“Dear Friends
“Celtic FC Foundation’s Annual Christmas Appeal reflects the very heart of the Club’s charitable and humble beginnings. It proudly follows in the footsteps of Brother Walfrid, providing comfort to those who need it most.”
So starts the letter from Celtic FC Foundation Head of Fundraising, Jane Maguire, as she confirmed this year’s Christmas appeal raised an incredible £220,000.
What are the consequences of this?
373 families in Glasgow, Coatbridge, Bellshill and Girvan, facing poverty and hardship, received significant help.
50 pensioners in the north and east of the city received a Christmas voucher, while kids in the same area received gifts through PEEK (Possibilities for Each and Every Kid).
130 clients of The Simon Community were given a Christmas lunch.
Children living with long-term health conditions at the Glasgow Children’s Hospital received what on some occasions will be their most significant Christmas gift.
Glasgow East Women’s Aid received a Christmas meal and gifts for families at the refuge.
Vulnerable refugees received support through the Scottish Refugee Council.
Glasgow City Mission’s Foodbank received support; they work with an average of 60 households per week.
Loaves & Fishes and Spirit Aid received Christmas hampers and toys for their work with homeless families.
The Wayside Club, Glasgow’s 365 day venue for the homeless received help in providing hot food for the very needy.
The Foundation and Celtic sponsor, Intelligent Car Leasing (more on them later) split the cost of a £10,800 van to allow The Invisibles to carry out their important work.
Parkhead Salvation Army’s work was supported again this year.
St Roch’s Foundation’s meals for the homeless and pensioners between Christmas and New Year will be supported.
Glasgow Night Shelter, who provide food and a safe place for homeless refugees, some of societies more marginalised, were helped.
The Elpis Centre’s work for vulnerable young women was aided.
400 kids received a Christmas Party at Celtic Park.
Oban’s Hope Kitchen’s work to provide food and shelter has been funded.
The People’s Kitchen, Newcastle, who aid the homeless and vulnerable was helped – recognition, perhaps, of the incredible work the Tyneside No.1 Celtic Supporters Club do for the Foundation.
Children in Poverty Inverclyde received clothing, books and toys, as well as a trip to Santa’s Grotto, in consultation with another great club, the Greenock CSC.
Grampian Women’s Aid, Moray Firth Radio’s Cash for Kids, St John the Evangelist’s work (Cumnock), North Ayrshire Women’s Aid, Fife Gingerbread, the Eric Liddle Centre (Edinburgh) were all helped in their work.
Women’s Aid in Dublin, Belfast and Lisburn were each aided.
The Foundation are funding the Northern Ireland Hospice’ Teenage Weekends project for 2017.
Kids at the school in Whitechapel, London, where Bro Walfrid taught, were taken to a pantomime.
London and the South East’s needy were helped through various projects:
Cardinal Hume Centre
Neighbours of Poplar
Hillingdon Cherubs (neonatal work)
Readi-Bank Foodbank
Camden New Journal Appeal
Wimbledon Children’s Hospital – in connection with the Wimbledon CSC
The Brett Foundation
London North West Healthcare Charitable Fund
Our Barn (life skills, aged 16-25)
RNLI Ramsgate
Pilgrims Hospice
SVP Society Broadstairs
Kent Air Ambulance
Kent Foster Care Association
Happy Days Children’s Charity
Big Issue Foundation
The Foundation were asked to pass on gifts received, some of which went to Sean’s Trust – setup by our friend Linda Croker, who lost her husband and CQN’er St John Doyle, three years ago.
What did you do to achieve this?
Founding Fathers’ Fast, raised £1500 on one day.
Celtic Sleep Out – and incredible £80k.
Ghirls for Good, £22k
Bucket Collection, £13k
And nearly half the total was raised by direct donations – like the kind of things we do here throughout the year.
There is a part of this story which is seldom told. People from the Foundation turned up at the door of some of these families this month with envelopes containing cash. The reaction was often beyond gratitude or relief. Many tears of joy are shed as feelings of helplessness find an anchor to cling to.
