The Driving Force takes anyone who has cancer and is registered with a GP in Bonnybridge, Denny or Banknock to hospital appointments for FREE.
News and Events
Event: Coffe Morning
The coffee morning on May 24th was a big success. Much delicious home baking was consumed and we raised £1192.60. Many thanks to all involved.
Finding Scotland's Heroes
27 May 2014The Driving Force is one of 30 groups selected, from 531 nominations, to appear on STV's programme Finding Scotland's Heroes. Filming is taking palce on 10th June and the series will be on from mod August until end of September. 1 group from each category will receive an award after a telephone vote so please tell all your family and friends.
Event: Coffe Morning
We are having a Coffee morning on Sat May 24th from 10.30-12.30 at St Helen's Church Hall, High Street, Bonnybridge. There will be excellent home baking, a raffle and tombola, hand made cards for sale and a craft stall. Please come if you can and tell all your friends about it too.
Event: Burns Supper
A very successful Burns Supper was held at Bonnybridge Golf Club on 8th February. Great entertainment was provided by the Jolly Beggars. The event raised the fantastic total of £629.75 .
Prize Draw Makes £1391 for The Driving Force
5 Oct 2013We had a huge success selling tickets for our prize draw. We had lots of great prizes including £100 cash, a weekend in Scarborough and food and drink hampers.
The draw was made by Dennis Canavan - and here is a photo of some of the Committee, plus Denis himself picking a lucky winner. Many thanks to all those who helped with this venture.
Event: Bonny 10k
ON 22nd September Bonnybridge Community Council organised a very successful 10 km run round the local area. Here are our volunteers who manned the stand. We were very grateful to be chosen as the charity to benefit from the race and to receive a cheque for £320.70.
Awards Ceremony
5 Aug 2013Billy Little receiving his 5 Year Service Award, at the Falkirk Volunteering Awards, 2013. Eddie McLean and Joe Hendren also received 5 Year Service Awards, but were unable to join us on the night. (Bill Miller photographers, Falkirk)
New logo, posters and leaflets.
5 Jun 2013Louise Barnes, daughter of Alan Butcher one of our drivers, is head of marketing at the firm of Wood Mackenzie in Edinburgh. She and her colleagues have very kindly redesigned our logo and letterhead. They have also designed the fantastic new leaflets and posters you will see going up shortly. We are very grateful for all the time and hard work they have put into this. The company generously paid for the first print run.
Easy Fundraising
2 Apr 2013If you do internet shopping, you can give money to the Driving Force at no extra cost to yourself. Just go to ....
www.easyfundraising.org.uk and follow the instructions to register as a supporter of the Driving Force. You can find us easily by using the search engine on that site. They have a section called "find a cause" ... when you type The Driving Force into that section, you can be assured that we are the only one there with that name!
The site asks you to register with your email address and your own password. It literally takes a few seconds.
After that, every time you want to shop on Amazon, or any one of the hundreds of sites which are listed on easyfundraising site, we will receive a small donation, at no extra cost to you. Note that you must go to the easyfundraising site FIRST, and sign in, and THEN go to Amazon (or elsewhere), for us to get the donation.
Event: Bag Pack.
We are having a bag pack from 10-4 on 22nd June at Sainsbury’s, Denny. If you can help with this, if only for an hour, please contact Dr Bridget McCalister on 01324 812315. We would really appreciate it.
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