A   thank you to all our supporters.

Its unfortunately impossible to individually thank every one of our sponsors/doners & helpers – so apologies if we have missed anyone out.  This page is dedicated to all of our supporters (large & small) who have previously & continue donating/ supporting us, allowing the  Group to strive to continue making a difference for people in the Grampian area whose lives & family have been adversely impacted by the effects of a brain injury.

With special thanks to : –

Funding grant providers (current & recent)-

 

• Shared Care Scotland “Creative Breaks” Grant fund award
• St James Place Charitable foundation Grant fund award
• Morningfield Association -Grant fund award
• Bank of Scotland Foundation – Grant fund award

 

Fundraising events-

 

The “Hebridean Way” hike – October 2023

• Amy Main -undertook a sponsored walk on The” Hebridean Way” & associated quiz night.

 

• The   Kilt Walkers – Aberdeen Kilt walk 2024

  • Liz Breen
  • Fiona Macdonald
  • Emma Leigh-Mckay
  • Karen Will

• Ingram Family – The North East Model Farm & Construction Show –

  (Supporting the   Group annually since 2011 with ongoing donations now, in 2025,  totalling circa £20,000).

   

• Run for Ruairidh who died tragically of a head injury in September 2016, aged 18 – Megan Mackay in memory of her twin brother raised funds by running the Inverness half marathon on – 9th March 2025. –See more info on Megan’s just giving page Here – (Please note funding is now closed but story remains.) 

• The NE Farming communities Tractor Pull Event  Christmas Eve  2025 at Huntly Mart- This event raised a fantastic £4895 – Many thanks to  all organisers and Participants. 24th December 2025

 

 

 

Individual donations –

• Liz and Larry Gray 2024
• Wilma Greig 2024
• The Aspey family 2025
• The family of the late Debbie MacKenzie (Funeral collection) Feb 2025
• The family of the late Paul Breen (Funeral collection) May 2025
• The family of the late James Mowatt Munro (Funeral Collection) aged 90 July 2025
• John Cushine (retirement collection) Dec 2025

Digby Brown Solicitors Aberdeen office-

 

Digby Brown Aberdeen continue to provide invaluable support, hosting our mailing address & allowing staff to assist us with admin support, newsletter production & postal/ e-mail distribution to help communicate with our membership, which is distributed over a wide geographic & largely rural area.

2025 – The Lassies from Digby Brown have done it again this year and, as part of their fundraising efforts for 2025 have surpassed even last years efforts and in the recent Race Night fundraiser at the Ashvale managed to raise £3125 on the night wow!!! Digby Brown Solicitors have decided to double this total, so the night has raised a whopping £6250 for Group which is simply amazing and will make a massive difference to what we can manage to do for our members next year!  A Thank you to the Lassies and Digby Brown:

 

 

 

 

In 2024, Digby Brown Aberdeen very kindly chose Group as one of their nominated charities. Fundraising was undertaken by running a variety of events throughout the year. In January 2025 three wonderful girls from Digby Brown Aberdeen presented some of our committee members with a cheque  for £1691.94 :-

Thank you all so much, on behalf of all at  Group.

Amazingly these ladies have once again chosen to fundraise for the  Group in 2025!!

 

Dieselgraf design agency Aberdeen-

Thank you Dave Stewart & all the team at https://dieselgraf.com/ for making this, our current website a reality & for providing us with continued guidance/training/ maintenance & tech support, helping us build our website & to keep it running. – You are very patient!!!

Our Website Stats since July 2024 launch up to mid Feb 2025:

July 2024-Dec 2024

Jan- mid Feb 2025

 

 

TESCO Inverurie-

Our Inverurie drop in venue

 

Inchgarth Community Centre-

Our Aberdeen drop in, educational talks and meetings HQ venue.

 

Robert Gordon University (RGU)-

Who run annual Physio and Sports Science Lecturer led, student therapy sessions free of charge with invitations for our members to apply to participate (dependant on capacity).

 

Our Group Membership-

Membership is free for all carers, medical professionals, volunteers & those directly impacted by brain injury & their families.  Nonetheless, throughout the year our membership often choose to make voluntary donations of cash/raffle prizes & give their time freely to help us run our busy drop-ins, carer support & events program.

Once again we simply can’t thank you all enough for your continued support!