If you are cold and find warmth, hungry and are fed. If you cannot provide for your children then receive shelter, toys and hope, you know the value of that £220,000.
This is THE Celtic story of 2016.
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JMCC- Only idiots who buy the Record believe that pi$#….
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Tony D…,
Let me try to explain again for you,
Collaborative fraud or total incompetence between the SFA and rangers is always the implication of the SFA granting the UEFA license to a club who did not meet the criteria.
No report has as been handed to the police nor has any criminal investigation been requested by “the Gang of Four” nor has any of “the gang of four” claimed to have done so, thought it is still an option.
Resolution 12 does not asked anyone to make any accusations or inquiries about fraud.
Resolution 12 asks the Plc to invite the CFCB to investigate, why did the SFA grant a license to rangers ? A high profile Plc suffering public financial distress that subsequently and predictably liquidated.
“the Gang of Four” found out the Celtic Plc had written to the SFA and the reply from the SFA contains relevant critical omissions and inaccuracies, that would have required the Celtic Plc to seek further clarification had they been included and accurate.
There is no charge of fraud, simply the concern of a member club, that competing organisations who provide different services, SFA (Ltd) and RFC Plc have obligations to meet their contracted responsibilities.
The SFA’s contracted responsibilities with UEFA where to administer the EUFA licensing process to meet the standards of the EUFA rules.
The SFA’s contracted responsibilities with Celtic Plc and all other clubs in Scotland were to administer the EUFA licensing process in compliance with UEFA’s rules.
The SFA failed to meet their contracted responsibilities to any party involved, clearly demonstrable to anyone who can be bothered reading and focusingon the collation of the relevant public record and provenance free evidence and correspondence.
A wee reminder, no one has asked the Celtic Plc for a criminal fraud investigation. That’s a pointless exercise, never an option. The thee reasons why it was never, never an option;
1. No allowed to bring criminal proceedings against affiliated football entities, under UEFA rules.
2. As you say, needs air tight and braces evidence.
3. The CFCB are the appropriate authority to deal with UEFA licensing rules, this is not a criminal process so they don’t need air tight and braces evidence, they have the authority to gather all the evidence from source if their records are inaccurate. inaccurate records means there’s flaws in the system that need to be addressed.
There were no mixed message on a future meeting ever, everyone agreed a future meeting will take place when the Plc call us and let us know when they are ready to speak to us.
It’s strange but everything you could possibly misinterpret you did, is that that spin thing you keep talking about ?
Doc and Paddybhoy1888
Condolences on the loss of your loved ones.
R.I.P
Owen,who are the journalistic plants
Beatbhoy
Cheers, mate!
All this talk of the Gang of Four has got me thinking…..
It is a little known fact that Chairman Mao was a great fan of Celtic Football Club …. so great in fact that he adopted his Famous Little Red Book into a book of Football tactics, which he labelled, the Little Green Book .. in tribute to his favourite team…
In tribute to our own Gang of Four, and since we already have a daily weather report and word of the day, we should have a quote of the day from Mao’s Little Green Book …
So, today’s quote is
“The richest source of power to wage war lies in the masses of the Celtic fans. It is mainly because of the unorganized state of the Celtic fans that the SFASPFL/the zombies dare to bully us. When this defect is remedied, then the SFA/SFPL/zombie aggressors, like a mad bull crashing into a ring of flames, will be surrounded by hundreds of millions of mad tims standing upright, and the mere sound of their voices (singing I just Can Get Enough) shall strike terror into them …..”
bao bao
Condolences to Doc and PaddyBhoy1888 on the loss of their loved ones. May they rest in eternal light.
Not ashamed to admit I’m another who had a tear in the eye reading today’s article.
Compassion and kindness displayed with generosity and enthusiasm. Even as far away as Kent! Incredible.
Alan Pardew sacked from Crystal Palace 5 years into his 8 year contract at Newcastle.
