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What’s been happening

DONATION: The No Angels Line Dancers have once again made a generous donation to us to help with our funds, its another £1,000 !! bringing their total donated to us to £6,000 since we launched. Every penny of which will be spent benefitting those patients referred to us from all of the Medical Practices of Bo’ness.

DONATION : In 2009, Alan Gilbert, a Bo’ness football coach who trains local youngsters here won a newly distilled cask of Highland single malt whisky, labelled ‘anCnoc’ meaning simply ‘the hill’, and it has been slowly maturing in the bond of Knockdhu Distillery, Aberdeenshire since then. 
It was recently bottled exclusively for Alan and he has kindly donated some of this bounty to help raise funds for Bo’ness Car 4U. 

Now your average Highland single malt whisky may be 40% or 43% strength by volume, anCnoc is a mighty 59.2% vol. It is a soft golden colour, described as having a delicate note of early wood richness complimented with aromatic flavours.

Gail Fairholm at the Corbie Inn raffled these bottles of this delightful whisky, raising a magnificent £625 for our charity.

So many, many thanks to both Alan and Gail.

DONATION: A magnificent donation of £1,283 has been made to Bo’ness Car 4U all through the efforts of Dawn Doran who decided to challenge herself to completing 10,000 steps every week in March. Dawn attracted sponsors from family and friends all over West Lothian, including Xcite Gyms in Linlithgow and Broxburn, where Dawn takes classes every week day and a small Linlithgow based sewing group called Stitch Matters. Dawn was aware of what Bo’ness Car 4U do and decided to donate the entire amount to us. This led to an article in the Bo’ness Journal which raised our profile as well as attracting another £60 in donations from people who read the article. A million thanks Dawn, much appreciated..

When our newly appointed Publicity Officer, Val, asked for help from any media techies in our community to help and advise us on setting up videos on YouTube, Rob Willox of Webmedia stepped up and the result of their efforts can be seen if you search for Boness Car 4U on YouTube and Facebook. Our videos appeal for volunteers, and are produced in an extremely professional manner and we are delighted that they are featured in the Hippodrome Cinema. Rob, declined payment for all of his invaluable help – a million thanks Rob!

DONATION : The Bo’ness Belles local choir have supported us by donating the entire amount of money they generated at their various appearances throughout a whole year. The choir met with volunteers from Bo’ness Car 4U and presented us with a magnificent cheque for £5,709.06. Since we launched, we have completed over 1,500 journeys, conveying Bo’ness residents to their places of treatment in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Airdrie, Stirling and Larbert, and this fabulous donation from the Bo’ness Belles will ensure that we are able to do the same again for our neighbours in Bo’ness at a difficult time in the future.

FUNDING GRANT: Falkirk Council, in partnership with the Falkirk Health and Social Care Partnership, Community Choices secured funding to improve the local area and members of the community were invited to vote to decide how this money is spent. Bo’ness Car4U were successful in obtaining a grant of £5,000 towards our running costs. We would like to thank everyone who took the time to vote for us, it really is appreciated.

APPRECIATION : We received a generous donation of £300 raised and donated by the staff of Bo’ness Spinal Health Centre, Market Street, and a further £410 from various service users. Thank you everyone, without this help we could not exist.

DONATION: Many thanks to Bo’ness Churches Millenium Group who held a Quiz Night and very kindly donated the proceeds of £175 to us. Thanks a million folks – we’ll put that to very good use.

APPRECIATION: Cancer is a horrible disease and many families are affected by it. Bo’ness Car 4U have recently benefitted by donations from bereaved families following collections after funeral services. This funding is essential for our charity to continue.

DONATION: The employees of Walker Timber held a step-count fundraiser paying £1 for each 1,000 steps and raised a massive £4,280 which they have donated to Bo’ness Car4U. Members of the BC4U Committee attended their premises where Lorna Shanks and Jaine Stewart of Walker Timber presented the cheque.

APPRECIATION: Bo’ness Appreciation of Whisky Society have donated their first bottling of Lindores Lowland single malt whisky to sell on behalf of Bo’ness Car4U. It is 59.5% proof and sells at £5.95 a nip. A great whisky and well worth a try! A big thank you also to Gail Fairholm at the Corbie Inn who put our name forward and sold the whisky which raised £120 for our funds. In November BAWS donated a further bottle of Lindores, which Gail raffled at the Corbie, raising another £125. This takes BAWS’ contribution to us to £245.

DONATION: Craigmailen Church run a Tuesday Lunch Club and decided to make a donation to Bo’ness Car4U from the profit generated. Many thanks to everyone who made the donation of £100 possible.