The Projects of Rotary District 1120
With a bit of help from The Rotary Club of Gibraltar!
Compiled and edited by Rtn Noel Tatt
Typeset by Rtn Liz Scrase THE ROTARY CLUB OF ASHFORD Royal National Lifeboat Institution Contact: JOHN HARDIE Rotary Entertains (tea and entertainment for local needy [email protected] people) The Salvation Army (Ashford) Fund raising SARA (Severn Area Rescue Association). Carol Singing at Christmas Shopmobility A dedicated Joint Carol service with Probus Southern Housing Group Charity Golf Day St John Ambulance Brigade Rotary Ramble – North Downs Way Student Support KM Big Quiz Raffle Tenterden Disabled Association Street collections Try Angle Kent County Show YMCA Ashford KCC Community Wardens’ Football Tournament Practical support for good causes Play Pump in Kwa Zulu Natal (Ram Pumps) The Rotary Foundation Shelter Boxes Leukaemia research Umtha Welanga (HIV/AIDS project) Demelza Children’s Hospice Toilet Block funding at Sophie Phewa School at Adams Children in Need Mission Children’s Chronic Arthritis Association Support for Indian Hospital train. Make a Wish Support for Indian Pharmacy Student. Assisting those with severe learning difficulties Help with raising funds for new Scout Hall Hands on support for Club Projects Interact Club formation in local schools Youth Services Open Day Rotary Young Chef Local Schools purchasing and filling Aqua boxes Youth Services Open Day Computer Project with contact club in Amiens Interior decorating Health Visitor Training at the Care Line Crisis Centre in Rotary Entertains Assegai (KwaZululand) Friends of William Harvey hospital Regular Exchange visits to/from twin Clubs in Amiens and Supply of school governors Vlissingen Frequent joint meetings with partners and Ashford Inner Financial support for good causes Wheel Ashford Blind and Partially sighted group Ashford Gingerbread Hands on support for District projects Ashford Air Cadets (Provision of new Mace) Interact Club formation in local schools Blind and Partially Sighted Club Rotary Young Chef Canine partners District Fun Day CARE (Women’s refuge) Children in Need (Street Collection) Financial support for District projects CROP - Citizens’ Rights for Older People Usborne Dictionaries for local primary schools Community Service Award (Ashford) The Rotary Foundation East Kent NHS Trust – scanner for gynaecological unit Friends of William Harvey Hospital *** Hearing Dogs for the Deaf Hi Kent! THE ROTARY CLUB OF Home Start ASHFORD EARLY BIRD Kent Association for the Blind (KAB) Contact: Valerie Webb 07753606078 Kent County Show (Manning the gate) Kent & Sussex Air Ambulance Fund raising Kent MS Therapy Centre (part funded by District Grant) Christmas Party,Annual Barbecue Provided cast for pantomime) Early Bird Fun Day Kenward Trust Linden School Practical support for good causes Paula Carr Trust Sailing Day for Young Carers Prostate Cancer Research Party for Home Start, Sure Start, Chill with Dad THE ROTARY CLUB OF THE ROTARY CLUB OF BATTLE cont. ASHFORD EARLY BIRD cont. Shelter Boxes Financial support for good causes Shoe Box Scheme Debra,Sea Cadets Air Cadets Practical support for good causes Kennington Girl Guides Driving rota to take Blind People to weekly Club Young Carers Taking elderly to Christmas lunches Casa Support Organising Annual Senior Citizen Party Youth at Risk Message in a bottle Impact Providing publicity For Other Good Causes through Club’s Network Hands on support for Club Projects Supporting Beautiful Battle Project Young Farmers North School Helping other local charities Woodchurch Scout club Community Centre Christmas tree For the Community Kennington Scouts Two good speakers each month. Bethersden Brownies Quarterly-in-house speakers The Woodchurch Brownies Visits to gardens, houses Ashford Amateur Boxing club Go Cart Racing Bethersden Rainbows The Woodchurch Girl Guides Aqua Boxes Financial support for good causes Financial Support for the following:- Hands on support for District projects St Michael Hospice Usbourne Dictionaries Martha House Group Home Providing Playgroup equipment Financial support for District projects Local Community transport (financial support) Bill Huntley Endowment Foundation The Heart Foundation The Rotary Foundation Cancer Research Send a Cow Gap Year Support to Travel abroad Children’s International Aid Bexhill College IB Student’s trip to Tanzania Make a wish Cruise Mencap *** Mind The Quicken Trust THE ROTARY CLUB OF BATTLE Sussex Association for Spinal Bifida and Contact: Tom Tagoe Hydrocephalus e-mail: [email protected] East Sussex Disability Pestalozzi Village Trust Fund raising Jubilee Sailing Trust Weekly Raffles at Club Meetings Safari Lunch Hands on support for Club Projects Santa’s Little Helpers (High Street pre Christmas Collec- Support to Battle Born Fire Society tions) Rotary Awareness Exhibition each year. Club Concerts Support to 1066 Rotarct Club. Cinema