Editorial Page <table summary="this table contains the page specific content"> <tr> <td class="content"> <!-- --> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="content"> <p style="text-align: center;">Please search using EveryClick to raise money for S&L Young Carers at no cost to you!</p><div style="text-align: center;"><form method="get" action="http://www.everyclick.com/skyeyoungcarers/search" target="_blank"><div style="background-image: url(http://www.everyclick.com/images/marketing-tools/searchbar-slim-blue-bgd.gif); width: 522px; height: 37px;"><a href="http://www.everyclick.com" style="margin: 4px 10px 0px 0px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; float: right; color: #0066ff; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">Powered by<br />Everyclick</a> <span style="margin: 7px 0px 0px 55px; float: left;"><input style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; height: 20px; color: #000000; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;border: #caedff 1px solid;" size="53" type="text" name="keyword" /></span> <input style="margin: 7px 0px 0px; float: left;" title="Search the web" value="Submit" alt="Search the web" src="http://www.everyclick.com/images/marketing-tools/searchButton.gif" type="image" name="refresh" /></div></form></div> <p style="text-align: center;">You can help us by making a donation today</p><p style="text-align: center;"><iframe height="95" src="http://www.everyclick.com/skyeyoungcarers/widget-charity" frameborder="0" width="180" name="content" scrolling="no"></iframe></p><p style="text-align: center;">&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align: center;">&nbsp;</p><!-- --> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <!-- --> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="content"> <!-- --> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <!-- --> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="content"> <!-- --> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <table style="border:none;" summary="Table holds image and optional caption"><tr><td class="contentPic"><img src="/getimage.aspx.ID-131029.jpg" id="pic4" style="border:none;" alt="BBQ Time at Loch Coruisk" title="BBQ Time at Loch Coruisk" /></td></tr><tr><td class="content"><span class="contentPicCaption">BBQ Time at Loch Coruisk</span></td></tr></table> <!-- --> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="content"> <p><strong>April 2011<br /></strong><strong>Plockton High School<br /></strong>Many thanks to Plockton High School staff and pupils for their very&nbsp;much appreciated&nbsp;donation&nbsp;of &pound;100.00. This money will be used to help support young carers who need materials or equipment for school or after school activities.</p> <p><strong>Personal Donations<br /></strong>Thank you so much for the personal donations which amounted to an incredible &pound;5,120.00 this month.&nbsp; The money will be used to help stabilise and strengthen the Young Carer service.</p> <p><strong>May 2011<br />Open Door Cafe, Kyle <br /></strong>Our sincere thanks for the continued support and donation of &pound;150 which will be used to help secure the future running of the Young Carer Service.</p> <p><strong>Iona Community Family Group<br /></strong>Sincere thanks to all members of the group for the generous donation of &pound;200.00.&nbsp; These funds will be used to help stabilise and strengthen&nbsp;young carer&nbsp;service provision.</p> <p><strong>Personal Donations<br /></strong>Thank you so much for the personal donation of &pound;100.00, this money will be used to support the work of the Young Carer service.</p><!-- --> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <!-- --> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="content"> <p><strong>June 2011<br /></strong><strong>Open Door Cafe<br /></strong>Our sincere thanks to everyone involved in raising a very much appreciated &pound;225.00.&nbsp; The money will be used to help with the cost of our summer activity programme which is so important to young carers as it ensures they get regular breaks from caring responsibilities over the summer weeks.&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>Broadford Tai Chi Group<br /></strong>Thank you so much for your continued support and very much appreciated donation of &pound;48.88.&nbsp; This money will be used where it is most needed to meet young carers needs.</p> <p><strong>St Columba's Episcopal Church<br /></strong>Our sincere thanks to the Church congregation for their valued and ongoing support and generous donation of &pound;250.00.&nbsp; This money will be used to help stabilise and strengthen the Young Carer service provision.</p> <p><strong>Sula Mor, Plockton<br /></strong>The curry cruise on board the Sula Mor raised a fantastic &pound;570.00 for the Young Carer service.&nbsp; Our sincere thanks go to Calum, Jane, crew and volunteer barman for all their hard work, the entertainers for their wonderful music and all the supporters on board who helped make the evening such an enjoyable one.&nbsp; Special thanks must also go to 'Gin &amp; Tonic' the dolphins who entertained us so brilliantly!</p> <p><strong>Network Tuesdays Group<br /></strong>Thank you so much to everyone involved in the Network Tuesdays Group for thinking of us and donating &pound;125.00.&nbsp; This money will be used to help&nbsp;us continue to meet young carers identified needs.</p> <p><strong>Lochalsh &amp; Skye Housing Association<br /></strong>Our most sincere thanks goes to the Committee who have awarded &pound;250.00 sponsorship each for our 2 young carers taking part in the Great Wilderness Challenge on the August the 20th.