Blairgowrie & Rattray Hub Magazine - Autumn 21

Blairgowrie & Rattray
Development Trust Ltd
One Voice for the Community News
Dear Reader,
Welcome to the Autumn 2021 Edition of the
Hub Magazine in this wonderful season of
mists and mellow fruitfulness.
We are ever grateful to local resident David
Gow who offers the Trust his beautiful
photographs for our Hub magazine and
website. This one is particularly poignant and
symbolic, displaying all the beauty of autumn
in the image of Jock alongside trees cloaked
in the shades of the season.
The Paper and Digital Hub Magazine
We are delighted once again to publish
this paper copy which will be delivered
through your door by our dedicated delivery
volunteers. There is also an online version on
our website www.brdt.org.uk/hub-magazine
so anyone can read it no matter where they
are.
Spread the word and send the link to friends
or relatives wherever they might be in the
world. It may inspire them to visit our lovely
town one day.
Thank You Stuart Nichol
After two and a half years
in the Chair, Stuart stepped
down at the end of July but
has stayed on as a Trustee
focussing on a range of
partnership projects with
other groups in the town. Stuart supported
and led BRDT through a particularly
challenging period of Covid restrictions and
lockdowns.
Whilst the work of many groups and
volunteers focussed on frontline work that
was vital to keeping vulnerable people safe,
as always, the Trust was quietly beavering
away in the background raising funds and
generating income streams to keep these
projects afloat and operational.
New Chair Teresa
Donaldson
Teresa was delighted to
take over the Chair at the
Board meeting in July and
grateful for the support
and confidence of fellow
Trustees.
With ten years’ experience in the third sector
as an employee and a Board member and a
background in finance and administration,
she is keen to focus on good governance,
procedure and policy. These inputs will
complement the work of her fellow Trustees
who are concentrating on project delivery,
partnership working and other key initiatives.
Teresa is ardently in favour of community
cohesion and believes that the residents
of a community should be involved in the
development of their own place. She is very
much looking forward to supporting BRDT
going forward.
New Faces – Karen Hicks
We are very pleased to
welcome our very skilled
and experienced Finance
Officer, Karen Hicks who
lives in Alyth.
Karen moved here with her Scottish partner
in March 2019, to a Victorian cottage in Alyth.
In the midst of renovating their new home,
it burnt to the ground in February 2020 and
then Covid hit the world. Tough cookies…
they bounced back and moved to a beautiful
farm where they walk their gorgeous dog Alf
and sometimes the cats come too… why not?
Alf is a complete star…winning the ‘Most
Appealing Eyes’ competition at the Alyth
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