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Wishing everyone a most wonderful Holiday Season to you and your families and much health and happiness in 2010.
Please take a moment to check out some most amazing causes we are supporting at RT Burns and feel free to add some that you feel we would be interested in. In this holiday season please remember the less fortunate and sometimes a smile and a kind word can make a world of difference to those alone this holiday season.
Take someone out for coffee, make a donation in their honor and most of all just make them aware that someone does care out there. That they are loved.
1) Yorkhill Childrens Foundation
Around 150,000 children from all over Scotland attend the Royal Hospital for Sick Children at Yorkhill, Glasgow each year for treatment. Yorkhill Children’s Foundation aims to provide all the ‘extra’ services and pieces of equipment which help make their stay in hospital, or their treatment in the community, that little bit easier. From state-of-the-art medical equipment to entertainers, every project we fund helps put a smile back on sick children’s faces.
http://www.yorkhillchildrensfoundation.org/page/Home.aspx
2) Celebrate Burns Night in Come Dine with Me style and raise money for Breakthrough Breast Cancer
Celebrate the great Scottish icon and support Breakthrough Breast Cancer in Scotland by organising a Burns Night.
Whether you invite your friends round for dinner or organise a tartan themed Ceilidh, the fundraising possibilities are endless. All donations will go towards Breakthrough's research, education and campaigning work in Scotland.
http://breakthrough.org.uk/scotland/burns_night_for.html
3) Childrens Hospice Association Scotland
Children's Hospice Association Scotland (CHAS) is a Scottish charity established to provide hospice services in Scotland for children and young people with life-limiting conditions.
www.chas.org.uk
4) The National Trust for Scotland
A special celebration of an internationally loved Scottish writer
The National Trust for Scotland was first approached to take the lead on delivering this project in 2004. This project is the largest and most ambitious project the charity has even undertaken.
We will create a new world class Robert Burns Birthplace Museum, carry out a major re-interpretation of the cottage where burns was born, deliver exciting new education facilities and enhance the Burns Monument, Brig o’ Doon and Auld Kirk. The new facilities will be open by Summer next year.
Burns is central to the life and culture of the nation and he is widely regarded as a Scottish icon. The Trust will safeguard the place of his birth and create a new museum that will preserve the Burns legacy for future generations to come.
The Robert Burns Birthplace Museum project will cost 21m this is made up of:
£5.8 m Heritage Lottery Fund
£5.5m contribution from the Scottish Government
£250,000 from Scottish Enterprise Ayrshire
Land in Alloway worth an estimates worth of £2.885m from South Ayrshire Council
Trust sill has 3.8 million to raise
http://www.nts.org.uk/Burns/BurnsMuseum/
5) The Robert Burns Grove
Join us in planting a Grove of native trees in honour of Robert Burns and the 250th anniversary of his birth in 2009 - acknowledging his love of and connection to the land he celebrated through poetry and song.
Find out about Trees for Life’s work to restore the Caledonian Forest.
http://www.treesforlife.org.uk/groves/robert_burns.html
6) Save Gillies Hill Campaign
An area of huge Scottish historical importance is to be destroyed.
Gillies Hill, the historic and environmentally vital landscape on the outskirts of Stirling, is in danger of being destroyed by quarrying.
http://www.savegillieshill.org.uk/
7) Change the name of "Prestwick Glasgow International Airport" in Scotland to "Robert Burns' International Airport".
As it is the 250th anniversary of Robert Burns' birth it seems the perfect time to change the name of "Prestwick Glasgow International Airport" in Scotland to "Robert Burns' International Airport".
The airport's position should be known internationally, as it is situated near Robert Burns' birth place, in what is known as Burns Country; in the south west of Scotland.
The airport sits about halfway between Glasgow and Turnberry (where the Open golf tournament is being held in 2009). The owners say that the word Glasgow is included so that businesses know where abouts in Scotland the airport is situated. In other words no-one knows where Burns Country is situated. Then isn't it time people did know where Burns Country is?
http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/robert-burns-international-airport.html
Happy Holidays to all and thanks for all the amazing support and encouragement, it means the world to us.
Please tell a friend to join us at RT Burns we would love to have them and to hear from all of you.
Warm regards
Lady Alex