There’s been a lot of talk in recent days about the need for some people to have a plan B. Well, the good news is that today I found one.
I was at Lourdes Secondary School in Glasgow when I made the discovery, helped in my endeavours by pupils from Lourdes and nearby Rosshall Academy.
Unfortunately the search for a plan B must continue. The plan that I found was actually a Plan Bee and it was a Glasgow Commonwealth Games legacy project.
I was at the school to launch a scheme by eco-innovation company Plan Bee. The company works with organisations to install and manage bee keeping facilities across various sites – turning them into hives of activity (the potential for puns here is endless).
Joking apart, this is exactly the sort of innovative thinking I want to see come from the Commonwealth Games. As a parent myself, I know that there are only positives that can come from schools teaching their pupils about the importance of biodiversity. I left the school with a couple of jars of honey to enjoy and I’m looking forward to hearing more about this project as it develops.
The visit came at the end of a three-day tour of Scotland for me – which saw me travel from Aberdeen to Moray and onto Dingwall before visiting Oban and Fort William and finishing off last night in Bearsden.
I love to get away from the office and to spend a few days just meeting people and seeing how businesses are reaping the rewards of UK Government policy. From Coastal Communities funding and the fuel duty freeze to the Seed Investment Scheme and high speed broadband roll-out, it is great to see how people throughout Scotland are getting the benefit of government policy.