For the love of Brian: Oban boosts MND funds
A Justgiving appeal for Brian MacDonald quickly smashed its total and grew to more than £7,000 now helping MND Scotland keep up its fight against the condition.
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Funding boost on the cards for Mary’s Meals
Each year Alba sells a specially chosen range of charity christmas cards where 50p from every pack goes to the charity helping feed over a million children in need, every day, around the world.
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Keep your safe distance in town, urges Covid doctor
Covid survivor James Scott backs social distancing advice as he hands over a £15,500 cheque as a thank you to Lorn & The Islands Hospital staff for helping save his life.
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Friends come up trumps for Oban’s Dove Centre
The ‘wonderful contribution’ from the Friends of Oban Hospice fundraising efforts will be a boost to paying running costs of the Dove Centre that, although closed for drop-in sessions during lockdown, is still supporting up to 60 people every week.
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Rotary Club donation helps young carers
Oban Rotary Club handed over £4,000 to Judith Hawcroft, manager of the North Argyll Carers Centre this week.
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Oban rotarians are on standby
President Douglas Small said the club would be making a weekly financial donation to Hope Kitchen to help it support the most vulnerable in the community.
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Winter festival cheque is coolio
Club president Douglas Small handed over the cheque to the festival’s mascot Coolio.
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Inner Wheel puts funds in motion
Funds from the Inner Wheel will go towards services supported by the Friends of Oban Hospice.
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Panto In Scrubs raises laughs and money
More than 20 staff at Lorn & Islands Hospital from junior doctors to consultants, nurses to physiotherapists and clerical workers got together as a cast to put on a performance of Peter Pan for one night only at Oban High School in February.
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Housing association helps school trip’s hardship fund
The money gives help to families otherwise struggling to afford the residential trip.