Leading Scottish social care charity Quarriers is delighted to announce it was successful in its bid for an £80,000 grant to fully fund the creation of a multi-purpose, outdoor sports facility at its Seafield School in Ardrossan, on STV’s People’s Millions this week.
Chi My Ta, Quarriers grants manager, said: “We would like to thank everyone who got behind Seafield and picked up the phone to vote for us and of course STV and the Big Lottery Fund for making it all happen. This is a tremendous boost for the school and will allow us to create the much needed facility which will provide life-long benefits; all the children and staff are all absolutely delighted with their win.”
Quarriers Seafield School supports around 60 children and young people (from across Scotland) who require specialised care and education due to social, emotional and behavioural difficulties. The school currently has no on-site outdoor sports facilities and the children therefore have severely limited opportunities to enjoy sports and physical activity with their peers in Seafield and other school communities.
The People’s Millions is a lottery programme run in partnership with ITV and gives funding to projects that will benefit local communities offering grants of up to £80, 000 (plus VAT). This year is the 3rd year in which it has been run. Twenty four groups from across Scotland were short-listed and competed head to head for public phone votes in the regional People’s Millions TV contest, which will ran from Mon 26th to Fri 29th November. There are 3 regions: STV Central, STV North, and ITV Border - Quarriers Seafield School competed in the STV Central region where 8 organisations were vying for grants.
Quarriers is Scotland’s leading and most diverse social care charity providing support to around 18,000 people through 127 projects for children, young people, adults and families who are known to be experiencing extreme difficulties or who are typically hard-to-reach. The organisation has grown and changed considerably since it was founded in 1871 by William Quarrier at Bridge of Weir, expanding to meet the needs of young homeless people, children and adults with a disability, people with epilepsy and carers from across Scotland and beyond. Staff numbers are now in excess of 1800 and the charity has turnover of £39M.
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