Children's hospice charity CHAS thanks Kevin Bridges for generous £20k donation

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Scotland’s children’s hospice charity CHAS has thanked funnyman Kevin Bridges after he donated £20,000 ahead of Christmas.The Clydebank comic and his wife Kerry generously handed the funds over to a host of charities in the area he grew up in and threw his support behind the work that they do in their communities.One of the charities to benefit from the pledge is the Children’s Hospices Across Scotland (CHAS) which will receive £20,000.

The iconic comic also pledged a whopping £30,000 donation to West Dunbartonshire Community Foodshare and a further £10,000 to Y Sort It, located in Clydebank.The charities being supported by Bridges and his wife includes: West Dunbartonshire Community Foodshare, based in Dumbarton, the youth charity Y Sort It, located in Clydebank; Bags Full of Love West Dunbartonshire, a charity providing filled backpacks for youngsters; children’s charity CHAS; Improving Lives – a Clydebank-based charity offering safe spaces for disabled people; Launch Foods, a Glasgow charity tackling food surplus and helping feed hungry kids; and DRC Youth Project in Glasgow.The donation to CHAS coincides with the recent launch of CHAS’s Christmas Appeal which aims to raise vital funds to help give the gift of time and precious memories to families of dying children.The funnyman said: “As parents ourselves now, the hearts of my wife and I go out more than ever to everyone at Robin House, Rachel House and all the children and families supported by CHAS services across Scotland.” Click here for more news and sport from West Dunbartonshire.

CHAS CEO Rami Okasha said: “Kevin has visited our children’s hospice, Robin House at Balloch, several times over the years and his ongoing support is hugely appreciated.“Each week in