&nbsp; Thank you for your ongoing and valuable support of the Skye and Lochalsh&nbsp;Young Carer service.</p> <p><strong>GWC<br /></strong>Thank you so much for the superb donation of an IMac computer to be used as a resource for our young carer membership.&nbsp; This&nbsp;computer will enable us to significantly improve the standard of our educational and media access provision; previously we have had to rely on&nbsp;staff computers being made available for young carer use.</p> <p><strong>Personal Donations<br /></strong>Our sincere thanks for the personal donations given to the Young Carer service this month which amounted to a very much appreciated &pound;374.00.</p><!-- --> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <!-- --> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="content"> <p><strong>July 2011<br />Open Door Cafe<br /></strong>A sincere thank you to our friends at the Open Door Cafe who donated &pound;150.00 this month.&nbsp; This money will be used to support the Summer activity programme we are running to ensure young carers can access regular respite&nbsp;activities&nbsp;during the summer school break weeks.</p> <p><strong>August 2011<br />Open Door Cafe<br /></strong>Thank you to all our friends and supporters for the generous donation of &pound;175.&nbsp; The funds will be used to support the August summer activity programme which will ensure young carers continue to get a regular break over the school holiday time.</p> <p><strong>Rhoda Grant MSP<br /></strong>Sincere thanks to Rhoda for donating a total of &pound;125 in relation to research projects she took part in.&nbsp; This money will be used to help us strenghen our financial position.</p> <p><strong>Personal Donation<br /></strong>A most sincere&nbsp;thank you goes to a supporter of the service who donated &pound;380.03 this month, this money will&nbsp; be used to help stengthen our service provision for young carers.</p><!-- --> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <!-- --> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="content"> <p><strong>September 2011<br />Open Door Cafe<br /></strong>Sincere thanks to our special friends at the Open Door Cafe for donating £200.00 this month.  This money will be used to support our ongoing work with young carers who need consistant and reliable support.</p> <p><strong>Skye Highland Games<br /></strong>Our thanks go to Willie Gordon and the Games Committee for the very welcome donation of £50.00, this money will be used to help support the needs of some of our more vulnerable young carers.</p> <p><strong>October 2011<br />Open Door Cafe<br /></strong>Our sincere thanks goes to all our supporters at the Open Door Cafe for the generous donation of £225.00 this month.  This money will go towards the cost of the young carers' much needed and appreciated October respite break.</p> <p><strong>Baking Stall at Open Door Cafe<br /></strong>A big thank you to Jean and all the volunteers who organised the stall and to all those who supported it, the very much appreciated sum of £188.30 was raised and will go towards the young carers' October respite break costs.</p> <p><strong>November 2011<br />The Royal Caledonian Ball Trust<br /></strong>Our sincere thanks goes to everyone involved in raising a fantastic £1,000 for us again this year, the money will go towards the young carers' Christmas respite outings.  These respite breaks provide time out from responsibilities as well as opportunities to develop social, personal safety, team working and relationship skills.  Thank you all your continued support is so very much appreciated.</p> <p><strong>Portree High School<br /></strong>Thank you to the staff and pupils of Portree High School for the generous donation of £361.47 raised during their 'dressing down' day.  These funds will be used to purchase activity materials for young carers' support group sessions.</p> <p><strong>Uig Gala<br /></strong>A really big thank you to the Uig Gala for donating a generous £150.00.  This money will be used to meet the needs of some of our more vulnerable young carers over the Christmas and New Year period; a time of year when so many others are fortunate enough to be able to take it for granted.</p> <p><strong>Open Door Cafe<br /></strong>Sincere thanks to our friends at the Open Door Cafe for the donation of £125.00 this month.  This money will help us meet the needs of some of our more vulnerable young carers over the Christmas and New Year period.</p> <p><strong>Personal Donation<br /></strong>A huge thank you to Lisa and Ewan for their special gift aided donation of £250.00.  Rather than buying wedding favours for their forthcoming wedding they have decided to make a donation to the Young Carer service.  Some of this money will support young carers who lack basic household and/or school equipment and the remainder will contribute towards Christmas party celebrations in line with their wedding celebration.</p> <p><strong>Great Wilderness Challenge</strong><br />A huge thank you to the GWC for their wonderful support and incredible cheque donation of £27,500.  Over £17,000 was raised by our team of 10 who worked tirelessly to build up sponsorship and local businessess, groups, families and individuals supported us to a level far beyond our expectations.  With the additional 60% top up support from the GWC we are now back on solid ground - thank you so much to everyone involved in supporting us.</p><!-- --> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <!-- --> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="content"> <p><strong>December 2011 <br /></strong><strong>AA<br /></strong>Thank you to Willie Gordon and the AA membership who made the much appreciated donation of £100.00 which was raised through the hiring of tartan for their gathering.  