Gyle Shopping Centre, Edinburgh

Currie Balerno Rotary Club

On behalf of Currie Balerno Rorary Club, thanks to everyone who helped raise £5000 for their collection and £3655 from gift wrapping on the run up to Christmas.

Scottish Poppy Appeal 2011

Thanks to the amazing efforts of shoppers and staff, Poppy Scotland raised £5238.66 at Gyle. This will help to make a real difference to the lives of veterans and their families in Scotland.

Hearing Dogs For Deaf People

An amazing £595 was raised by Gyle shoppers for Hearing Dogs For Deaf People. While collecting at the Centre, Hearing Dogs For Deaf People also gave out information to many children with telephone mumbers and names of registered speakers with the Charity who could visit the school along with a dog. This heightens deaf awareness and gives the children an idea of the problems arising out of not hearing and the benefits of a dog.

Multiple Sclerosis Society Scotland

Multiple Scleroris Society Scotland would like to thank everyone who helped them raise £81.57 recently at Gyle.

Currie Balerno Rotary Club

Thanks to your generosity, Currie Balerno Rotary Club raised a fantastic £5184 at Gyle on the build up to Christmas - that's almost £1000 more than you helped them raise last Christmas!.

Taking advantage of their gift wrapping service not only saved you time, but it also helped to raise another £4279, again almost £1000 more than the previous year. Sales of Rotary Cook Books totalled £1870.

This was Currie Balerno Rotary Club's final push to end a year-long effort to raise funds for Multiple Sclerosis. We're delighted to let you know that they will be able to donate over £25,000 to this charity. The bulk of the money raised from the Collection & Wrapping will be donated to their two main charities this year which are CHAS (Children's Cancer Charity) and Leukemia & Lymphoma. The remaining funds will be distributed to local charities including Riding for the Disabled, Seagull Trust, RYLA, Scouts & Guides etc.

Currie Balerno Rotary Club and Gyle Management would like to thank you very much for all your support.

Easter 2010 Winners

Congratulations to Lucy Duff (11) from Morningside in Edinburgh who won more than 2,200 chocolate bars in our Easter competition.

Lucy gave the closest guess to the number of chocolates in our chocolate shop, which was 2,207 - very close! She's sharing her incredible prize with her sister Emma, and you can read all about them in an article from the Edinburgh Evening News.

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Great Daffodil Appeal 2010

Marie Cure Cancer Care would like to thank everyone at Gyle for supporting the Great Daffodil Appeal 2010.

You helped raise an amazing £2,456.34 which will help provide a better quality of life for people with cancer and other illnesses at their Edinburgh hospice and at home in the Lothians.

Playsafe Initiative

Playsafe is an initiative run by Lothian and Borders Police involving 1000 primary school children from 23 local primary schools, and the Gyle Shopping Centre is proud to support it.

The children attend various workstations which provide them with information on how to keep themselves safe in different situations.

As well as inputs from Lothian and Borders Police, there are inputs from:

The Royal National Lifeboats Institution
Lothian and Borders Fire and Rescue Service
British Transport Police
Scottish Ambulance Service

Thank You For Your Donations

We'd like to thank everyone who shopped at Gyle at Christmas and helped raise an amazing amount of money for various charities.

Local school children came in to entertain shoppers with their wonderful carol singing. In the process, they raised £517.28 for Barnardo's.

A team of gift wrappers from Teenage Cancer Trust helped to take the hassle out of wrapping up those Christmas purchases. The charity is better off by £2,500 thanks to their efforts and your donations.

Currie & Balerno Rotary Club also helped with Christmas wrapping, and together with their bucket collection, they raised an amazing £7,633.

Every penny raised by the Gyle Gift Wrappers goes to their respective charities - all expenses are covered by Gyle Management.

As ever, the Gyle Grotto was incredibly popular, raising £10,798,14 for Forth One's "Cash For Kids ".

Also raising much needed funds at Gyle: