FAMILY, AND PUBS

Bar but also began football coaching with Kinnoull Juniors and Jeanfield Swifts at the same time.” His passion for football continued and he joined Elgin City, as the assistant manager in November 2014 and taking over from the then manager Jim Weir in October 2017.

However, Gavin was also expanding his licensed trade business taking on both The Black Watch Inn, and Schiehallion Hotel. He says, “ I bought the hotel site with a couple of other guys and we refurbished the rooms and re-joined it back onto the pub.“

Then along came the pandemic.

His pub, The Fountain Bar became the hub of the ‘Feldy Roo’ project (named after Aberfeldy and Deliveroo). The idea was to supply older people in the area who were stuck at home isolating with a free cooked meal.

The day before lockdown was announced his team sprang into action. ”It was great to see it all come together so quickly. We began delivering just ten meals on the first day to use up excess food from the kitchen. It was just quite an instinctive response, but we put a film out on social media and it just exploded.”

Overnight it went from ten meals to 20 and within a couple of weeks, they were delivering 200 free meals twice a day, with the help of ten local businesses and at its height 140 volunteers. He adds, ““It really was a team effort, we didn’t ask anyone to get involved – they all volunteered. We had the best fed over seventies in Scotland.”