The Glasgow Young Men's Society for Religious Improvement was founded in 1824. In 1877, it amalgamated with the Glasgow Young Men's Christian Association (also known as the G.Y.M.C.A., instituted in 1841, but this date is debatable) to become the Glasgow United Young Men's Christian Association. This organisation was probably the largest of its type in Glasgow during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries: in 1894 it had 9,946 members on the rolls The Society still exists, but ir now called Ypeople, Glasgow.