Every penny counted
in Greenock
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By
Collin Macfarlane
THE CHAS administration staff are delighted to go to collect funds from anywhere — be it in large or small amounts of the much-needed cash for our Children’s Hospice challenge.
 They called into Meadowlark Community Centre in Greenock to collect
more than £1000, but there was a slight catch — it was all in loose change, from £2 coins down to pennies.
Definitely an example of ‘From little acorns,
great oak trees grow’.
“We have a big coffee jar on the table for charity collecting ,’’ says Chairman Harry Robertson, stalwart of the centre’s committee along with
his wife Betty.
“All the charity cash goes in the jar, whether
it’s pennies or pounds.
“The Sunday Post is a popular newspaper here and when we read all the CHAS stories and what the appeal was trying to do, we started a collection six months ago,’’ said Harry.
Big pile
“It didn’t take long to mount up and Betty kept the folk here up-to-date every week on how
the big pile of cash was growing.
“The club is a lifeline for the folk in this area
and everyone enjoys meeting up for a chat with their friends.
“We held bingo nights and raffles and sold football cards, making £10 a time, to the folk who come here for the lunch clubs and dances. It was amazing how all the little donations mounted up.’’
So CHAS staff Celia Maclean and Amy Greenfield needed a fair amount of muscle power to take the cash away in a series of plastic carrier bags — but there were certainly no complaints.
As the people at CHAS are fond of saying
every penny counts. Even if that literally means every penny.
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