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Scottish dinner raises £4,000 for cancer charity

Scottish Branch chair Danny Watson and past chair and committee member Julie Murray (left) with Beatson’s corporate & community fundraising manager Joyce Ross

UK: This year’s IoR Scotland Dinner has raised a total of £4,000 for a local cancer charity.

The raffle at the annual sell-out industry event in Glasgow earlier this month generated a total of £4,000 for the Beatson Cancer Charity. Raffle prizes were donated by Clydebank-based  CSD Air Conditioning.

The Beatson Cancer Charity provides a comprehensive range of complementary therapies for inpatients and outpatients at its Wellbeing Centre within The Beatson West Of Scotland Cancer Centre (BWoSCC), on the wards and outpatients within day case units while they receive their treatments.

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