Category: Archive

This year’s RS50 event, held on Sunday 21^st August, was the 21^st since the first one in 2002

The numbers taking part continue to increase each year and a record 800 cyclists had entered beforehand. On the day 610 took part in the 50 mile route and 207 over the 15 miles.

The weather was favourable and everyone completed their routes. There were many favourable comments from the cyclists about the organisation of the event and especially about the usual excellent refreshments at the various locations.

A record sum of over £15,000 was raised and once again Health Help International received a very generous donation of £6000. This brings the total amount received by HHI from the RS50 events since 2002 to just over £60,000  

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In a new venture for SFHHI we will be hosting a Café Bridge event in Strathaven on Wednesday 7^th June. This will be a fun day for all bridge players and we are hoping to attract approximately 80 people to the town from all over the UK.  The bridge will be a very sociable game and will involve moving from one café to the next after every 4 hands, with lunch included at one of the stops. If you play bridge at home, or in a club, please come along and play. If you don’t play, please pass on the information to all the bridge players that you know. The day will start and finish at Avendale Church where a raffle will be drawn and prizes awarded. As ever we hope you will support in whatever way you can and please spread the word.

More information and registration for the event can be found here 

or phone Kath on 07916 171 830

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After an absence of two years due to the restrictions of Covid, Edmund Plummer, Chair of HHI, was able to resume his annual visit to India at the beginning of 2022 when he spent two weeks catching up on all the projects and organisations supported by HHI in Kerala and Tamil Nadu. Later in the year he joined Alun and Jute Williams on their return visit to Zambia to see all of the activities being supported by HHI there. 

Interesting reports on both these visits as well as photographs can be seen on the HHI website. 

This year’s event, the 21^st RS50 since it started in 2002 was held on 21st August and was one of the most successful to date. Around 550 cyclists of all ages took part over either the 15 or 50 miles routes and the excellent sum of over £12,000 was raised. Many cyclists donated more than the £22 entry fee towards the good causes which the RS50 supports, including Health Help International. This year the Charity received the generous donation of £6,000.

This will be put towards the fund which HHI has established for the purchase of a new Autoclave machine for the Monze Mission Hospital in Zambia. These sterilising machines are essential to the safe running of the hospital and the present machines are nearing the end of their useful life. 

After an absence of two years due to the restrictions of Covid the Strathaven Friends of HHI were able to hold their annual fund raising Bridge Drive in aid of  Health Help International last Saturday.

It was well supported with fifty players from The Strathaven and Hamilton Bridge Clubs taking part. The support of the Hamilton members was particularly appreciated by the SFHHI committee. 

Thanks are due to the Board of the Avondale Church which was the venue for the occasion and which provided most comfortable and congenial surroundings and excellent facilities. 

The players were fortified for the afternoon’s play by an excellent light lunch provide beforehand by Ian Gow and his helpers.

The successful winners of the bridge were Hamilton visitors Margaret MacFarlane and partner Janet Love and the Strathaven Club’s Margery and Harry Menzies.

The lucky winner of the impressive HHI cake generously donated by Alexander Taylors was Mrs Isobel Calderhead, pictured receiving it from committee member Helen Baird

The excellent sum of just over £1270 was raised for Health Help International to help its efforts towards the purchase of a much needed new Autoclave Machine for the Monze Mission Hospital in Zambia.