UPDATED: "Scotland’s food and drink community stands firmly with the people of Ukraine": top Scottish chocolatier rallies support for Ukraine humanitarian appeal

**UPDATE, May 25, 2022: With two days to go until the auction closes at 9am on Friday May 27, funds stand at over £4000. The target is £5000 so there’s still time to get your £10 bids in: visit app.galabid.com/fundsforukraine **

Award-winning chocolatier, Sebastian Kobelt, has rallied support from a fantastic range of fellow independent Scottish food and drink producers and restaurants from across Scotland for an online auction to raise funds for the DEC Ukraine Appeal.

Sebastian says: “£100 could provide emergency food for two families for one month. We’re aiming to sell at least 500 tickets, so we can support 100 families.”

Hotel and restaurant prizes include dinner for two at the award-winning Aizle in Edinburgh; dinner, bed and breakfast for two at The Roman Camp Hotel in Callander; Lunch or dinner for four at Gary Maclean’s Creel Caught restaurant in Edinburgh’s St James Quarter; a private whisky tasting for two with Colin Hinds at Tipsie Midgie in Edinburgh; lunch for two at The Cellar in Anstruther; lunch for two at The Gannett in Glasgow, dinner for two at Locanda de Gusti and
a voucher for 63Taystreet Restaurant in Perth.

Food and drink prizes include an exclusive Glenmorangie Signet bottle; a hamper with a selection of artisan chocolates from award-winning chocolatier, Sebastian Kobelt; a side of salmon from Belhaven Smokehouse; a chutney masterclass with Jean Miller from the award-winning Millers Larder; a Perfect Porridge Pack from Hamlyns of Scotland; a voucher for the Cheese Byre Shop, plus prizes from Harajuku Kitchen, Fidra Gin, Edinburgh Fermentarium,
Chocolates of Glenshiel, Errington Cheese, Jump Ship Brewing, Spice Witch, Gullane Glogg Nuisance Drinks, Great Glen Charcuterie and Linlithgow Distillery.

Sebastian Kobelt said: “It’s impossible just to sit back and watch the war unfolding and do nothing. I have my own family and it’s heartbreaking to watch so many families being separated without knowing whether they will ever see each other again.

“The raffle will go a little way to show that Scotland’s food and drink community stands firmly with the people of Ukraine, and hopefully we can go some way to raise much-needed funds for people who are fleeing the war. Many thanks to all my fellow producers and restaurateurs who have generously donated prizes.”

“£100 could provide emergency food for two families for one month. We’re aiming to sell at least 500 tickets, so we can support 100 families.”

Tickets are on sale now at app.galabid.com/fundsforukraine.Tickets cost £10 each and 100% of the money raised will go to the DEC Ukraine Humanitarian Appeal.

The winners will be drawn at random on May 27, 2022, and winners will be contacted by email on June 3, 2022.