Our fundraising totals for November 2019 are in and have now been allocated to local good causes. It’s been another great month with many people benefiting all over Blantyre.
During November, Blantyre Telegraph has raised an outstanding £617.00 towards various local good causes! Since 2015, our fundraising now reaches a new updated incredible total of…wait for it…. £29,094 for 174 local good causes!
Fundraising was from various sources:
£144.00 from the sales of Edition 8 (November) Magazine.
£66.00 from Magazine Advertising.
£10.00 from public subscriptions on our website
£35.00 from public donations
£250.00 from private donations
£112.00 from the sale of Blantyre Project books.
£0.00 from Website Advertising.
Every penny raised goes entirely to local good causes, as always. We’re pleased to announce, this has been spent as follows:
£250.00 for Blantyre Community Committee for decorating Santas Grotto and for presents for the amazing Toy Drive
£150.00 to buy loads of Quality Street boxes for local businesses, their staff and customers
£67.00 for raffle gifts for High Blantyre Ladies Guild Bingo night.
£60.00 to buy elderly woman frozen food after her freezer broke during power cuts
£50.00 to Bonnie Blantyre for medals and awards for their sunflower competition, donated onwards to Blantyre Community Council.
£40.00 for buying 2 beautiful War dead remembrance wreaths from local sources.
How to get Involved supporting the Community
There are several fantastic ways you can support Blantyre Telegraph.
- You can now support us offline by buying our monthly magazine. At only £1, the entire sales of that publication will go entirely to local good causes and can be bought at Jinxy’s High Blantyre, Carrigans at Broompark Road, at Family Shopper on Main Street, Ally Bally Bee on Broompark Road, Redburn Farm at Hamilton Technology Park and at Strachan Craft Butchers on Glasgow Road, Greenhall Farm Shop, The West End Bar, The Cafe and Cut Above.
- Would YOU like to take out a recurring donation subscription to Blantyre Telegraph? From just £1 per month, and knowing it entirely goes back to Blantyre good causes, the link is here:
https://theblantyretelegraph.com/subscribe-to-blantyre-telegraph/ - You can donate directly as a “one off” from anything from £1 directly into 12 varied, worthwhile LIVE Blantyre fundraising campaigns here https://theblantyretelegraph.com/donate/
- You can buy one of the fantastic NINE Blantyre History books from Blantyre Project here https://blantyreproject.com/blantyre-shop/
Thanks you to everybody who contributed this month. For assurance, Blantyre Telegraph is entirely non profit. We retain nothing at all, not one penny. A massive thanks to all the outlets who support Telegraph by selling the magazine and of course to every person who buys it!
You can see all Blantyre Telegraph’s fundraising openly and transparently here: https://theblantyretelegraph.com/raised/
Thank you for your continued support.
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