Spina Bifida Hydrocephalus Scotland

🌟We are currently recruiting and are looking for a Community Fundraiser to join our amazing fundraising team!🌟 ⏰This job is available on either a full time (35 hours) or part time (28 hours) basis. Each year, we aim to raise over £100,000 through Community Fundraising to support our essential services. Your mission will be to generate income by engaging with businesses, community groups, third-party challenge events, and volunteer-led fundraising efforts across the Central Belt of Scotland (including Edinburgh and Glasgow). This is an exciting and creative role, working as part of a dedicated and supportive team. 🤝💜 SBH Scotland offers flexible working, including the opportunity to work from home or around caring responsibilities. To find out more about this role, go to: https://lnkd.in/eDJgdpWd

The people huv tae know!!! “We're delighted to be back with Spina Bifida Hydrocephalus Scotland for A Question Of Burns after 12 years!! 12 years…..Mark was in his very late 30’s then. Incredible. Both of us still needed make up to play pensioners! It was a brilliant night then and will be this year also for sure. Let's raise lots of money for a wonderful charity while we salute the Bard!” 📺Still Game's Jane McCarry and Mark Cox will be entertaining guests at our next 'A Question of Burns' event on Thursday 23rd January 2025. This is an exceptional corporate night of entertainment honoring our national bard, Robert Burns. Along with rugby legend Andy Nicol you do not want to miss this comedy duo who wowed our crowds when they last performed with us. We can't wait to see them again 💟 🥃 Book your tickets now at https://lnkd.in/emcmW5t or contact fundraising@sbhscotland.org.uk for further details.

THE Spiney the Diney Challenge has begun!!! From 25th October until the end of November our CEO, Lawrence Cowan, has challenged you all to sponsor him - please! 💟 For every £100 he raises he will dress as Spiney the Diney for a day! YES, that means he'll be going to meetings, travelling on the train and walking his kids to school all dressed as our favourite dinosaur mascot🦖🦖🦖 To sponsor Lawrence head on over to his JustGiving page https://lnkd.in/ehPwzsK2 🗣️Lawrence says, "The reason I’m doing this is to make sure that SBH Scotland’s vital services are still here next year. Getting funding is extremely difficult just now and we need your help. SBH Scotland helps people with complex disabilities feel unstoppable. From the very moment they are born kids with spina bifida and hydrocephalus have to fight. Before their first proper snuggles with mum they get taken away for surgery. As they grow up, they have to fight to be heard, understood and respected. SBH Scotland offers support and spaces where they can be themselves. Where they can be proud of who they are. Where parents can just be parents for a moment."

🌍It's World Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus Day and we celebrate in raising awareness for these complex disabilities which affect so many across the globe. Our Chairperson, Dr Margo Whiteford was happy to be representing Spina Bifida Hydrocephalus Scotland at the 30th International Conference which is now underway in Kuala Lumpur organised by the International Federation for Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus . 🗣️Margo says, "Around 300 people from 21 countries are attending the conference and there is an impressive line up of expert speakers from all over the world. Yesterday there were updates from 12 different Spina Bifida organisations including SBH Scotland, a very interesting session on genetics and in the afternoon there were sessions on prenatal surgery for Spina Bifida and the optimum obstetric care for women with Spina Bifida during pregnancy. It was also a great opportunity to meet up with old friends and make new friends from the worldwide SBH community!" We look forward to hearing more about it from Margo when she gets back and in the meantime thank all of those showing their support for SBH Scotland and the families we support.

We are only days away from World Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus Day on Friday 25 October! This year the International Federation for Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus will celebrate from Malaysia, where they will host the 30th International Conference on Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus! SBH Scotland's Chairperson, Dr Margo Whiteford CBE is going over there to represent us and she will be presenting during the day. If you can't make it to Malaysia, don't worry! You can register for their conference webinar here... 👉 https://lnkd.in/gw9q224d

The ultimate corporate Burns Supper with a twist, A Question of Burns, is back for 2025! Hosted by rugby legend, Andy Nicol, the evening will include a delicious 3 course meal and outstanding performances from BAFTA award winning Jane McCarry and Mark Cox (Still Game’s Isa and Tam) and Aberdonian actress, Joyce Falconer. Join us for a night of celebration, networking, and entertainment that your guests will never forget.

