Our fundraising totals are now in up to end of November here at Blantyre Telegraph. We’ve been SO pleased to help many people in the community and as always, it’s YOU who’s made it happen. Relaying heavily on our Supporters Group and donations, we’re delighted to announce a very decent £955 was raised for local good causes!
Added to our overall fundraising total to date, it means Blantyre Telegraph (and its readers) have now raised a whopping £54,209 supporting 320 local good causes since the page started in 2011!
We’re not anywhere near as well funded as other community projects, so thank you sincerely to those people subscribing to our Supporters Group each month. It’s making a real positive difference directly on your community.
Amongst the awards we were able to make in recent weeks was £200 to Calderside Academy for their Halloween Party, £150 to Blantyre Beacons for their Christmas Party, Buying 4 remembrance and Pit Memorial wreaths on behalf of the whole community, various Cake surprises to residents and businesses on our ‘Cake Saturday’, £100 to Davie Fotheringham lollipop man, £145 worth of new books to Blantyre Life, £60 Raffle Prizes to schools, as well as loads of more minor gifts for local kids to celebrate their kindness or successes!
Of concern though, is the growing need to help individuals and families in Blantyre who have been needing some additional help. It’s been a wake up call to see just how real food and heat poverty is in this area. Whether it was financial help or urgent donations of food, there has been occasions where we’ve jumped down to a supermarket, bought emergency food for families and hand delivered it to their doors. Something we’ve done privately and anonymously for the first time in 2024, and those families who benefited from that, we hope are now in better position and will know who they are.
As always, not one penny is retained by us! All awards were notified at the time on our Supporters Group page. Our website has been updated with donation and award records, in the interests of full transparency here. https://theblantyretelegraph.com/raised/
As Blantyre Telegraph grows from strength to strength, we thank you for your continued interest and overwhelming support, making this possible. December’s donations have already been going out to local causes and we’ll be posted soon about that.
Can you imagine what amazing support the community would have , if say 5 times as many people subscribed!?
Together we can do SO MUCH MORE! YOU can make that happen.
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Getting local news daily AND helping the community! Now THAT’s a winning formula!! Thanks for all your support, liking, sharing and commenting.
Amazing Paul! You do so much for the community and inspire others.