This money will be used to support more vulnerable young carers at this difficult and stressful time of year. </p> <p><strong>Open Door Cafe<br /></strong>Our sincere thanks goes to our special friends and supporters at the Open Door Cafe who raised and donated £200.00 to us this month.  These funds will help support the needs of vulnerable young carers over the Christmas and New period as well as providing much appreciated craft materials for young carers to make gifts and cards for special family and friends.</p> <p><strong>Aberdeen Drilling Consultants Ltd</strong><br />Our sincere thanks goes to our supporters and friends at the Aberdeen Drilling Consultants Company for generously supporting us again this year.  The £500.00 donation received will be used to help meet the significant practical and educational equipment needs of young carers.</p><!-- --> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <img src="/getimage.aspx.ID-187426.jpg" id="pic9" style="border:none;" alt="drilling company logo" title="drilling company logo" /><!-- --> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="content"> <p><strong>January 2012<br />Rhoda Grant MSP<br /></strong>Thank you so much for your loyal support and for donating a very generous £200.00 which was received through Ipsos MORI Scotland and ComRes.  This money will be used to help us with the costs of our weekly support groups and providing practical support for more vulnerable young carers.</p> <p><strong>Open Door Cafe</strong><br />Thank you to all our friends and supporters at the Open Door Cafe for the very much apppreciated donation of £100.00 this month.  This money will be used to help us plan ahead for our respite breaks. </p> <p><strong>Skye Bible Church<br /></strong>Thank you to everyone invloved in raising and donating £72.00 through the 'Coffee Pot' which runs at the church centre.  These much appreciated funds will be used to support our weekly support group activities.</p> <p><strong>Sitekit Solutions Ltd<br /></strong>Sincere thanks to all our friends at Sitekit for the generous Christmas card donation of £200.00.  This money will be used to help strenghen the service for Skye and Lochalsh young carers.</p><!-- --> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <!-- --> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="content"> <p><strong>February 2011<br />Open&nbsp;Door Cafe, Kyle<br /></strong>Thanks so much to everyone concerned for raising £75.00&nbsp;for the Young Carer service this month.&nbsp; The money will be used to help buy activities materials to use&nbsp;during our 8 week 'Season's for Growth' bereavement and loss programme which we will be starting this month with a group of young carers.</p><p>Sincere thanks for the further much appreciated £200.00 received which will be used to help support our Easter respite programme which means so much to our 53 young carer members.</p><p><strong>The Provincial Grand Lodge of Inverness-shire<br /></strong>A big thank you to Grand Lodge members who donated a very much appreciated £100.00 which will be used to help support our planned young carer respite outings at Easter.</p><p><strong>Fig Christian Fellowship<br /></strong>Our sincere thanks to the Fellowship for supporting us again this year&nbsp;by donating a wonderful £350.00 towards the Young Carer service.&nbsp; This money will be used to help support the young carers Easter day-trip respite outings.</p><p><strong>March 2011<br /></strong><strong>Church of Scotland Parish of Strath and Sleat&nbsp;<br /></strong>Sincere thanks to the Trustees and Congregation for their continued support and&nbsp;generous donation&nbsp;of&nbsp;£500.00 to the Young Carer service.&nbsp; These funds will be used to support our weekly group session work which gives young carers time out from responsibilites as well as opportunites to develop their social, team working, personal safety and relationship skills.</p><p><strong>Portree Co-op Bag Pack<br /></strong>Our&nbsp;Portree Co-op bag pack on the 17th of March raised the fantastic sum of £742.00.&nbsp; Our sincere thanks to everyone who contributed towards our cause and for the good natured support of our volunteers on the day.&nbsp; Special thanks also to the Co-op staff&nbsp;who welcomed us&nbsp;so warmly.&nbsp; </p><p><strong>Open&nbsp;Door Cafe, Kyle<br /></strong>Thank you for&nbsp;your very much appreciated donation of £125.00 which will be used to provide skill development materials for young carers accessing one to one support as part of their school timetable.</p><!-- --> </td> </tr> </table>News Events & Donations 08h00d young carers; carers; skye & Lochalsh; youth; highlands; charity; skye; Welcome to the Skye and Lochalsh Young Carers website. 29/11/2007 13:38:00 30/12/2100 30/01/2012 16:09:06 mjagger 30/01/2012 16:09:06 Homehttp://www.skyeyoungcarers.co.uk/http://www.skyeyoungcarers.co.uk/.xmlAbout ushttp://www.skyeyoungcarers.co.uk/About us/about-us.htmlhttp://www.skyeyoungcarers.co.uk/About us/about-us.html.xmlContact / Referralhttp://www.skyeyoungcarers.co.uk/Contact us - Referral Form/contact-us.htmlhttp://www.skyeyoungcarers.co.uk/Contact us - Referral Form/contact-us.html.xmlProject Workhttp://www.skyeyoungcarers.co.uk/projects.htmhttp://www.skyeyoungcarers.co.uk/projects.htm.xmlCreative 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Plockton High School
Many thanks to Plockton High School staff and pupils for their very much appreciated donation of £100.00. This money will be used to help support young carers who need materials or equipment for school or after school activities.

