Kirsten Sinclair – “Oor Wullie’s Big Bucket Trail”
Thu, Jan 9th 2020 at 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Kirsten Sinclair, Chief Operating Officer of the Glasgow Children's Hospital Charity will talk about the work of the Charity and her involvement with “Oor Wullie’s Big Bucket Trail”
H&R: James Gibbons & Hugh Graham
VoT: David McLeod
The speaker at tonight's meeting of the Rotary Club of Motherwell and Wishaw was Kirsten Sinclair, the Chief Operating Officer of the Glasgow Children's Hospital Charity.
Kirsten was school captain at Dalziel High School and went on to study politics at Strathclyde University.
She started her address by asking members, and guests, to guess how many ill children Glasgow’s Royal Hospital for Children saw each year and everybody was amazed at the answer of over 200,000.
Kirsten said that she had had the privilege of leading the fundraising team at the Glasgow Children's Hospital Charity for the past five years and, prior to that, had been part of the team for over ten years. Over these years, the money raised to help babies, children and young people treated, and cared for, at the hospital has grown substantially and the real and lasting difference made to the young patients makes this opportunity much more than just a job to Kirsten. She said that from a traditional grassroots fundraising organisation with a strong focus on community fundraising, in recent years they have diversified their fundraising portfolio considerably. The charity now strives to deliver a more balanced and stable fundraising platform, raising in excess £5 million annually with donations coming from the community, events, corporates, trusts and individual giving (the average donation being £72.00) and, in addition, funds raised from promotional materials.
Kirsten went on to highlight the work of the charity’s Financial Inclusion Team, set up to assist families disadvantaged by having a child in need of treatment at the hospital. Since its inception the team has reclaimed £3.3 million for over 500 families by assisting them with their applications and ensuring that they are aware of the help that is available.
She then spoke of the Medicinema within the hospital and the joy that it beings to many young patients.
The big success of the year had been the “Oor Wullie’s Big Bucket Trail” which raised over £1.3 million, in the twelve weeks, to benefit the five Scottish children’s hospitals. Kirsten, who spoke knowledgably and with conviction, answered the many questions put to her by the members.
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