A development group has handed over a bumper cheque to a Wishaw-based suicide prevention charity.
Within the run-up to the festive season, hub South West urged its companions, suppliers, and supporters to hitch with it in offering a lot wanted and well-deserved assist for Chris’s Home and raised an unbelievable £8510 within the course of.
Chris’s Home is the primary 24-hour non-medical disaster centre in Scotland providing built-in assist. It was based by Anne Rowan, a mum from Wishaw, in reminiscence of her son, Chris, who took his personal life in 2011 on the age of 36.
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Anne instructed Lanarkshire Reside : “I'd similar to to say a large thanks to everybody who contributed to hub South West’s attraction. With out such funds we simply couldn't afford to run our vital service.”
Up to now Chris’s Home has been funded principally by the generosity of households which have been touched by the work Chris’s Home has completed, and who've raised funds or made donations to permit its continued existence.
CEO of hub South West, Michael Ross instructed us : “We're delighted to have been the catalyst of much-needed funds for such a worthwhile trigger and I wish to thank everybody who contributed for his or her generosity.
“Chris’s Home is a crucial, native useful resource which supplies individuals in, or approaching, a suicidal disaster with a protected place to go to safe skilled assist to assist them recuperate from their present, and infrequently short-term, state of psychological ailing well being.
“I used to be honoured to satisfy and speak to Anne once we handed over the donation and likewise benefited from seeing first-hand the unbelievable facility Anne and her workforce handle.
“We're very energetic in Lanarkshire having delivered a number of million of tasks within the space and it was essential to us as a workforce to concentrate on the area people output.
“The rise within the variety of suicides in Scotland is a surprising reminder of the crucial significance of supporting psychological well being charities.
“After the prolonged interval of solitude the pandemic has created for a lot of, it's important that folks have a protected place to go to safe their psychological well being.”
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