Rotary Club of Cowdenbeath
Service Above Self

Hamish Walks for Maggie's Update
Our major fund-raising activity in 2004 was a sponsored walk by Hamish Haggis (!) for the Maggies's Centre in Fife from Saturday 24th April to Saturday 1st May 2004. If you require any information on the sponsored walk, please contact the walk organiser, Graeme Whyte on 07768 911679.

A cheque for £10,000+ has been presented to the Maggie’s Centre in Kirkcaldy.  With some monies still trickling in, the final total, including Gift Aid is expected to be in excess of £10200.

Speaking on Saturday (29th May 2004), organiser, President Graeme Whyte, said he was delighted with all the help and support the Club had received from individuals and organisations such as Fife Constabulary, Fife Fire & Rescue Service, Trinity Church – Cowdenbeath, Fife Council Member Services and the Fife Coast & Countryside Trust as well as Rotarians and many members of the public. Friends and contacts of the solicitors ‘Young & Partners’ raised over £4500 of the total. The Maggie’s Centre is such an important project and we are delighted to have been able to help in this way.

Certificates were handed out to all who walked during the week, thanking them for their support.  This fund-raising total brings the total raised by the Club mascot bear, Hamish Haggis, for various charities, to in excess of $350,000.

From L to R: Walk organiser President Graeme Whyte, Hamish Haggis, Sergeant Michael Collins (Kirkcaldy Community Police Team), Ellie Pattinson (Maggie’s Centre), PC Alex Lees (Kirkcaldy Community Police Team) and Past-President Alan Bauld.

Walk organiser, Graeme Whyte, extends his thanks on behalf of Cowdenbeath Rotary Club to everyone who has sponsored Hamish and helped in anyway.

Hamish Walks for Maggie's Logo - John Whyte 2004.	Hamish Haggis in training for the Fife Coastal Walk with friends from Fife Constabulary, Fife Coast & Countryside Trust, Cowdenbeath Rotary, The Maggie’s Centre and Fife Fire & Rescue.	Hamish posing for the cameras.

Progress Table
Day 1 (Sat 24) - Tay Bridge - Leuchars (Lochgelly High School Pupils)
	Pupils from Lochgelly High School led by Rotarian Gerry Grieve .
Day 2 (Sun 25) - Leuchars - St.Andrews Bay (Rotarians & friends)
The team ready to set-off from Leuchars.	Hamish and friends 'on-guard' at RAF Leuchars.	Hamish carefully navigates the landslip at Kinkell Braes.	The walkers and walk organisers with Hamish at St.Andrews Bay Clubhouse.
Day 3 (Mon 26) - St.Andrews Bay - Crail (Trinity Church, Cowdenbeath)
Idyllic Crail Harbour awaiting the arrival of Hamish.	Here he comes, accompanied by friends from Trinity Church, Cowdenbeath.	Hamish and his companions from Trinity Church, Cowdenbeath, who have become known as the 'St.Trinians'!	'St.Trinians' with Cowdenbeath Rotarian, Joe Rosiejak.
Day 4 (Tue 27) - Crail - Elie (Fife Constabulary)
Hamish and his Police Escort in the form of Officers Alex Lees and Ally Donn, prepare to depart from Crail Harbour.	Arriving in Pittenweem just in time for lunch.	Hamish took time out in St.Monans to help with enquiries... Which way now?	The end of the day and time for a small refreshment at the Ship Inn, Elie. Hamish must avoid a hangover to be fit and well for Day 5.
Day 5 (Wed 28) - Elie - Leven (Young & Partners)
Hamish arrives at McPhail's Bar, North Street, Leven in the company of two major sponsors, Tom Johnston of solicitors, Young & Partners and also Lee Murray of McPhail's Bar.		Is Hamish setting a trend? Two days on the trot in a bar! Will he be able to finish his walk if he is bearly sober?!
Day 6 (Thu 29) - Leven - Kirkcaldy (Fife Fire & Rescue)
Fife Fire & Rescue personnel prepare to depart from Leven with Hamish.	Another well-earned drink for Hamish at the Harbour Bar, Kirkcaldy, in the company of Assistant Fire Master, Forbes Catto.	Fife Fire & Resue and Fife Constabulary prepare to escort Hamish to the site of the new Maggie's Centre.	At the site of the new Maggie's Centre at Victoria Hospital, Kirkcaldy are Thursday's walkers from Fife Fire & Rescue, together with Fife Constabulary, Ellie Pattinson (Maggie's Centre), staff from Fife Coast & Countryside Trust and Rotary Past-President Alan Bauld (extreme left) with his wife Rae.
Day 7 (Fri 30) - Kirkcaldy - Dalgety Bay ('Hippies', Fife Coast & Countryside Trust & Fife Council Member Services)
Hamish and the 'Hippies', those with hip replacements or have used the Maggie's Centre services, pose with Ellie Pattinson of Maggie's Centre before setting off along Kirkcaldy Prom.	The 'Hippies' hand over Hamish to staff from Fife Council Member Services who took Hamish from Kirkcaldy West Prom to Kinghorn.	At Kinghorn harbour, Hamish is handed over to Birrell Pitcaithly and his daughter who single-handedly extracted cash from most of Fife House. Defaulter's names will be posted here at a later date... unless they pay up!	Hamish is handed over at Burntisland to Fife Coast & Countryside Trust for the last leg of his walk today, to Dalgety Bay. Hamish had to put on his anorak and hop into Jacqui's haversack to protect him from the first bad weather of the week.
Day 8 (Sat 1) - Dalgety Bay - North Queensferry (Rotarians & friends)
Hamish and friends in Dalgety Bay, ready to start the last leg of the walk.	Hamish with Walk Organiser, Club President, Graeme Whyte in St.David's Bay.	At the finishing line, Hamish and friends reach North Queensferry, completing the sponsored Coastal Walk. Well done Hamish... and all his friends :)	The President asked locals for their support. North Queensferry man, Gordon Brown, was happy to support the Maggie's Centre.

Presidential Team 2005/2006

From Left to Right:
Senior Vice-President Yolanda Hilton ;
President Graeme Whyte.

Last Updated: 07-Sep-2005