Personal Donations
Thank you so much for the personal donations which amounted to an incredible £5,120.00 this month.  The money will be used to help stabilise and strengthen the Young Carer service.

May 2011
Open Door Cafe, Kyle
Our sincere thanks for the continued support and donation of £150 which will be used to help secure the future running of the Young Carer Service.

Iona Community Family Group
Sincere thanks to all members of the group for the generous donation of £200.00.  These funds will be used to help stabilise and strengthen young carer service provision.

Personal Donations
Thank you so much for the personal donation of £100.00, this money will be used to support the work of the Young Carer service.

]]> June 2011
Open Door Cafe
Our sincere thanks to everyone involved in raising a very much appreciated £225.00.  The money will be used to help with the cost of our summer activity programme which is so important to young carers as it ensures they get regular breaks from caring responsibilities over the summer weeks. 

Broadford Tai Chi Group
Thank you so much for your continued support and very much appreciated donation of £48.88.  This money will be used where it is most needed to meet young carers needs.

St Columba's Episcopal Church
Our sincere thanks to the Church congregation for their valued and ongoing support and generous donation of £250.00.  This money will be used to help stabilise and strengthen the Young Carer service provision.

Sula Mor, Plockton
The curry cruise on board the Sula Mor raised a fantastic £570.00 for the Young Carer service.  Our sincere thanks go to Calum, Jane, crew and volunteer barman for all their hard work, the entertainers for their wonderful music and all the supporters on board who helped make the evening such an enjoyable one.  Special thanks must also go to 'Gin & Tonic' the dolphins who entertained us so brilliantly!

Network Tuesdays Group
Thank you so much to everyone involved in the Network Tuesdays Group for thinking of us and donating £125.00.  This money will be used to help us continue to meet young carers identified needs.

Lochalsh & Skye Housing Association
Our most sincere thanks goes to the Committee who have awarded £250.00 sponsorship each for our 2 young carers taking part in the Great Wilderness Challenge on the August the 20th.  Thank you for your ongoing and valuable support of the Skye and Lochalsh Young Carer service.

GWC
Thank you so much for the superb donation of an IMac computer to be used as a resource for our young carer membership.  This computer will enable us to significantly improve the standard of our educational and media access provision; previously we have had to rely on staff computers being made available for young carer use.

Personal Donations
Our sincere thanks for the personal donations given to the Young Carer service this month which amounted to a very much appreciated £374.00.

]]> July 2011
Open Door Cafe
A sincere thank you to our friends at the Open Door Cafe who donated £150.00 this month.  This money will be used to support the Summer activity programme we are running to ensure young carers can access regular respite activities during the summer school break weeks.

August 2011
Open Door Cafe
Thank you to all our friends and supporters for the generous donation of £175.  The funds will be used to support the August summer activity programme which will ensure young carers continue to get a regular break over the school holiday time.

Rhoda Grant MSP
Sincere thanks to Rhoda for donating a total of £125 in relation to research projects she took part in.  This money will be used to help us strenghen our financial position.

Personal Donation
A most sincere thank you goes to a supporter of the service who donated £380.03 this month, this money will  be used to help stengthen our service provision for young carers.

]]> September 2011
Open Door Cafe
Sincere thanks to our special friends at the Open Door Cafe for donating £200.00 this month.  This money will be used to support our ongoing work with young carers who need consistant and reliable support.

Skye Highland Games
Our thanks go to Willie Gordon and the Games Committee for the very welcome donation of £50.00, this money will be used to help support the needs of some of our more vulnerable young carers.

October 2011
Open Door Cafe
Our sincere thanks goes to all our supporters at the Open Door Cafe for the generous donation of £225.00 this month.  This money will go towards the cost of the young carers' much needed and appreciated October respite break.

Baking Stall at Open Door Cafe
A big thank you to Jean and all the volunteers who organised the stall and to all those who supported it, the very much appreciated sum of £188.30 was raised and will go towards the young carers' October respite break costs.

