Following discussions with Blantyre based coach, Callum Coghill, we’re delighted to be sponsoring Ryan Burns, a Blantyre lad, as goalkeeper of his local football team. His club were looking for sponsorship so we were delighted to help out today by donating £200. This has been possible thanks to donation raised from August’s subscriptions from our […]
The totals are in for April through to June fundraising here at Blantyre Telegraph and what an REMARKABLE 3 months! As always, it’s YOU who’s made it happen. We’re delighted to announce a very decent £667 was raised for local good causes! Added to our overall fundraising total to date, it means Blantyre Telegraph (and […]
We were delighted to support the Livingstone Birthplace on Station Road, Blantyre yesterday by handing over 2 brand new gardening trolleys to replace those stolen last week. The donation of these 2 trolleys worth £184 was possible due to our fantastic Supporters Group, via their monthly small subscription, and although not as expensive as the […]
The sun was out today, Saturday 11th May as 3rd Blantyre Scouts celebrated their Spring Fayre. The venue was the Livingstone Memorial Church Hall, where various stalls, tombolas and fun was the order of the day. The well organised event proved popular as everybody enjoyed all the activities….and the cakes! We were delighted to support […]
Time for a wee bit of positivity on the page. We bumped into Paul Barrett in the Main Street at the weekend there. You may have read that Paul has started the ‘Addicted to Life’ recovery group, help weekly in Blantyre. Following his own recovery from addiction, Paul took the brave steps of helping others […]
What an amazing festive, fun day at Agnews Family Shopper & Billy’s cafe/Bistro! Today, local businesses and the community rallied to put on a wonderful Christmassy event for many local children. The venue today, Sunday 17th December was Agnews Family Shopper and Billy’s Cafe Bistro on Glasgow Road, Blantyre where a Christmas lunch was put […]
With thanks exclusively to Blantyre Telegraph Supporters subscriptions, we’re able to continue to support local schools over the winter months. Following recent sponsorship of Calderside Academy football strips and assisting with raffle prizes at DLMP School, last week was the turn of High Blantyre Primary School. We were delighted to hand in 4 brand new […]
Love this time of year. We’ve been out and about this week during our spare time in evenings and weekends spreading some festive cheer. Using £100 of our wonderful Simm Endeavour Funding, we bought 48 selection boxes which went out locally to much deserving children. The back seat of our car was full! Thanks to […]