St Finnbarr’s Charities Shop – Christmas Closing!
Charities Shop
Bonanza Year for St Finnbarr’s Charities Shop!
Our heartfelt thanks go to all our brilliant volunteers who help out at St Finnbarr’s Charities Shop and to all our lovely customers. At this time of year, we distribute donations to local charities and we are delighted to be able to share that we have distributed a whopping £29,000 to 29 charities! Well done team!!
We would also like to take this opportunity to give special thanks to Adele (one of our regular volunteers) who has made such a good job refreshing our shop sign – it looks absolutely stunning and so welcoming!
If you’d like to volunteer to help out in our little shop, please do get in touch – as you can see, it makes a huge difference in the lives of so many people from our area! It’s a great way to get to know people and have fun too!
“Without work, it is impossible to have fun.” – St Thomas Aquinas
List of Charities Receiving Donations 2025
Alzheimers Scotland, Caithness and Sutherland Women’s Aid, Bradbury Centre, Dornoch Academy School Fund (to be used for additional support needs), Connecting Communities, Dornoch Beach Wheelchairs, Friends of Oversteps, Historylinks, Lawson Cambusavie Memorial Hospital Friends, Meadows Patient’s Comfort Fund, Mikeysline, ESRA, DADCA, CCAST (foodbank), SSAFA, DFG, Dornoch Community Electric Car, Enable Works, Dornoch Bowling Club, Friends of Sutherland Veterans, CAB Golspie, Highland Wildlife Trust,
Fyrish Gym Club, Blood Bikes, Scotland’s Charity Air Ambulance, Kats Second Editions, Munlochy Animal Aid, and Dornoch Indoor Senior Bowling Club.
Total £29,000!!!!!
Greetings from St Finnbarr’s Charities Shop
Merry Christmas to all our customers!
St Finnbarr’s Charities Shop is now closed for the Holidays.
We will remain closed throughout Christmas and New Year.
We will re-open on Thursday 16th January at 10 a.m.
A huge thank you to everyone who has supported our shop this year!
Charities Shop Winter Opening
Opening
The St Finnbarr’s Charities Shop in Dornoch is now on Winter opening hours (though subject to short notice closure as a result of the weather).
The opening hours are Mondays to Saturdays from 10am to 1pm.
The Shop
The shop has been reorganised and has a New Look for the New Year and a half price sale for the month of January.
Donations of Items
It would be appreciated that if you have been saving donations of items for the shop that you drop them off during opening times only and in fairly small quantities as we have limited storage space.
Welcome
We look forward to welcoming everybody in the coming weeks, meanwhile keep safe.
Charities shop now open longer on Friday and Saturday
The St Finnbarr’s Charities Shop
has been open
Monday to Saturday,
10am -1pm
But from the Start of March it will be
Open Extra Hours
on Friday & Saturday
10am – 4pm
We look forward to welcoming both regular and new customers
to our extended opening hours and hope that the afternoon opening will give you all added flexibility.
Charities Shop January Re-opening
Opening
The St Finnbarr’s Charities Shop in Dornoch is scheduled to re-open for business after the Christmas break on Thursday 6th January.
The shop will be open on Mondays to Saturdays from 10am to 1pm.
The Shop
Great efforts have been made to make the shop safe for customers and staff so we would ask that everybody follows the ‘rules’ carefully. As you will be aware, the shop is small and the number of customers who can be in the shop at any one time is limited. We have a wireless bell for customers to press to let us know they are waiting and staff will be on hand to guide you and answer any questions that you may have.
Donations of Items
It would be appreciated that if you have been saving donations of items for the shop that you drop them off during opening times only and in fairly small quantities as we don’t want to be swamped and have limited storage space.
Welcome
We look forward to welcoming everybody in the coming weeks, meanwhile keep safe.
Charities Shop – Distribution of Funds 2021
St Finnbarr’s Charities Shop has recently distributed £12,500 in donations to various groups and charities. As usual these are mostly local groups based in East Sutherland but this year two, Maggies and Mikeysline, which have centres in Inverness have been included. They both work with vulnerable groups throughout our area, one in cancer care and the other in mental health support.
The complete list of charities and groups supported is listed below:
- Alzheimer Scotland (for local use),
- Caithness and Sutherland Women’s Aid,
- Dornoch Beach Wheelchairs,
- Sutherland Care Forum,
- Support in Mind Scotland (Golspie Gatehouse),
- Mikeysline (Mental Health especially Suicide – has drop in and appointments in Inverness including evenings, also text-based support. all ages),
- Dornoch Academy School Library,
- Friends of Oversteps,
- Historylinks,
- Maggies Highlands,
- Meadows Patient’s Comfort Fund,
- Bradbury Centre,
- CALA (Care and Learning Alliance – Stepping Stones, Brora),
- Connecting Communities (Helmsdale based but serves all E. Sutherland, older people at home, community support, meal delivery),
- CAB,
- Lawson/Cambusavie Memorial Hospital Fund,
- Migdale Hospital Comfort Fund.
The hard work and dedication of the volunteers means that the Charities Shop is now open Monday to Saturday 10am-1pm. The continuing Covid restrictions mean that we are only able to have a very small number of customers in the shop at one time and we would like to say thank you to our customers who wait so patiently in a queue to come in. The Charities Shop would not be so successful without the many donations of goods to sell and the support of our customers both returning and new – thank you. We look forward to seeing you in the shop.
Charities Shop – Distribution of Funds 2020
The first part of the distribution of funds from St Finnbarr’s Charities Shop for this year is now complete. £12,450 will be distributed this year to various groups and charities
So far £10,150 has been disbursed between the following local groups.:
- Caithness and Sutherland Womens’ Aid
- CALA
- Citizens Advice Bureau
- Dornoch and District Community Association
- Dornoch BRIG (Dornoch Beach Regeneration Improvement Group)
- Dornoch Firth Group
- East Sutherland Rescue Association
- Friends of Oversteps
- History Links
- Lawson Cambusavie Memorial Hospital Friends
- Maggies Highland
- Meadows Patient’s Comfort Fund
- Migdale Hospital Comfort Fund
- SSAFA
- Sutherland Care Forum
- Support in Mind Scotland (Golspie Gatehouse)
£2,300 will be disbursed between the following groups when they are back in operation.
- Alzheimer Scotland (Dornoch Dementia Cafe
- Dornoch Academy Additional Support Team
- Dornoch Academy School Library
- Dornoch Brownies
- Dornoch Cathedral Boy’s Brigade/Shipmates
- Dornoch Flowers and Fairs
- Dornoch Primary School Additional Support Team
- Little Lambs (Free Church Playgroup)
A huge thank you to everyone who helped to raise the money by working in the shop or donating goods for sale – the above groups really appreciate your efforts, as do we in St Finnbarr’s.
Charities Shop January Sale
St Finnbarr’s Charities Shop in Dornoch
Half Price January Sale Now On
6th-18th January 2020
Scottish Episcopal Church - Dornoch, Lairg, Brora, Tain & Tongue 