On the 21st, 22nd and 23rd August, employees of The Scottish Salmon Company (TSSC) will run, cycle and row their way from Lochboisdale to Stornoway, covering 150 miles and passing all of the TSSC Hebrides sites along the way.  

 We are raising money for The Sandpiper Trust, RNLI Leverburgh, The Leanne Fund and Macmillan Nurses.  

 We would greatly appreciate any donations towards this event and thank you for your support.

 Best Wishes,

The Scottish Salmon Company

Only three more  days to go before 24 brave souls undertake Abseiling off the Forth Rail Bridge to fundraise for The Sandpiper Trust.   The following is a list of all  who are taking part.

Kirsty Laird, Chelsee Henderson, Graeme Ramage, Cara Maitland, Anna Maitland, Harry Maitland, Robin Maitland, Caitlin Buchan, Sophy Howard, Camilla Barlow, Rosamund Murdoch, Renwich Drysdale, Henry Philip, Lindsay Simpson, Dr Colville Laird, Emma Winterschladen, Bethan Leckie, Hughie Campbell Adamson, James Campbell Adamson, Max Nimmo, Gavin Packham, James McRae, Jessica Dickson, Ava Macgregor-Dennis.

Just giving has been busy receiving many donations.  We are, as always, touched by all those who have sponsored these crazy people but most of all we are indepted to  our participants.

Good luck.

Are you raising money for The Sandpiper Trust.    JustTextGiving is simple.  If you are taking part in the Abseil event in October and hope your friends will sponsor you, here is the solution.

Text – 70070   .  In the message  Text -  SAND14£5       This will be a donation of £5.    You can donate anything between  £1 and £10.  It is  simple.    Good Luck.

For those of you wishing to take part in the above activity  please sign up on the following link. www.chssi.org.uk/acefrboct   As a charity we have 20 places reserved , on a first come first served basis.  Please let us know if you have signed up in order that we can send you sponsorship forms or better still open a just giving page.

I am looking forward to standing on the bridge to witness this great event – sorry , I am  not doing it.!!

Great day’s shopping at Woodend yesterday and as a result we will now be able to equip another Rural Practitioner with life-saving medical equipment. Thank you to all who helped make it such a successful event. – With Clare Leslie Melville, Miranda McHardy, Jack Maitland, Saskia Robertson, Virginia Fyfe, Bev Remp, Gemma Donaldson, Judith Donaldson, Claire Maitland and Mrs Robb.

This event was held at Blair Drummond Safari Park by kind permission of Jamie Muir (seen here being extricated by a Basics Team) on 29th September 2011.

The purpose of the day was to showcase the work the trust do in partnership with BASICS Scotland. We invited donors and supporters of the Trust to attend an afternoon event  where BASICS doctors and paramedics  demonstrated  how the Sandpiper Trust  contributes to immediate care in Scotland.  There were also information stations  explaining about the work of  Basics and how this organising delivers courses all over Rural Scotland.

A further one hundred guests attended an evening function where the Basics crew demontrated their skills by extricating  Jamie Muir from a crashed car.

The whole day was considered a great success, particularly in demontrating this invaluable partnership between The Sandpiper Trust and Basics Scotland and we hope to be able to host a few more similar events in the future.

Ashley Mitchell, Tommy Barbour-Fleming, Ben Braithwaite, Vicky Barbour-Fleming and Suzie Braithwaite completed the Berlin Marathon as well as organising a race night in the local hall to help boost funds.   I think they had a bit of parental help as far as the Race night went  but Marathon running was a diffenent matter.  A few bicyle rides escorting training sessions were as far as that went.  Total funds raised are close to  a staggering £5000.   Thanks to all of you and your support team.

Harry Barker, Renwick Drysdale, Angus Barge, Geordie Erskine and Russell Nimmo are our heros.  Here is a brief description of what they were planning.  

“The five of us are planning to swim the channel as a relay. This involves swimming 1 hour at a time each. This has to be an hour and cant be changed  to 30 minutes if one person is struggling. There are tight rules on this hour. No swimmer is allowed to get out of the water or touch the boat during the hour. Even if the person has cramp or is sick then they have to stay in the water and away from the boat. A slight touch of the boat is an automatic disqualification. 

            The hour each carries on until we finally reach france – this may take from 13 hours (which is quick) to 20 hours. We are aiming to get to France in 15hours – roughly swimming 2 times each with some swimmers swimming 3 times each. – Fingers crossed.

            Training has now picked up with only four weeks to go it is now make or break time. We are swimming 5 times a week in the Kinross Pool for an hour each time. However on top of that we are swimming in Loch Leven 3 times a week for 50 minutes to an hour. This is to help get us used to the cold. Harry Barker who swam the channel on his gap year on his own, is helping us with training. He lives in London and has now left it to us to train for the last 4 weeks. He has set us a tight training regime and is now all about trust. Other than that it is all done by ourselfs and we have asked no one for help through out the year. ”

I hope, having read this you will be wondering how they got on.  Well I don’t really have the details  nor do we have the final amount raised, that should follow shortly.  They did complete the amazing challenge and are still in the process of counting the pennys.  What an brilliant acheivement.