Charity News

20 Sep Tailors Incorporation fundraising Bingo evening

On Friday 20^th 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 Gray’s 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.

19 Jun Grampian Deaf Children’s Society

3^rd 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.

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21 Oct Aberdeen Tailors’ Incorporation Donate To UCAN

Aberdeen Tailors’ 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 Tailors’ Incorporation Annual Dinner Dance.

The Tailors’ 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 “On behalf of UCAN I would like to thank everyone involved with the Aberdeen Tailors’ 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 “centre of excellence” for education and training, strengthening of the UCAN specialist nurse position and continued fundraising for specific equipment including an updated MRI fusion system.”

The cheque was presented to Gayle Stephen of UCAN on 23^rdJune 2017 by First Master Derek Simpson and Deacon Mike Morrice of the Aberdeen Tailors’ Incorporation.

28 Jun Tailors ‘Riding of the Marches’

Philip Sainsbury being ‘douped’ by (L to R) Michael Morrice, Alan Sainsbury Derek Simpson, Richard Sainsbury and Michael Allen.

Aberdeen Tailors’ Incorporation undertook a “Riding of the Marches” on the 23rd June 2016.  This ancient ceremony was originally carried out on an annual basis but is now part of the acceptance of new members into the Tailors’ Incorporation.  The name ‘March’ 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 ‘douped’ (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 Tailors’ Douping stone is situated on Gallows Hill next to the Trinity Cemetery overlooking Pittodrie.