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Dear All,

I have taken on the updating and general maintenance of our website.  I hope you will witness slow improvements over the coming year.  I would however like to point out that my spelling is dreadful so please feel free to send me emails correcting it.

If there is anything you would like to to change, add or take away please let me know.  If you have any relevant photos please send them and I will paste them into the photo pages.

my email address is  penny@lanrick.co.uk

SRU support Sandpiper Trust

Cara and Anna Maitland joined Scotland Rugby Squad players Chris Paterson, Nathan Hines and Jason White at Murrayfield, during a training session, to promote the Sandpiper Cookery Book. The photograph is courtesy of Scottish Rugby SWPix

The Sandpiper Cookbook

THE SANDPIPER COOKBOOK….not just another charity cookbook £10 + P&P ( £4.99 for two books)

With a forward by Gavin Hastings, Patron of the Sandpiper Trust, it contains recipes from renowned chefs such as Gordon Ramsay and Nick Nairn, Scottish Rugby Legends such as Rob Wainwright and Kenny Logan, together with present Scottish Rugby Internationals Chris Paterson, Sean Lamont and Jason White. Also included are recipes from doctors working in remote parts of Scotland who have been provided with vital emergency Sandpiper equipment.

Full of delicious recipes, together with life-saving medical information and every day tips both serious and amusing dotted throughout the book, The Sandpiper cookbook is sure to be a No 1 Christmas stocking filler for students,friends, wives, husbands(!) and those living life in the fast lane.

PLEASE HELP SAVE A LIFE….IT COULD BE YOURS



Available from the following outlets, or by cheque payable to The Sandpiper Trust for £10 (plus £4.99 p&p for up to 2 books in one envelope). Send to The Sandpiper Trust, The Broich, Doune, Perthshire, FK16 6HJ.

If you have an outlet near you that would sell The Sandpiper Cookbook please ask them and we will endeavour to get them there.

Ballater – McEwens

McEwens of Perth

Mc Ewens Deli - Perth

Ballater - Surgery

Auchterarder Surgery

BASICS - Sandpiper House, Auchterarder

Aboyne – The Chocolate shop

Kincardine O’Neil Shop

Torphins – Platform 22

Echt - Millers

Inverurie Garden Centre

Raemoir Garden Centre ( December 15th only)

Brechin Castle Garden Centre

Crathes – Milton Art Gallery

Finzean Farm Shop

Mitchells of Banchory

Banchory – Cairn Gourmet

Blair Atholl – House of Bruar

Orvis of Banchory and Edinburgh

The Store – Foveran, Ellon

The Store – Stockbridge, Edinburgh

Doune – Community Resource Centre

Glendoick Garden Centre

Watsons of Inverurie

Mitchells of Inverurie

Sloans of Inverurie

Tiso - The Outdoor Specialists – Inverness-Aberdeen-Dundee-Blackford-Edinburgh-Ratho,Stirling, Glasgow, Newcastle

Strutt and Parker – Edinburgh – Banchory

Thistle Sport – Aberdeen

Portsoy Marble – Portsoy

Marshalls Garage – Huntly

Lochnagar Tearoom – Kilmacolm

Kippie Lodge – Aberdeen Petroleum Club

Inchmarlo Golf Centre

Christmas Fair at Woodend House, Banchory

Our thanks to those who braved the darkest, wettest day of the year to come along to a Christmas Fair at Woodend House, Banchory, home of the McHardy Family.

Adonation of £1300 was raised at the door and included the generosity of the stallholders, Nici Black of Edenwood Interiors, Caroline Hoyer-Miller of Twice, Sassy Kelly wtih Cath Collins and Joanna Hone with Silvermin.

The day also coincided with the unveiling of the Sandpiper Cookbook and not a soul left the house without at least one book.

Out of Doors with Mark Stevens

Radio Scotland , Out of Doors with Mark Stevens interviewed Chris Tiso and Aly and Penny Dickson about there involvement in The Sandpiper Trust and the newly designed Sandpiper Bag.  Mark also interview Dr. Fitzsimmon of Tain with regard to the work of the Trust and the importance of the "Basics training programme"

Newspapers praise the New Cookbook

Many local papers, over the past few days, have written articles about the Sandpiper Cookbook. The Stirling Observer, The Press and Journal are two of them.  Well done Claire Maitland and her very hard working team of elves.

