Fundraising for the ARCHIE Foundation, the Official Charity for the 2014 Aberdeen Asset Management Scottish Open, topped £100,000 after the auction of the ‘Golfin Dolphin’ on Wednesday evening.
After a variety of charity initiatives raised in excess of £73,000 during a sun-soaked week at Royal Aberdeen Golf Club in July, the sale of the unique piece of art – which formed part of the Aberdeen Wild Dolphin Trail – at Aberdeen Music Hall provided a significant final boost to the total.
The Golfin Dolphin sold for a staggering £55,000 with funds to be split between the ARCHIE Foundation and the Whale and Dolphin Conservation, bringing the total raised for the Aberdeen Asset Management Scottish Open Official Charity to £100,755.
ARCHIE Foundation’s Golfin Dolphin was skilfully painted by Royal Aberdeen Golf Club member and renowned artist Gordon E Henry in a landscape of the 18th hole and club house of the host venue, the work of art was then temporarily taken off the trail to be signed by all of the 156 players playing in the Aberdeen Asset Management Scottish Open.
Then on Sunday evening shortly after lifting the trophy Justin Rose signed the Dolphin once again, ensuring that this one off piece of art took top billing during the live auctioning of all of the Trail’s Dolphins this week.
Formed in Aberdeen in 2000, the ARCHIE Foundation, which operates out of the Royal Aberdeen Children’s Hospital, coincided their tenth anniversary appeal ‘High10 for ARCHIE’ with the Aberdeen Asset Management Scottish Open and they were generously rewarded.
The funds will benefit not only the Foundation’s work at the Royal Aberdeen Children’s Hospital but also at its other bases of operation, the Children’s Ward in Inverness and the Children’s Ward in Elgin, as well as funding projects in community hospitals throughout the North East of Scotland and the Northern Isles.
