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.”
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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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