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16 September 2009
2009 Perthshire Big Tree Country Awards Shortlist Announced
Perth & Kinross Countryside Trust has announced the shortlist of organisations and schools from throughout the area who are each in with a chance of receiving a coveted Perthshire Big Tree Country Award.

Organisations from around Perth & Kinross, including businesses, schools and community groups, are each vying for one of the three accolades which will be given out at an awards ceremony to be held at The Gleneagles Hotel on Sunday 27th September. The awards, now in their third year, have also seen a rise in entries for the awards.

Bob Ellis, chairman of Perth & Kinross Countryside Trust which oversees Perthshire Big Tree Country, said “This year we have been very impressed with the quality and range of entrants in each category. The shortlisted candidates reflect the range of excellent work and efforts being put into initiatives aimed at families and children in this area by businesses, communities and schools.”

The winners will be revealed at a unique afternoon awards ceremony held at The Gleneagles Hotel, presented by former ITN Newscaster, Fiona Armstrong.

The organisations shortlisted for this year’s awards are:

Families & Children in Business Award: Galvelmore House; Strathbraan Tourist Group, Taymouth Courtyard Shop; and Crieff Hydro Hotel

Families & Children in the Community Award: Crieff & Strathearn Drovers’ Tryst; Pitlochry in Bloom; Grandtully Parent Council; Goodlyburn Primary School; Fairfield Neighbourhood Centre; and Glenfarg & Duncrieve in Bloom.

Families & Children in Education Award: Nae Limits; Action for Children; Fairfield Neighbourhood Centre; Inchture Primary School; Do It Outdoors

For further information on this year’s Big Tree Country Awards log on to www.pkct.org.uk

Benefits Team Steps in to Mac a Difference to Cancer Patients
A member of the Macmillan Cancer Support’s benefits advice team will be helping to “mac” a difference this Monday, 6th September, as part of St John’s Shopping Centre’s fundraising campaign for the charity “30 Days to Mac a Difference”.

St John’s Shopping Centre Asks Can you Help Mac a Difference?
St John’s Shopping Centre is calling on members of the Perthshire public to donate their unwanted clothes, DVDs, CDs and bric a brac to the Macmillan Cancer Support charity shop which will open on 1st September 2010 in the shopping centre.

Wood You Believe It?!
At Volpa, we love a challenge, so when we were asked by the Forestry Commission to rebrand, event manage and promote the 2008 Scottish Wood Fair, we jumped at the chance!

‘Rescue Me’ raises £2300 for local lifesavers
Rebel the police puppy and a Ninja Power Superbike were just two of the crowd pullers organised by Volpa as part of the ‘Rescue Me’ charity campaign held at St John’s Shopping Centre, Perth.