Sad news - Mamie Bryden
Our Charity patron Kirsty Bryden who died aged 19yrs has by her example in the way she devoted her short life to helping seriously sick...
Kirsty's Kids
- Mar 31, 2021
Network Rail action forces Children's Respite Care Centre to remain closed
During the repair of the railway the Network Rail corporation decided to increase the capacity of an old culvert which had been designed...
- Oct 1, 2020
NetWork Rail Trashes Orchid meadow
It was with utter dismay that the large rare wild orchid meadow that has existed for hundreds if not thousands of years and home to many...
- Jun 26, 2020
Devastation at Kirsty's Kids
In the middle of a global disaster, we’ve had our own, personal disaster. Yesterday, 25th June 2020, we were hit with a flash flood,...
- Mar 9, 2020
A Word from the Chairman
John Bryden is the Chair of The Kirsty Bryden Memorial Trust. 9 March 2020 Dear All. We would like to thank everyone who stopped at our...
- Sep 28, 2017
28th Sep 2017
Dear All. Time for a wee chairman's ramble. I have dried out and warmed up after a very long wet cold trip yesterday. Thanks for all...
- Sep 22, 2017
22 September 2017
Our Chairman's thought on day 21 of the Africa Challenge. The first trip Kirsty's round Britain challenge 8053miles in 4 weeks 3 weeks in...
- Jun 4, 2017
4th June 2017
Our Chairman's thought at this time. Ban the bomb and invest in our children's futures. Every school should twin with one from another...
- Apr 7, 2017
7th April 2017
What started off as a bit of a dream has come closer to reality this evening. Almost 5 years ago, Chairman John Bryden decided that the...
- Mar 5, 2017
5th March 2017
Thinking of kids today re visiting Trust House in my head. OK, hydrotherapy in place, lots of things to do, craft sheds, that's sorted....
- Dec 15, 2016
15th December 2016
Our Christmas message. We would like to thank all those incredible people who without we would be unable to operate. From the volunteer...
- Dec 4, 2016
4th December 2016
December is always a busy time of the year. Towns and cities are starting to sparkle with Christmas lighting. Radio stations begin...
- Sep 22, 2016
22nd September 2016
Just to let everyone know we are still working hard at Trust House. The new wet room is almost complete, with wet room wheel chair...
- Aug 30, 2016
30th August 2016
What a fabulous phone call this morning. We are overwhelmed by the generosity of the staff and residents of Pembroke Care Home near...
- Aug 3, 2016
3rd August 2016
A wee Chairman's ramble. I have been asked so many times about the Africa Challenge 2017. When I will as an able-bodied man take on the...
- Jun 17, 2016
17th June 2016
What a fantastic effort from team Alltec. They have done an amazing job, yet again raising such a huge sum of cash - £1,496.25p for the...
- Apr 3, 2016
3rd April 2016
A wee ramble from the Chairman of Kirsty's Kids. I am absolutely humbled by the fact that as a no overheads children's charity we have...
- Mar 23, 2016
23rd March 2016
A wee ramble from the Chairman of Kirsty's Kids. We are delighted to be collecting our next respite care family tomorrow for the Easter...
- Mar 7, 2016
7 March 2016
Hi everyone. We are still beaming from the incredible response of the bike clubs at Ingliston. Club members having whip rounds and...
- Jan 1, 2016
1st January 2016
Happy New year. Our first major fun fundraising event, of 2016, will be at the MCN Scottish Motor Cycle Show, in Ingliston. We are...
- Nov 11, 2015
11th November 2015
We continue to work as a no overheads charity, we have no paid admin staff or outside admin volunteers, this makes for quite a challenge...
- Nov 6, 2015
6th November 2015
As we head towards the end of 2015. We wish to thank our most active sponsor this year Alltec Network. The firm has been active all year...
- Aug 21, 2015
21st August 2015
We arrived back at Trust House Respite Care Centre in the Scottish Highlands this evening feeling overwhelmed by the generosity of the...
- Aug 19, 2015
19th August 2015
Time for a wee Chairman's ramble. This week alone around 100 wonderful written comments have been received from the residents of Maybole...
- May 4, 2015
4th May 2015
We would like to extend our thanks to the Blue Knights around the world who support our children. Without these guys we would not be in...
- Mar 11, 2015
11th March 2015
To all our fundraiser's and sponsors we would like to thank you for your incredible efforts. You can be proud to know that you have been...
- Mar 3, 2015
3rd March 2015
My time as chairman to Kirsty's kids has been a journey and a half. From the inception of the Children’s charity trying to work within...
- Feb 7, 2015
7th February 2015
This week as Kirsty's Kids' turns up a gear we are thinking about the all important funding. A constant need for us to be able continue...
- Jan 29, 2015
29th January 2015
It is with huge thanks to our MSP Dave Thompson Scottish Parliament. To Lochaber News, To The Oban Times, Sunday Post Raw Deal, and Press...
- Dec 24, 2014
24th December 2014
We are looking forward to seeing volunteer Kyle Walker during the festive season and discussing some exciting developments, more on that...
- Dec 21, 2014
21st December 2014
A wee ramble from the Chairman. As we head towards Christmas and into a New Year we continue to work with other charities in the UK to...
- Sep 13, 2014
13th September 2014
A quick Chairman's ramble........ We are having an awesome time this weekend. We will be firing up the BBQ tonight once everyone has had...
- Aug 18, 2014
18th August 2014
MotoScotland Inveraray weekend has been such an overwhelming success this year making over £820.00s for Kirsty's Kids. We are so grateful...
- Jul 7, 2014
7th July 2014
As Kirsty's life work continues to inspire people across the Commonwealth we are racing ahead. With so many fun fundraiser's getting...
- Jun 28, 2014
28th June 2014
When these challenges are undertaken none of the volunteers ever claims expenses or travelling costs. Each has done so at their own...
- Jun 14, 2014
14 June 2014
We are overwhelmed by the hard work put in by Mark Taylor over these last months preparing for such a gruelling challenge. Often we hear...
- Apr 20, 2014
20th April 2014
What an incredibly busy time at KirstysKkids. So many events are planned this year, so we hope to continue raising the cash required to...
- Apr 6, 2014
6th April 2014
After an early start, I arrived at a breakfast meeting in Glasgow. The main topic was to discuss Paul Gallagher's mammoth charity attempt...
- Mar 17, 2014
17th March 2014
We would like to thank Hunting Tower Lodge B&B for continuing to provide a collecting flask in their entrance and to all their guests who...
- Jan 12, 2014
12th January 2014
Wishing everyone a belated very happy New Year and looking forward to the fun times ahead for Kirsty's kids. Two weeks in already. I have...
- Dec 21, 2013
21st December 2013
A Christmas message from www.kirstyskids.org Chairman. We have been busy having an amazing wonderful time with Kirstyskids.org this year....
- Oct 20, 2013
20th October 2013
It is a wonderful feeling to know that we now have what must possibly be the best team in the country, who will be joining me and will be...
- Oct 1, 2013
1st October 2013
Thanks to BBC for arranging to document the work of our volunteers and benefits to the children which are only possible because of...
- Aug 25, 2013
25th August 2013
While working at the West highland Agricultural show yesterday I was astonished by the number of people who stopped for a chat. It was...
- Aug 11, 2013
11th August 2013
I have been reading the paper this morning, the Times, which has been reviewing the major charities and showing the multi million pound...
- Jun 22, 2013
22nd June 2013
The team at CMYK are the best hardest working polite group of souls I have ever had the pleasure to work with, in both my RAF and Police...