FOLLOWING the success of the gin festival, which boosted their benevolent fund coffers by a five-figure sum in May, the Rotary Club of Dunfermline are to dispense a £10,000 tonic to 14 good causes.
President Alan Condie said this concluding grant round, which the club ratified last Thursday, boosted to almost £18,000 their direct financial support to local and national charities during the 2023-24 Rotary year.
He explained: “Despite the current cost-of-living challenges, the continued generosity of the Dunfermline public has enabled us to enhance our New Year grant-giving, which has already seen us disburse £7,900 in charitable donations from the proceeds of our Christmas fund-raising drive, which featured the sell-out Dunfermline Abbey concerts by the Band of Her Majesty’s Royal Marines (Scotland) and the club’s annual Santa’s sleigh collections and Santa Dash.”
The gin festival was held in the Glen Pavilion in Dunfermline last month. Cheersh. (Image: David Wardle)
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Beneficiaries of the latest tranche of grants are the following organisations: £1,000 awards: Shiresmill Riding Therapy Centre; Maggie’s Fife; Alzheimer's Scotland; Real Life Options; Fife Gingerbread and Fife Women’s Aid.
£500 awards: SAAFA, as a one-off donation to mark the 80th anniversary of D-Day; the Finding Your Feet programme established in Dunfermline; Dunfermline Samaritans; Talk Matters; Aberlour Childcare Trust; Home Start; St John’s Scotland and Dunfermline Clothing Bank.
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