Scarcely a week goes by without me asking you to support Mary’s Meals. This year, every school day, over 5,000 kids in Malawi or Liberia ate a meal paid for by CQN’ers, or ate in a school kitchen built by the money you raised.
By now, you know as well as I do, the impact this has. School attendance increased by an average of 30% where these meals were provided, as kids don’t need to work for their food. They are educated, learning skills, which will provide life-long improvements in earning capacity and opportunities.
Being better nourished also makes them healthier; mortality rates will improve as fewer succumb to the afflictions of extreme poverty. All because you donated a few pounds here and there.
Alzheimer Scotland were in touch after you raised an incredible sum for them after we learned of Billy McNeill’s condition:
“Thank you so much for supporting the work of Alzheimer Scotland by raising £3264.37 through your BT MyDonate page “Celtic fans for Alzheimer Scotland”.
Dementia is a major health and social care challenge in Scotland and there are currently over 90,000 people with dementia, a number that is expected to double within the next 25 years.
Our work includes:
• Provide our network of Dementia Advisors across Scotland to support people with dementia, their families and carers and work with local communities to make them more dementia-friendly.
• Support funding Dementia Nurses post in every health board in Scotland to lead vital improvements in dementia care.
• Provide our freephone 24-hour Dementia Helpline (0808 808 3000)
• Fund the Alzheimer Scotland Dementia Research Centre in partnership with the University of Edinburgh
• Campaign for the rights of people with dementia
Best wishes and thank you again for your fundraising support we really do appreciate it.
Gillian Dimmock, Fundraising Support Officer.”
For 13 years we have held the CQN Charity Golf Day in Aberdour, the summer focus of our fundraising. This year, CelticRollerCoaster wrote on behalf of the Walk with Shay campaign, who received £1300 from the CQN Golf Day. Shay (4) suffers from Cerebral Palsy and will need help, not available on the NHS, to sit, walk and lead as normal a life as most of us take for granted:
“Thank you for the fantastic £1300 raised at the CQN Golf Day and for the thousands more CQN’ers contributed to Walk for Shay throughout the year. The great news is that Shay’s development has really benefited. The impact you have made on one small boy is incalculable.”
After receiving a donation from the Golf Day, The Celtic FC Foundation wrote:
“Thank you so much for the wonderful donation of £1,100.00 which has been allocated to our 2017 Christmas Appeal.
“The Appeal reflects the very heart of the Club’s charitable and humble beginnings as it aims to follow in the footsteps of Brother Walfrid, providing comfort to those on our doorstep.
“This year, we want to help around 300 local families facing poverty, to provide a meal on the table and gifts for the kids. We want to bring the magic of Christmas to those homes. We are also looking to help vulnerable local pensioners to ease the financial burden at a challenging time of year plus a number of other local charities who support those experiencing homelessness or other disadvantage.
“The generosity and compassion of the Celtic Family is unique and unsurpassed and CQN’s gesture is a perfect example of that.
“Please pass on our thanks for Sharing the Spirit of Celtic this Christmas to all those involved.”
The Celtic FC Foundation is now an integral part of being a Celtic supporter. You did not just contribute at the Golf Day, on dozens of occasions throughout the year, you answered the call to get involved. Last week, we learned it wasn’t just 300 families who benefited from the Spirit of Celtic, Christmas campaign:
435 families in Glasgow and Lanarkshire in poverty and hardship were assisted. Aid also went to vulnerable pensioners in the city, hundreds of our homeless, vulnerable women and men, while gifts were given to the chronically sick children in our community. The Foundation reached those in need in London, Ireland and as far as Canada.
Being able to invest the emotional energy into supporting a football team is more than many in our communities can manage, as all their energies go towards survival. But this is how the Celtic Story began, among the destitute and hungry. How lucky we are to be anchored to this football club, to these values.
You did all of this and more in 2017. It is humbling to see so many great people do so much, so often. You are a constant inspiration. Thank you.
