BLANKETS FOR REFUGEES

More than 30 blankets, made up of squares knitted by members of Drumoak-Durris Church’s Friendship Club, have been donated to help refugees.

The initiative came from Amy Wilson, leader of the group which in normal times meets in Drumoak Church Hall in Royal Deeside. She invited members to knit the squares over the winter, collected them and sewed them into blankets.

Amy contacted the Rev Shuna Dicks, minister at nearby Cults Parish Church, who received the blankets and forwarded them to Mortlach Kirk in Dufftown, which is a collection point for Global Aid Network, a worldwide humanitarian relief and development organisation.