Monklands Baby and Family Clothing Aid

Our Football Memories Group returns this Friday after a month off in January. As it is Scottish Cup Weekend coming up we are going to be having a trip down Scottish Cup memory lane.

We’ll be looking back over some of the most memorable finals and reliving some of the biggest shocks over the years and getting people to share their own Scottish Cup memories. We’ll finish the day by showing some footage from some Finals over the years. And of course we will be having our ‘half time’ Pie & Bovril (or tea & coffee)

Open to all, why not pop along and join us, just send us a message or e-mail to let us know you are coming so we can ensure there is enough pies. Event is free but we welcome donations to help cover costs and ensure we can keep providing as best an experience as possible for everyone.
📍Airdrie Workman’s Club 11:30-1:30pm

Our friends at the wonderful Mackinnon Mills, Coatbridge are hosting an amazing fundraising event for our Baby And Family Clothing Bank on May 30th.

Kids can enjoy two hours of Soft Play in the wonderful Tree Top Tumble, meet some famous characters, and be entertained by the fantastic Mr Bumble and Anna from Jo Jingles North Lanarkshire. They'll also receive a meal from the Tree Top Tumble Cafe !

The price per child is £10 and can be booked in store, or online at the Events Page.

During the month of May, donations can also be handed in to the store for DITC, including clothing for babies kids and adults; toiletries, nappies, buggies, prams and other essentials.

Our volunteers will also be out and about with collection tins and more information on our projects and services!

Huge thanks to all the team for organising what will be a guaranteed sellout.

Tickets can be bought at the event page on the website and will be available later today :- https://mackinnonmills.com/our-events/

What a lovely thing for his family to do in his memory, and many local families will now be helped because of their generosity ♥️♥️♥️

Back in February we were contacted by the family of Alastair Quinn who had sadly passed away, the family wished to hold a collection for an Airdrie charity at his funeral and very kindly choose ourselves.

Alastair or Al was born in Airdrie and was a pupil of Airdrie Academy, he went on to study at Glasgow University and after graduating his work took him to London where he would meet his future wife Angela, the couple went on to start a family and despite a strong bond with his hometown of Airdrie he would remain south of the border happy with his family. He always kept his connection with the town however with a group of school mates who remained best friends over the years.

And clearly Al’s love of his hometown of Airdrie was passed on to his family as it was here they wished to raise money in his memory after his passing, and thanks to his family and friends they have raised a fantastic sum of £1337.85. It goes without saying we are incredibly grateful for this amazing donation but also very humbled at the love shown in memory of a proud Airdrieonian which will in turn help dozens of local families and individuals in Al’s hometown.

To all of Al’s family and friends you have our heartfelt thanks to have chosen Diamonds in the Community to honour a very proud Airdrieonian. We may never have met him but we certainly will remember him.

THANK YOU❤️

Can anyone help with a single mattress in the Airdrie area this morning for 2 vulnerable children?

**Please share**

Roll up ! Roll up!

A wee bit of fun for a Monday morning - a competition to win an amazing Turkey Pack worth £90! Only £1 a shot :)

Thanks to the amazing Falleninch Farm Butchers, we have a pack up for grabs, with all funds going to our Baby and Family Clothing Bank, and in specific, kids nightwear and underwear.

Each shot costs £1. You can take as many shots as you want, with the winner being drawn at 4pm on Friday 16th December, and the pack being delivered direct to the winners house on the 21st December.

All you have to do is pay £1 (or however many shots you want) with your name as reference to either of the details below :-

PAYPAL :- paypal.me/ditcommunity1
CASH :- Pop into our HQ at 29 Graham Street, open Monday, Wednesday and Friday 10-2
BACS :- Diamonds in the Community;
Acct Number 19186064;
Sort Code 802260

The pack we are offering consists of
Approx. 4Kg Fresh boneless turkey breast joint, skin on
Approx. 1200g Pork chipolata sausages
2 x 400g PLAIN Sausagemeat pork stuffing
1 x 400g pack Streaky bacon

But check out Falleninchs' website for more amazing offers and products.

https://www.falleninchfarm.co.uk/

We currently are running short on some particular sizes in clothing and shoes, if you can help we are open for donations Mondays, Wednesdays & Fridays 10-2pm for any drop offs outwith those times please get in touch at [email protected] or PM the page and we will do our best to get back to you asap, please be aware however we are extremely busy at the moment and manned solely by volunteers so we may not be able to reply as quickly as we would like.♥️

We are running low on some particular items at the moment, any help is greatly appreciated.

Please message Diamonds in the Community for any donations not listed on the post.

Thank you♥️

Raising some very important funds ahead of what is expected to be a very difficult time of year for many people as well as a very busy time for the charity.

Interested in taking part? e-mail [email protected]

LIKE, SHARE & TAG COMPETITION

We have a series of fundraisers starting in September and we have decided to run a competition to reward our fantastic Facebook followers to celebrate. There will be three winners each receiving four tickets for each of our tribute nights at Airdrie Workmens Club, that's a fantastic 12 tickets for three lucky winners.

TAKE THAT TRIBUTE – 9th September
CHER & SHANIA TWAIN TRIBUTE – 21st October
SPICE GIRLS TRIBUTE – 2nd December (Great Xmas Party night)

To enter all you have to do is LIKE & SHARE this post and TAG one person (or more) in the comments.
Closing date for entry is 6pm next Friday 2nd of September with the first event the following Friday.

Tuesday Gratitude and the start of something beautiful 😍

Huge thanks to Lynn Maud Black, Garry Hutton and the rest of the team at the LOVE Group for their continued support by sponsoring our forthcoming Take That tribute night.

The assistance, support and advice provided by Lynn to Diamonds in the Community has been huge over the last two years. It's fair to say we may not still be around hadn't it been for her.

She is the CEO and Garry is the MD of the LOVE Group - an amazing organisation. One of the many projects they have is Gorgie Farm, an urban farm based in Edinburgh, and which will now be a KitAid drop off for the East of Scotland. A perfect collaboration of 3 different charities working together.

We also hope to take some of the families we help up to Gorgie for day trips over the next lot of school holidays.

LOVE is a one-of-a-kind social business that funds its outreach charitable services - such as education and social care - through corporate services, such as wellbeing or professional training. They are different to other outreach providers in that they identify gaps in existing services, and tailor their outreach to the needs of each individual. For example, they deliver services to vulnerable people with 24/7 crisis care where standard services operate during office hours only. Their outreach services include education support, employability, sport and physical wellbeing, and social care, while their corporate services include professional training and recruitment. LOVE are motivated by their drive to bring love back to social justice, inclusion and wellbeing. By identifying gaps and raising standards in Care & Education or outreach, they have developed a disruptive model that identifies opportunities to support vulnerable individuals who would otherwise have limited or no access to the services they need.

We are really excited about this development, and hugely grateful for their continued support.

Find out more about the work they do here:-
https://l-o-v-e.org.uk/love-learning/
https://www.lovegorgiefarm.org.uk/
https://www.facebook.com/LoveLearningFam
https://www.facebook.com/LOVEGorgieFarm