We are thrilled today to announce a £250 donation to local environmental group ‘Friends of the Calder‘. Following work this afternoon, we met up with Lesley Bethel, Treasurer of the group and her husband Jack, fellow member of ‘Friends of the Calder’. Accompanied by their grandkids, £250 in cash was handed over to the organisation […]
We took time out today to meet up with Barry Watt of Blantyre Community Committee and were delighted to hand over the sum of £250.00! The significant sum is intended to help out with the running costs of this years Festive Event, which will take place at the Leisure Centre and nearby McAnulty Public Park […]
The women of High Blantyre Ladies Guild were thrilled this evening, Thursday 24 October 2019 when we popped in to see them, with a nice surprise. Just before their guild night got underway in the June Stewart Centre in High Blantyre, we were delighted to hand over £200 in cash which is going towards their […]
It’s the main reason this website exists! Our fundraising totals for September 2019 are in and have now been allocated to local good causes. It’s been another absolute corker of a month! During September, Blantyre Telegraph has raised an outstanding £828.25 towards various local good causes! Since 2015, our fundraising now reaches a new updated incredible total […]
The weekend got off to a fun start this afternoon, Friday 04 October 2019, when we popped along to Hyper Cyber, the youth club on Main Street, High Blantyre. Armed with a sackful of arts and crafts. paints, colouring sets, games, toys, books and sweets, we donated £100 of nice goodies to the kids, who […]
Our fundraising totals for August 2019 are now in and have been allocated to local good causes. During August, Blantyre Telegraph has raised a whopping £801.20 towards various local good causes! Our fundraising now reaches a new updated amazing total of £26,379 for 153 local good causes to date since 2015! Fundraising was from various sources: £126.00 from the sales of […]
Nursery pupils and teachers were delighted today, Friday 6th September 2019 to receive £100 donation from Blantyre Telegraph towards replacing the nursery play equipment. This follows the deliberate overnight vandalism of the nursery outdoor play area last Thursday on 29th August. High Blantyre Primary School were very appreciative and like us, wish to thank everybody […]
Our fundraising totals for end of July are now in and has now been allocated to local good causes. During July, Blantyre Telegraph has raised a fantastic £292 towards 5 local good causes! Our fundraising now reaches a new updated amazing total of £25,578 for 146 local good causes to date since 2015! Fundraising was from various sources: £164.00 from the […]