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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Hello this is WEE BGFC. Thanks teuchter! Hope you had a great day yesterday and another one today. :)
HH
WEE BGFC
Came out of the gym at 8am , freezing fog was pretty dense but it seems to be clearing up in darkest Lanarkshire. No word of any snow on Dundee, so me and the lhad will be heading off shortly. Looking forward to the match, as long as the pitch does not resemble Tynecastle last week, we should be okay.
Take care everyone, the polis will be in full-on alert , any Celtic fan who farts loudly could be in trouble.
HH
COYBIG.
Safe journey to all travelling to the game.
A nice wee personalised E mail Christmas greeting yesterday from Celtic. Fans of other teams were amazed .It’s small things like this that helps connects fans to club.
HH.
Ps : Big Jimmy ,Get well soon .
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The wee hun rat from Sevco TV, oh my aching sides
Good morning from a clear bright north staffs
Hope everyone had a blessed Christmas day
Wonderful day yesterday with the family – gifts included a range of Celtic items
Happy birthday to Stevie Chalmers
Suppose I better get up :-)
THELURKINTIM 720
That,mate,was priceless. And I know why you mean!
OR EVEN WHAT YOU MEAN…
BIGJIMMY
You’ve not been 100% for long enough. Get yerself to the doc ASAP. There’s a good lad.
Good morning, friends. Ssshhhhhhhh ;-)
Good evening from Kuala Lumpur. Just about to head over to Sebastian’s Venezuelan Bar, courtesy of TTT‘s input, to watch the game. COYBIG
kualalumpurcsc
Happy St Stephen’s Day,fresh as a daisy this morning due to me
being the designated driver yesterday……..watching Celtic, betting
on the horses, and drinking crystal skull vodka…….I love Boxing Day.
It’s a very white ML5 and a very snowy looking sky
Celtic on Boxing Day is good stuff, a number of years ago am sure we were playing at tannadice when i first heard the song
“Tell all the Huns you know that they’ll never sell Ricksen or Flo”
£16m or so they paid for them, cheating bams :-)
Enjoy these good times fellow Celts
Spare ticket for anyone interested folks.
Ps just don’t tell Peter :-)
***Goals Galore 3-your invitation***
Good morning folks and I hope you all had a very pleasant Christmas Day
Welcome to the launch of our brand new competition, “Goals Galore 3” which will commence this Saturday 30th December
Simply pick a different team each week over the course of the next 10 chosen “fixtures weeks” and the entrant with the highest aggregrate goals scored will take the top prize (roughly 90% of the total prizepot). To keep everyone fully involved, there will be a separate prize (about 10% of the total prize money) for the entrant who does best over the final 3 rounds. So even if you get off to a disappointing start, there’ll still be everything to play for as the weeks go on.
The cost of entry is £10 per team entered and this gets you one free joker which, when played, will double your score that week. You can also buy one additional joker for £5.
The prizepot will consist of 50% of the entry and joker fee, with 50% going to support BRTH Mary’s Meals funding to feed and educate schoolkids in LIberia,
Thanks to an initiative from Mary’s Meals, donations made to the charity before 31st December will count double in value, hence our early start date.
Really, really simple to take part and all you need to do for now is just register your interest by sending an email to cqnpredictor@gmail.com . If you have a moniker, nickname that we can use to identify you once the competition starts then please tell us that. We’ll get back to you with full details asap.
Please feel free to tell your family and friends, share on Facebook, involve your work colleagues, etc. We are a competition Open to All.
HH
CRC
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO STEVIE CHALMERS !!!
Hello this is WEE BGFC. Me and Da left snow-laden Plains on the way to Dundee. On the m80, misty misty mist mist. More excited about this than Christmas! :D
HH
WEE BGFC
Ticket gone.
Merry Christmas fellow Tims.
If Dembele wants to go Brighton I will drive him to the airport myself..
Old ones are the best
Ps.do they have airports in Brighton?
PPS. I know its fake news
Morning all,
Hope there aren’t too many hangovers this morning :-)
Not much help for our travellers, i know, but 60 miles up the road from Hundee, it’s bright and sunny in the city of sheep. No sign of snow, or ice here, so east coast looks like it’s snow-free. Where’s Friesdorfer with the local weather report when you need him :-)
Sky “sports” still have the Dembele non-story in their trending list, claiming only that Brighton and Celtic are in talks over Dembele now. Talk about clutching at straws. I knew as soon as i heard yestrdays “news” that an 18m deal had been agreed that it was bullshot.
