Cheers George!
Generous donation will pay for team kit needed for US trip
GEORGE RUSSELL founder of G Russell Builders Ltd handed over a cheque for £11,760 to Diamonds Cheerleaders to pay for the team kit which the Ruby section need for their planned trip to The Summit in Florida in April.
Natalie Samuel, who runs the group with her mother Gill, handed over a wee token to
George to say thank you for his generosity with a card signed by all of the girls. She said: “Thank you all so much. This is amazing. I can't wait for you to follow our journey, see all the kit that we are buying for the girls.”
George said: “I just wanted to see the girls do well, especially my granddaughter Amy. It is of course the company that gave the money not me. I lost my wife five years ago and about seven months ago I decided that enough's enough I had to get myself moving again. So I set up this building company and it has turned out brilliant. It was good to hand over that money for the girls.”
The building company is based in Mayfield and can take on any project up to building a whole house. All trades are on call with a core team of around 12 members of staff running the business.
Gill and Natalie, who run Diamonds Cheerleaders, train the girls in a variety of age-based groups mainly at Liberton
High School.
Following an appeal for new training facilities in the summer (when the council altered their contract to use the high ceilinged space at Liberton High School) John Beatson from Goodtrees Neighbourhood Centre answered offering the group some training space there every week.