Mental Health Aberdeen

Mental Health Fundraiser - September 22

As we approach winter and the uncertainty surrounding fuel bills I wanted to try to raise some funds for Mental Health Aberdeen.

Link to Fundraiser HERE.

Poor mental health can be triggered by many things - stress over money can certainly be one. MHA provide an invaluable service for people who are struggling. We hope to raise some money to go towards this. Keeping someone on the other end of a phone or a counsellor on hand is going to be so important as we seem to enter such an uncertain winter. 

Each donation will be entered into a draw. We have a few prizes up for grabs including:

  • One off test print Deck of the Hello Radical Deck - also include a HR Zine.

  • John Walter Deck signed and numbered. Ltd Edition.

  • Stallan Deck - no longer in print or available! 

  • And a donation from local artist David Shade - Paper Planes spray painted deck - a one off.! 

  • We also have 4 of our badges to give away too via an anonymous donor. 👍

So that’s 8 prizes to be won. No matter what size the donation. 

Some of these decks were actually owned by John Welsh who many locals will know sadly passed away. His entire collection was kindly donated to Transition Extreme where I bought them back from.  I hope they can now raise a little more money!

If you can donate any amount it will be appreciated - it all adds up. Even if you can’t it would be a huge boost if you could share this appeal. 👍

We’ll run this until the end of September and draw prizes after that. Stay tuned to our socials for that! 

Thanks kindly

Gary

Mental Health Fundraiser 2020

Mental Health Aberdeen has provided our City with support for over 70 years. With counselling for both adults and youth as well as training they, like other organisations are integral to the community here. And I’m sure wherever you live you have something similar.

Last year and continuing this year I’ve been fortunate enough to be helped by their services.

And so I want to try to give something back and encourage others to give what they can. I’ll kick this off with a £250 donation via a Just Giving page - link below and in our bio/pinned posts etc.

https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/doricskateboards

In return for each donation we’ll be giving away this one off plenty of pop deck! This was used for a similar fundraiser a few years back and the winner back then, Steven decided he’d like to see it go back to some good use.

Each donation (unless you want to remain anonymous) will be put into a hat and a winner pulled. We’ll run this until February 13th at least.

Raising awareness is something we often hear about.. So we’ll make sure we share some of MHA content over this few weeks and I would encourage anyone to follow them - you never know when you might see/read something that will help you or someone in the future.