Factory Shop cash boost for Buckie's Roots group
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A BUCKIE community group has been celebrating a three-figure boost to its coffers.
The town’s Factory Shop made it a bright start to the new year when they handed Buckie’s Roots a cheque for £228.09.
The charity, which began life looking after planters in Cluny Square but have since expanded to run a number of schemes aiming to make the town look cleaner and brighter, will have plenty projects on which to spend the windfall, as chairwoman Meg Jamieson explained.
“We’re very grateful to the Factory Shop and their customers for this generous donation.
“It will go to helping fund a number of community projects.
“There’s the rest and remember bench at the Speyside Way, which just needs the bench part of the structure to be put on it.
“We’ve also got our planting programme for 2022 and we’re looking at working with a couple of local schools on that.
“Our litter picking teams have been busy and to date, since last February, have collected 576.5 bags of litter, including recycling, and 2532 masks.
“In January we had another craft bomb to celebrate Robert Burns' birthday, and put a display community knitting and sewing up in Cluny Square. After the display ends it will go up in the library.”
Handing over the cheque to Buckie’s Roots was Buckie Factory Shop manager Sahra Taylor.
She said: “We’re really excited that we and our customers have helped raise £228.09 for Buckie’s Roots, our chosen charity.
“What they do is invaluable for the local area and we’d like to think that this effort will go some small way to supporting their work in the community.
“As a company, this year we have decided to support local charities in our towns, and in March we asked our customers through Facebook which charity they would like us to support.”
For more Buckie’s Roots news and updates follow their Facebook page.
In June 2018 Mrs Jamieson formed Friends of Buckie Square as a sub group of Buckie and District Community Council (BDCC) after seeing a large number of complaints about the dowdy and neglected state of Cluny Square.
The dedicated team of volunteers set about planting flowers and looking at other improvements for the square.
Soon after, an offshoot group, Buckie’s Roots, were formed with a wider remit of regenerating the green spaces around Buckie.
It has since gained charity status.
