Latest News from Blythswood Care

News Items - Chief Executive's Message

2009-06-29T11:50:06Z

Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it. (Proverbs 22:6)

Confidence in this precious promise from the word of God underpins the education projects of Blythswood Care’s partners in Europe, Africa and Asia.

News Items - Training Teachers for Special Needs Children

2009-06-29T11:25:26Z

Sreeja’s dream job is to be a teacher of children with special needs. A teacher training college in Kerala, India, supported by Blythswood Care, means the recent school-leaver can embark on her chosen career.

News Items - Transforming Communties in Albania

2009-06-29T11:13:33Z

A community development course supported by Blythswood Care in Albania has transformed the outlook of Sadete Kolgjini.

When she moved to Albania’s capital city in 1992 with her husband and six children, she was unable to read and write. It was hard for her husband to find a job and life was incredibly difficult in their unheated shack, without water or sanitation

News Items - Bridging the Language Gap at School

2009-06-29T10:52:09Z

Alexandra, now nine, has simply blossomed. The support of Blythswood’s after-school programme Talita Kum has helped her cope with three years of education in what is for her a second language.

Press Releases - Charity to Auction Rare Books

2009-04-09T13:48:54Z

Thousands of rare and collectible books will be auctioned in Elgin to raise funds for highland-based charity Blythswood Care.

Press Releases - Ross-Shire Freemasons Fill Buckets for Blythswood

2009-04-06T10:53:54Z

The Freemasons of Ross-shire have filled 30 Buckets of Love for Blythswood Care.

Press Releases - Blythswood to Collect Big White Goods

2009-03-30T14:04:53Z

Blythswood Care will once again accept donations of large domestic appliances.

Press Releases - Food Crunch Hits Highland Bank

2009-03-24T14:04:43Z

A bank which has helped thousands of people in Highland is feeling a crunch all of its own.

Highland Food Bank run by Blythswood Care is handing food out faster than it is coming in.

Press Releases - Romanian Minister to Visit Stornoway

2009-03-09T11:35:26Z

Rev Levente Horvath from the city of Cluj, Romania, is scheduled to address a public meeting in Stornoway Town Hall on Monday 16 March.

Press Releases - Blythswood's Bookmark Re-Opens in Bigger Shop

2009-02-25T11:33:24Z

Blythswood’s Bookmark shop in Inverness re-opens in new premises at 113 Academy Street on Friday [27 February] at 10 am.

Press Releases - Inner Wheel Fill Buckets of Love

2009-02-23T09:28:42Z

The Inverness branch of Inner Wheel recently marked its 50th anniversary by filling 40 Buckets of Love for Blythswood Care.

Press Releases - Blythswood Rehouses Indian Orphans

2009-02-16T10:27:32Z

A new home for orphaned and abandoned children in Hyderabad, India, was opened on Saturday [31 January 2009] by James Campbell, chief executive of Blythswood Care.

Press Releases - Blythswood Returns to Renovated Shop

2009-01-26T11:44:11Z

Blythswood Care’s Inverness charity shop will reopen at 118-122 Academy Street on Saturday [31 January 2009] at 10am. The highland-based charity opened its first charity shop there in 1992 and says that the city centre outlet is one of its most successful shops.

Press Releases - Millionth Shoebox Presented To Bulgarian Gypsy Child

2008-12-22T16:35:15Z

A gypsy child in Bulgaria has received the millionth shoebox from Blythswood Care’s Shoebox Appeal.

Seven year old Maria was presented with the gift box after a concert in a rural village hall on Wednesday [17 December 2008].

Press Releases - Blythswood To Restart Evanton Car Boot Sale

2008-10-20T10:30:10Z

Highland-based charity Blythswood Care is restarting its Saturday car boot sale due to popular demand.

Press Releases - Shoebox Collection Marks Last Week In Old School

2008-10-20T10:18:54Z

Millburn Academy pupils have filled 400 gift boxes for Blythswood Care’s Shoe Box Appeal. Last week S6 pupils formed a chain gang to hand the shoeboxes out the window and into Blythswood’s vehicle just two days before leaving their old school building for good.

Press Releases - Engines & Training For Serbian Fire Crews

2008-10-09T10:13:53Z

Blythswood Care has provided four fire engines and training for fire crews in Serbia.

