Suzanne McAdam is organizing Christmas collections for Dogs Trust Glasgow, seeking donations of dog-related items like blankets, toys, and food. With the holiday season challenging for shelters, she appreciates any contributions or shares to help make a bigger difference this year. Collection arrangements can be made for those who don’t drive.
Hyper Cyber Youth Project in High Blantyre is amongst several community groups to receive a financial boost in their valuable work with grants totalling more than £4500 from the Hamilton Area Committee. The council’s Community Grants scheme includes provision for funding playschemes operating over the school holidays and, through this, specific Playscheme Grants of £440 […]
Thanks to all the members of the Blantyre Telegraph Supporters group, this month’s collective subscriptions have now gone to help High Blantyre Baptist Church. We were delighted to hand over £200 earlier last week. Minister Steve Younger, pictured told us, “Thank you Blantyre Telegraph for this donation for our Church and Sunday Club joint summer trip […]
A massive thanks to all Blantyre Telegraph Supporters this month. Your fantastic £1.79 donations has meant not just getting a whole month of extra, hidden Blantyre news and alerts, but has now been put straight back into the local community! Yesterday, thanks to YOU, we were able to add another £230.00 to the growing fund […]
Local Charitable group, “Graham’s Rainbow” is hosting a food collection this week, to donate to “rumbling tums” They’ll have a drop off point in High Blantyre car park on Thursday 14th January 2021 from 5.00 – 7.00pm for anyone who would like to donate some food to worthy causes. Organisers have asked anybody donating to […]
We have a couple of messages today from several people wishing to donate clothing and toys to those more in need. They want to donate locally within Blantyre, so need your help with some suggestions where. Do you know of any local places who give to families that are in need of some clothes? One […]
We’re absolutely bowled over by an incredible donation of £1,000 given to us this week by a very kind lady. Wishing to remain anonymous, this kind soul has been impressed by Blantyre Telegraph’s fundraising & magazine and decided to contribute handsomely to Blantyre good causes. We met up with her in High Blantyre earlier in […]
It’s nearing the end of February and what an incredible fundraising month we’ve had for good causes within Blantyre. Incredibly, a total of £872 has been raised using income from the following sources: £750 from Blantyre Oscars 2018 from part of the ticket sales and; £122 from Blantyre Project’s sales of history books. This month, […]