Have a peaceful and loving Christmas.
NEW CQN PODCAST OUT NOW! CHRISTMAS JUMPERS FOR GOALPOSTS
Paul John Dykes and Kevin Graham are joined by Celtic authors, Stephen Sullivan and Stevie Murray for a special festive episode – Christmas Jumpers for Goal-Posts.
Stephen Sullivan is a former Celtic View reporter who wrote the much-lauded Sean Fallon biography, ‘Iron Man’. He is now the editor of FIFA.com.
Stevie Murray has now written two books on Celtic – ‘Ten Men Won The League’ and ‘Kenny of the Celtic’ – and he is a respected and authoritative voice on the club.
Treat yourself to a signed copy of Jim Craig – Right Back to 67 and you will receive a copy of That Season on Paradise signed by Bertie Auld, just order the Jim Craig book at CQNbookstore.co.uk and we’ll do the rest…
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oops…multitasking…Struggling to think,
Nollaig faoi shéan agus faoi mhaise daoibh go léir.
Hoopy Christmas one and all.
Paul67 etal.
I’d like to wish everyone that post on CQN a very Merry Christmas and a happy New Year when it arrives.
Had a call from Zbyzek last night and as he wont be on the blog, he would like to wish everyone on here, a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
JNP- It’s obvious a hurting hun or 2 are feeding Sky Sports with BS…..HH
A Christmas conundrum ……do I open the “Invincible ” gin ? :O(
Bah Humbug, can’f find Elf on any channels…
I could be wrong but am sure Sky & Talksport have an Ulster influence behind the scenes
Radio Scotland & Clyde just play to their audience
I wish them all the best of luck as they need it more than us
Celtic is our way of life and it’s magic
:-)
Jmccormick if lurking my sister has just dropped off desert, home made Carmel-cake cheesecake, it looks tremendous probably not the best for the waistline but can worry about that another time
VOGUEPUNTER
Let me know what you decide and I’ll follow your lead.
KEEP THE FAITH
VOGUEPUNTER.
Conundrum solved, get the Gin down your throat, you’ll see Christmas in a different light.
Merry Christmas to all at CQN
Hail Hail to the champions
Happy holy Christmas one n all HH
Merry Christmas to Paul67 and all posters on CQN
Hail Hail
Merry Christmas to all.
I’ve made some special friends on here through the years and I’m sure I’ll make a lot more. Hail Hail to one and all.
Nollaig Chridheil gu sibh uile – hope you all have a lovely day
Venite adoremus Dominum
Merry Christmas all especially those in need.
Going out for dinner today so no cooking or tidying up.
Happy daysCSC
merry christmas to all and a big ‘man hug’ to all
Gerryfaethebrig,I agree,about the Ulster connection,on Sky Sports ,there is about 5 of them on Sky Sports News,if you include Jim White,that’s about 6, I switch over to B T Sports,for all Football Story’s,
Jimbob 3.13pm
Jim White now has a gig on Talksport as well every weekday 10am-1pm
Their pain is much enjoyable :-)
I have said many times on here,there is a big Rangers Connection operating on Sky Sports,I would like to know who they are,and tell them what I think of them,so has any C Q N s on here know who they are,
Best wishes to all CQN’ers on Christmas Day!
Hope you are all having a great day!
HH
JIMBOB
They don’t need to be named.
Their lives are a misery because Celtic winning everything (in Scotland), making loads of money, signing more great players, gifting more money to charities, being brilliantly managed…………..
I could go on.
Just enjoy being a Tim.
Merry Christmas!
The ole Trigger’s Broom scene jusr been on Only Fools…;))
Merry Christmas to the worldwide Celtic family. Happy days.
Jimbob – Philboy is right. Just enjoy but, for info, it is a historical thing at sky that probably started with Andy Melvin.
He rose from Glasgow hack to deputy MD in charge of football at Sky Sports ( think he might have retired now? ).
