CHRISTMAS NEWSLETTER 2023
We Wish You A Merry Christmas....
It's our annual Christmas newsletter, and we are looking back over a wonderful year of providing respite breaks for some of Scotland's most vulnerable children. This year we have provided breaks to 389 children from 35 groups around 10 different council regions of Scotland. The children have experienced a huge range of indoor and outdoor activities which included horse-riding, cycling, sea-swimming, beach adventures and games, climbing, segwaying, feeding and walking goats and yoga to name just a few!
Here's what the children have said about their time with HopScotch over the past year:
"My favourite thing is everything because it is good to get out of the house and do activities" - Aidan
"My HopScotch journey was sooo cool, I went to see so many things. My favourite was seeing the Harry Potter bridge" - Thomas
"I loved the night time talks, the bus and the kitchen. I loved talking before we went to sleep and the kitchen is so cosy" - Vavata
"The best thing about HopScotch was going to the farm because I got to walk one of my favourite animals - goats...I was able to talk to my friends and not on tech" - Igidina
Funding Thanks
We are so thrilled that this Christmas British Gas and Calnex Solutions have both chosen to support HopScotch through their Christmas raffles - thank you to everyone who has taken part! And of course we couldn't get to the end of another wonderful year of respite breaks without thanking everyone who has supported us this year. It is always heartwarming to hear of people's amazing fundraising endeavours for HopScotch. We couldn't do what we do without your incredible support.
...And A Happy New Year!
Wishing all our supporters and all the children who have come to HopScotch in 2023 a merry Christmas and a very happy new year!
Thank you to:
- Joan MacLean (ladies golf fundraiser
- Alastair Carruth
- Ross McNee
- Walter Scott Giving Group
- The Bank of Scotland Foundation
- Evelyn Drysdale Charitable Trust
- The Pleasance Trust
- Dr Guthrie's Association
- Mr & Mrs Ian Pickering
- Vicky Allen Kiltwalk Sponsorship
- Just Giving
- Mr & Mrs Thomas
- The Mugdock Children's Trust
- RS Cargill
- Mary Allan
- AMW Charitable Trust
- Tartan Army Children's Charity
- Bellahouston Fund
- Inchyre Trust
- Baillie Gifford
- The Martin Charitable Trust
- Calnex Solutions
- British Gas
