Good luck to the Blantyre Vics Youth Team who are doing a sponsored walk around Strathclyde Park today! The weather has to be windy and a little rainy later, so hope you all managed to get round whilst it stays dry. All the best!
January fundraising totals are in and we’ve managed to raise a very handsome £150.40 for local good causes! This comes from £12 donations from kind hearted individuals supporting the Blantyre Telegraph Facebook page (using the donate button there) and also £138.40 from Blantyre Project, from the sales of history books in the last period. We’ve […]
David Livingstone Trust thanks supporters after successful crowdfunder raises £1,141 to buy rare ‘magic lantern’ slide Historic artefact will go on display at new Birthplace Museum in Blantyre Slide shows Scottish explorer preaching biblical story of Abraham and Isaac The David Livingstone Trust has thanked generous supporters after a crowdfunder raised a whopping £1,141 in […]
A Christmas miracle is happening today! DM Hair & Beauty have collected in a HUGE amount of food and gifts in their Christmas Foodbank Appeal. Customers, staff and members of the local community kindly donated all of this you see pictured! Today, Friday 21st December 2018 DM Hair & Beauty handed all this over to […]
The children of St Blane’s Primary School on Fernslea Avenue recently took part in their own Christmas act of kindness. The children and their families took part in a reverse advent calendar. They brought in lots of food, chocolates and toiletries, which soon all mounted up into a huge pile of donated goods. All their […]
Hot on the heels of his previous venture, local man, John Paul Doyle is assisting with fundraising on another amazing good cause. A fantastic Charity football match in aid of Manchester emergency fund will be played at Spartans Academy in Edinburgh on the 23rd July 2017 at 13.00. The match will be played between official […]
Blantyre residents and kind hearted people from far beyond the town have dug deep and raised an incredible £709 during May 2017 remembering driver Conor Morgan. Conor Morgan (45) tragically lost his life in an accident in a High Blantyre construction site in April 2017, devastating family, shocking colleagues and touching the lives of many […]
Blantyre boy John Paul Doyle has come up with a novel idea for fundraising for Saint Andrew’s Hospice. With his assistance and from his own idea, a group of high school students and teachers from Saint John Ogilvie High School are participating in a 12 hour game of football to raise money in aid of […]