November 2011
The Royal Caledonian Ball Trust
Our sincere thanks goes to everyone involved in raising a fantastic £1,000 for us again this year, the money will go towards the young carers' Christmas respite outings.  These respite breaks provide time out from responsibilities as well as opportunities to develop social, personal safety, team working and relationship skills.  Thank you all your continued support is so very much appreciated.

Portree High School
Thank you to the staff and pupils of Portree High School for the generous donation of £361.47 raised during their 'dressing down' day.  These funds will be used to purchase activity materials for young carers' support group sessions.

Uig Gala
A really big thank you to the Uig Gala for donating a generous £150.00.  This money will be used to meet the needs of some of our more vulnerable young carers over the Christmas and New Year period; a time of year when so many others are fortunate enough to be able to take it for granted.

Open Door Cafe
Sincere thanks to our friends at the Open Door Cafe for the donation of £125.00 this month.  This money will help us meet the needs of some of our more vulnerable young carers over the Christmas and New Year period.

Personal Donation
A huge thank you to Lisa and Ewan for their special gift aided donation of £250.00.  Rather than buying wedding favours for their forthcoming wedding they have decided to make a donation to the Young Carer service.  Some of this money will support young carers who lack basic household and/or school equipment and the remainder will contribute towards Christmas party celebrations in line with their wedding celebration.

Great Wilderness Challenge
A huge thank you to the GWC for their wonderful support and incredible cheque donation of £27,500.  Over £17,000 was raised by our team of 10 who worked tirelessly to build up sponsorship and local businessess, groups, families and individuals supported us to a level far beyond our expectations.  With the additional 60% top up support from the GWC we are now back on solid ground - thank you so much to everyone involved in supporting us.

]]> December 2011
AA
Thank you to Willie Gordon and the AA membership who made the much appreciated donation of £100.00 which was raised through the hiring of tartan for their gathering.  This money will be used to support more vulnerable young carers at this difficult and stressful time of year. 

Open Door Cafe
Our sincere thanks goes to our special friends and supporters at the Open Door Cafe who raised and donated £200.00 to us this month.  These funds will help support the needs of vulnerable young carers over the Christmas and New period as well as providing much appreciated craft materials for young carers to make gifts and cards for special family and friends.

Aberdeen Drilling Consultants Ltd
Our sincere thanks goes to our supporters and friends at the Aberdeen Drilling Consultants Company for generously supporting us again this year.  The £500.00 donation received will be used to help meet the significant practical and educational equipment needs of young carers.

]]> January 2012
Rhoda Grant MSP
Thank you so much for your loyal support and for donating a very generous £200.00 which was received through Ipsos MORI Scotland and ComRes.  This money will be used to help us with the costs of our weekly support groups and providing practical support for more vulnerable young carers.

Open Door Cafe
Thank you to all our friends and supporters at the Open Door Cafe for the very much apppreciated donation of £100.00 this month.  This money will be used to help us plan ahead for our respite breaks. 

Skye Bible Church
Thank you to everyone invloved in raising and donating £72.00 through the 'Coffee Pot' which runs at the church centre.  These much appreciated funds will be used to support our weekly support group activities.

Sitekit Solutions Ltd
Sincere thanks to all our friends at Sitekit for the generous Christmas card donation of £200.00.  This money will be used to help strenghen the service for Skye and Lochalsh young carers.

]]> February 2011
Open Door Cafe, Kyle
Thanks so much to everyone concerned for raising £75.00 for the Young Carer service this month.  The money will be used to help buy activities materials to use during our 8 week 'Season's for Growth' bereavement and loss programme which we will be starting this month with a group of young carers.

Sincere thanks for the further much appreciated £200.00 received which will be used to help support our Easter respite programme which means so much to our 53 young carer members.

The Provincial Grand Lodge of Inverness-shire
A big thank you to Grand Lodge members who donated a very much appreciated £100.00 which will be used to help support our planned young carer respite outings at Easter.

Fig Christian Fellowship
Our sincere thanks to the Fellowship for supporting us again this year by donating a wonderful £350.00 towards the Young Carer service.  This money will be used to help support the young carers Easter day-trip respite outings.

March 2011
Church of Scotland Parish of Strath and Sleat 
Sincere thanks to the Trustees and Congregation for their continued support and generous donation of £500.00 to the Young Carer service.  These funds will be used to support our weekly group session work which gives young carers time out from responsibilites as well as opportunites to develop their social, team working, personal safety and relationship skills.

