Inverclyde Ukrainian Club SCIO

02/09/2026

📚 With Gratitude to Our First Book Donors👏❤️

Dear friends, we are truly grateful and happy that you answered our call to help us build the first 100 books for our Ukrainian-English community library.

We are delighted by your generosity. Little by little, our library is growing, and our shelves are filling with wonderful books, stories and knowledge.

A very special thank you to those who were among the first to bring their book donations:

Annette Thain, Kat Be, Nataliia Hinde, Maria Tsybulska & Maksym Tsybulskiy, Marina Gorbunova, John MacLeod, Jim Strachan, Olha Reshetova, Olena Chobotok.

Each of these books has now found a new home on our shelves — and, in a way, a second life. 📖❤️

We hope that every book will bring joy to its readers, inspire, open new worlds, share knowledge, or simply become a good companion in a quiet moment.

Thank you for helping us fill our library not only with books, but with possibilities. 🌿📚

Our first 100 books are beginning to find their place — and this is only the beginning. 💙💛

02/09/2026

🎨 As long as we create beauty, life goes on.

It feels especially symbolic that today, 1 September, at the beginning of a new school year, we have reached the end of our first fundraising initiative in support Children’s Art School of Mykolaiv.

Thanks to the generosity of our donors and everyone who contributed, we have been able to collect two boxes of professional art materials with a total value of around £8,000.

This is another reminder of how much quality art education costs today — and how important it is to support children who refuse to let war stop them from creating.

The boxes contain professional materials made in Britain, Germany and Portugal, including unusual hybrid art media: acrylic inks for textile work, concentrated watercolour sheets , charcoal paint pan set, pastel and graphite media, as well as materials for drawing, painting and mixed-media work.

On 4 September, these two heavy boxes will begin their journey to Mykolaiv. 🇺🇦

We will continue this initiative, seeking every possible source of fuel for the unique generator of ideas, talent and creativity — the next generation of Ukrainian artists.

And who knows… perhaps among these children, the new art that will one day become a vaccine capable of saving humanity from an epidemic of self-destruction will be born.

Inverclyde Ukrainian Club SCIO
with the support of Ротарі Академія Української Культури та Мистецтва - РАУ Rotary Academy of Ukrainian Culture and Art 💙💛

Our special thanks to our principal donors:

Anna and Marcus Whyte 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
Whyte Fraser & Co Solicitors🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
Allison McNeil 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
Vadim Mazur & Marina Antipatova🇺🇦
Rotary Academy of Ukrainian Culture & Art.🇺🇦

And, of course, our heartfelt thanks to the many, many others who responded to our fundraising appeal and contributed to making this initiative possible. 💙💛

01/09/2026

🌿 A New Step Forward for Inverclyde Ukrainian Club

Yesterday, we held our first Strategic Planning Session — an important step towards a stronger, more structured and sustainable future for our organisation.

A very special thank you to our Chair, Nataliia Hinde, for leading the session and giving us the opportunity to experience a high-level approach to strategic planning, drawing on her professional experience in strategic planning and international development. Natalia, we are truly grateful for your time, energy, knowledge and for creating such a warm and inspiring space for our team. ❤️

We would also like to thank our Project Coordinator, Marina Gorbunova, for preparing and presenting the strategic overview of our journey so far, our current position and our vision for the next three years and beyond. It gave us a shared starting point for the conversations and ideas that followed.

Thank you to everyone who took part, shared their thoughts and ideas and, most importantly, was brave enough to step into something completely new. For many of us, this was a new strategic experience — and taking part in this kind of work is an important part of our adaptation, learning and integration into Scottish society.

We are learning, growing and discovering new ways of working together. Every new experience brings us one step further.

We were very pleased to welcome Stephen McCabe, who joined our session, contributed to the discussion and has agreed to lead our Finance Committee. We are very grateful for his support.

A special thank you to our two gentlemen, Jim Strachan and Stephen McCabe, for bringing such wonderful energy, good humour and warm conversation to the evening. Their presence added a lovely balance and a very special atmosphere to the room. It was a truly wonderful group, full of energy, ideas, laughter and great conversation. ❤️

And a heartfelt thank you to Yuliia Chaika and Halyna Syroid for the delicious homemade treats that created such a warm and welcoming atmosphere around our work. 🧁❤️

This was only our first step — but an important one.

Together, we are not only building a community. We are building an organisation with a vision for the future.🇺🇦🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

01/09/2026

24/08/2026

24/08/2026

🇺🇦 Happy Independence Day, Ukraine!

Today, your skies breathe freedom, and your land stands strong through the courage and strength of your people. This is a day of dignity, resilience and hope for a brighter future. May freedom always remain a cherished and unbreakable value, and may every heart be filled with pride for our homeland. Wishing Ukraine the long-awaited peace, a bright and prosperous future, and lasting unity.
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24/08/2026