At 88, Rosemary Stevenson spends her days loading a lorry with furniture to sell in a tiny village in South Ayrshire.
It’s one of the many ways her team have raised more than £1.5m over the last 25 years to support elderly people in Ballantrae.
So far, they’ve started up a care agency and a daytime space to entertain elderly people in the coastal village.
But her ultimate goal is to build a care home with a dementia unit, which could cost over £500,000 due to rising construction costs.
The plan came about after Rosemary noticed that older residents in the village were forced to move away from family and friends to get overnight care.
“They’re going away from their families and their grandchildren, it’s not right,” she told Scotland News. “It doesn’t happen anywhere else.
“If you live in Girvan and you need a care home, you’re still in the same area. But this place is different.”
