A charity which has helped struggling and impoverished families for more than 40 years is set to close next month - just months after its founder died.

Community activist and philanthropist Lilias Graham founded Braendam House in Stirlingshire in 1967, offering holidays in the home she had inherited from her aunt, having been shocked - so the story goes - when a boy in the Gorbals asked her: “What’s a holiday, miss?” …

To read more, see the full article. (The Herald. 13 January 2009)