Portree Co-op Bag Pack
Our Portree Co-op bag pack on the 17th of March raised the fantastic sum of £742.00.  Our sincere thanks to everyone who contributed towards our cause and for the good natured support of our volunteers on the day.  Special thanks also to the Co-op staff who welcomed us so warmly. 

Open Door Cafe, Kyle
Thank you for your very much appreciated donation of £125.00 which will be used to provide skill development materials for young carers accessing one to one support as part of their school timetable.

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]]> ]]> <table summary="this table contains the page specific content"> <tr> <td class="content"> <!-- --> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="content"> <p style="text-align: center;">Please search using EveryClick to raise money for S&L Young Carers at no cost to you!</p><div style="text-align: center;"><form method="get" action="http://www.everyclick.com/skyeyoungcarers/search" target="_blank"><div style="background-image: url(http://www.everyclick.com/images/marketing-tools/searchbar-slim-blue-bgd.gif); width: 522px; height: 37px;"><a href="http://www.everyclick.com" style="margin: 4px 10px 0px 0px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; float: right; color: #0066ff; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">Powered by<br />Everyclick</a> <span style="margin: 7px 0px 0px 55px; float: left;"><input style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; height: 20px; color: #000000; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;border: #caedff 1px solid;" size="53" type="text" name="keyword" /></span> <input style="margin: 7px 0px 0px; float: left;" title="Search the web" value="Submit" alt="Search the web" src="http://www.everyclick.com/images/marketing-tools/searchButton.gif" type="image" name="refresh" /></div></form></div> <p style="text-align: center;">You can help us by making a donation today</p><p style="text-align: center;"><iframe height="95" src="http://www.everyclick.com/skyeyoungcarers/widget-charity" frameborder="0" width="180" name="content" scrolling="no"></iframe></p><p style="text-align: center;">&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align: center;">&nbsp;</p><!-- --> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <!-- --> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="content"> <!-- --> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <!-- --> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="content"> <!-- --> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <table style="border:none;" summary="Table holds image and optional caption"><tr><td class="contentPic"><img src="/getimage.aspx.ID-131029.jpg" id="pic4" style="border:none;" alt="BBQ Time at Loch Coruisk" title="BBQ Time at Loch Coruisk" /></td></tr><tr><td class="content"><span class="contentPicCaption">BBQ Time at Loch Coruisk</span></td></tr></table> <!-- --> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="content"> <p><strong>April 2011<br /></strong><strong>Plockton High School<br /></strong>Many thanks to Plockton High School staff and pupils for their very&nbsp;much appreciated&nbsp;donation&nbsp;of &pound;100.00. This money will be used to help support young carers who need materials or equipment for school or after school activities.</p> <p><strong>Personal Donations<br /></strong>Thank you so much for the personal donations which amounted to an incredible &pound;5,120.00 this month.&nbsp; The money will be used to help stabilise and strengthen the Young Carer service.</p> <p><strong>May 2011<br />Open Door Cafe, Kyle <br /></strong>Our sincere thanks for the continued support and donation of &pound;150 which will be used to help secure the future running of the Young Carer Service.</p> <p><strong>Iona Community Family Group<br /></strong>Sincere thanks to all members of the group for the generous donation of &pound;200.00.&nbsp; These funds will be used to help stabilise and strengthen&nbsp;young carer&nbsp;service provision.</p> <p><strong>Personal Donations<br /></strong>Thank you so much for the personal donation of &pound;100.00, this money will be used to support the work of the Young Carer service.</p><!-- --> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <!-- --> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="content"> <p><strong>June 2011<br /></strong><strong>Open Door Cafe<br /></strong>Our sincere thanks to everyone involved in raising a very much appreciated &pound;225.00.&nbsp; The money will be used to help with the cost of our summer activity programme which is so important to young carers as it ensures they get regular breaks from caring responsibilities over the summer weeks.&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>Broadford Tai Chi Group<br /></strong>Thank you so much for your continued support and very much appreciated donation of &pound;48.88.&nbsp; This money will be used where it is most needed to meet young carers needs.</p> <p><strong>St Columba's Episcopal Church<br /></strong>Our sincere thanks to the Church congregation for their valued and ongoing support and generous donation of &pound;250.00.&nbsp; This money will be used to help stabilise and strengthen the Young Carer service provision.</p> <p><strong>Sula Mor, Plockton<br /></strong>The curry cruise on board the Sula Mor raised a fantastic &pound;570.00 for the Young Carer service.&nbsp; Our sincere thanks go to Calum, Jane, crew and volunteer barman for all their hard work, the entertainers for their wonderful music and all the supporters on board who helped make the evening such an enjoyable one.