The Lighthouse Trust is to be wound down over the next few weeks after Glasgow City Council withdrew all financial support. But the Lighthouse itself will survive as Scotland’s national centre for architecture and design. The council, which owns the former Glasgow Herald building designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh where the Lighthouse is based, is to take over and run the centre itself.
Bruce Cartwright, joint administrator and partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers, said there was no option other than to wind the charity up. The trust went into administration in August after suffering £250,000 funding gap as a result of a drop in commercial income.
Since it opened in 1999, The Lighthouse Trust’s Mitchell Lane visitor centre operated a programme of exhibitions, events, educational activities and conferences, attracting an audience of 220,000 visitors and participants each year.
It is not yet known which parts of its programme the council would continue to offer, or how many of its staff will keep their jobs. [Link]
