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In January 1991 I lost my mother, Elizabeth, to lung cancer. During this difficult time, I became aware of the devastating effect that cancer can have on the patient, their carers and families. With this in mind, I set up the Elizabeth Montgomerie Foundation with the aim of raising funds to provide information and support to those affected by cancer.
I am pleased to announce that the first project the Foundation will fund is the Elizabeth Montgomerie Building in Lanarkshire, a haven where users can go for advice as well as emotional and psychological support. We will develop this Building with Maggie's Cancer Caring Centres, who have built a great reputation in Scotland over the last 10 years or so, and I'm delighted to be working with them to create a new Centre.
What's Happening...
The past two weeks have been very busy for The Elizabeth Montgomerie Foundation. Once again we were the official charity of the Johnnie Walker Championships – which was a busy time for everyone associated with Colin and the Foundation. We had over 30 volunteers over the four days of the tournament and raised almost £5,000 from the public collections – we even got almsot everyone in the media centre to put their hands in their pocket – a rare occurrance!
We also had a number of people who bought pro-am teams which were kindly donated by Diageo and in total we raised almost £30,000 at the Tournament. We are very grateful to all the volunteers, Diageo, Gleneagles Hotel and everyone who donated to the Foundation.
This week Colin is in London to fundraise for the Foundation. His sponsor, Aberdeen Asset Management will be hosting a lunch for the Foundation on Tuesday and in the evening we will be joining England Cricket Captain Andrew Strauss at Lord’s for a fundraising dinner in the Long Room. Colin will also be visiting Maggie’s in London to meet some of the centre users and to talk to them about the Foundation.
In mid September we will be meeting the architect of the Lanarkshire Centre to look at his final designs as we are hoping to start building in early January 2011 and we will all be preparing for the Ryder Cup next month. Colin has now picked his team and at The Elizabeth Montgomerie Foundation we have got a lot pf preparation as the official charity of the Ryder Cup.
August 31, 2010 : Monty’s Maggie’s Appeal Aberdeen.
