DBB Sponsored Charities for 2010

The Dundee Blues Bonanza is delighted to be fundraising for two charities again this year. These will be The Black Watch and The David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust. The two charities will receive 50% of all the money raised from the sale of the Bonanza programme, and other fundraising efforts, so we really hope that you can all find something to give, no matter how small.

With thanks The DBB Committee
 

The Black Watch Heritage Appeal

After an 18 month campaign to attract support from both the Black Watch Regimental Family and from the public for our plans for Balhousie Castle and The Black Watch Museum, it is wonderful to be able to report a magnificent response so far, with a total of over
£1.75 million already donated or pledged. This has enabled the Trustees to go ahead with the purchase of the Castle, which became their property in December last year. It has also enabled
detailed building plans to be commissioned from ANTA, the well know Scottish architectural practice.
The Black Watch Regimental Association and other regimental trusts have donated or promised a total of £502,000. In addition, individuals from within the Regimental Family have donated or promised a truly splendid £650,000 so far.
The Appeal is now focused on submitting an application to the Heritage Lottery Fund, as well as applications to corporate bodies, and to charitable trusts and foundations which are known to support projects like ours. The Chief Executive is concentrating his efforts on these specialised fundraising activities.
We still need to raise just under £1.5 million to reach the Appeal target of £3.23 million and, while we hope that foundations, charities and corporate bodies - and indeed the Heritage Lottery Fund - will cover much of this shortfall, we still need significant financial support from individuals and the local recruitment are of Dundee, Perth and Fife.
 

The level of support we enjoy from our historical recruitment area is still very strong and it is clear that they share our vision in securing the history of Castle, Museum and its artifacts for future generations.

The Black Watch Association

The Black Watch Association is a charity which helps all those who have served in The Black Watch Regiment and their dependants when they find themselves in adverse circumstances.
The Association is based at Balhousie Castle in Perth, The Black Watch’s spiritual home, and there are branches all over the UK.
 

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www.theblackwatch.co.uk

aiannetta@theblackwatch.co.uk

Mr A Iannetta
Chief Executive
The Black Watch Museum Trust
Balhousie Castle,
Hay Street,
Perth
PH1 5HR

01738 638152
07765894649
 

Above Logo Copyrighted to David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust - Charity Registration Number - 1103836

The David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust (DSWT)
http://www.sheldrickwildlifetrust.org

The DSWT is a small, flexible charity dedicated to the protection and conservation of wildlife and habitats in Kenya. Established in 1977, in memory of David Sheldrick MBE the founder warden of Kenya’s Tsavo National Park, the DSWT has focused its efforts on the long term preservation of Kenya’s wild populations, with a particular focus on Tsavo, Kenya’s largest National Park. The DSWT is best known for its work in the rescue and hand rearing of orphaned elephants and black rhinos.  Dr Dame Daphne Sheldrick pioneered the successful rehabilitation of these species, following 28 years of trial and error in the necessary husbandry and milk formula they needed, and today the DSWT has successfully rescued and raised over 90 elephant orphans and 17 rhinos orphans.


 

The 8069 square miles of the Tsavo Park is Kenya’s largest wildlife refuge and it is here that the Trust places its greatest emphasis. Tsavo harbors the country’s single largest population of elephants and a greater biodiversity of species than any other Park in the world. The Park’s very size is its strength, for it is self sustainable and ecologically viable without intrusive human interference of its wild populations, other than to monitor, learn, take heed and better understand Nature’s ways. Despite facing everything that nature could throe at it (drought, epidemics etc) its rich biodiversity has remained intact, strengthened through accepting natural selection which is a vital tool to distil out imperfections and keep the gene pools pure.

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Telephone:

- http://www.sheldrickwildlifetrust.org

- infouk@sheldrickwildlifetrust.org

- The David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust
- Unit 19
- Brook Willow Farm
- Woodlands Road
- Leatherhead
- KT22 0AN


0)1372 844 608