24 Charities Benefit from Advent Calendar Project

The Highland Council’s Inverness Winter Festival Steering Group has announced the names of the 24 local charities and community groups that
will each receive £100 in the run up to Christmas Day.

The groups were among 65 which entered the draw to feature on the Giant Advent Calendar that will be projected on to the walls of Inverness Museum and Art Gallery from Monday 1 December.

Those which were successful were drawn out of a hat by Nikita Hall (3) and Lucy Ford (9) at last night’s spectacular Christmas Lights Switch On Ceremony, which saw Inverness Town House transformed into a giant projection screen by Evanton-based Arts in Motion.

The successful groups were:

Highland Community Care Forum
Glenurquhart Care Project
Glenurquhart Childcare Project
L'Arche
Balloch Community Family Ceilidh
Ness Soaps Merkinch
Inverness Homeless Trust
British Red Cross
Special Needs Action Project
Falcon Drummers
Inverness Army Cadets
Inverness Sea Cadets
Inverness RAF Cadets
RNLI
Inverness Bravehearts
Birchwood Highland
Shopmobility Highland
MFR Cash for Kids
Blythswood Care
CLIC Sargeant
Marie Curie Cancer Care
WRVS
Singing for Pleasure
Highland Hospice

For more information please contact; Gerry Reynolds, Events and Promotions Officer, Tel  01463 724262 (Email: gerry.reynolds@highland.gov.uk)