Applications invited for Campbeltown bequest

[Kintyre Forum News]

Applications invited for Campbeltown bequest

Campbeltown residents are being invited to apply for a voucher from the town’s GM Duncan bequest.

Major George Melville Duncan, who died in 1958, bequeathed money to the then Campbeltown Town Council for the ‘benefit of the poor of the Burgh in the form of gifts of fuel, clothing, and foodstuffs during the winter months’.

Applications for awards from the bequest are invited each autumn, with the successful applicants being sent their awards at the start of December. Only residents of the Royal Burgh of Campbeltown are eligible to apply.

Each award is a voucher for £10, which is redeemable in the Campbeltown Co-operative store, Rieclachan, Campbeltown for groceries (and specifically not alcohol).

Applications forms are available from the Customer Services Department, Burnet Building, St John Street, Campbeltown and should be returned no later than Friday, November 11 2011.

[smiles]

Is this different from the food packages that were delivered to the elderly in the past? If it is do they still deliver food packages?

[bill]

I remember when I was a message boy with McIlchere's,at the start of the sixties, delivering Christmas food parcel's to the elderly in need.If memory serves me right it was to do with Lorne St. church.