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.!!
Adam Galloway is taking on another challenge for the Sandpiper Trust. He is in training at the moment and is looking for a bit of sponsorship. His justgiving site is http://www.justgiving.com/adamgalloway so feel free to have a look and give him words of encouragement . Thank you Adam.
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.
Motorcyclists in the North-east have dug deep and donated over £1700 to a local charity.
Over the last twelve months Road Safety Grampian along with their partner agencies have raised the awareness among motorcyclists of their vulnerability whilst riding on North-east roads.
Between 2006 and 2010, 34 motorcyclists died and 274 were left with serious injuries as a result of collisions in the area.
To highlight the problem, as part of Operation Zenith, Road Safety Grampian along with their partner agencies have held several motorcycle events such as ‘Safer September’ and the ‘TT Film Night’.
At these events raffle tickets were sold in aid of the Sandpiper Trust, a charity that provides emergency medical response bags to doctors and nurses in the more rural areas of Grampian.
These bags save lives as it can be a period of time before an ambulance can get to the crash scene. Medical staff residing in these areas can respond along with the bags much quicker and provide medical intervention within the very important ‘Golden Hour.’
Constable Neil Robertson from Road Safety Grampian said: “We are delighted that motorcyclists have supported the charity and we are also very grateful to the local businesses and organisations for providing prizes for these raffles.
“So far this year motorcycle collisions are significantly lower than last year and we will strive to keep this reduction continuing over the coming years with the help of our motorcycle community.
“We urge motorcyclists to gain further riding skills and participate in advanced training such as the Bikesafe courses, which will again run during 2012.”
Further information on Operation Zenith can be found on the Grampian Police website WWW.grampianpolice.org/Zenith.
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.
Ollie Nicol and his father Paul took on this challenge . Yet another amazing adventure. I think I quite like the idea of this trip. They completed the journey with not too many mishaps and in doing so managed to raise over £1000 for The Sandpiper Trust. Thank you Paul and Ollie. Cambridge must seem a little tame after that adventure.
Terry Duffy is still on his way around the world as part of the Clipper race. We have not established where he is but I am sure he will be maximizing his adventure and will either never wish to set foot on a boat again or never want to get off.
A group of talented and enthusiastic Crewel Embroiderers organised and exhibition local to Dunblane. The exhibition continued for 5 days and was very well attended. All guests were welcomed with coffee and home baking, not to mention homemade soups and scones. The work on display was breath taking. A hugh amount of work went into the exhibition and they raised an astonishing £3000 . Thank you for choosing to support The Sandpiper Trust. We will let you know in due course where we have delivered your three bags to.