The 2005 Variety Club of Scotland Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Scottish Property Industry was this year won by The Royal Bank of Scotland for their new headquarters at Gogarburn, in Edinburgh. Ernest Sheavills is seen here receiving the award from Chairman David White and Tom O'Connor at the Building for Kids Lunch.
Welcome to the Variety Club of Scotland
The Variety Club of Scotland was founded in 1976. Our aims are to help sick, disabled and disadvantaged children throughout Scotland. Whether we are raising money to build a paediatric unit, donating a Sunshine Coach to a special school or taking a group of children on a fun-packed "Variety at Work" day out, it aims to make a real difference, hopefully putting smiles on faces along the way.
Variety Club provides vital help and support to children throughout Scotland in the following ways:
- Giving Sunshine Coaches to schools with special needs pupils, to children's hospitals and hospices and to youth organisations.
- Providing wheelchairs, mobility aids and other equipment to disabled children.
- Providing funding and equipment to hospitals and hospices that treat sick children.
- Organising "Variety at Work" days for children across the country taking them on a range of fun and educational visits and running a Christmas Toy Fund which sends over 25,000 gifts, games and toys to children who would otherwise have no present of any kind.
The Variety Club Children's Nursing Awards where the Charity funds training to help paediatric nurses look after children who are sick.
Meet some of our Corporate Supporters
Robert Wiseman Dairies - currently are our biggest corporate supporter and have funded seven Sunshine Coaches to date with two more due this year. Wisemans have supported us in many ways. Through staff events like 'Cycle while you work', which was a nationwide cyclethon, which took in all of their depots from Taunton in Devon to Keith in Aberdeenshire. Also they have 'milked' their customers through an auction at their annual Neighbourhood Shop of the Year awards. The 2005 awards raised over £40,000 from the auction and saw the presentation of a gold heart in recognition of their ongoing efforts. Their latest coach was presented to Woodstock School in Kilmarnock on 16 February by sports pundit and ex-international football star Gordon Smith.
The Gleneagles Hotel - Through staff fundraising including raffles, auction, sponsored rides, runs, walks and slims and, of course, match funding from parent company, Diageo, The Gleneagles Hotel staff have funded a Sunshine Coach for Whins of Milton School in Stirling.
Tulloch - Construction company Tulloch has been supporting Variety Club of Scotland for several years and has funded many appeals and Sunshine Coaches for the Gladiator Project in Glasgow and Glencryan School in Cumbernauld.
Anglo Irish Bank - Our main sponsors of the Property Lunch held annually at the Sheraton in Edinburgh.
And thanks to our many other corporate supporters who are too numerous to mention.
Contact
The Variety Club of Scotland
Event House
437 Crow Road
Glasgow G11 7DZ
Tel: 0141 357 4411
Fax: 0141 339 3040
Administrator: Jeni Queen
Email: scotland@varietyclub.org.uk
2008 Committee
| Chairman | Elliot J McKenzie |
| Vice Chair | |
| Treasurer | Neil Drover |
| Secretary | Harry McNab |
| Press Officer | Alan Fraser |
| Sunshine Coaches | Iain Forbes & Aileen Wilson |
| Appeals/ Wheelchairs | Tommy Templeton & Diana Currie |
| Variety at Work | Jack Zimmer & David McBride |
| Legal Advisor |
Brian Dennison |
| Head of Fundraising | Kate Johnston |
If you wish to contact a member of our Committee please call the office.