&nbsp; Special thanks must also go to 'Gin &amp; Tonic' the dolphins who entertained us so brilliantly!</p> <p><strong>Network Tuesdays Group<br /></strong>Thank you so much to everyone involved in the Network Tuesdays Group for thinking of us and donating &pound;125.00.&nbsp; This money will be used to help&nbsp;us continue to meet young carers identified needs.</p> <p><strong>Lochalsh &amp; Skye Housing Association<br /></strong>Our most sincere thanks goes to the Committee who have awarded &pound;250.00 sponsorship each for our 2 young carers taking part in the Great Wilderness Challenge on the August the 20th.&nbsp; Thank you for your ongoing and valuable support of the Skye and Lochalsh&nbsp;Young Carer service.</p> <p><strong>GWC<br /></strong>Thank you so much for the superb donation of an IMac computer to be used as a resource for our young carer membership.&nbsp; This&nbsp;computer will enable us to significantly improve the standard of our educational and media access provision; previously we have had to rely on&nbsp;staff computers being made available for young carer use.</p> <p><strong>Personal Donations<br /></strong>Our sincere thanks for the personal donations given to the Young Carer service this month which amounted to a very much appreciated &pound;374.00.</p><!-- --> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <!-- --> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="content"> <p><strong>July 2011<br />Open Door Cafe<br /></strong>A sincere thank you to our friends at the Open Door Cafe who donated &pound;150.00 this month.&nbsp; This money will be used to support the Summer activity programme we are running to ensure young carers can access regular respite&nbsp;activities&nbsp;during the summer school break weeks.</p> <p><strong>August 2011<br />Open Door Cafe<br /></strong>Thank you to all our friends and supporters for the generous donation of &pound;175.&nbsp; The funds will be used to support the August summer activity programme which will ensure young carers continue to get a regular break over the school holiday time.</p> <p><strong>Rhoda Grant MSP<br /></strong>Sincere thanks to Rhoda for donating a total of &pound;125 in relation to research projects she took part in.&nbsp; This money will be used to help us strenghen our financial position.</p> <p><strong>Personal Donation<br /></strong>A most sincere&nbsp;thank you goes to a supporter of the service who donated &pound;380.03 this month, this money will&nbsp; be used to help stengthen our service provision for young carers.</p><!-- --> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <!-- --> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="content"> <p><strong>September 2011<br />Open Door Cafe<br /></strong>Sincere thanks to our special friends at the Open Door Cafe for donating £200.00 this month.  This money will be used to support our ongoing work with young carers who need consistant and reliable support.</p> <p><strong>Skye Highland Games<br /></strong>Our thanks go to Willie Gordon and the Games Committee for the very welcome donation of £50.00, this money will be used to help support the needs of some of our more vulnerable young carers.</p> <p><strong>October 2011<br />Open Door Cafe<br /></strong>Our sincere thanks goes to all our supporters at the Open Door Cafe for the generous donation of £225.00 this month.  This money will go towards the cost of the young carers' much needed and appreciated October respite break.</p> <p><strong>Baking Stall at Open Door Cafe<br /></strong>A big thank you to Jean and all the volunteers who organised the stall and to all those who supported it, the very much appreciated sum of £188.30 was raised and will go towards the young carers' October respite break costs.</p> <p><strong>November 2011<br />The Royal Caledonian Ball Trust<br /></strong>Our sincere thanks goes to everyone involved in raising a fantastic £1,000 for us again this year, the money will go towards the young carers' Christmas respite outings.  These respite breaks provide time out from responsibilities as well as opportunities to develop social, personal safety, team working and relationship skills.  Thank you all your continued support is so very much appreciated.</p> <p><strong>Portree High School<br /></strong>Thank you to the staff and pupils of Portree High School for the generous donation of £361.47 raised during their 'dressing down' day.  These funds will be used to purchase activity materials for young carers' support group sessions.</p> <p><strong>Uig Gala<br /></strong>A really big thank you to the Uig Gala for donating a generous £150.00.  This money will be used to meet the needs of some of our more vulnerable young carers over the Christmas and New Year period; a time of year when so many others are fortunate enough to be able to take it for granted.</p> <p><strong>Open Door Cafe<br /></strong>Sincere thanks to our friends at the Open Door Cafe for the donation of £125.00 this month.  This money will help us meet the needs of some of our more vulnerable young carers over the Christmas and New Year period.</p> <p><strong>Personal Donation<br /></strong>A huge thank you to Lisa and Ewan for their special gift aided donation of £250.00.  Rather than buying wedding favours for their forthcoming wedding they have decided to make a donation to the Young Carer service.  Some of this money will support young carers who lack basic household and/or school equipment and the remainder will contribute towards Christmas party celebrations in line with their wedding celebration.