Fettes college, Loretto & Lathallan Schools top sales of Cookery book

Fettes, Loretto and Lathallan Schools have been huge supporters of the Sandpiper Trust over the past few year and the sales of the cookery book is no exception - they are flying out the door. Thank you all for your support.  Hopefully the students are reading them with a view to helping out with the catering over the Christmas holidays!

Tiso Stores support Trust

On 16th November Tiso Stores, outdoor specialists made a presentation to the trust.  They have been working on a new design for the Sandpiper Bag for the past year. They felt that our original bag was combersome and difficult to carry.  A few doctors and nurses might agree with them.  Chris Tiso felt certain they  could design a bag that would hold just as much as the original bag but take up less room and be alot easier to carry.  They have certainly achieved this.  The new bag is very special and we are exremely grateful to the Tiso design team and to Brian Carlin from Basics (Scotland) for having put so much thought and care into the bag.

Spifox sponsor paediatric equipment for bags

The Scottish Property Industry Festival of Christmas, known as Spifox is an organization that supports children's charities. Last Christmas they held a carol service in St Cuthbert’s Church at which Gavin Hastings and Simon Dickson, Sandy’s elder brother, both read lessons. This was followed by a most impressive lunch for 800 guests held in the wonderful new Edinburgh International Conference Centre where a cheque for £30,000 was presented to the Trust for the provision of paediatric kits for all new and existing Sandpiper Bags. This most generous donations has enabled the Trust and their medical advisers to fill an important gap in the level of equipment and will greatly help with the emergency treatment of children.

St Andrew’s University Don’t Walk Fashion Show

In April 2005 the students from St Andrew’s University held a magnificent fashion show in the St Andrew’s Bay Hotel for over 700 people. Generously sponsored by TISO the event was a match for any Paris catwalk with exotic and imaginative outfits from a range of exciting new fashion houses. From the noise level generated by the energetic spectators the evening was voted an overwhelming success. Both the Sandpiper Trust and the Fergus MacLay Leukaemia Foundation each received a magnificent cheque for £5,000 as the chosen charities of the Committee, some of whom where at school with Sandy Dickson and Fergus MacLay.

Dunecht Challenge 2006

The Sandpiper Challenge 2006(a competition of golf and clay pigeon shooting) was held at Dunecht House in Aberdeenshire, by kind permission of The Hon Charles Pearson, in June.  20 teams took part, demonstrating a remarkable range of-or in some cases a remarkable lack of - skills.  Also attending for the day was the life-size training mannequin that Sandpiper have just donated to BASICS Scotland.

Gavin Hastings presented the prizes, and numbers swelled to 250 for a champagne reception, dinner and auction in the evening.  The team from BASICS SCOTLAND demonstrated their emergency procedures and the use of the  Sandpiper bag, with a staged car accident.

During dinner, some astounding magic was performed followed by a very successful auction with some extremely generously donated prizes.

Enormous thanks go to the Dunecht Committee who tirelessly sought to achieve perfection.  Robin and Claire Maitland, Joanna Aberdeen, Miranda McHardy, David Strang Steel, Sandy Manson, Kate Robertson, Richard and Virginia Fyffe and the Master of Ceremonies Alexander Aberdeen.  Their reward was blue sky, happy and contented guests and lots of fun.  The auction was a resounding success masterfuly led by Andrew Dingwall-Fordyce. Even the sale of Sandpiper merchandise flurished under the smiling faces of Alfie and Mrs Robb.  By  the end of the night the Sandpiper Challenge 2006 had raised the remarkable sum of £107,000 for the Trust to help inprove immediate care in Scotland.  Thank you all for you support.

Special thanks to our sponsors Strutt and Parker, Johnson Carmichael and the Bank of Scotland

Lanrick Fashion Show dazzles Doune

Blessed with fine weather 360 guests were entertained to a magnificent champagne reception and lunch followed by a fashion show in a marquee, bedecked with flowers, down by the river Teith at Lanrick. 3 collections were presented including talented Val Gray from Callander with her exclusive “Desirables” collection . Over 50 people, all volunteers and friends of the Dickson family, helped organize the day, which included the delicious lunch, prepared by Emily Dickson and Tania Dixon. The event raised an incredible £16,500 f or the Sandpiper Trust.