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Blythswood Care

Blythswood Care combines the Christian message with practical help for those in need at home and abroad. Whether through filled shoeboxes at Christmas, relief and development aid or social projects for young and old, we bring hope to thousands in Europe, Africa and Asia.

We are a Christian Charity helping people in need locally and globally, regardless of political or religious beliefs or ethnic origins.

The Perth Support Group fund raise at a local level and focus on their main activity of help co-ordinate filled Christmas Shoe Boxes.

2011 Shoe-Box Appeal


2011 Shoe Box Appeal Launch Coffee Morning

The Support Group would like to thank Lord Provost John Hulbert for launching the 2011 Appeal at the October Coffee Morning which helped to raise over £675 for the Appeal.

We would like to thank all the people that supported last year’s appeal with 4,767 boxes custom checked and sent from Perth to help bring a smile to the faces and the love of Jesus to less privileged people in Romania at Christmas. We hope that the 2011 Appeal will be equally successful.

The Support Group would like to thank Tesco Extra Crieff Rd for the very generous donation of Christmas paper for wrapping shoe boxes and ASDA Dunkeld Rd for the donation of small toys that will be used as fillers items in the shoe boxes.

Pre-wrapped Shoe Boxes

Shoe Box Appeal Leaflets and wrapped shoe boxes (for a donation) are available from the church between the Sunday morning services during October, also Monday to Friday from the North Church Office (10am to Noon) and North Church Open Door Cafe (2 – 4pm) until Friday 4th November.

Filled Shoe Boxes

Due to the limited storage available in the church halls, please do not bring filled shoe boxes to the North Church before Sunday 16th October, with bulk deliveries from Monday 31st October to Thursday 3rd November (10am to noon) and Friday 4th November (10am to 4pm).

The last date for bringing filled Shoe Boxes to the Church ready for the Custom Checking on Saturday 5th November.

Custom Checking Day Saturday 5th November

We would invite everybody that would like to help with the Custom Checking (male/female) no matter age (5 to 95) to come along for as long as you can between 9am and approx 4pm on Saturday 5th November and enjoy the fellowship and fun while undertaking the rewarding task of the Custom Checking process. You may be checking the boxes, packing them into the cartons and loading them onto the Blythswood lorry. The longer you stay the more opportunity you will have to enjoy tea, coffee, juice with home baking to keep you nourished (donations of home baking always welcome).

Thank you for your support

Dennis J Brown (Tel 629571)

Perth Support Group  

News

Collection Lorry at ASDA, 2011

Donations of Clothes, Goods, Food, Books, Toys, DVD’s, Videos and Furniture can be brought to the Blythswood lorry in the ASDA car park on the mornings of:
July 21st
August 25th
September 22nd
October 20th
November 17th
December 22nd
Supported projects

Due to generous donations/fund raising events, the Support Group have been able to send a cheque for £2,000 to help the following Projects in Romania - the Daniel Centre in Cluj (a transit home helping prepare teenage boys to live in the community), Talita Kum Centre (where 40 under privileged children in Jimbolia are given a meal and help with their school work), Casa Silvia (a home looking after disabled in Marghita run by FCE one of Blythswood’s partners) and to support a Summer Camp for teenagers with HIV / Aids from Timisoara.

Blythswood Quiz Night

The Perth Support Group would like to thank the 19 teams for supporting the quiz night on 3 June; Robin Nicolson for making up the questions; Craigie Hill GC for hosting the event and the people that donated prizes all helping to raise £517 towards this years Shoe Box Appeal.
The winning team was Jackson Five, Not so Fantasic Four were second and Here comes the Sun were in the third place with 3 in 1 picking up the booby prize.

Knitting

Thanks to all the ladies that have been using their time and talents over the winter months knitting hats, scarves, gloves & garments for the 2011 shoebox appeal.
We welcome donations of wool - these can be left in the church office or given to Louise Norval or Dennis on a Sunday morning.    

Contact us

You can get in touch with us via the church office or email us

Can you help?

We are always looking for volunteers to help in a hundred different ways.
If you would like to help please contact us for further discussion.

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