revealed 21 March 2024
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An Edinburgh church has introduced that its latest charity fundraising efforts, which is able to assist the work of an area kids’s charity this yr, have totaled £10,000.
The cash donated will assist Hopscotch present leisure breaks for Scotland’s most susceptible and deprived kids
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The full quantity raised by Blackhall St Columba’s because it started supporting a special charity yearly in 1992 is now £274,076.
Lynn Booney from the Congregational Watch Committee overseeing the initiative stated:
“WATCH stands for Caring and Serving to Via the Cross, all working collectively.
“It was set as much as elevate funds for a charity exterior the church, which we do yearly.
“Final yr it was the Pilton Equality Challenge.
“Throughout Covid they had been delivering meals parcels, in addition they ran minibuses and picked up housebound to daycare items they usually supplied lifts for folks.
“Every little thing we elevate goes to charity.
“We begin with a coin assortment in the summertime after which we do a espresso morning after which we’ve got a Christmas truthful, which is superb.”
The committee’s work is especially impressed by Deuteronomy 15:10: “Give liberally and be beneficiant while you do it, for because of this the Lord your God will bless you in all you do and in all you obtain.”
They had been additionally helped by members of Drylow Parish Church, and it’s deliberate that the 2 congregations will type a union additional down the road.
Whereas the following charity the congregation will assist continues to be to be determined, Ms Booney defined they are going to strive one thing new.
“This yr we will department out and do a 2025 calendar to promote,” he stated.
“We’ll run a contest encouraging everybody to ship in photos of their pets after which we’ll choose the most effective one for the calendar.”
Earlier beneficiaries have included kids’s bereavement charity Richmond’s Hope and Recent Begin, a company that helps homeless folks settle into their new houses.
The Rev Fergus Prepare dinner, who’s minister at Blackhall St Columba’s, stated:
“I really feel blessed to return to Blackhall St Columbs and inherit a well-oiled machine that’s used to assist and fundraise for charities.
“Regardless of the break with Covid, they’ve managed to proceed to lift large quantities of funds which have made an enormous distinction to folks within the native space and past.
“They’re an amazing staff with excellent folks behind them.”
Hopscotch co-founder Roberta McKay stated:
“On behalf of Hopscotch, I wish to thank everybody at Blackhall St Columba’s Church who contributed a beneficiant donation of £10,000.
“This award will assist the prices of working our 2024 respite programme, which runs from 18 March to 23 November, enabling round 400 kids to have a break from difficult dwelling environments.”
