The Police Treatment Centres in Auchterarder have received a grant of £100,000 from LIBOR funding.
The government has allocated nearly £10m to help support 200,000 emergency services personnel and volunteers, funded through LIBOR fines. This funding will be focused on mental health, physical recuperation and bereavement support. It is the first time that LIBOR funding has gone to support emergency services personnel. Over £8m of the funding has gone to English charities, with the remaining £1.6m made available to the Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland governments.
Around 1500 serving & retired officers attend Castlebrae in Auchterarder every year. During their time here, these officers receive police-specific treatment for any on or off duty injury. The funding from Libor means that the Auchterarder centre can continue to offer high-class specific treatment within the very top of the range facilities, in order to promote better health & wellbeing for the officers and speed up their return to work.
Patrick Cairns the CEO of the PTC commented “We would like to thank the Scottish Police Authority for this very generous donation. We intend to put it to good use in improving our Treatment Centre at Castlebrae, and ensuring that the facilities and treatment remain of the highest quality, and we are able to continue to support all of the serving and retired officers who come to us for treatment and help, in the most effective way possible. It is important that we never stand still as an organisation and rest on our laurels, but always look for improvements and seek ways to do things better, and there is no doubt that this donation will help us to do this”
In these difficult financial times we need more than ever before to source new ways of raising money. Your help is needed now more than ever to ensure our police officers continue to receive the best quality care and treatment they so very much deserve. To find out how you can support the Police Treatment Centres,
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