🕸️Things are starting to get a bit spooky around here! And after 2 Halloween parties in one weekend our amazing support team thought someone had definitely cast an exhaustion spell on them 😂 Our children and young people however remained as unstoppable as ever - movies, mess, food and plenty of hocus pocus. 💟Thank you to each and everyone of you who continues to donate to SBH Scotland - you're ensuring family groups and youth groups like these can continue and that's a special type of magic all on it's own.

⏱There's still time to apply for the role of Community Fundraiser! The deadline for applications is Friday 18th October at 5pm⏱ 🌟Our new Community Fundraiser will be joining our amazing fundraising team, working to help disabled people feel unstoppable. With this exciting and creative creative role, you'll be right at the heart of our team’s efforts to make sure no one affected by spina bifida or hydrocephalus feels alone. 💜 We offer flexible working within a supportive working environment to enable you to develop and fulfil your potential. Apply now: 🔗https://lnkd.in/eDJgdpWd #Recruitment #FundraisingJobs #charityjobsscotland #JobsScotland #Hiring #MakeADifference

☕🍰Looking for harmony in the workplace. What better way than by getting people together over coffee and cake! 🌍On Friday 25th October 2024 - World Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus Day - we're asking companies to host a COFFEE MORNING to help raise awareness of SBH Scotland. By holding a Coffee Morning for SBH Scotland you are not only raising awareness and donations, you'll be ensuring children and families can get dedicated support at times they need it the most. Contact us today and we'll get a Coffee Morning Pack sent out to you with all the top tips you'll need to make your event a success. Email fundraising@sbhscotland.org.uk or comment below and we'll be in touch.

Hold on to your hats! 🤠 We raised the roof at our Ladies Lunch on Sunday, and raised a whopping £30,000! 👏 It was SO MUCH FUN! 🤩💃🍽🥂🎼 Thank you to everyone who joined us at The Hilton Glasgow for a fabulous afternoon of food, fizz, fun and games! Hosted by the amazing Edward Reid, this year's country and western themed lunch offered plenty of excitement with live entertainment from the Theatre School of Scotland, music by emerging country music singer Erin Ponsonby and line-dancing guests stars from Maggies Rock N Rodeo! 🎤 🕺 We want to thank our sponsors Allied Surveyors Scotland and Make Believe Events for their support. One lucky lady took home a beautiful diamond necklace worth £2,995 after a Diamond Draw, kindly sponsored by Chisholm Hunter 💎. Thank you to Porrelli for providing the delicious ice cream our guests enjoyed for dessert 🍨 🤤. We also want to say a big thank you to Melanie Chambers for sharing her experience of having a daughter with spina bifida and hydrocephalus. Melanie spoke from the heart about what the charity has meant to her and husband Cy, and her daughter Ella, now almost 21, joined her at the event. 💜 Deborah Roe, our Director of Fundraising, said: 🗣“Our annual Ladies Lunch is a highly anticipated event, and we work hard to ensure it’s a fabulous, fun-filled affair. “Everyone had a wonderful time while raising much needed funds for SBH Scotland - we were overwhelmed by the generosity of our sponsors and guests! The money raised will enable us to ensure families affected by complex disabilities know they’re not alone in coping. Our specialist services include financial support, health check clinics, counselling and support groups and each year we need to raise £1.4 million to make sure they continue. “We rely heavily on fundraising to reach our annual targets and events such as the Ladies Lunch are crucial to make sure we can continue to be there for families when they need us most. We’re incredibly grateful to all our generous sponsors and everyone who attended and donated.”