Sponsorship
In order to keep Blantyre's Ain Website alive, Sponsorship is a real necessity. We have been live for nine years now and until recently have been self funded.
Without sponsorship the site will ultimately self destruct as costs cannot be maintained by the Webmaster.
I therefore urge you, if you enjoy the web site and it's contents, to then help ensure it's continuation by making a small donation. All donations, no matter how small, will be gratefully appreciated.
Special thanks to Drew Semple and John Dowie who both donated £10.00 in July 2008. And a Special thanks to Frances Maguire from Blantyre who Donated £5.00 in August. Robert Brownlie of Robert W Brownlie Motor Engineers who donated £100.00 in September. I told him I was dumbfounded at his generousity and he replied:
Hello Bill, thank you for your kind words.
There's no need for you to be dumbfounded, what I did was easy,its what you have done that's dumbfounding Bill !
I don't think you realise that what you have put into this site has given many people the world over many happy hours remembering days gone bye, quite often the best days of their live's!
And none of it possible without you!
So thank you, from all of us,
Robert. . . . .
Also, a Special Thanks to Mary Dodd who also donated £10.00 in October. Mary was in my class at School and remembered that I was a fan of Paul Anka back then... A Special Thanks to Jim Whelan who donated £10.00 in November and £10.00 in December and also for his many poems... Thanks also to Kathleen Parks who kicked off 2009 with a £10.00 donation in January... and also William Ross who donated £10.00... Thanks also to Jim Gebbie and Archie Peat who both donated £10.00 in February... and Duncan Slater who kindly donated £20... and Kathleen Parks who donated another £10... and Fred Crainer who Donated £10.00... Thanks also to Elizabeth McLean for her Thankyou Card and £20.00 Donation... and Kathleen Parks who donated another £10.00 in March... and thanks also to Lon McIlwraith who donated £10.00 plus some hilarious poems... A Special thanks to Jim Barrie from Toronto who not only bought me a few beers at the Parkville but also donated £10.00... and Kathleen Parks who donated another £10 in April... and a Beautiful Card and a whopping £50.00 from Betty Weaver... now exiled in Yorkshire... Thanks Betty... and my Classmate Mary Dodd who saved the day again with her generous donation in June... and also our good friend Jimmy Whelan who also donated in July and October along with Barry Carrigan... and Andy Little from Australia... Thanks Guys... Thanks again to Kathleen Parks for her kind donation in December... Thanks again to Betty Weaver who kicked off 2010 with another generous donation of £50.00... and our good friend Jimmy Whelan who donated in February... and another generous donation of £50 from Sam Kennedy in Cheshire... and my Classmate Mary Dodd who donated generously again in April... and John Dowie, an old neighbour who donated in May... And our good friend, Robert Brownlie who came up trumps again in June with a very generous donation... and our resident vocalist, Drew Semple who donated in July... Thanks also to Kathleen Parks who once again made a generous donation... and George Parks from Arbroath who donated in October as did Rosemary Donnelly an old neighbour, now lives in the US and also Anne Teesdale from Edinburgh... and another very generous donation from our friend and poet from Vancouver, Lon McIlwraith ... and our good friend Jimmy Whelan... Thanks again to Kathleen Parks for her kind donation in December... and William Ross who also kindly donated in December... and Drew Semple who always comes up with support... and Thomas Ward who closed 2010 with a generous donation... Thanks to all... William Ross kicked of 2011 with another generous donation... and Hugh Wylie now in Perth, Australia for his very generous donation in February... Thanks also to Kathleen Parks who once again made a generous donation in February... and my Classmate Mary Dodd who donated generously again in February... Bill Agnew his generous donation in February... and Duncan Slater wound up February with another generous donation...Thanks again to Kathleen Parks, Drew Semple and Helen Hay for their donations in June... and a very exceptional donation from Robert Brownlie and also Lon McIlwraith, thanks Guys... and William Ross who once again donated in June... Thanks also to our good friend and contributor, Betty McGaulley for her very generous donation in July... also, thanks to Betty McLean for her generous donation in August... and Duncan Slater in November... Starting off 2012 was Nancy Murphy... and my Classmate May Dodds, both giving very generous donations in March...