The Oban Times

Crerar Hotels offers hospitalit­y for heroes

- By Fiona Scott

NHS workers can also be nominated by the public via Crerar Hotels Facebook pages.

Details of availabili­ty and how to make compliment­ary bookings will be confirmed once the lockdown is lifted and the dates for the NHS Heroes Celebratio­n Weekend are confirmed.

Crerar Hotels will also be issuing NHS Hero Gift Vouchers. The public will be able to express thanks to any NHS workers by purchasing monetary gift vouchers, with Crerar Hotels adding half as much again to the value.

Details of how to purchase the NHS Hero Gift Vouchers will be available on the company’s website www.crerarhote­ls.com

The Crerar Trust has also gifted a very generous £25,000 towards a Help for Local Heroes scheme to support a Crerar Hotels gift voucher issue to local heroes; key workers such as shop workers, emergency response personnel and refuse collectors who have contribute­d during the crisis. Crerar Hotel employees and guests can

Within the last 18 months Crerar has committed more than £10 million pounds of investment, £7 million of which has already been completed and fully transformi­ng the Golf View, Loch Fyne, Oban Bay and Isle of Mull hotels.

nominate a local hero who has supported their communitie­s during the crisis, the vouchers would be redeemable at any Crerar Hotel. The nomination­s can be sent to localheroe­s@crerarhote­ls.com

Paddy Crerar CBE, chairman of Crerar Hotels added: ‘These have been exceptiona­lly challengin­g times, terrifying in fact, and we have a way to go yet. We should all be rightly proud of our NHS workers, the carers and all of those who have done all they can despite the grave risks to themselves.

‘We have some great business partners, including Belhaven Brewery, De Burgh Wine Merchants, Campbell Brothers, Braehead Foods and many more who have already taken deep breaths to support their hospitalit­y partners, and yet once again they have sought to help us where they can with this big thank you.

‘Our hope is that other Scottish hoteliers and hospitalit­y businesses join in too’

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