… Rallying Round the Community ….
Provost Liz Grant, Perth & Kinross Council, with George Head (2nd right) and John More (right) from Coltness Car Club with local Perth rally driver Gordon Murray (left).
Last year the club donated all proceeds from the spectator Car Parks at their annual motor rally, the Colin McRae Forest Stages, to local charitable organisations.
Provost Grant said: “I would like to take this opportunity to thank Coltness Car Club for their fundraising efforts and donations to charities here in Perth and Kinross and welcome the 2014 the Colin McRae Forest Stages rally which will take place in Aberfeldy later in the year. It was an honour to be asked to officially start the rally on 4 October and a coup for our area that such a high profile annual event has chosen Highland Perthshire year on year as its base.”
Coltness Car Club Chairman Jim Brown added: “Over the years we’ve enjoyed staging our event in Perthshire. We’ve had good support from Perth & Kinross District Council, the local Tayside Police, staff at the Forestry Commission, and most especially, the folk who live and work in and around Aberfeldy. This is just our way of saying ‘thanks’ to them for putting up with us. This year we will again be working with local voluntary organisations to raise even more funds for local needs.”
Planning is already well underway for this year’s 2014 Colin McRae Forest Stages rally which will take place this year on Saturday the 4th of October and will once again be the final round of the ARR Craib MSA Scottish Rally Championship, Scotland’s top motor sporting national series.
The one-day rally will be based in the town of Aberfeldy which will provide facilities for the rally start and finish and the competition will take place on Forestry Commission gravel roads in the area.
Last year, receipts at the various spectator car parks during the rally totalled in excess of £4000 with beneficiaries including Pitlochry Rotary Club and Birnam & Dunkeld Leisure group.