‘Home’ charity programme

For 2011-12, our Home charity is the Hazelwood School, located in Glasgow. Hazelwood School is a co-educational, inter-denominational school for children and young people aged from 2-19 years who have varying degrees of sensory impairment. BiP supports the school through fundraising work with a variety of activities including dress down days, race nights and raffles. As important as the cash raised is, equally worthwhile is the time invested voluntarily by BiP staff to organise and facilitate these activities.

Violet doing the sponsored walk in Milport

The BiP Fun Fair 2011

Previous ‘Home’ charities

Our 2010-11 Home charity was the Glasgow Old People’s Welfare Association (GOPWA), an organisation dedicated to the relief of loneliness among the elderly. Through a variety of fundraising initiatives and donations, over £20,000 was raised for the charity. This was subsequently increased to £27,000 in order to facilitate the purchase of a new minibus.

The 2009-10 Home charity was The Prince and Princess of Wales Hospice, for which donations of over £40,000 were raised.

Prior to this, BiP helped provide laptop computers and whiteboards for New Struan School, an independent residential and day special school managed by the Scottish Society for Autism and raised funds for the Multiple Sclerosis Society Scotland, the country’s largest charity for people affected by MS.