CARNEGIE HARRIERS made a donation to Fife Palliative Care Services, who had been responsible for the care of one of the club’s runners who died of ovarian cancer last year, before their training session on Thursday 4th December.

The Carnegie Harriers Memorial Race is run every August at Knockhill Racing Circuit and previously the club donated £1 per entry to a chosen charity.

From 2013, however, the committee decided that all the proceeds from the race would be donated to a charity selected by the members.

The 2013 donation went to Ovacome, the national charity which raises awareness of ovarian cancer, and which had been supported for more than a decade by Catherine Wilson, who had died in May of that year.

This year, the committee decided to come rather closer to home and, having ascertained that Fife Palliative Care Services had been responsible for organising Catherine’s care in the last weeks of her life, organised the donation to that service.

Sharon Eyre, of Fife Palliative Care Services, was very happy to receive the donation of £700 from club treasurer John Fulham, and is pictured with other club members, most of whom had been involved as runners, helpers, or both, with the Memorial Race.

Next year’s race will again be run in early August at Knockhill Racing Circuit, and the club hopes for a large entry to enable them to continue to support local charities to the same extent.