WINTER DINNER DANCE 2022

Wow, what a night!!! The 2022 Digby Brown Winter Dinner Dance, which is the 19th edition, took place on 4th November last year. It was, by some way, our most successful Dinner Dance ever. Raising an incredible £102,101 It shatters the previous record of £83,000 raised in 2019.

Around 540 guests attended the black-tie event at the Doubletree by Hilton in Glasgow for a night of live music and games as well as some top drawer grub

The evening was hosted, once again, by Scottish stand-up comedian and broadcaster Des Clarke and featured a special guest performance from Mock The Week comedian Andy Parsons

We were honoured to have our ambassador, Paralympian archer Nathan MacQueen, give one of the most emotional speeches we’ve ever heard

Nathan explained how the Spinal Injuries Scotland peer support team;

“Gave me a second chance and helped me realise that life could go on after a spinal injury. I can safely say I wouldn’t be the man I am today without them.”

We also had our Chair, Lucy McOuat, take the stage and give a rousing speech on behalf of the charity

We would like to thank everyone that attended the dance and gave so generously but most of all we would like to thank all at Digby Brown for organising such a wonderful evening. Our grateful thanks go to Chris Stewart, Craig Semple and Susan Lawrie for making sure everything ran to plan in the build-up and on the night. The event is the lifeblood of the charity and has been for the almost two decades that Digby Brown have been hosting.

The highly anticipated yearly auction went down a storm, with attendees bidding on everything from a signed Manchester United shirt to a diamond necklace generously donated by Chisholm Hunter. We are immensely grateful to every one of the individuals and businesses that donated items to the auction, tombola and prize-draw raffle

The money raised means the world to us. The contributions are greatly appreciated and will go towards helping us continue to provide advice, information and education for people with, both new and long term, spinal cord injuries.

As Maureen Morrison, the CEO of Spinal Injuries Scotland says “It’s events like these that help the charity to continue providing support to people all over Scotland. We are so thankful to Digby Brown for the amount of work that goes into the Winter Dinner Dance Without this event, I personally wouldn’t like to think where we would be.”