2023 Sportsman's Charity Dinner
Friday 10th March 2023
Our 40th Anniversary dinner will be held on 10th March at Prestonfield House when our partner charities for the evening will be Lord's Taverners and the SAMH.
Our host for the evening is the fabulous Eilidh Barbour with Andy Nicol all set to be our auctioneer.
We are enormously pleased to be welcoming Sir Ian McGeechan and Sammi Kinghorn as our speakers for the evening.
We are very grateful to our principal sponsors for the evening Denis O. Brown Insurance Brokers as well as Prestonfield. Many thanks also to the drinks reception sponsors Edinburgh Gin, Vino and Black Isle Brewery for all their support.
We are greatly looking forward to a entertaining evening with with some notable differences. If you would like to join us and support some fantastic causes please email Sandy Robertson by clicking here. Tables of 10 or 12 are available at costs of £1250 and £1500 respectively.
Latest News
Sportsman's at Home - Euros 2021
We are delighted that long time friend of the Charity Dougie Donnelly has agreed to Chair our Euro 2021 virtual event on Friday 23rd April where he will take charge of our panel Shelley Kerr MBE, John Collins and Dave McPherson. Promises to be an excellent evening, hope you can make it.
Sportsman's at Home - Six Nations Warm-up
We were delighted to hold our first virtual event on the eve of the Calcutta Cup (5th Feb) and are very grateful to our panel of Jim Hamilton, Alex King, Nathan Hines and Chris Paterson who were expertly herded by our Chairman Al Kellock.
If you were one of the large number who attended, thank you. If you weren't, stay in touch and we will let you know what our next event is going to be shortly.
Our Second Charity Ambassador
The Directors of The Sportsman's Charity are very pleased to be able to announce that one of the UK's favourite comedians, Simon Evans has agreed to become our second ambassador.
Appointment of our First Charity Ambassador
We are delighted to announce that Chris Paterson MBE has been appointed as The Sportsman's Charity's first ambassador.
Event photos
Photo galleries available for recent events :-
The Sportsman's Charity Dinner 2020
The Sportsman's Charity Dinner 2019
2020 Charity Dinner
A very successful Sportsman’s Charity Dinner 2020 was held at Prestonfield on Friday 7th February 2020 on the eve of the Scotland v England Calcutta Cup match, the main sponsors being Carbon Financial Partners and Prestonfield House.
The dinner raised over £50,000. This allowed us to support both our featured charities, The Eve Appeal and Tom Smith Testamonial Fund along with many other charities.
For photos and more details of this event please look at the report in the Events section.