Anyway, the story goes Motherwell were his team but he had a soft spot for Oldco and no love at all for Celtic.
Hail hail
From a once a month poster but a five times a day reader I would like to wish everyone on CQN a very Happy Christmas From lurking huns and dissalutioned negative posters, those who like attention and those that post nonsense to the interesting and knowledgeable the humorous and cynical the charitable and the religious But most of all to Paul 67. Paul I sometimes think you talk rubbish I often think you are the voice of reason. The reality is you represent the best Celtic blog in the universe without you we have no reason to go on the internet. Thank you. Have a brilliant Christmas
Finally if I may also wish your “lucky” wife and family a wonderful Christmas and thank them for allowing you the time and space to create a Celtic community
Back to Basics,you are right about Melvin,a bluenose,of the highest order,Went to Sky,and hey presto,when they start showing live Football, another bluenose,co ,commentator,in Andy Gray,so at the start of Sky Sports,them bluenoses,have been there from the beginning, anyway,A Very Merry Christmas,to all C Q N s,all over the globe,3_0 to the Bhoys tomorrow,up in Dundee.
Dembele – this is Sky, White, Traynor nonsenses
I don’t pay a subscription
If you do – send them a cancellation as a Christmas gift
Hail hail
the only newspapermen in scotland to give celtic any credit were the mcillvaney brothers.
67 ECW 4.27pm
Well said, I concur wholeheartedly:-)
Hoping that all at CQN, Paul67, Winning Captains, mods, posters, lurkers and everybody in between, are having a great day today with their families and nearest and dearest.
Family is everything of course, but it makes everything a whole lot rosier when the team we all love is in such good shape, creating extraordinary feats that people will still be talking about in 100 years, and striving to play ‘pure, beautiful, inventive football’ – and succeeding.
So I also hope Brendan, the players, and all the staff from Peter Lawwell to the car park attendants, have a happy Christmas Day – especially the players, who have made this Christmas an extremely happy one for this Tim!
HH
BIG PACKY on 25TH DECEMBER 2017 4:49 PM
Ian Archer was a great writer who had no time for the banana-republic sectarian status quo in Scotland.
He was told many times that if he wanted any kind of career progression he should move to England. He stayed, and got sidelined.
If you didn’t toe the line, that was what happened. Which was why the likes of McIlvanney, McKenna and Kevin McCarra and others left Scotland. And why the sports Press in Scotland has a history of being supine, corrupt and largely talentless.
It’s not called Scotland’s Shame for nothing.
GREENINBINGLEYINOSLO hi fellow tim. forgot about those guys. what a disgrace you have got to leave the country you were born in to get a job.hh.
A merry Christmas and God Bless all Celtic supporters throughout the World this blessed day. H.H.
Celtic Invincibles coming on Sky 403
https://stv.tv/news/east-central/1405163-haggis-and-black-pudding-recalled-over-botulism-concerns/
Public Service CSC
Expect lots of negative stories in scottish press about Celtic and lots of positive stories about the hun team this week in lead up to our demolition of an upstart new club in Scotland with very many obnoxious and bigoted previous supporters of a now dead club.
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A Philvis-style Thumbs-Up to you for that,and a very large
HH.
GREENINBINGLEYINOSLO
I’d love to know your background in newspapers,you clearly know your stuff. Shameful to see how good men,real professionals,were battered into submission because they refused to toe the line.
The worst,I think,was when Graham Spiers did a critical article about Murray,c2004. He called a press conference and told the supporters of his club to boycott The Glasgow Herald while they still employed him.
Not one of his so-called colleagues backed Spiers. They dutifully reported the call to arms. That,frankly,sickened me.
I’ll weep no tears for their demise.
BMCUWP
Hope you have had a smashing day, I like Spiers and think at times he is embarrassed about the reporting of the Klub he supported as a boy
Journalism up here is non-exaistent the papers & radio play to their audience…. I love it, radio Clyde is unmissable for me, their pain is plain to see (& hear :-)