Blairmains Farm Shop and the Coffee Bothy receive numerous requests each week from different organizations and charities seeking our support for a worthwhile cause. As much as we would love to help everybody, we realized that we simply cannot and therefore we need to be selective in how we manage our charitable donations.
MAIN CHARITY OF THE YEAR
Each year we will select a ‘charity of the year’. This means that all fundraising that we do, will throughout the year, go to our named charity. We will also display the charity’s collection cans. If you wish for your charity to be nominated please get in touch via our ‘Contact Us’ page by the end of the year. We will then assess each nomination and select our ‘charity of the year’. Due to this we are no longer able to donate vouchers and hamper to individual charities. We hope that you will help us in our efforts to raise money for the charity of the year.
This year our chosen Charity is
Doddie Weir OBE was one of rugby’s most recognisable personalities. He earned 61 caps for Scotland during a successful playing career, represented the British and Irish Lions on their successful tour to South Africa in 1997, and won championships with his two club sides, Melrose and Newcastle Falcons.
A talented, committed and athletic lock forward, Doddie then faced his biggest challenge. In June 2017 the Scot revealed he was suffering from Motor Neuron Disease. From the outset, Doddie was driven to help fellow sufferers and seek ways to further research into this, as yet, incurable disease.
In November 2017, Doddie and his trustees launched the registered charity, My Name’5 Doddie Foundation. Our vision is simple: A World Free of MND.
The number “5” is a special number for the Foundation. It features in the Foundation’s name and is a reference to Doddie’s playing number for his clubs, Melrose and Newcastle Falcons, and the jersey he wore when he earned his 61 caps for Scotland.
Find out more about the Doddie Weir Foundation
2020-2022
We have raised £15,603 to help towards Down’s Syndrome Scotland supports families and people with Down’s syndrome to reach their full potential by providing a range of services, influencing public policy and by changing attitudes. Follow us on Facebook, to be kept up to date with our fundraising efforts throughout the year.
Down’s Syndrome Scotland supports families and people with Down’s syndrome to reach their full potential by providing a range of services, influencing public policy and by changing attitudes. To date we have raised £15,603 which we presented to Down’s Syndrome Scotland in October. We will continue to fund raise for them for the rest of the year.
2018-2019
Due to various reasons this year we have chosen to continue to support the BRITISH HEART FOUNDATION SCOTLAND.
We are really excited to be supporting this charity again as the work that they do is life saving and very worth while.
2017-2018
This years chosen charity is BRITISH HEART FOUNDATION SCOTLAND.
We are really excited to be supporting this charity as the work that they do is life saving.
Keep a eye out on this page and our facebook page for the various events we have planned for the year to help raise money for them
In 2016 we arranged various events for our 2 specific chosen charities.
Alzheimer Scotland and the Euan Macdonald Research Centre in Edinburgh University for Motor Neurone Disease.
Both of these diseases are important and directly affect our family.
At each event Blairmains Farm Shop and The Coffee Bothy’s are absorbing the hard costs, which we anticipate to be in the region of £8000, therefore we will not have further funds available for the remainder of this year for charitable donations. We thanks everyone for their support, please follow our facebook page for more information on these events.
We just wanted to share a quick update with you all, to date we have raised just over £18,000 for our 2 nominated charities with donations still coming in.
JANUARY to MARCH 2016
£40 Hamper donated to Strathcarron Hospice, Forth Valley Charity Raffle held on the 2nd April.
£40 Hamper donated to Menstrie Primary School, Parent Council’s Fundraising Group for their Spring Fayre.
OCTOBER to DECEMBER 2015
£40 Hamper donated to the Ochils Mountain Rescue Team
£40 Hamper donated to the Stirling County’s Ladies Lunch as a raffle prize to raising funds for Dementia Support. *The ladies lunch raised an amazing £1700.
Donation of Coffee Bothy Baking to Bannockburn High School for their charity event held in aid of Strathcarron Hospice on the 15th December.
JULY to SEPTEMBER 2015
£40 Hamper to Camphill Blair Drummond – a warm, friendly and supportive community for adults with learning disabilities to live, learn, work and relax.
£10 Coffee shop voucher and Horse Sponsorship to Contract Scotland’s Race Night for Bridges Programmes
60 x scones to Alva Academy for their Macmillan Coffee Morning
All the cupcakes for Mhairi Fergussons Cupcake Morning for Muir Maxwell Trusts raising over £3200. The Trust’s remit is to provide practical support to children and their families coping with severe epilepsy and to increase awareness and understanding of epilepsy and help remove the stigma associated with the condition.
£40 Hamper to Town Break Stirling – providing person centred services to support people with Dementia and their carers.
APRIL to JUNE 2015
2 x £20 Coffee shop voucher to scouts race night
1 x £10 Coffee shop voucher to McMillan coffee morning
60 x scones to Alzheimers Scotland Stirling and Clackmannanshire area
