The pub’s latest campaign funded a public defibrillator outside the pub, which has now been installed.
Recent donations have gone to Huntly Girl Guides and the Huntly branch of Cats Protection. A new weekly bingo session, the first of its kind in the town, has become a popular social night that also adds to the charity pot. A virtual duck race with a hamper of local shortbread and whisky is now raising funds for the Huntly Christmas Lights.
When heavy snow left people stuck at home, Mark and Sarah used their truck to deliver shopping and prescriptions for free. Mark says: “You may arrive as a stranger but you will definitely leave as a friend!”
More than 20 groups have benefited over the years, including Huntly Stroke Club, Huntly Area Cancer Support, Royal Aberdeen Children’s Hospital, Breast Cancer Now and Huntly FC Amateurs. The pub also donates selection boxes to the nursery and Easter eggs to the food bank.
Mark says he wouldn’t be happy if he couldn’t help someone else. That attitude has made The Royal Oak a family-run community space for the whole town.
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