Scottish veterans’ charity Erskine is closing its furniture business, which was making losses of £10,000 per week.

Erskine Furniture will cease trading this Friday.  Its 27 staff will be made redundant.

Erskine’s chief executive, Steve Conway, said: “It is regrettable that we are making these redundancies and we have redoubled our efforts to support the people in Erskine Furniture through this process and also assisting them through external organisations to find alternative employment.”

The charity has already closed down its Erskine Print business earlier this year.

Erskine, which has its headquarters in Bishopton, cares for 1,300 service veterans across Scotland.