DOC&PADDYBHOY
Condolences on the loss of your loved ones
“Like I say, I have never seen a good game of football on a plastic pitch.
“It brings lots of different elements to the game. It brings an unpredictability to the game that you wouldn’t see in normal circumstances.
“I have seen a number of games on plastic pitches and been involved in a number of games on plastic pitches. I have yet to see a good one.”
Celtic beat Hamilton 1-0 at home last week and Rodgers expects a similarly tough challenge.
He said: “They were a tough team to break down the last time we played them and it is on an AstroTurf pitch, of course, which makes it even more difficult, so we will go expecting another tough game but looking to continue with our sequence of good results.”
Brendan Rodgers
HT-5:04pm,I took the time to read back you mate@11:40pm.enjoy the 5’s
First rule of sudoku club is …your not here to make up the numbers ..
Right, heading along to Confession – ‘na get yies ent’in’?
NegAnon2 on 22nd December 2016 12:48 pm
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Congratulations on saving your most pathetic attention-seeking post of the year for this festive period.
Doc and Paddybhoy 1888.
May your loved ones rest in peace.Amen.
Neganon….I never cease to be dismayed by your posts. I rarely even lurk anymore, but often as not, when I do, I bump into one of your hateful posts and I just head back to real life…….
Favourite Uncle-9:57am today,why must Scott no be allowed to speak the truth
Thank you Sandman and Toboga Street. Not sure that the swearing is that clever though.
Perhaps if you engaged your brain a bit it might be better but hey merry Christmas.
Thoughts and prayers offered for the souls of Docs father, Paddybhoys sister, their families and friends at this sad time.
Poetic justice if storm Barbara delivers a good pounding to the Theatre of Delusions –
In my first employment as a junior, circa mid-80s I worked beside a heifer of a thirtysomething roaster form the Ayrshire villages called Barbara.
One lunchtime, standing within earshot eating my sandwiches she pontificated loudly to another dumb cow on life in her village, about the forthcoming ‘walk’ and on how few catholics there were; about how you could ‘smell’ a catholic, you know – how they had a kind of aroma around them all the time; you could just tell when you were around ‘wan’.
And in the six months I worked beside her and made her tea twice a day she never once twigged that I was a Tim, not even picking up on the banter between me and a decent Jambo who was my boss. Thick-set in the calves, and thick-set in the heid.
So come on storm Barbara – batter the Temple of Twat, and make me smile, particularly when I remember there’s no way the amount of rain thrown down will come close to the volume of my spittle that big chunky hoor swallowed in her tea over my cursed time as her colleague…
Celtic raise £220, 000 for charity without BBC Scotland noticing.
Condolences to Doc and Paddybhoy 1888, eternal rest grant unto them. RIP.
Sincere condolences to Paddybhoy and Doc on the loss of loved ones…
NEGANON2 on 22ND DECEMBER 2016 6:53 PM
Turn it up…:(
What’s your alternative, give us something contructive, you love destructive, give us something we can take forward rather just slagging off the Board and P67.
A Supporter of Celtic critices where warranted, believe me I do not agree with everything the Board and P67 promote but they achieved some great things.
Serious question to you when was the last time you praised CFC, The Board and P67 for doing something positive?
TD67 has a lot of blogosphere enemies on here but even he is positive and recognises when credit is due.
I think I may have asked you the question before but you are a Celtic Supporter, so why is everything so negative, I reiterate what has to happen for you to post a positive post?
