Creating candles that smell like Glasgow
Published: 9 March 2018
UofG students set up GlasGlow social enterprise to raise funds for Glasgow Women's Aid
"Are you homesick for Glasgow?
Miss the places and people? Well help is at hand.
A group of University of Glasgow students are working on a social enterprise to create candles that smell just like home.
But these are candles with a conscience. The students are working with Glasgow Women’s Aids to help raise funds for their work with domestic abuse victims.
Service users at Glasgow Women’s Aid will be helping to create, market and sell candles for GlasGlow - and all the products are a nod to the city both groups call home. Some 27 women have signed up to create the soy wax candles at workshops which will also provide art therapy.
The project is in the early stages, but Noah Mueller and Scott Anderson, of Enactus Glasgow, hope to create scents which represent areas of Glasgow.
Scott said: “We are already trialling a Botanic Gardens scented candles. We have created scents which we hope are evocative of the smells of the roses and geraniums sweeping through the park on a summer’s evening.
“We have been funded in our training and in this project by Enactus UK, the Adam Smith School of Business and College of Social Sciences Employability.”
Susan Jack of Glasgow Women’s Aid said: ““The plan is to sell the candles, with GWA receiving some of the money - the students involved are making it accessible, and they’re keen for the women who want to be involved to get as much out of it as possible.”
The project now needs stockists, as well as spaces to create their candles - if you can help a very worthy cause then contact Enactus Glasgow via the group’s Facebook page.
First published: 9 March 2018
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