Fundraising

Pupils at Sgoil Lionacleit have raised £1,250 for AccuVein scanners in the Western Isles.

The hospital device - costing around £3,500 - is used to find a vein more easily when people are required to give blood samples or have a drip inserted, meaning less pain, stress and bruising for the patient.

A collection at the school's Christmas assembly plus the proceeds of its annual Christmas concert has gone towards the local Accuvein Fund.

More cash was raised when pupils purchased the photographs taken of them in all their finery at the annual school dance.

Fundraising aimed at providing one of the handheld machines for every area in the Western Isles was started by the late Iain Morrison of Barvas, Lewis.

S6 pupils Innes MacDonald and Rachael MacDonald

Pupils raise funds for medical equipment

20 January 2016