Rotary Says Thank You Once Again

Currie Balerno Rotary received over £6000 in donations over the Christmas period. We are grateful to those who supported us. Every penny will go to charities or good causes, most notably to local food banks and to the Pentland Community Chest, which provides grants to projects of value to our local communities.

We started December with the lighting up of our Tree of Life in the grounds of Balerno Parish Church. People are invited to sponsor lights on the Tree of Life in memory of loved ones or to mark special occasions. Donations accompanying these sponsorships totalled £1150.

Then came our stall at the Balerno Christmas market, where we sold wooden Christmas trees and snowmen hand-made by Rotarians Colin Aspinall and Don MacLeod. This brought in a further £1400

And finally we offered our traditional gift-wrapping service at the Gyle Shopping Centre - pictured here on a busy Christmas Eve. We invited people to make donations to the charities we support and they did so to the sum of £3250.

In addition to all of this, a further £800 was donated to our Lend with Care account, from which we make loans to budding entrepreneurs in developing countries. These loans are repaid, making further loans possible.

Once again, we want to thank all those people who gave so generously and we offer our best wishes to all the C&B News readers for a good 2024.