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Awards 2025

What a day Friday was, in the afternoon Route 81 won the Volunteer group of the year at the TSI (Third Sector Initiative) awards for their intergenerational project with with Crosslet House 502924376 1231141795473745 6434014825469870067 n

Then in the evening we had the Project 81 Awards night. Congratulations to all who received their volunteering certificate. More photos on the gallery page

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The event honoured 59 volunteers who dedicated 3,512 hours to support the charity's activities.

MSP Jackie Baillie and Caryl McLean from Argyll and Bute presented the Saltire Volunteer awards.

Lisa Carr, a mentor for the employability programme Positive Destinations, presented certificates to the employability team.

She celebrated three young adults who achieved the Saltire 500 hours award.

Project 81 chair Maurice Corry handed out the Route 81 Annual Achievement Awards.

Jack Slee won the Star Performer award for volunteering the most hours.

David Wynne received the World of Difference award for his dedication over the past 18 months.

The Flame of Friendship trophy, in memory of former member Izzy Innocent, was awarded to Gabriella McNair for her "kindness, thoughtfulness and generosity."

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Crosslet House Inter Generational Project

What a wholesome night at Route 81! The Lions Club, Helensburgh, generously donated £500 to our Intergenerational Project and we had a surprise visit from one of our Crosslet House residents along with activity workers Carol and Veronica to jointly receive this donation.

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Emma wrote a wonderful thankyou speech and stood up and delivered it beautifully.

We finished the evening with cake and lots of chat!

Thankyou again to the Helensburgh Lions Club for supporting the work that we do and the amazing young people we work with

Here is the Link to an article about the project in the Helensburgh Advertiser.

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Tree planting in the garden.

Our garden is growing all the time, we have lots of benches and tables to enjoy the peace and quiet and to look out over the loch, there are now plenty of toys for the youngsters and on cold nights a firepit. Look out for news of our new summer house coming this Autumn. In the meantime we have had our supporters planting fruit trees which will hopefully be available for pickinh next summer. We were entertained by Tarton Harmony and the Centre crew provided a lovely BBQ.

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A amazing Christmas show was piu on by the Route 81 Young people for the People of Garelochhead. Much fun and laughter was had as Ziggy tried to find out the true meaning of Christmas in order to rescue Santa from the wicked witch with help from the R81 elves.

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Centre 81 Community Garden

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We had a little of help from our friends at HMNB Clyde, who very kindly lent us some of their SMQ trainees for the day. Trainees were made available from the Submarine Qualification (SMQ) Organisation in HMNB Clyde. SMQ provides basic submarine training for junior Royal Navy personnel prior to them joining their first submarine.

The hard working bunch got to work giving the outside of the centre a facelift and undertook some much needed garden maintenance. The vast majority of work in our Garden is undertaken by our fantastic volunteers. This additional help from HMNB Clyde was greatly appreciated..

The Community Garden at Centre 81 was funded initially through the Dandelion project in conjunction with Cove Park.

Created on 23 June 2023.

Crosslet House Inter Generational Project

Tree planting in the garden.

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