We are grateful to the following individuals and groups for recent donations:
JRT Fund- £250
John and Alice Sneddon- £250
Ellen Tennant - £200
Whitburn Probus Group - £100
Coutts Trust £2,000
Robertson Trust £5,000
I Thomson £315
Whitburn Rotary Club £100
Henry Smith Foundation - £60,000, Tudor Trust - £50,000, Robertson - £30,000, W.O. Street - £10,000, McAlpine - £7,500, Edwards - £5,300, Anonymous donor - £20,000, Assemblies of God - £17,950, Sir Hugh Fraser - £5,000, Lloyds TSB - £5,400, Tesco - £6,000, Pastoral Care Trust - £1,000, Motorola - £2000, Souter - £2,000, WGY - £1,000, Forward Scotland - £10,000, Curle/Murray - £14,000, C. Thomson - £5,000, P. Bilton - £5,000, Order of St. Johns - £8,000, Beatrice Laing - £6,000, Queensberry Trust - £10,000, Garfield Weston - £30,000, Isobel Thomson - £2,000, Coalfields grant - £18,400, W.G. Edwards - £12,300, West Lothian Council £23,400, Banks Foundation £6,000.
The Day Centre building is now debt free thanks to the above donations..
ANSWER received additional funding to build an extension to the foyer area and this cost in the region of £30,000. The new foyer reduces heat loss at the main entrance and provides additional space for wheelchairs. £5,000 was been donated by Garfield Weston Family, WG Edwards Foundation donated £5,000, the Queensberry Trust donated £10,000 , the Hugh Fraser Foundation donated £4,000 and W.O. Street £2,500. Finally an anonymous Trust donated £4,000.
A grant of £1,000 was given to the project in July '08 for revenue costs by the Souter Foundation and a further £1,000 in September 2009.
A recent fundraising evening realised £679 and this was supplemented by a further £500 by Royal Bank of Scotland staff.
West Lothian Council has increased the annual grant to ANSWER Day Care by 2.75% for the year 2009-2010.
Why not become a Friend of ANSWER by donating a regular monthly pledge? Contact the ANSWER office at 01501 749974.
Sony Entertainments have donated £2,500 to ANSWER following the success of Susan Boyle's new CD which includes the song Cry me a River which featured on the Millennium Compilation of local performers the proceeds of which came to ANSWER in 2001.
Funds raised from Trusts over £403,000
Funds raised locally over £60,000
£463,000
debt cleared