On Thursday 23 March the club held a fundraising concert to raise money for two organisations close to our hearts. Bruce Davies, local singing legend, agreed to do the concert gratis, and the hotel where we meet, the Dean Park, agreed to give us the room for nothing. The money from tickets was allocated to Leading Change Uganda and the bottle raffle proceeds were earmarked for Alzheimer Scotland.
Bruce was delighted to sign for Leading Change Uganda as his mother was a great supporter of the cause, and he knows Linda, the UK fundraiser personally. He told the audience that he was pleased to hear that the raffle money was to be donated to Alzheimer Scotland as it is a cause ‘close to his heart’.
Bruce is an award winning singer songwriter and one of our members, who organised the concert, was his music teacher! He sang a lovely medley of songs, including quite a few Scottish favourites such as The Midges, Ae Fond Kiss and Westering Home. The audience were encouraged to join in with many of the choruses, which they thoroughly enjoyed and everyone agreed that it had been a terrific evening. We are so grateful to Bruce for giving us this opportunity to raise funds for our two causes.
