Easter Parade Sponsored Walk
Christine Pringle, Manager of the St Margaret of Scotland Hospice Shop in Anniesland along with staff and friends, organised an Easter Parade Walk on Sunday 5 April 2009. Their efforts raised the staggering sum of £6000 for the Hospice. Thank you and Well Done!
Bellahouston 10K- Sunday 10 May 2009
Young people do not always get the credit they deserve, but here are two young people who went to great lengths to raise funds for St Margaret of Scotland Hospice. Sixth Year Students Clare Donnelly and Sinead Dwyer of St Aloysius College, Glasgow recently visited the Hospice and handed over to Sister Rita the fabulous sum of £404 sponsorship money they had raised as a result of their participation in the Bellahouston 10k in May 2009.
Both girls said they enjoyed their visit to the Hospice and particularly to our newly opened History Room and they were also very interested to learn how their sponsor money will benefit our patients. Staff at St Margaret of Scotland Hospice wished them both well in their future chosen careers particularly on learning that depending on results Clare has been offered a place at Oxford studying Physics. Sinead is as yet undecided where to do her Economics course but is thinking of Dublin or Glasgow. We send our very best wishes for the results they were hoping for and say Thank-You and Well Done for your efforts on our behalf.
Mercer Glasgow
Our gratitude also goes to another group of people who participated in the Ladies 10K in May 2009 for our benefit. Thank you to Carol-Ann Brodie, her friend Joan and work colleagues from Mercer Glasgow who completed the run and raised £500 to date. Well Done to you all and thank you for a magnificent boost to our funds.
Good Luck!
We extend our very best wishes to big-hearted Aileen Douthwaite, Education Support Officer (Music Instruction) from Dumbarton. Aileen is the first person to take up a SKYLINE Overseas Challenge –Great Wall of China Trek in October to raise funds for St Margaret of Scotland Hospice. Aileen has been greatly encouraged by family, friends and colleagues in her training to be fit for such a big undertaking and has also received similar encouragement for her fundraising efforts. Aileen’s personal target is to raise £5000 from her awfully big adventure.
If you wish to sponsor Aileen and at the same time support the Hospice you can do so by visiting her just giving page at www.justgiving.com/aileendouthwaite. Please remember that every £1 helps. Please also remember that if you are a taxpayer you can tick the gift aid box and we receive an extra 28 pence for every £1 raised. Thank you Aileen and we look forward to hearing of your progress.
Thank you to all those who supply us with Goods and Services!
As the fundraising team, striving hard to stage events that are successful and raise funds for St Margaret of Scotland Hospice we always work to very tight deadlines. In a perfect world the arrangements we make for our events would go like clockwork but of course the world is not perfect. More often than not something happens which forces us to change the way an event was first envisaged. And that is when we have to rely on those who provide us with goods and services.
So to all the printers on whom we have imposed almost impossible print deadlines; to the supplier, who at the last moment, had to find precisely the right size of large inflatable yellow plastic duck with orange bill because ours had a hole in it; to those who sourced for us a special tartan ribbon to save the day and many others like them, we offer a HUGE thank you.
Our sincere thanks also go to the many celebrities who support our cause time after time despite very full diaries. We owe them too a HUGE debt of gratitude.
