WE BELIEVE IN
GIVING BACK TO
OUR COMMUNITY.
CHARITY BEGINS AT MCY
As well as creating and nurturing a community here at MCY, we want to take our place within our local community and make a positive contribution there too.
Every year we run a number of fundraising events in support of two local charities, Yogability and Fareshare Glasgow.
Yogability provides free yoga classes to children and adults with special needs as well as their carers and their families in Glasgow.
Read more about Yogability.
FareShare Glasgow & The West of Scotland redistributes quality surplus food to groups working with vulnerable people in and around Glasgow and the West of Scotland.
We’re really grateful for your ongoing support. With food poverty a rapidly worsening problem, your support is crucial and will help ensure the continued growth of our work in tackling food waste and feeding people. £500 directly helps us provide meals for 2,000 hungry and vulnerable people, which is a really amazing contribution. FareShare
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We’re also working to take the therapeutic benefits of yoga beyond the studio walls and offer it to those groups in our community facing trauma and adversity. Often those people don’t have access to yoga. We support wellbeing for all and we’re working to improve access and inclusion. We aim to help those who don’t have access to our yoga studio have access to these yoga practices.
“Merchant City Yoga are long-term supporters of our FareShare Glasgow and the West of Scotland service through their annual candlelit meditation evening. The service distributes good quality, surplus food to frontline charities and community groups supporting vulnerable people, including children’s breakfast clubs, older people’s lunch clubs, homeless shelters, refugee centres and community cafes. We really can’t thank Merchant City Yoga enough for their consistent support of this essential service – your generosity helps Move On continue to provide our vital food supply to the thousands of vulnerable people across Glasgow and the West of Scotland that rely on our help.”
“Here at Yogability we recognise the unique and special relationship we have with the people who make up the MCY community. They’re not only our biggest supporters but all the teachers who work and volunteer for Yogability trained with Judi.
The amazing support we’ve received over the years has allowed us to provide many new classes, one to one sessions and community support events as well as extend our sessions to work with children with special needs who have been on our waiting list.
One to one yoga sessions can change lives. Children have the opportunity to learn how to consciously breath, how to move and meditate in ways that can have profound physical and mental benefits. A one to one yoga session can sometimes be the only respite a parent has all week. The breathing techniques can mean a child not succumbing to anger or sleeping through the night. Change comes in small ways but added up, the difference is significant and always for the better.
The impact for Yogability and in the lives of our students is profound.
In 2020, we managed to continue working through lockdown to provide free services to carers, children and adults with different needs and anyone with barriers to entry. We provided free classes for NHS workers and opened up our Zoom classes to anyone who needed it. We were fortunate enough to have our teachers working on a voluntary basis and we will open up classes in person as soon as it is safe to do so.
It’s all possible thanks to events like the annual 108 Sun Salutations every December as well as other activities throughout the years. For the past few years students have even donated financial gifts to Yogability as a thank you to Judi, in itself an incredible gesture but also to the wonderful community that has been created.
The support from MCY for our charity and our community is recognised by every single member and we are incredibly grateful and humbled by the continued support.”