A champagne piano recital held at Methven Castle to mark the late Queen’s Platinum Jubilee has raised £13,500, with most of the funds to aid families in conflict zones.
St John Scotland, also celebrating its 75th anniversary, in Perth and Kinross organised the event in May with the donations split between three charities – Rachel House hospice (of CHAS), Order of Malta’s Ukraine aid and refugee effort and St John Eye Hospital in Jerusalem.
In welcoming guests to the event, Methven Castle’s David Murdoch asked the audience to think about the plight of those with eye problems in Jerusalem and Palestine and the difficulty of running a hospital in such a conflict zone.
