THANK YOU THANK YOU
The
Management Committee (Including Ryan Bannerman & Wendy Ashton, absent from the photo), would sincerely like to wish everyone that supports us a very merry christmas & a happy new year.
The
support the charity has received from the local community has been utterly mind-blowing in every way especially with us celebrating our 15th Anniversary!
We wish
to send our deepest heartfelt thanks to our incredible volunteer team including our dedicated drivers which keeps our sessions running.
Special
mention of thanks going to Paul O Connor MBE & his team at Inchgarth Community Centre for their continued support, truly means alot.
We
cannot thank you all enough from the bottom of our hearts - our donors & everyone who supports Future Choices
We look
forward to taking a much deserved break & return to our regular weekly sessions from Tues 9th Jan '24.
Hopes
for the new year, to attract new members to continue to help the most vulnerable break down the barriers of social isolation, to help them improve their mental health & well being.
Looking
forward to seeing the feature film about the charity being released by the amazing team from Inner Ring Collective
What an incredible night we all had at The Ashvale, raising funds & celebrating our
14th Anniversary!
Big well done & congratulations to our Saltire Awards Achiever/Committee Member,
Lewis McGregor for organising & hosting our event. You did yourself extremely proud! Big thanks to Stuart & his staff team at the Ashvale, incredible as always. Special mention of thanks to
our supporter Sophie Alexander for doing an amazing job on our raffle sales desk
Huge thanks though to everyone who was able to attend, you all made the night what it
was, a big success, full of fun & laughter, we would like to say a huge massive thank you to all those that donated raffle prizes as we raised as incredible £461 from Raffles alone and the profit
we raised from ticket sales alone was £513 - bringing our total fundraising amount on the night too......
£974!!!!!
We cannot thank everyone enough from the bottoms of our hearts for making our 14th
birthday special.
A wonderful day trip out today, Committee Member Ryan Bannerman & our Chairman
taking a trip to a special Exhibition showcased by ACVO and Volunteer Aberdeen which you the public can go & visit tomorrow & Thursday at the Citymoves Dance Agency, The Anatomy Rooms, Shoe
Lane, Aberdeen, AB10 1AL where amongst other amazing charities, you can learn more about what work we do within the local community, made possible by the Scottish Government's Mental health &
Well Being fund which is distributed to Third Sector Organisations, like ours.
It was a true honour & pleasure to have attended to showcase what vital work we
do.
We welcomed STV News's Haley Bouma & her cameraman Graeme along to today's session
to feature what the charity does.
Future Choices are looking for new members to be able to help gain vital social
inclusion.
We were very greatful too have STV News along to share what we do, big thanks to Lesley
Anne Bremner, Maureen Irons & Jim & Kathleen Rust for going on camera for interview.
You can tune in to STV News at 6pm
Our Saltire Awards Achievers are always inspiring us with what they are actively doing
within their community & that's the same for our youngest volunteer, Zac Mackenzie (12), please follow his dedicated page as he aims to raise as much funds as possible through texting via your
Zac is someone who we are lucky to have on our team as he's so enthusiastic &
energised to help support our cause, something we are truly blessed to have. We hope you can share Zac's page to your contacts. Thank you
Thursday 29th september 2022
Thursday 29th september 2022
Thursday 29th September 2022
Thursday 29th September 2022
Thursday 29th September 2022
NATIONAL VOLUNTEERS WEEK 2021
‼️ Laws Tyres‼️
Here's a really good way to help support our cause if you happen
to be in the Bridge of Don or Altens branch (only in the month of June 2021)
Check out the following photos below, the golden poster gives
you the chance also to win goodies!
Make sure you use the correct hashtag & if you would be so kind to select Future Choices, we could get £5, imagine
if lots of people did this, it would be so amazing.
So visit the branch, take a photo of the poster, post it on your social media platform(s), use the # (see poster for the
hashtag name) & select Future Choices.
Thank you very much in advance.
We need as many nominations as possible to
get the opportunity to win 1k
Follow this link : https://www.movementforgood.com/index.php?cn=SC040085&ct=disability
Closing date for nominations is Sunday 13th June 2021
It's an extremely proud moment to be
announcing that our saltire awards achiever, Ryan Hammell first public appeal film has landed. Ryan, like all the young ones has had many challenges to overcome especially with
schooling due to the pandemic, so aside from that challenge, Ryan has stepped forward to gain his Saltire Awards, which will benefit him greatly in terms of learning life skills & much more &
he's motivated to support his sister Becca by supporting the Care Packages project. I'm sure I speak on behalf of everyone that knows Ryan, that we all send him our congratulations & continued
best wishes. You should be very proud of yourself young man.
A highlight of Ryan & Lucas's visit to theCare Hub Aberdeen.
Chairman:
It's a true honour & pleasure to award
volunteer Lucas Mackenzie (14) with his 100 hours Saltire Awards.
Since Lucas started volunteering with Future
Choices, he has gone from a quiet shy lad to a very confident person, showing true qualities such as compassion, understanding & youth leadership along the way.
Since the pandemic started, Lucas launched an
Online Shopping Fundraiser & it's gone from strength to strength.
Lucas will now strive to achieve his 200 hrs
& will no doubt inspire his generation & more.
A huge well done, thoroughly deserved achievement
& congratulations to Lucas.
** Cheque Presentation **
Volunteers Lucas Mackenzie (14) & Ryan
Bannerman (15) paid a long awaited (due to covid restrictions) visit to the incredible team at The Care Hub, Aberdeen where they were delighted to present a cheque for £300 they jointly managed
to raise during the last few months. The money will go directly to supporting the most vulnerable within our community. Well done & huge congratulations on your achievements lads, you've done
yourselves & the community proud! Both Ryan & Lucas did a stint of volunteering also.
What an achievement & an inspiration to
all