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Community Affairs<br />
DR RAILTON SCOTT APPEAL: Spring Fundraising Week<br />
In place of our Annual Whist which we were unable to hold again this year, the Committee<br />
organised a fundraising week which started with an Afternoon Tea in the Village Hall on<br />
<strong>23</strong>rd April. We would have been happier to have had a few more customers, but despite<br />
that £791 was raised thanks to some very generous donations on the day. A wonderful<br />
spread of baking was donated by kind people in the village, and what was not eaten was<br />
distributed to helpers, and feeding some hungry players at the tennis club. (Also, my<br />
granddaughter here from Switzerland was delighted to be taking a selection home to<br />
Thistle Cottage)<br />
<strong>The</strong>re were several<br />
people who answered the<br />
call to organise a home<br />
whist evening, and £1,182<br />
was raised in this way. Moria<br />
Turner and Diane Loutit held<br />
a Wee Whist in the Reading<br />
Room with six tables playing<br />
which was a great success.<br />
Kirsty Cuthbert and one<br />
or two others arranged an<br />
evening of whist with supper<br />
at their homes and the pub<br />
quiz at the Cross Keys raised<br />
£200. (Thank you to Brian for<br />
facilitating this).<br />
<strong>The</strong> just giving page set up by Stuart Thomson raised £320. <strong>The</strong> collection box in McNicoll’s<br />
raised £64.<br />
In total, the Spring fundraising<br />
event raised £2,557. This is a<br />
wonderful sum, and we are, as<br />
always, extremely grateful to<br />
the village of Kippen for their<br />
generosity.<br />
You will be glad to know that it is<br />
the intention to return to our usual<br />
event, with the sale of raffle tickets<br />
and whist evening in the Village<br />
Hall on the 1st Friday in February<br />
20<strong>23</strong>. It will be wonderful to get<br />
back to the old tradition……. we’ve<br />
all missed it<br />
Naomi Hirst<br />
6 www.theweevine.org