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
Doc, thoughts are with you.
critices…criticise…
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
I’ve just saw the lyrics to Glad All Over…no wonder Sevco love the song (apologies to Dave Clark and Mike Smith who wrote the song…)
You said that you’d love me (said that’d you’d love)
For all of time (for all of time)
You said that’d you’d save me (said you’d save me)
But never spent a dime (never spent a dime)
You got CLAP CLAP liquidated
You got CLAP CLAP liquidated
You got CLAP CLAP liquidated
And Rangers die ie ie ie ied
I’ll make you happy (make you happy)
But i’ll never be true blue (never be true blue)
We’ll have to borrow (have to borrow)
To see the season through (see the season through)
You got CLAP CLAP liquidated
You got CLAP CLAP liquidated
You got CLAP CLAP liquidated
And Rangers die ie ie ie ied
Other companies may try to take me away (take me away)
But you know, it’s Sevco
I’ll stay
Our love didn’t last (our love didn’t last)
Till the end of time (end of time)
Because of Craig Whyte (because of Craig Whyte)
And our tax fine (tax fine)
You got CLAP CLAP liquidated
You got CLAP CLAP liquidated
You got CLAP CLAP liquidated
And Rangers die ie ie ie ied
Other companies may try to take me away (take me away)
But you know, it’s Sevco
I’ll stay
All of our lives now (all of our lives)
Till the end of time (end of time)
Because the fact is (the fact is)
We let our club die (our club die)
You got CLAP CLAP liquidated
You got CLAP CLAP liquidated
You got CLAP CLAP liquidated
And Rangers die ie ie ie ied
You got CLAP CLAP liquidated
You got CLAP CLAP liquidated
You got CLAP CLAP liquidated
And Rangers die ie ie ie ied
Whoa-whoa-whoa-whoa-whoa-whoa
NEGANON2
How’s the boycott coming on mate, still in the planning stages, I can recommend a good Project Manager if it’s all too much for you on your own…
Hai Hai
TD67-12:13pm, ffs take a day af
JOBO BALDIE on 22ND DECEMBER 2016 6:32 PM
Right, heading along to Confession – ‘na get yies ent’in’?
Can ye get me 4 Hail Mary’s, 2 Our fathers n’ …oh aye! ye better throw in a coupla Glory be to the Father’s.
N’ that’s jist fur last week mind. Tell father I’ll settle up for the rest later _))
FAIRHILL BHOY on 22ND DECEMBER 2016 6:51 PM
Favourite Uncle-9:57am today,why must Scott no be allowed to speak the truth
you don’tt tell rabid huns to BRING IT ON AH CAN TAKE IT ,because know what,they will.
NEGANON2 wins again, now talking about him (again) instead of the good work done by the Celtic Foundation…aff oot as another rocket is known to say…
Tony there’s so many things you say I agree with,it’s just your bloody wording:-))))))))
TONYDONNELLY67 on 22ND DECEMBER 2016 2:16 PM
M6BHOY on 22ND DECEMBER 2016 1:57 PM
The £200,000 plus donation is a fantastic effort. Just think how much better it could have been if the club had been given rightful access to the CL instead of the cheats. The club might have been able to donate even more to charity from the CL money.
If the board refuse to pursue Res 12 (and this seems increasingly the case) then it confirms that the club has become nothing more than the green half of the Old Firm/Glasgow Derby brand. This is turns means that those who financially support the club are by default, also supporters of this tainted brand. Some will deny this as supporting the team/club is a drug/way of life to them but deep down we all know it to be true.
Uni musta shut early this week for the holidays?
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You certainly have a downer on Uni students.
Don’t forget however, when you’ve finally lost all of your marbles (and not just some) and are wearing those special adult nappies, it’ll be the taxes paid by the current uni generation and their peers that will fund the health and social care you receive. Perhaps, you should carry a special card informing everyone that you you never wish to be treated or looked after by ex-students or anyone else who’s gone through the education system.
In the meantime you keep pumping your dollars into the Old Firm life support machine.
TOBAGO STREET, SANDMAN and FAIRHILL BHOY:
Personal insult and language…a point can be made without personal attacks and or language.
Great work by the Foundation. Congrats to everyone involved, as well as the Celtic board and Paul67 for the great work they do for charity all year round.
Merry Xmas!
Fair play to Radio Clyde for running a wee interview with Tony Hamilton about the £220K raised by the Foundation.