Charity golf raises £1000

Oct 3 2008 by Les Stewart, Perthshire Advertiser Friday

A CHARITY golf match, organised by the Aberfeldy-based Tec Group, has raised more than £1,000 for the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU).

When The Engineering Corporation Group Limited (Tec Group) was launched only a few months ago, it announced it would lend its support to NICU.

The unit was refurbished in 2001 and now handles approximately 500 admissions each year, providing a full range of intensive care support programmes for babies.

The unit specialises in supporting those babies that are born either prematurely, are very small at birth or have breathing difficulties.

Having already raised money with their 'Wii Challenge' at their official launch party held in July, the group held a Texas Scramble at Aberfeldy Golf Club last Thursday. A total of 18 teams took part.

Gordon Leighton, engineering services director at Ravenswood Construction, part of the Tec Group, who organised and sponsored the event, said: “All the local business rallied around to help us raise money for our adopted charity."

“Although Ravenswood paid all the golf fees, supplied the catering and organised the event, it was the donation of prizes, team entrance fees and auction of major prizes that managed to raise a combined figure of £1,790 for NICU.”

All the Ravenswood company vans are supplied through Vehicle Solutions and, on the day, they put up a Peugeot 207 1.6 Thp Xs Sport for a hole-in-one at the short 14th.

Unfortunately, it wasn’t won.

The overall winning net score of 57.6 was notched by the team from S.P. Darker Ltd (the “Darkside“), a fire detection and communication company based in Aberdeen.