norwich, South Wales, Edinburgh and The Borders. They will …
IN the latest in our series hearing from the important people who keep the Friends of GRI Museum running, we speak to dedicated volunteer Graeme Boyle. If you’d like to join Graeme as a volunteer then we’d love to hear from you. Just send us an email to info@friendsofgri.org and we’ll get back to you! Words: CONNOR …
YESTERDAY we had a wonderful afternoon creating our Biodiversity Garden. Friends of Glasgow Museums and Edrington supported this venture financially and it was so lovely to have volunteers from both organisations come and help with the work. We were also able to lean on Lisa Swift, who is the most wonderful horticulturalist based at Glasgow …
Photos: Karen Anderson IN the latest in our series hearing from the important people who keep the Friends of GRI Museum running, we speak to chairman John Stuart. He takes great joy in giving back to the GRI, where he was previously Chief Nurse. If you’d like to join John as a volunteer then we’d …
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PROFESSOR DAVID WHEATLEY performed the first ever heart transplant surgery in Scotland at Glasgow Royal Infirmary in 1990. He is the latest person to be recognised in our list of people who have played a prominent role in GRI’s history. His full story can be viewed by going to our People section and clicking on …
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IAN BREALEY admits he loved revamping the Friends of GRI website. The Welshman has built and turned around hundreds of pages since moving from a major sales role to set up Smart Website Designers. However he reckons he got as big a lift while working on our update as much as we all did seeing …
MOST of you will probably have noticed a change to our website over the past few weeks. Thanks to our new website designer Ian Brealey at Smart Website Designers and a host of our media volunteers, we have managed to upgrade things somewhat. We hope you all agree their painstaking work has produced something that …
CATHERINE ASHER OBE is the latest person to be recognised in our list of people who played a prominent role in GRI’s history. Catherine dedicated herself to the world of nursing and midwifery in so many ways. Her full story can be viewed by going to our People section and clicking on her name.