</p> <p><strong>Great Wilderness Challenge</strong><br />A huge thank you to the GWC for their wonderful support and incredible cheque donation of £27,500.  Over £17,000 was raised by our team of 10 who worked tirelessly to build up sponsorship and local businessess, groups, families and individuals supported us to a level far beyond our expectations.  With the additional 60% top up support from the GWC we are now back on solid ground - thank you so much to everyone involved in supporting us.</p><!-- --> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <!-- --> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="content"> <p><strong>December 2011 <br /></strong><strong>AA<br /></strong>Thank you to Willie Gordon and the AA membership who made the much appreciated donation of £100.00 which was raised through the hiring of tartan for their gathering.  This money will be used to support more vulnerable young carers at this difficult and stressful time of year. </p> <p><strong>Open Door Cafe<br /></strong>Our sincere thanks goes to our special friends and supporters at the Open Door Cafe who raised and donated £200.00 to us this month.  These funds will help support the needs of vulnerable young carers over the Christmas and New period as well as providing much appreciated craft materials for young carers to make gifts and cards for special family and friends.</p> <p><strong>Aberdeen Drilling Consultants Ltd</strong><br />Our sincere thanks goes to our supporters and friends at the Aberdeen Drilling Consultants Company for generously supporting us again this year.  The £500.00 donation received will be used to help meet the significant practical and educational equipment needs of young carers.</p><!-- --> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <img src="/getimage.aspx.ID-187426.jpg" id="pic9" style="border:none;" alt="drilling company logo" title="drilling company logo" /><!-- --> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="content"> <p><strong>January 2012<br />Rhoda Grant MSP<br /></strong>Thank you so much for your loyal support and for donating a very generous £200.00 which was received through Ipsos MORI Scotland and ComRes.  This money will be used to help us with the costs of our weekly support groups and providing practical support for more vulnerable young carers.</p> <p><strong>Open Door Cafe</strong><br />Thank you to all our friends and supporters at the Open Door Cafe for the very much apppreciated donation of £100.00 this month.  This money will be used to help us plan ahead for our respite breaks. </p> <p><strong>Skye Bible Church<br /></strong>Thank you to everyone invloved in raising and donating £72.00 through the 'Coffee Pot' which runs at the church centre.  These much appreciated funds will be used to support our weekly support group activities.</p> <p><strong>Sitekit Solutions Ltd<br /></strong>Sincere thanks to all our friends at Sitekit for the generous Christmas card donation of £200.00.  This money will be used to help strenghen the service for Skye and Lochalsh young carers.</p><!-- --> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <!-- --> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="content"> <p><strong>February 2011<br />Open&nbsp;Door Cafe, Kyle<br /></strong>Thanks so much to everyone concerned for raising £75.00&nbsp;for the Young Carer service this month.&nbsp; The money will be used to help buy activities materials to use&nbsp;during our 8 week 'Season's for Growth' bereavement and loss programme which we will be starting this month with a group of young carers.</p><p>Sincere thanks for the further much appreciated £200.00 received which will be used to help support our Easter respite programme which means so much to our 53 young carer members.</p><p><strong>The Provincial Grand Lodge of Inverness-shire<br /></strong>A big thank you to Grand Lodge members who donated a very much appreciated £100.00 which will be used to help support our planned young carer respite outings at Easter.</p><p><strong>Fig Christian Fellowship<br /></strong>Our sincere thanks to the Fellowship for supporting us again this year&nbsp;by donating a wonderful £350.00 towards the Young Carer service.&nbsp; This money will be used to help support the young carers Easter day-trip respite outings.</p><p><strong>March 2011<br /></strong><strong>Church of Scotland Parish of Strath and Sleat&nbsp;<br /></strong>Sincere thanks to the Trustees and Congregation for their continued support and&nbsp;generous donation&nbsp;of&nbsp;£500.00 to the Young Carer service.&nbsp; These funds will be used to support our weekly group session work which gives young carers time out from responsibilites as well as opportunites to develop their social, team working, personal safety and relationship skills.</p><p><strong>Portree Co-op Bag Pack<br /></strong>Our&nbsp;Portree Co-op bag pack on the 17th of March raised the fantastic sum of £742.00.&nbsp; Our sincere thanks to everyone who contributed towards our cause and for the good natured support of our volunteers on the day.&nbsp; Special thanks also to the Co-op staff&nbsp;who welcomed us&nbsp;so warmly.&nbsp; </p><p><strong>Open&nbsp;Door Cafe, Kyle<br /></strong>Thank you for&nbsp;your very much appreciated donation of £125.00 which will be used to provide skill development materials for young carers accessing one to one support as part of their school timetable.</p><!-- --> </td> </tr> </table> Home
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