SI St Andrews and District

Cheque Presentation and 2013 AGM

marianne@gofast.co.uk — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 10:28:21 +0000

The club held their 2013 AGM on 25th April, preceding the meeting with a dinner and

Cheque
Cheques presented to 4 local charities at 2013 AGM

and the presentation of cheques to the four local charities that had been chosen to support over the year. £1,890 was donated to the Assisted Support Centre, Canongate Primary, £270 to Families First(NE Fife), £270 to the Cosmos Centre, St. Andrews, and £270 to Age Concern (Cupar), making a total of £2,700 that had been raised throughout the past year.

Coffee Morning

marianne@gofast.co.uk — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 19:34:42 +0000

On Saturday April 6th Club members held their annual Coffee morning in a new location, having abandoned the customary Town Hall, moving instead to Hope Park & Martyrs Church hall. A hard working morning added £335 to charity funds – … Continued

STORY SACKS for RACHEL HOUSE

marianne@gofast.co.uk — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 19:26:50 +0000

Club members joined forces with the local St. Andrews Girl Guides unit to create story sacks with a jungle theme – the Guides wrote five short children’s stories about a number of wild animals such as giraffes, zebras, rhinos etc. Club member Anne Morris illustrated and printed these stories into little booklets and then club members and the Guides collected toys and props to go with the stories and made up sacks to put them all in and finally created two decorated boxes which each contained the five different story books along with the toys and props that went with them. It was decided to give the two boxes to Rachel House,the Children’s Hospice at Kinross and because there were two, they would send the second box over to their other Hospice in the West at Balfron. Presentation of the two boxes to a representative from Rachel House was made at the Scores Hotel on April 4th by both the Guides and club members.

Presentation of Story Sacks to Rachel House

: Guides with Story Sacks, President Wilma and Anne Morris (illustrator)

Fundraising Quiz Night 11th February 2013

marianne@gofast.co.uk — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 20:04:53 +0000

12 teams took part in the annual Club Fundraising Quiz Night at the Scores Hotel in St, Andrews on Monday, 11th February. Penelope Fraser and Maureen Collison were responsible for the questions, some of which were quite challenging! The contest between all the teams was close but in the end, the team from SI Dundee came out the winners. With the raffle and the fees (£20 per team of 4) this successful & enjoyable evening raised over £300 for the club’s charity fund.

Winning team from SI Dundee

Fundraising dinner at Seafood Restaurant, St. Monans November 20l2

marianne@gofast.co.uk — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 15:04:14 +0000

Club member and Programme Action Officer, Jean Frame, arranged and set up a special dinner held at the Seafood Restaurant in St. Monans as a fund-raising activity for this year’s chosen charities. Over 40 club members and their friends attended and had a delicious meal and enjoyed an entertaining social evening which culminated in a large raffle, each prize being wrapped up in layers of paper and boxes to disguise the contents! £774 was raised during the event and Jean Frame deserves much praise and thanks once again for all the hard work she put in in order to achieve such a magnificent result.

CHILDREN’S CHRISTMAS TREE FESTIVAL 2012

marianne@gofast.co.uk — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 14:06:51 +0000

This year the club is held their Christmas Tree Festival in St. John’s Church. Cupar on December 13th. 13 trees were entered from Local schools, playgroups, Brownies, Guides and Cub troupes and were displayed in the Sanctuary of the church, which was then opened to the public during the afternoon and evening of Thursday, December 13th. All visitors were invited to vote for their favourite tree and the winner was the tree entered by Kilmaron school in Cupar, created entirely from recycled materials. Two school choirs (Castlehill Primary, Cupar and Canongate Primary, St. Andrews) performed their repertoire of Christmas songs and more music was provided by the church organist. Club members served refreshments & home baking and a total of £82.00 was given in donations for the club’s charities .

Saturday, 1st December 2012 Pop-up Charity Shop in St. Andrews

marianne@gofast.co.uk — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 13:59:56 +0000

On Saturday, 1st December 2012 the club will be ran a one-day Pop-Up Charity Shop at the Home Start offices, 153 South Street, St. Andrews, 9.00-5.00, in order to fundraise for the club’s chosen charities for this year. This was the first time the club had tried this kind of fundraiser and it went moderately well, raising £412 during the day though it was agreed more publicity would be needed to increase custom if tried another time.

OXFAM & THE BIG BRA HUNT

marianne@gofast.co.uk — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 13:02:47 +0000

Club members exhibit some of the many bras collected for Oxfam

On 18th October Jennifer Meenan frfom Oxfam gave the club a talk about the work of Oxfam and in particular the Big Bra Hunt campaign (still ongoing) which has collected thousands of used bras to be sent for recycling and selling in Senegal. Club members had collected 4 large bags of bras which Jennifer was delighted to accept and take away to be sent off to the Senegal project.

SI Plaque at The Scores Hotel unveiled.

marianne@gofast.co.uk — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 14:49:34 +0000

At the first club meeting of the Autumn. 6th September 2012, a special wall plaque was unveiled at the entrance to the Scores Hotel to advertise the fact that all SI St. Andrews & District meetings and many of our events are held in the hotel.

President Wilma & Eric Brown, the Scores Hotel Manager pointing out the new plaque

Summer gardening at Rymonth House

marianne@gofast.co.uk — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 12:01:51 +0000

At the beginning of July a work party of 5 club members weeded and replanted the beds and pots in the Rymonth Residential home, to ensure the residents have an attractive area to enjoy – when and if it stops raining!