Gary Bennett organised and led the team of volunteers who took the equipment from Scotland to Serbia before running five days of intensive training.

Back at his own fire prevention business in Edinburgh, he described the trip as “a huge success”.

Medical & Rehabilitation Stories - Bonus Pastor rehab Helped Karoly Open Up.

2008-08-27T11:39:52Z

Károly’s was a hopeless case. Drinking since he was ten, he was ill, homeless, lonely and suicidal by the age of 47.

Nine months’ rehabilitation at a therapy centre supported by Blythswood Care, has Károly back on his feet with a new job, somewhere to live and contact with his children. He hadn’t seen one of them in 17 years.

Medical & Rehabilitation Stories - Wheelchair Gives Bogljub 'Nomal Life'

2008-08-27T11:21:57Z

Three years ago, Bogljub fell from a house roof. His injuries were devastating: for two years he lay on his back, paralysed from the waist down.

After an unsuccessful operation in 2007, Bogljub finally accepted that he would never walk again. At least he had strength in his arms to move from bed to wheelchair – if only he had a wheelchair!

News Items - China Earthquake

2008-07-09T16:32:59Z

Blythswood Care is appealing for cash donations now to buy urgently needed mosquito nets and medicines to people affected by the earthquake in China.

In partnership with Crossroads International, Hong Kong we are also organising a shipment of tents and filled Buckets of Love for distribution to displaced people.

Press Releases - Avoch Primary Fills Buckets Of Love For China

2008-07-09T13:06:05Z

Avoch Primary School has become the first in the north to fill buckets for Blythswood Care’s Buckets of Love appeal.

Pupils in P4/5 adopted the relief aid appeal as their project for the Schools Enterprise Programme. By preparing a letter for children to take home, and by making presentations to other classes, they persuaded each class in the school to fill a bucket.

Press Releases - Church Event Tents For Chinese Quake Survivors

2008-07-07T12:23:19Z

Church Event Tents For Chinese Quake Survivors

Tents from Church without Walls 2008 are on their way to China to shelter families left homeless by May’s earthquake.

Press Releases - Blythswood Proceeds With Hiv/Aids Clinic

2008-05-15T14:27:43Z

A long-awaited specialist clinic for HIV/Aids patients is now under construction in Timisoara, Romania, following years of planning and fundraising by Scottish charity Blythswood Care.

Press Releases - Schoolchildren Use Their Enterprising Skills to Help Orphans in Mozambique and Malawi

2008-05-08T15:21:35Z

Teams of schoolchildren from all over Scotland showed their enterprising and creative skills last Friday when they were attended the final of the Blythswood Schools Enterprise Challenge in Perth.

2008-04-29T16:11:46Z

Thanks to all who attended the Deephaven 10k run which was held at Geanies Estate on 6^thSeptember.

News Items - Drymen 10k Run

2008-04-29T12:41:19Z

Thanks to all who attended the Drymen 10K on Saturday 23^rd, whether taking part or cheering on the runners.

Press Releases - Sarah's Presents Help Nightmare-Blast Children

2008-04-29T11:05:47Z

Gifts donated by six-year-old Inverness girl Sarah Oliver have been received by children in Albania, displaced from their homes by an arms-dump explosion in March.

Partners of Scottish charity Blythswood Care distributed the toys to families in temporary shelter at Durrës Beach, 20 kilometres from their destroyed homes in Gërdec.

Press Releases - Elgin Site For Second Blythswood Bookmark

2008-04-08T12:24:50Z

North-based charity Blythswood Care has chosen Elgin as the location for its second ‘Bookmark’ charity shop. The outlet opens its doors at 10am on Friday [11 April 2008], at 1 Lossie Wynd, just off the High Street and opposite Next.

Press Releases - Blythswood Aid for Arms Dump Families

2008-04-02T11:54:51Z

Goods donated by businesses and individuals in the Highlands have been sent to help families hit by disaster in Albania.

Two weeks ago, an explosion at a munitions depot on the outskirts of Tirana killed five people, injured hundreds more and resulted in 4,000 being evacuated from their homes.

Press Releases - Sarah's Birthday Presents for Albanian Children

2008-03-18T16:04:22Z

Inverness school-girl Sarah Oliver had a birthday party with a difference. When she invited her class-mates at Inshes Primary School, she suggested that they bring presents not for her but for poor children in east European countries.