Our Supporters & Funders

Individuals:

There have been many individuals who we would like to thank for their kind donations, either on their own account or by way of sponsorship for some of the many fundraising activities that they have undertaken, or for the many hours of time put in as volunteers. This has included support from:

• People taking part in the Dublin, Edinburgh, London, Loch Ness, Chicago and Heidelberg marathons, the New York Tartan Day 10 kilometres race, The Ignis Women's 10K, the Great Scottish Run, walking the Great Glen Way, scaling the 3 Peaks across Great Britain, a sponsored swimathon and riding the Etape Caledonia;the Pedal Scotland ride, the Scottish Duathlon Championships; a cycle ride around the Borders,the Mad HaT Challenge and the Round Scotland Cycle Challenge,

• The Dalkeith, the Linlithgow, the Newton Stewart and Castle Douglas Rotary Clubs;

• Staff and students at Jewel & Esk Bank College;

• The staff at AEGON

• The staff at Diageo Leven Plant

• The staff at SERCO East Kilbride

• The staff at Mackintosh

• The staff at the Dumfries Procurator Fiscal's Office

• The staff at the Glasgow City Assessors office

• The staff at Hyman Robertson Edinburgh and Glasgow

• The officers at HMP Greenock and Shotts

• Blue Watch at Cowcaddens Fire Station

• The Provincial Grand Lodge Linlithgow

• Penicuik Cricket Club

• Ralston Golf Club

• Balbirnie Golf Club

• Glasgow and Eastern Merchants'and Tradesmen's Society

• The staff at the Royal Highland Agricultural Society Scotland

• Members of the Globe Inn Social Club Dumfries

• Staff and customers of the Ship Inn Newburgh in Fife

• Members of the Piggery Brae Folk Group

• the Salmon Inn Galashiels and the Machu Pichu Trek Group

• Many individuals who have raised funds via events including Rosemary and Robert Chapman; Mrs M Simpson; Niki and Claire Barrie, Carolyn Byrne, Kate Hutchinson, Linda Lawrie, George Liddle, Lucy McAneny, Harry Kiernan and Stuart Rillie, Donald MacMaikain and Morris and Lyle Allan, Jim Sutherland

• The team members and support crew who undertook the round Scotland Cycle Challenge including Jeremy Gaines, Tim Dawson, Romy Soukup, Michael Trott, Martin Wittstock, Melanie McLoughlin, Stefan Hansen, Petra Gaines, Joanna Baker and Adam Gaines;

• Many individuals who have generously given their time providing voluntary support including Michael Brown, Linda Crawford, Chris Fraser, Tish Chalmers

We should also like to express our appreciation and thanks to Craig Levein,Chris Paterson and Grant Stott for not only giving up their time so generously to make the awareness film on the website, but for all their support for Prostate Scotland

Companies , Trusts and Foundations
We would like to gratefully acknowledge the valued support of:

• Awards for All from the National Lottery,

• The Williams Foundation

• The Kirkham Foundation for their support towards the development of our website,

• The Barcapel Foundation for generously supporting the creation of our first staff post,

• Glaxo Smith Kline,

• Ethicon ENDO Surgery

• The St Katherine's Fund

• Adam Bank

• Johnston Smillie

• The Cray Trust

• Standard Life plc

• KPMG

• Thomson's

• Cairn Energy

• Martin Currie Charitable Foundation

• Marketing Society Scotland

We would also like to thank and acknowledge the funding support of the Scottish Government and Sir Tom Farmer through the Farmer Foundation towards our Information and Advice project.

Website

We should like to acknowledge and sincerely thank the following:

• The whole team at the Union for all the great work they have done on developing and designing the site- and for going the extra mile -their commitment to the project has been first class.

• Craig Levein, Chris Paterson and Grant Stott for so kindly giving up their time to make the sports film,

• Peter Phillips, Malcolm Goldsmith, Larry Foster,Charlie Porteous, Alex Purves, Chris Garner for their videos about their treatments and for their comments on the site

• Seamus Teahan, Duncan McLaren, Justine Royle, Alan McNeill and Tony Riddick for their videos and expertise and on the symptoms and treatments of prostate disease.

• We should also like to thank the many people across Scotland who have helped us over the development of the website by providing comments and suggestions. These have included many men who have been kind enough to give us their comments and views including Roy Partington, George Tennant, Forbes Craig and John Bishop. We would also like to thank the many urological consultants who have so kindly given up their time and expertise.

• Thanks are also due to Rita O'Dea and Frances McLinden at the Western General and Gartnavel Hospitals, Grant Stewart for his advice on the medical copy, Daniels Healy and Warren for their work on the all the films and Scott Mitchell for the photographs. We are also grateful to Jens Uwe Stolzensburg for permission to use the images and to Jens Mondry of Moonsoft for use of his images of the prostate.