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Charities benefit from Scottish dinner

UK: Charities are again set to benefit from this year’s annual Scottish Institute of Refrigeration Dinner which is set to return to Glasgow’s Crowne Plaza Hotel on November 16.

The £2,600 raised from the raffle at last year’s successful dinner at the Glasgow City Hotel was recently shared to two charities, Erskine Hospital and Children’s Hospice Association Scotland (CHAS). 

Further details of this year’s dinner and booking instructions will be available shortly.

Stuart Hetherington (centre) and Calum McKenzie (right) of the Scottish branch of the Institute of Refrigeration present the cheque to Colin McPhail fundraising officer at Erskine

 

CHAS clinical nurse manager Yvonne Caie receives a cheque from Calum McKenzie

  

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