Firstly, 18m. Laughable for a player who’d been quoted as being worth north of 30m just a couple of months ago.
Secondly, Celtic would never accept the very first bid from a cash bloated EPL side, especially minnows like Brighton.
Thirdly, Brightom ??? Relegation candidates, no chance of European football, perhaps ever, and we are to believe that Moussa would even entertain playing there for a team who could never match his ambition, especially when we’re sick of hearing about how Arsenal, Liverpool, Chelsea, etc. have all been watching the big guy.
This was a blatant attempt to unsettle one of our players with “fake news”. Who are we due to play on Saturday ?
How much are they hurting right now :-))))
Anyway. Safe travel to all the Bhoys and Ghirls heading north’ish today, and good luck to the team, as they look to extend the latest invincible run. Finding it hard to see anything other than a win, but hope no-one is taking anything for granted.
Big Jimmy.
Barca won 3.0
Look after yourself.
Hail Hail
Belated Seasonal Gretings to all the CQN’ers. And for those offshore / working away face home – you have my sympathy.
Horse tip for today – 3:40 Kempton. Doesyourdogbite – rumoured to have been prepared specifically for this one. Was a 22s, now at 12s and falling. Still a decent e/w bet.
Big Jimmy
knew I was going to do something , then I saw JNP’s post.
Scorers V Aberdeen were Lustig, Hayes and Ntcham.
Merry Christmas
Awa’ and see a doc :-)
Starting line up …
Gordon ; Lustig Boyata Ajer Tierney ; Brown Ntcham ; Hayes McGregor Forrest ; Griffiths
Subs: De Vries Simunovic Bitton Armstrong Edouard Dembele Edouard
Edouard is keen .. wants to have 2 seats on bench – oops
Gordon
Lustig
Boyata
Ajer ;))
Tierney
Broonstigator
Oli
McGregor
Heres Jonny
Wee Jamesie
Griffalinho
…………………………………..
Goals galore.
Weebiggeorge 10.34am
Enjoy the game, love your Celtic attitude
Hail Hail :-)
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TEAM…
Sinky rested????
Or is he aff to Brighton as well.
Ho HO HO
Where is Bognor bhoy with live updates☘️☘️ ?
For Big Jimmy….,.,,
Celtic moved eight points clear at the top of the Ladbrokes Premiership with a 3-0 home win over closest challengers Aberdeen. Mikael Lustig, Jonny Hayes and Olivier Ntcham scored the goals for Brendan Rodgers’ side. Kilmarnock climbed into the top six after coming from behind to beat Rangers 2-1 at Rugby Park with a Kris Boyd double. Oli Shaw netted the winner as Hibernian defeated Ross County 2-1 at Easter Road – a result that dropped the Staggies to the foot of the table. Partick Thistle moved off the bottom after beating Hamilton Accies 1-0 at The Energy Check Stadium at Firhill. Motherwell and Dundee drew 1-1 at Fir Park and it finished 0-0 between Hearts and St Johnstone at McDiarmid Park.
HH
Rosie Webster is expecting so maybe Sincy got a Christmas Pass.
The way our season is almost continuous with European Qualifiers coming up after Scottish Cup Final it would make sense to give individual players a week or two off on a staggered basis throughout the year.
CorkCelt….
Agree with that mate, I hadn’t heard anything about Sinky picking up an injury, but that goes for nothing I’m usually last to here anything.
H.H
Good morning for a cold but sunny central Éire. I’m delighted to see Griff back in the starting XI. Good strong team out and great to see Brendan keeping the faith with big Kris Ajer.
Mon the Hoops and enjoy the game Bhoys.
HH
Someone let Gerryfaethebrig know Griffs playing he’ll be a happy bhoy. :-) :-) :-)
H.H
50 Shades, Didn’t hear anything re injury myself but the Bhoy could do with a wee break & Jonny could do with a couple of games.
We have a good squad, if we don’t rotate team & give ghuys a chance we could be missing out on gems.
I’m thrilled to see both Jonny & Ajer play today.
50 Shades
I have just bet him to score hattrick :-)
A fool and his money are easily parted
LeighGeeCSC
FFS, bet this morning on Armstrong scoring from outside the box.
Does scoring from the bench count?
Van Dijk to Citeh…. £60m, according to The Telegraph….
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2017/12/25/man-city-closing-60m-deal-virgil-van-dijk/