Game group boosts Highland Hospice coffers
Register for free to read more of the latest local news. It's easy and will only take a moment.
Sixteen members and guests of the Borlum game shooting syndicate, Scaniport, managed to more than double a total raised last year, with local businesses also helping with donations in kind.
The group staged a three-course bothy lunch, an extensive auction of donated goods and a series of competitions including 18th century musketry, a clay pigeon shoot and retriever dummy-throwing.
More than 80 auction items donated by members and guests ranged from home-made honey and tablet to malt whiskies, artworks and several hundred kilos of firewood.
Local businesses added support, including outdoor specialists Grahams, which chipped in two days’ trout fishing, Highland Industrial Supplies and Allans of Gillock with tools and workwear, Harbro with a retail voucher, Tesco with food and Scissor Sisters of Dingwall with haircut vouchers. Scaniport Estate made a direct donation of £100, to bring the total raised to £1920.
Borlum farmer Alan Fraser, who was auctioneer for the day and whose wife Yvonne and others produced the meal, said: “It was a great effort by all, an enjoyable afternoon and a huge thousand-pound increase on the £900 raised last year. We all appreciate what a tremendous personal service the Highland Hospice provides for our community, and that it costs about £7000 a day to run, so every small event and contribution helps.”
Highland Hospice community fundraiser Katie Gibb added: “I would like to say a huge thank you to everyone who organised and participated, as well as the businesses who supported it. To raise nearly £2000 is just fantastic and will be appreciated by those who rely on our care.”
