Fundraising work recognised

A HARD-WORKING team of fundraisers from Kirkcudbright have won a major national award after raising £120,000 in 12 months. The group of volunteers had set themselves an ambitious target of raising £50,000 towards the £1 million plus costs of upgrading the town's RNLI inshore lifeboat station. Their impressive efforts won them the award of best use of community fundraising initiative at the annual awards ceremony in Glasgow by the Chartered Institute of Fundraising Scotland. After the ceremony on 23 September, Paul McKeown, fundraising and partnership lead for the RNLI in Scotland, said: ‘We are incredibly proud of our volunteers in Kirkcudbright for receiving this well-deserved recognition. ‘Their dedication and tireless efforts have helped make a real difference and brought the community together to support their new lifeboat station. Congratulations to each and every one of them.’ Work has now started on the modernisation of the lifeboat station which is more than 130 years old and lies four miles down river from the town.