We would like to thank everyone who took part in our Online Auction this year we raised £6066.31.
This will help our Rotary Club to continue to support local and International charities and good causes. This year a large donation will be going to Ukraine through Rotary International's Disaster Response Fund https://on.rotary.org/3KiyhFt
This was our second online auction, last year we raised £5368.43 allowing the club to make donations to a number of local, national and international charities including
- Dalkeith Thistle’s Pan Disability Football Team
- Asthma UK
- Storehouse (A Food Bank in Dalkeith)
- Aquabox – a charity which provides safe drinking water, through the use of filtration units, and humanitarian aid to crisis zones around the world
- Lend with Care - which makes interest free loans to people determined to work themselves out of poverty . we have made 45 loans and supported over 910 people
- Reforesting Scotland
- RNLI
- Prostate Cancer
- Woodburn Youth Project
- End Polio Now - where we purchased purple crocus corns and donated them to the Dalkeith Guerilla Gardeners to plant in the Dalkeith Town Centre
- Sponsored an award with Midlothian Volunteering
- Donated 20 Christmas Art Packs to Dalkeith Art Club
Once again thank you to everyone who donated and took part in the auction, we really appreciate all your support!