In 2007 two Rangers fans decided to raised £500 to treat a handful of Armed Sevices veterans a matchday experience at Ibrox. After a meeting at The Erskine Home for Ex Service personnel in Bishopton the bar was lifted and a target of £1000 was fixed. Rangers Legend Harold Davis was contacted and was to become Honorary Patron of the fundraiser, a role which he was delight to accept and as such the Rangers Supporters Erskine Appeal was born In that inaugural year Pin Badges were ordered and sold and a sponsored walk was organised in Glen Coe, all with the primary intention of raising money for and the profile of the Erskine home amongst the Rangers Support. In that first year a sum of £30,000+ was raised and handed over to the Home. The fundraising continued over the next 3 years with the Rangers Family from all over the globe keen to participate. Events were held in Aberdeen, Glasgow, Dublin, Belfast as well as in England, Wales, France, Belgium, Australia, the USA and Canada. By the end of 2011 a sum of £358,963.05 had been amassed and forwarded to the home. A further cheque for £1000 was sent to the Royal Chelsea Hospital in London after poppy tins were stolen from their HQ The start 2012 saw the RSEA slightly take their eye off the Erskine ball for very obvious reasons and channelled efforts towards helping raise money for Rangers FC, various auctions and raffles were held together with a Northern Soul & Ska Dance night, as a result 350 tickets were purchased for Rangers Home games and distributed to local schools, BB's and junior loyal orders, 4 small businesses had their Rangers Debts cleared (including the much maligned face painting debt and the monies owed for Davie Weir's Crystal Decanter and Glasses), a set of 17 Rangers football kits were purchased from the club shop and donated to The St Andrew's Boys Club on the Shankill Road, thereafter the RFFF also received a donation of £3000. Then it was back again to Erskine Business, badges hats tee-shirts were sold, people took part in Golf Days and Bowls Days, Book launches sponsored walks and dinners , the ball was well and truly rolling again. In mid November 2012 the RSEA requested that 25 supporters take up the challenge of putting together their own Christmas Shoebox for an Erskine resident. Phenomenally 170 boxes were eventually handed over to the Home insuring the residents had a wonderful Christmas. At half time on the 9th February 2013 at Ibrox Stadium, two representatives from the RSEA will present a cheque to Erskine for monies raised in 2012 for a sum of , £90,035 - 07p which takes the grand total since conception to a staggering £447,943 - 45p The RSEA would like to thank every single member of the Rangers Family who has helped make this possible, including members of internet forums FF, VB, RM, DTB and probably others that I am unaware of. Extended and special thanks go to Mr Harold Davis and his lovely wife Vi for more info on the RSEA please visit www.rsea.org.uk to donate to Erskine via the RSEA please visit www.justgiving.com/rsea2013
for the RSEA Some creepy ol man must have smothered it. [video=youtube;YHFWrElkt6o]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHFWrElkt6o[/video] I laugh everytime at that video No. You missed a great thread I had up the other day Ciaran.
I only ask because Rangers and now apparently from the OP above, Rangers fans have held money back from charities to pay off Rangers debts in the past. Will this be part of the history Charles Green tells us all he has bought when it comes to paying off the £400k debt revealed the other day?
So you not only post it every time someone brings it up, you watch the whole Video every time too? Creepy is not the word, Deranged or Obsessive are far more apt descriptions.
