Fundraising for Charity
What We Do For Charity
Charitable causes are extremely important to McCrea as we recognise that we have the opportunity to be able to give something back as well as being able to help raise the profile of our nominated charities - they can also benefit from the generous fundraising efforts of our clients, staff and friends. In recent years we have raised over £700,000 for our nominated charities, and we don't intend to stop now!
We were delighted to announce that our nominated charity partners for the 2024/25 fundraising year are Revive MS Support and the Glasgow Children's Hospital Charity.
Celebrating our 25th birthday in May 2024, McCrea have set the very ambitious goal of raising £25,000 for each Charity Partner this year, meaning a total fundraising target of £50,000!
Our sold-out 14th Annual Charity Golf Day on the 25th April at the Fairmont St Andrews teed-off our new year of fundraising, which raised just over £8,100! Congratulations to team Fairway to Heaven who finished in first place and took home our winners trophies, as well as a fourball to the prestigious Royal Dornoch Golf Club! You can read more about the day here.
McCrea adviser Jonathan Campbell undertook the 53-mile Highland Fling Ultra Marathon on Saturday 27th April, which saw him run through Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park to raise funds for our charity partners. Jonathan finished the race with a time of 11 hours, 28 minutes and 57 seconds, raising over £4,000 in the process; a monumental effort by Jonathan!
On the subject of marathons, Head of Marketing Ross McCrea completed his own unique ‘Golf 25 Marathon’ Charity Challenge on Tuesday 28th May, where he played a hole of golf at 25 different courses in and around St Andrews – the Home of Golf – in one day. Ross teed-off at Carnoustie Links Golf Course at 6.21am and putted to finish the day at Dunfermline Golf Club at 9:21pm, taking him exactly 15 hours which helped raise £2,512!
Managing Director Douglas McCrea hobbled around the 65km Clyde Walkway for his 'Stage 1: Pre-Op' 15th Annual Charity Walk in August, one month before his hip replacement operation on 24th September! Douglas was ecstatic to raise an incredible £5,622 from the walk; you can find out how he got on by reading his daily blog here.
McCrea advisors Ryan Watt and Michael Macadam both participated in the Great Scottish Run half-marathon on Sunday 6th October around Glasgow, and managed to finish the 21 kilometre race in under 2 hours, raising £2,531 in the process!
We were delighted to host our Annual Charity Dinner and Wine Tasting evening at Maison by Glaschu on Friday 25th October! The evening consisted of a drinks reception with canapes, a delicious French themed three-course meal with matching wines, a performance from one of Scotland's best magicians Billy Reid, and a Charity Auction and Raffle to help us raise funds for our charities, where our guests helped us to raise £7,957!
Our Annual Charity Race Night will return in early 2025, which is always a great night filled with laughter consisting of a very busy bar, horse racing, a delicious curry and a charity raffle and auction. The lucky winners of our Auction Race in 2024 walked away with £1,875, so be sure not to miss out on next years event!
Many others in the McCrea team plan to get involved in local challenges and events to support our two new charities over the fundraising year, and we will update regularly on our plans via our website, social media pages, and mailouts.
If you like to support us in our fundraising attempts by making a donation via Just Giving, you can find our Revive MS Support Just Giving Page here, and our Glasgow Children's Hospital Charity Just Giving page here.
Supporting Revive MS Support and the Glasgow Children's Hospital Charity
Why we've chosen to support Revive MS Support and The Glasgow Children's Hospital Charity
We are delighted to be able to support two local charities in Glasgow for our 2024/25 fundraising year.
Revive MS Support are a local charity in Glasgow who provide nationwide support for people affected by Multiple Sclerosis by helping them manage the physical, emotional, social and financial impacts that come with a diagnosis. Anyone affected by MS can use their services, and can be referred by a health or social care professional or self-refer. The charity are based in Govan and are celebrating their 40th year anniversary in May 2024! McCrea were introduced to Revive MS Support through Partick Thistle midfielder Ben Stanway; find out Ben's link to the charity here.
The Glasgow Children’s Hospital Charity help to provide the best possible care for young patients at Scotland’s largest children’s hospital by funding life-changing equipment, support services and research. The charity fundraise to ensure that every baby, child and young person treated at Scotland's largest children's hospital receives the extra special care they deserve. Glasgow Warriors and Scotland International centre Stafford McDowall chose the Glasgow Children's Hospital Charity for his Warrior of the Month winner donation from McCrea in November 2023, and was delighted to hear the news that we had chosen the charity as one of our charity partners; find out more here.
We are delighted to be able to support these two brilliant causes and look forward to raising as much money and awareness as possible over the coming months!
