Scarf Challenge for CHAS

SCARF CHALLENGE FOR CHAS

Children’s Hospice Association Scotland (CHAS) is a charity that provides the only hospice services in Scotland for children and young people with life-shortening conditions. CHAS offers care in two children’s hospices, Rachel House in Kinross and Robin House in Balloch. The hospices support the whole family by offering short planned breaks, emergency support, end of life care and a range of bereavement services. CHAS also provides a home care service, called CHAS at Home, staffed from both hospices and with dedicated teams in the North of Scotland. The service offers care to families in their own homes when they need it most. CHAS supports over 250 families, as well as a significant number of families who receive bereavement support. The services are funded mainly through the generosity of the many supporters who help raise over £7 million needed each year to provide these vital hospice services.

Can you knit or crochet? Do your friends sew? We need YOU!
To raise money and awareness for CHAS, we want to make a scarf that stretches from Gateside, Fife to Rachel House in Kinross. We need lots and lots of donations of scarves, which can be crocheted, sewn or knitted and can be in any width, so long as they are a minimum of 1.5 metres in length. We will collect scarves from now until the end of September. They can be handed in to:

Central Library, Dundee
Tesco, Edinburgh or Crieff Road, and Morrisons, Perth
Library, Rothes Halls, Glenrothes
Sainsbury’s, Kinross
YMCA, Cupar
Rascal’s Nursery, Kelty
Tikasam handmade cards & crafts, Burntisland
or any CHAS shop or office throughout Scotland.

Once collected, some of the scarves will be sewn together over 24 hours in a
“stitchathon”, before being sold individually to raise money for CHAS.
A few “special” scarves which will be auctioned at a charity dinner in Kinross.

More details and updates can be found on the CHAS website at www.chas.org.uk and on the Gateside Facebook Page, at www.facebook.com/GatesideFife or contact Sandra on 07523 550014.