Tillydrone Vision

This lapel pin shows the Scottish and Ugandan flags and is a wee bit bigger than a 1p coin. They’re being sold as a fundraiser for the 2012 trip to Uganda and are a great way to show your support for Tillydrone Vision and our friends in Uganda.

They’re £2.50 each and postage & packing is another 50p. You can buy up to four of our great lapel pins at no extra postage cost, and if you’re kind enough to buy four of them then we’ll pay the P&P. Continue reading →

Thanks again to David McGill and ‘Tartans for Africa (link)‘ for his generosity in sponsoring one of our races at the race night on 4th November. David has also kindly donated towards the raffle on the night as well. Please visit the ‘Tartans for Africa‘ website and see the good work that’s going on there.

The race that Tartans for Africa is sponsoring is named “The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Stakes” and is the first race on our programme on the night! David tells us he chose that name for the race because:- Continue reading →

The Tillydrone Vision visit to Uganda in 2012 will take place between the 6th and 20th of February 2012. The group, that’s now pretty much complete, will fly out from Aberdeen, through Schiphol (Amsterdam) and into Entebbe. A stay in Kampala overnight will be followed by the 150km journey to Kamuli to the north-east.

The Tilly Travellers will meet up for the first of several pre-trip meetings on Tuesday 18th October.

The interview process for the young people who applied to join the February 2012 trip to Uganda has been completed and the successful applicants have been informed. The journey starts now with passports to be checked, visas to be applied for, injections to get through and so much more.

Congratulations to all of the applicants on the very positive impression that they all gave at the interviews and all of us at Tillydrone Vision look forward to the next wee while as February comes closer.

The link above to “Tilly Travellers 2012″ gives some more information about the planning and preparations that go into the trip.

Thanks to David McGill at Tartans for Africa, an initiative which has the fundamental aim of helping to improve the lives of ordinary people throughout Africa by using one of the distinctive symbols of Scotland – tartan. David has given Tillydrone Vision a hundred packs of Uganda tartan wrapping paper which will be used by the project to help in fundraising for Bezallel School, Kaliro HIV+/AIDS community and Tilly Travellers 2012.

Fifteen intrepid Tillydrone Travellers visited Uganda at the end of March 2011. After the success of the Tilly Tractor and The Wall, the children and teachers at Bezallel Primary School gave us the welcome of a lifetime.

The thrill of the ‘walk of fame’ was unforgettable and a bit overwhelming.

Visit the ‘Tilly Tractor’ and ‘The Wall’ pages for more information.

Our friends at Grampian Fire and Rescue Service held a Car Wash on Saturday 12th March and the proceeds will be shared between Tillydrone Vision and Operation Florian. Unfortunately the weather shut down and we had about six inches of snow!  Not the busiest car wash ever!

The money raised by the hard work of Grampian’s Firefighters (and a wee bit of easy work by some of the support staff) will go straight into the Uganda fund and used to directly help Bezallel Primary School and Kaliro HIV+/AIDS community.

A big thank you to all who braved the elements and got your car washed and, of course, to all at Grampian Fire and Rescue Service.

The Wall project raised some £10,000 to build a tall security wall around the perimeter of the school. The work is well underway and there are a load of pictures showing progress attached. The work will be completed with a render coat and then a paint job all the way around.

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