Highland Haven charity to host online film
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Supporters of a vision to develop a specialist centre in the Highlands for children and young adults with multiple and complex needs have turned to film to highlight the project.
The Haven Appeal is to broadcast its own version of the Children In Need TV fundraiser.
The hour-long programme will be screened on Monday via social media, highlighting the need for the Haven Centre, which will feature respite flats, a specialist play centre, coffee shop and garden.
It will be built a derelict site in Smithton.
Ross-shire based community fundraiser Rona Matheson said the coronavirus pandemic had curtailed many fundraising activities.
“We have had to be creative,” she said. “The idea of the programme is that it is something a bit different to encourage people to give to the appeal. It is like a mini Children In Need.”
It will include interviews with families who could benefit from the facility plus Elsie Normington, chairwoman and founder of the Elsie Normington Foundation which launched the Haven Appeal.
It will be presented by event host and broadcaster Nicky Marr and there will also be entertainment by a virtual choir, the chance to win prizes and details of how to donate to the appeal.
A raffle will also be launched, with prizes including a two-day staycation on the Isle of Skye.
The programme will broadcast at 7pm at the Elsie Normington Foundation Facebook page.
