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President 2008 - 2009 Kenny Wilson

 

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The Schools Competition

The Annual Schools Competition takes place in St Mungo's Academy in Crownpoint Road in Glasgow on the first Friday in December.    Between 500 and 700 children and young adults take part in the competition and their ages range from 5 years to 17 years old.    Other children take part in the Art and News desk Competitions.   The Competition is run on a voluntary basis by the Directors and Past Presidents of the Club, ably assisted by a panel of independent Adjudicators who are responsible for judging the various participants.

Several of the competition winners are invited to perform their winning pieces at the annual dinner on the 25th January, in the Glasgow Marriot Hotel, in front of 700 members and guests and again at the annual concert and prize giving in Shettleston Halls in February

The Bridgeton Burns Club pays for all of the costs of the children taking part in the Competition, the Annual Dinner and the Concert and Prize Giving.   This includes transport, the cost of renting the School and Shettleston Halls, medals and prizes for the children, refreshments, printing, materials, etc.  The Club funds all of this from generous donations made by the members and their guests on the evening of the Annual Dinner.   The cost of the Schools Competition and Concert is now in exceeding £18,500.00 per annum and the amount raised at the Annual Dinner is £4,500.00 short of the required amount. 

In previous years, when there has been a surplus of funds, that surplus has been passed to the Fund for The Arts and is used to support young adults progressing to University to study Art, Music, Drama or Literature.

The Bridgeton Burns Club welcomes any donation to assist with its work in promoting the life and work of Robert Burns amongst the school children of the schools of the East End of Glasgow.  

*If you would like to make a donation, to help support the work of the Club, please send it to The Bridgeton Burns Club address on our Home Page.*

 

Schools Competition Results 7th Dec 2007:

A Full list of all of the results of the recent Schools Competition can be found by clicking on the link below.

The report to the members by Ralph Taylor dated 21/01/2006 can also be viewed by clicking on the appropriate link below.

Publicity of Prizewinners 2007:

Some of the recent publicity of the Prizewinners

                             

 

 

 

 

 

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