Saturday 27th March 2010
Scottish Music Network

Scottish Music Network in Association with PoppyScotland are holding a fund raising day with live music in aid of Mac McGearey fund "500 miles for Ciara" more details below. Sunday 2nd May 2010 Doors 1pm till 3am Tickets £5 adv All day event at Rockers, 14 Midland Street, Glasgow

If you are interested in supporting this event please get in touch

Bands and Artists on the line up for the event are as follows

Big Black Taxi
Charger
Bad Motor Scooter
We Are Jawbone
Ruff Diamondz
Storm in a D Cup
Dougie Greig
Messiah
Chain
Craig Hughs
Outsider
Search For Solace

Compared by Stuart James Bolt FM

More information on the bands will be published each week on the run up to the event. With bands links and little bit about them.

After the band’s Decadence DJ’s will be playing all your Classic Rock past to present in to the wee small hours.

Details of the Fund Raising Event and who we are hoping to help.

WO1 Mac McGearey is serving with 1 RTR. His daughter, Ciara, desperately needs specialist care, but the family been shafted by Edinburgh Council who are taking them to court.

When Ciara was 3 days old, she contracted meningitis, leaving her blind, unable to speak and suffering from a number of other disabilities. Since she was 6 months old, she's been receiving specialist treatment from the Royal Blind School in Edinburgh.

However, Mac was posted to England and she obviously had to move schools. Ciara went to a non-specialist school and didn't receive the level of care she needed, so when an opportunity came up for an Edinburgh posting, Mac took it and moved his family back. However, the council refused to fund her place at the Royal Blind School and instead offered a place at another non-specialist school.

An indepdent tribunal concluded unanimously that the Royal Blind School was Ciara's best option, and that had Mac not been in the Army, she would still be attending. They then ordered that Edinburgh Council make funding available immediately.

Rather than comply, Edinburgh council elected to take the case to court at a cost of up to £160,000 in legal fees (Ciara's education at the RBS would be approx. £38k per year).

Mac's walking 500 miles to raise the money needed to keep Ciara in school until the court case.

If you can spare even a couple of quid, please make a donation or sponsor Mac's walk. The appeal is being run by the Scottish Poppy Appeal, and there's more info - pics and the story in Mac's own words - on the links.

http://www.poppyscotland.org.uk/ciara/

http://news.scotsman.com/scotland/If-city-won39t-pay-Ciara39s.6026356.jp

Please support this event

Online Donation at http://my.artezglobal.com/personalPage.aspx?registrationID=307052

TICKETS ON SALE FRIDAY 19th March from 9am

http://www.ticketweb.co.uk/user/?region=gb_scotland&query=detail&event=379122&interface=

Myspace site

www.myspace.com/500milesforciara