CROSSHOUSE hospital are celebrating after getting a major funding boost.
The Douglas Grant Rehabilitation team have received an incredible donation of £2,700 from final year students at the University of Glasgow’s Glasgow Dental Student Society.
Ever y December, the final year students put on a pantomime for staff, students past and present , family and friends. All of the proceeds go to charities chosen by the year group.
Eilidh Ramsay , student and pantomime convener said : “This year, we chose to put our own toothy spin on a Disney classic and called it: The Lion Dean , Taking Back the Crown. We practiced on Sunday evenings fo r more than three monthsan d with hel p from lots of members of the year group, we made costumes, created scenery and wrote scores for our own dental school student band.”
The show was a resounding success on the evening of Saturday, December 1 and raised an incredible £2,700 from tickets, raffles ,programmes an d donations .
Eilidh added: “We decide d to split this between thre e chose n charities: The Douglas Grant Rehabilitation facility; Beautifu l Inside and Out; and the Glasgow Oral Health Improvement Student Society. We know the money will be put to good use by these worthy causes.”
Jacquie Downs , Rehabilitatio n Co-Ordinator and MCN Manager at the Douglas Grant Rehabilitation Centre said: “We are so grateful to this wonderful group of students who put in such a lot of hard work to raise funds for us and the ot her charities .
"It means a lot to us when people donate to us."
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