City Strolls - events - meetings
Tuesday, October 02, 2007
Bert Mullen Scottish Credit Union Pioneer Thursday, 18 October 2007 (International Credit Union Day): 7.30pm University of Glasgow
You are invited to attend the Biennial Bert Mullen Lecture: “Building Con dence – the role of credit unions” by Dr. Carol Craig, CEO Scottish Centre for Confidence and Well-Being Thursday, 18 October 2007 (International Credit Union Day): 7.30pm
University of Glasgow: Main Lecture Theatre 1, Sir Charles Wilson Building (University Avenue)
Bert Mullen was a painter/decorator who lived with his wife, Alice and family, in one of Glasgow’s new housing schemes, Drumchapel, which had been built in the early sixties as part of what seemed a courageous vision to remove the blot of urban slums from the centre of the city. Providing housing was the chief priority but insufficient consideration was afforded to the provision of facilities for this new population.
Bert and his friends, the Mc Sevneys, were very conscious that there were no affordable, financial services available to the working class residents of their community. He learned of credit union and the exceptional impact that it was having on the lives of ordinary people through Irish newspapers. Convinced that it could work for the good of the community in Drumchapel, he contacted the Irish League of Credit Unions, the World Council and anybody else who would listen to him.
Western Credit Union was launched in Drumchapel in February 1970. It was later to become Drumchapel Credit Union Ltd to meet the requirements of registration. Bert’s encouragement and inspiration also saw the launch of Dalmuir and Cranhill, to be followed by 130 other credit unions. His untimely death in 1986 was a loss to the whole of the Scottish Credit Union movement.
SCOTTISH
LEAGUE OF
CREDIT UNIONS
In association with
and
The Scottish Centre
for Research in
Social Justice,
University of Glasgow
Unity Trust Bank
Specialist Bank for
the Social Economy
Bob, 20:13
