Celebrating My Grand Hero on Grandparents Day

The Bower Team

Last Edited on Sep 29, 2017

What a wonderful few months it’s been! We’ve thoroughly enjoyed seeing all your entries in our My Grand Hero competition and it’s been lovely to celebrate all the amazing grandparents out there.

Every entry has been so heartwarming and shows us just how special grandparents are to each and every one of us. Whether they go by the name of Grandma, Grandpa, Nanny, Papa, Grampy, Granny – they’re all superheroes. This competition has really allowed us to celebrate them and recognise that their simple presence is immensely important and appreciated to their grandchildren and family.

While it’s been a lovely few months, we do of course have to announce our final winner! And what a day for it – Grandparents day! (We planned that well didn’t we!) But before we do, let’s have a little recap …

We of course had our previous winners;

Beccy Rowley, who was our July winner with her granddad Ron, who does a lot of volunteer work in his local community to keep himself busy and was also a torch bearer in the 2012 Olympics

Our August winner, Amanda Ward shared with us her Nan Betty who despite being disabled and suffering with terrible arthritis, still plays with her 27 grandchildren and 36 great grandchildren and is a hero to every single on of them.

September’s Grand Hero

Our final winner is Rebecca MacBain and her hero, her grandpa, Alasdair. Here is her entry:

“Grandpa is a grand hero because he always finds the energy to play a game of football or spin my son round and round in an exciting cuddle despite arthritis causing a little difficulty. He never moans about his condition he just gets on with life and is more than happy to join us on adventures! He has super powers because he knows the answer to any question at the drop of a hat and tells us all great stories about his life in the most captivating way!”
We love this spirit and energy to make those around him happy and smile, a special super power of a true grand hero!Rebecca went on to tell us more about her grand hero,

“Alasdair is 85 years young and is my husband’s father (as sadly mine has passed) but he is still very much #MyGrandHero! He has spent his life as an Economics Professor and has had several books published of his works – despite being one of the most intelligent people I know he is rather forgetful and will walk into a room looking for his glasses that might be on top of his head! He is an amazing grandpa to his 2 grandchildren and is always willing to get involved. Whether it’s posing for the camera in a silly way or getting down on his hands and knees to play with toy cars with a toddler – he is always up for a little giggle! He enjoys badminton and table tennis despite battling arthritis and terrible eczema without moaning and just gets on with life. He’s an absolute inspiration and I couldn’t be prouder to be a part of his family.”

The charity donation goes to…

Rebecca also got to choose a charity from the list to receive the £100 donation. She chose Community Christmas, and the reason behind it is lovely,

I would like to choose community Christmas as last year I remember meeting a lady who Alasdair and his wife Marion had invited round on Christmas day. Her husband had just died and her daughter was in a coma following a car accident. She would have spent the day alone if it wasn’t for them inviting her into their home. It made a massive difference to her and I will never forget that. This charity seemed the perfect choice in light of this.

Rebecca

Supporting charity

We have a duty of care at Bower. Our customers are making life changing decisions regarding finances in retirement so it’s our responsibility to help and offer support to advise if equity release is the right choice. With this in mind we wanted to help support some amazing Charites that care for the older community. So we donated £100 to three charities chosen by our winners.

We’d also like to say a big thank you to all the charities involved in the competition.

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