Highland Hospice’s ‘massive thanks’ to golfers who raised an above-par £66,970 at Royal Dornoch Golf Course – a total of 28 four-person teams took part in Kingsmills Hotel's seventh annual golf day
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A top Inverness hotel’s seventh annual golf day has driven a record-breaking sum into Highland Hospice coffers.
Kingsmills’ competitors battled bunkers and bogeys to raise an above-par £66,970 total – their best yet – which has now been presented to the cancer care charity.
The event took place at Royal Dornoch Golf Course with 28 four-person teams participating.
Karen Duff, the hospice’s corporate fundraiser, said: “We would like to say huge congratulations and a massive thank you to the Kingsmills Hotel for raising a record amount of £66,970 at their annual golf day. We are honestly just overwhelmed by their incredible support.
“The date has already been set for next year’s tournament taking place on September 22, 2023, at Nairn Golf Club. Please contact me if you would like more details – k.duff@highlandhospice.org.uk.”
Tony Story, the hotel’s managing director, said the day had been absolutely fantastic and added: “It’s the most we’ve raised from one of these events.
“It’s just incredible so many people in the Highlands individually contribute to things like this. It’s great that so many people were involved in this.”
He said that 240 people attended the day’s prize-giving dinner and added: “It was just brilliant and quite heart warming.”
The tournament this year was won by Highland Office Supplies, who held a net score of 51.95 and they accepted their award at the dinner.
Highland Hospice is the only hospice serving adults across the Highlands and its palliative and end-of-life care services have been a vital source of comfort and support for patients, their families and communities since it first opened in 1987.
Its care increases quality of life by reducing pain and suffering, enabling patients and their families to make the most of the precious time they have left together.
It is an independent charity, relying on communities both for their fundraising efforts and to help the charity extend support outwith the hospice building itself in Inverness to also provide care for those further out.
Home care is provided in a number of locations, allowing people to live at home for longer; and the befriending team tackles the loneliness and isolation which often accompanies deteriorating health and is exacerbated in remote areas.
Its services are offered freely to everyone who needs them but they are also costly to deliver. The charity is hugely grateful to receive an annual grant from the NHS, but it must still raise more than 75 per cent of its income, mostly through fundraising and retail, to continue delivering care.
