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Founder’s Comments

This last year has been a very significant year for the Trust. Both our order situation and our financial situation have been very satisfactory. Yet the thing that has given me most pleasure has been the number and the quality of the volunteers that have come to the Trust this year. Sandra Endicott, our Administrator. has been a delight to work with, as has Serena, our marketing volunteer. We also have been very fortunate with the number of graphic designers who have volunteered to work with us this year. Special mention must be made of Mamie Donald, who has helped prepare our new catalogues and has also worked on our web site. Janet Yeh, a young post-graduate student from the Edinburgh College of Art, has produced many images for our new Wisdom catalogue. 

We were sorry to learn during the year that George Rankin, one of our designers, who has been with us for several years, had a serious medical condition that required extensive surgery and chemotherapy. However we are delighted to report that he is feeling much better now. None of our work could be achieved without the dedication of our volunteer producers, many of whom have been with the Trust since its earliest days. At this point I would like to mention Tommy Donaldson who is approaching his 83rd birthday and has faithfully attended the Friday team in Edinburgh for 10 years, never missing a week. In the summer he will receive a volunteer award from the Lord Provost of Edinburgh. 

I particularly enjoy my visits to the Kinross team at Lindsay Cant's home where I always receive a cheery welcome and nice cup of coffee and cakes. Like our other teams, the Kinross team works autonomously, producing cards to a very high standard, distributing them locally. 

On a more serious note, there have been several occasions during the last year where I have been devoting more than 70 hours a week to the Trust. Although I very much enjoy my work with the Trust and feel it is a privilege to be able to do it, I know that the time has come to seek a way of continuing the Trust without my full-time involvement. If it is certainly true to say that younger people, although lacking the wisdom of older people, have the energy to achieve more in the same space of time. My hopes for the future is that the Trust will recruit more voluntary help from younger people to take over important aspects of the running of the Trust, and possibly, in the future, this may entail a paid member of staff.
Bruce Crerar