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Blue Cabin has been awarded a grant of £1,400 from the Margaret and Dorothy Gordon Memorial Fund at the Community Foundation North East. The fund was established to remember Margaret, an Aberdeen Council worker who was born in 1921, and her daughter Dorothy, who was a teaching assistant with nursery and reception aged children.
The grant is unrestricted, meaning that it can be used to support Blue Cabin’s core costs, supporting our ongoing work to develop and strengthen relationships between care experienced individuals and the people in their lives through creative activities.
Jenny Young, Director of Blue Cabin, said: “The decision to award this money to Blue Cabin means a huge amount to us. We’d like to thank Dorothy’s daughter, who created the fund, for choosing to support Blue Cabin and for her belief in the importance of our work.”
The fund was established in 2006 to remember Margaret and Dorothy Gordon. The Community Foundation North East, which administers the fund, shared the following information about Margaret and Dorothy:
Margaret Gordon was born in 1921 into a working class family in Aberdeen. She lost both her parents at a young age, lived her whole life in Aberdeen, left school at 14, lived through World War II as a teenager and was widowed twice by her early 40s. She worked for the Council Wages Department until she retired and had lived in the same council flat for 40 years when she died. A talented seamstress and crown green bowler, a positive matriarch with extremely modern views, her approach to life was always ‘just get on with it’ which she applied to every situation with a sharp wit.
Dorothy Gordon was Margaret’s eldest daughter. She left Aberdeen when she got married, living briefly in London, then settled in Yorkshire with her family. She went back to working part time once her three children were in school, first as a ‘dinner lady’, then becoming a teaching assistant with nursery and reception aged children – a job she adored. Diagnosed with MS in 1994 she continued to work part time when well enough, but cut back on her additional hobbies of costume making, amateur dramatics, sewing and baking.
After her death in 2012 the donor added her name to the fund to remember her, and it continued to grow little by little, month by month, until it reached the level to make grants in 2019.
We couldn’t do what we do without the support of people and organisations who have given generously to help us to realise our mission.
