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Charity 2009/10

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Registered Charity
Number 1014851

Clydesdale Bank are delighted that their Charity Partner for 2009 will continue to be Help the Hospices.

Help the Hospices is a national charity supporting over 200 local hospices across the UK with national fundraising initiatives, provision of grants, funding, training, information, support and advocacy for hospices. As a membership organisation for hospices, Help the Hospices provides a voice to these local charities which enrich the lives of over 250,000 terminally ill patients annually. Supporting this worthwhile cause will give our employees an opportunity to support both a national and a local charity.

Check back here for more information about activity happening throughout season 2009/10.

Clydesdale Bank Premier League trophy visits local school

Real Radio and CHAS

Children at St Margaret’s School in Polmont got their hands on the Clydesdale Bank trophy last week, thanks to local resident Gordon Meikle and his winning charity bid.

We had offered the trophy as an auction prize for Real Radio’s Bring a £ To Work Day, to help raise funds for CHAS, the Children’s Hospice. The prize ran on Ewen and Roughy’s Football Phone In show, and Gordon was the highest bidder, offering £500 for the trophy to spend a day at a school of his choice.

Clydesdale Bank’s charity partner is Help the Hospices, of which CHAS is a part, so we were more than happy to offer up a prize that could help Real Radio raise funds for this worthy cause.

Gordon chose St Margaret’s School in Polmont for the trophy. Explaining his choice he said: “As a football fan, I know that kids would love to see something like the SPL trophy up close, and when I heard that a great charity would benefit, it was an easy decision to bid. Both my children went to St Margaret’s School, and it’s close to my home. One of my daughters is training to be a teacher and she has worked in the school, so it was a perfect choice.”

Over the course of the day all the classes were invited to the school gym to have their photo taken with the trophy, giving them the chance to feel like champions themselves. The school had organised an additional fundraiser for CHAS. Acting Headteacher at the school, Ann Mcfarlane said: “We were delighted when Gordon told us that he’d nominated our school to have the SPL trophy for a day. The kids were so excited to get close to something they see their football heroes with on television, one primary three child even told me that he would never wash his hands again! We had already decided that the collection at our Easter Service would go to CHAS, and the children have all made a donation to the charity to have their photo taken with the trophy, so it’s nice that the school is also able to give something to the same charity.”

As an added treat for a couple of classes, we arranged for a player from the local SPL team to visit the school to take part in a Q&A session with some of the kids. Falkirk goalie Josh Wagenaar stopped by and did a great job of answering the kids questions which ranged from “who is the best player in your team?”, “what subjects did you take at school?”, and “what age did you start playing football?”, to some trickier questions like “what do you think is wrong with Falkirk this year?” and “how much do you earn?” !

Real Radio Football Phone-In host Ewen Cameron also came by to see how things were going. He said: “This year’s ‘Bring a pound to work day,’ was our most successful yet and this is down to, not only the amazing generosity of our listeners, who have really taken the charity into their hearts, but companies like the Clydesdale Bank, who offer such fantastic prizes like this. Without them we wouldn’t be able to hold such successful auctions, that really get our listeners excited and bidding huge amounts of money for such a worthwhile cause.”

8th April 2010

 


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