Annual Reports

 

Highlights of a Year at Erskine

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March

Inaugural Ladies Lunch raises £1800 and Erskine News wins Charity Newsletter of the Year.

April

Catering Manager, Brian Fleming is finalist in UK Cost Sector Catering Awards.

May

Erskine Cycle Challenge raises £5000 and the new website is unveiled.

June

Erskine unveils 90th birthday logo, Operation Fun launched and Erskine gifts Memorial Garden to our partnership home Fairview House, Aberdeen

July

81 year old Para, James Green skydives and raises £5000 for Erskine

August

30 year long service awards for Erskine Staff and the Royal Scots Shop opens

September

The Erskine Veterans Tartan is launched at RAF Lossiemouth.

October

Erskine celebrates its 90th birthday year, the roof goes on at the Erskine Glasgow Home and Erskine Park welcomes its first residents

November

Glasgow Appeal is launched by the Lord Provost at the City Chambers.

Veterans Minister, Derek Twigg MP, presents Veterans Badges to Erskine residents.

Christmas Cracker raises £16,000 and Care staff presented with SVQ awards.

December

Trees of Honour, Edinburgh Carol Concert and Erskine Mains Manager Elsie MacLennan is runner up in Scottish Care Managers Awards.

January

Reid Macewen Training and Conference Centre joins forces with the Centre

for Dynamic Leadership.

February

Historic reunion of Erskine resident, Alex Lees with fellow Stalag Luft III and Prisoners Of War.

 

Veteran getting help

Annual Report - 2005

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March

Erskine Furniture launched the Horizon range of contemporary pine bedroom furniture.

April

Staff and supporters began training for events across the country, including the Great Scottish Walk, the Helensburgh Half Marathon and the Aberdeen Baker Hughes 10k.

May

Erskine Awareness Week recreated a wartime atmosphere with visits to a World War II classroom, a singalong ENSA party, a street party and the launch of Victory Tea Parties up and down the country.

June

Nine of our qualified nurses gained the very first Royal College of Nursing Palliative Care Certificates in Scotland.

July

Volunteers and friends from all over Scotland joined us for our annual Volunteer Reception acknowledging their contribution and recognising milestones in their service. The 2010 Appeal received a major boost with a £100,000 donation from The Weisfeld Foundation.

August

Highly acclaimed Scottish film director Elly Taylor's awardwinning documentary "Through Hell and High Water" was screened for Erskine at the Edinburgh Filmhouse.

September

The Reid Macewen Training and Conference Centre launched a series of training courses to help staff meet the challenges of the modern day business world.

October

We welcomed our new Chairman Jim Scott and launched the third phase of our advertising campaign which is helping attract new supporters, regular donations and wider overall support.

November

Remembrance Week. The Christmas Cracker shopping fair raised over £17,000 and the Tree of Honour raised £10,000. Our President the Right Hon The Lord Provost of Glasgow laid a foundation stone at the Erskine Park Dementia Care Home.

December

Nativity play performances by schoolchildren took place at all of our homes. Roofing work commenced on our new specialist dementia care home.

January

Schools visit programmes allowing schoolchildren the opportunity to meet our residents. Schools competition launched to design our 90th Birthday logo.

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