Team to tackle Loch Ness to raise funds for adoptive families

Members of our Adoption and Kinship Team are lacing up their trainers and preparing to take on the Loch Ness Marathon on 29 September this year to raise money for Adoption UK Scotland.

Adoption UK Scotland provides a range of services throughout Scotland and work to get the right support at the right time, from childhood into adulthood, for everyone who can't grow up in their birth families. 

Our Adoption and Kinship Care Team Leader Robyn Elliot and Senior Practitioner Ian Burdett will be joined by local adopters Matt and Tessa to take on the scenic point-to-point route alongside Loch Ness, finishing in Inverness.

Robyn says: I’m not sure what I have let myself in for, but I’m reminding myself that it’s for a really good cause and monies raised will go towards supporting our adoptive families.

Adoption UK Scotland works to connect people across the adoption community, support adopters and adoptees, and work with them to influence the decisions that affect their lives. In the past, fundraising has helped to subsidise events such as a weekend residential event at Wiston Lodge, as well as other family events.

As an adopter, Matt finds such events very useful, saying: "When East Lothian Council reached out asking if anyone wanted to run this marathon, I jumped at the chance. Having not run a marathon since adopting it was a great excuse to get back into it. Also, after adopting our daughter just over four years ago, Adoption UK and East Lothian Council arranged events has been a great opportunity for us and our daughter to meet other adopters and find others we can share with." Tessa agrees, adding: "Adoption UK have been hugely supportive though out our adoption journey so I am delighted to be running my first marathon for this worthy cause."

Sponsor Ian, Robyn, Matt and Tessa as part of Adoption UK Scotland’s team through Justgiving and make a difference for adoptive families: