GLASGOW 850 YEARS OVERVIEW

Glasgow's 850th Birthday CelebrationsHide

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.