30 Apr My Name’5 Doddie Foundation Donation
Well done to the Aberdeen Shoemakers Incorporation for raising a massive Ā£3306.25 for My Name’5 Doddie Foundation at their dinner dance earlier this year!
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Charity News
27 Jan Charlie House benefits from Seven Incorporated Trades
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Charlie House is celebrating today following a substantial donation of Ā£400,000 from the Seven Incorporated Trades of Aberdeen, via its Trades Widow Fund Charity. The generous donation, which is the single biggest donation in the history of the Seven Incorporated Trades of Aberdeen, will go towards funding the specialist support centreās spa pool area which will feature in the new building.
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21 Dec Donation’s to Local Childrenās Charities
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The Seven Incorporated Trades of Aberdeen
The Trades Widows Fund Charity
Charities Across the North East are to receive a share of a Ā£35,000 donation as part of a recently registered charitable organisation. Established in 2015, The Trades Widows Fund Charity is repeating the generous donation again this year in time for Christmas. The main focus of the gift is to donate capital to charities that will benefit children in the local area.
Cheques will be presented to the various charities representatives at Trinity Hall, Holburn street, on the 20th of December.
Charities that are to benefit from the donation include Charlie House, Wooden Spoon Scotland, Down Syndrome Scotland, Me Too!, Northsound Cash for Kids, Community Food Initiatives North East and SensationALL.
(more…)28 Oct “SensationALL” Westhill given boost by Fleshers
Deacon Malcohm Hetherington and Late Deacon Ian A MacIntosh were delighted to visit SensationALL Westhill and present a cheque for Ā£1,700 recently.
Funds were raised at the Aberdeen Fleshers Incorporation annual dinner dance where members and guests were very generous.
20 Sep Tailors Incorporation fundraising Bingo evening
On Friday 20th September the Aberdeen Tailors Incorporation held a fund raising Bingo evening in the function suite of the Ashvale Fish Restaurant to raise monies towards the funding of the annual Profession Development Awards for textile students at Grayās School of Art. The monies raised ensured that the project will continue for a number of years. Around 70 family and friends of the Tailors members attended.
05 Jul “Charlie House” given cash boost by Aberdeen Fleshers
Deacon Malcohm Hetherington and Late Deacon Ian A MacIntosh were delighted to visit Charlie House HQ and present a cheque for Ā£1,700 recently.
Charlie House is a local childrenās charity which supports babies, children & young people with complex disabilities and life limiting conditions in NE Scotland.
19 Jun Grampian Deaf Children’s Society
3rd April 2018
At the Aberdeen Tailors Incorporation annual dinner and dance at the beginning of December 2017 a prize draw was held and members chose to donate the proceeds to Grampian Deaf Children’s Society (GDCS).
GDCS is a local registered charity, affiliated to NDCS, who provide information, support and advice on all aspects of childhood deafness to the families of deaf children.
21 Oct Aberdeen Tailorsā Incorporation Donate To UCAN
Aberdeen Tailorsā Incorporation, part of the Seven Incorporated Trades of Aberdeen, have donated monies towards UCAN. UCAN are a local charity that was launched 10 years ago and they do fantastic work in raising awareness and for providing Urological care for patients and families right here in the North East of Scotland.
The monies were raised at the Aberdeen Tailorsā Incorporation Annual Dinner Dance.
The Tailorsā decided that the monies raised should go to a local worthy cause and UCAN was their unanimous choice.
Gayle Stephen, Office Manager at UCAN, commented āOn behalf of UCAN I would like to thank everyone involved with the Aberdeen Tailorsā Incorporation for the very generous donation to the UCAN charity Phase 3. This gift will be used to help UCAN focus on a multi strand approach including sharing of knowledge of the UCAN model, increased patients involvement, establishing outcomes of most importance to patients, establishing Aberdeen as a ācentre of excellenceā for education and training, strengthening of the UCAN specialist nurse position and continued fundraising for specific equipment including an updated MRI fusion system.ā
The cheque was presented to Gayle Stephen of UCAN on 23rdJune 2017 by First Master Derek Simpson and Deacon Mike Morrice of the Aberdeen Tailorsā Incorporation.
19 Sep Cheque presentation to Grampian Deaf Childrenās Society
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On 3 September 2016, Deacon Convener George M Esson presented a cheque to Grampian Deaf Childrenās Society at Garioch Indoor Bowling Centre in Inverurie. Ā The Society were holding a Games afternoon for hearing impaired children from the north east, who can suffer a sense of isolation in main stream schooling. Ā They were led by role models, young adults from the hearing impaired community in our area. Ā The donation represented the proceeds of a draw held at a concert in Trinity Hall in association with Aberdeen International Youth Festival.
The presentation was featured in the Inverurie Herald in October 2016.
28 Jun Tailors āRiding of the Marchesā
Philip Sainsbury being ādoupedā by (L to R) Michael Morrice, Alan Sainsbury Derek Simpson, Richard Sainsbury and Michael Allen.
Aberdeen Tailorsā Incorporation undertook a āRiding of the Marchesā on the 23rd June 2016.Ā This ancient ceremony was originally carried out on an annual basis but is now part of the acceptance of new members into the Tailorsā Incorporation.Ā The name āMarchā derives from the 16th century meaning of a boundary and is usually indicated by stone markers.
Comparatively new members Richard Sainsbury and Philip Sainsbury were ādoupedā (Doupin is to drop or dump someone down smartly on the buttocks, specifically in the initiation of burgesses by bumping them on the boundary stones) helping to instil in the memory of the new members the position of the boundary stones.
The Tailorsā Douping stone is situated on Gallows Hill next to the Trinity Cemetery overlooking Pittodrie.