Shows Come and Dine with Me Annual Quiz Night with Inner Wheel Youth Speak Competition. Collection Boxes in Pubs and Public Places Young Caterer Competition. Name a Teddy Bear Competition Support to Girl’s Refuge in Ghana Ball Room Dancing Club’s Sport Actives with Other Club in the area. Car Rally 5th Tuesday Social Evening with Spouse and guest. Flavours of Ghana Coffee Mornings Walks for Heart Foundation THE ROTARY CLUB OF BATTLE cont. THE ROTARY CLUB OF BEACHY HEAD cont. Christmas Lights to decorate shops & High Street Club Shop on High Street. Hawker Market Girls Group, Nairobi (Manufacture of solar Transport for meals for the elderly heaters post political disturbances) Transport to local pantomime Hearing and sight testing for pre school children in Fiji (in Young musicians’ concert (pending) conjunction with RC Suva North) School links between and Battle School and Dutch School Hands on support for Club Projects Regular visits to/from Dutch contact club Mock interviews for School Leavers, Causeway School
Hands on support for District projects Financial support for District projects Blood pressure/ cholesterol test (stroke awareness) The Rotary Foundation
Financial support for District projects *** Polio Eradication Programme Financial support for local youngsters on community THE ROTARY CLUB OF BECKENHAM projects (UK and overseas) Contact: Nick Randall Make a Wish Foundation [email protected] The Rotary Foundation Fund raising *** Christmas Carol collecting outside of supermarket British Legion Poppy organising local campaign and THE ROTARY CLUB OF BEACHY HEAD street collecting Contact: Brian Smith Sponsored walk – South Downs Way Email [email protected] Sponsored walk – St Christopher’s Hospice Quiz Night Fund raising Christmas Carol collecting around streets It’s a Knock Out Hog Roast Charity Golf Day The Safari Lunch Christmas Tombola in main Shopping Centre Display at Beckenham Town Centre ‘Fun on the Green’ Go Kart Challenge Abseiling Charity Fun Forest Cycle Ride Caledonian Night and Burns Supper Cameo opera Evening Golf – Texas Scramble Wine Tasting Practical support for good causes MacMillian Cancer Appeal Practical support for good causes Collecting tools for Tools for Self Reliance Financial support for good causes Industry Challenge at local School Shinewater School Playground Project Annual presentation of Cup for ‘best French student’ at Eastbourne Cultural Community Network local school Contribution to Eastbourne MS Society towards a The Shelter Box display at local church ‘International Day’ Mini Bus Participate in local church ‘Christmas Tree Festival’ East Sussex Foster Care Assoc. St Michaels Hospice Financial support for good causes Eastbourne Allotment Assoc. (Allotments for the disabled) Mencap Shelter Box Matching Grant Project for school in South Africa Make a wish Mustard Seed Boxes Children in Need The British Legion Sri Lanka fishing boat (after tsunami) St Christopher’s Hospice Seychelles Sail Training Assoc. Tools for Ethembeni Training Centre RSA (In conjunction Hands on support for Club Projects with RC Kloof and a Matching Grant) Mock Interviews at local School THE ROTARY CLUB OF BECKENHAM THE ROTARY CLUB OF BEXLEY cont. Contact: Andy Knight Hands on support for District projects [email protected] Stroke Awareness Fund raising Financial support for District projects Collections at ASDA, Bexleyheath The Rotary Foundation Annual Carol Float Collection Eradicate Polio Practical support for good causes *** Support to the Borough’s carol concert at Hall Place, Bexley. THE ROTARY CLUB OF BEXHILL Annual support for Stroke awareness. Contact: Roger Batey Support for The Danson Festival [email protected] Financial support for good causes Fund raising Provision of Food Parcels at Christmas. Annual Community Walk Kidney Research, Macmillan Nurses, MS and Children Annual Spring Lunch for international projects in Need Christmas card donations Provision of artificial lawn for severely disabled youngest Christmas street and store collections who can only crawl. Annual Golf Day (June) Ellenor Hospice Dream Connection Practical support for good causes District 1120 flood appeal Reading partners in eight primary Schools Hughes Syndrome Love in a Box The British Heart Foundation Kids Out Aviva Breakthrough Breast Cancer 1066 Specials Football Club Fire Brigade Youth scheme Kent & Sussex Air Ambulance Financial support for good causes Demelza House ShelterBox District 1120 Wheelchair fund Life Straws Children’s Kidney Trust Aquabox Girl Guides & numerous young people for trips abroad The Mustard Seed Charity Greenwich & Bexley Hospice Local & National Charities The RNLI 1066 Specials Football Club Jaipur Limb Centre Aqua, Emergency & Shelter boxes Hands on support for Club Projects Falconer Trust Hearing Aids Hope and Homes Blind Driving Impact Youth Speaks Pestalozzi Children’s Village Trust Annual Senior Citizens’ Party Send a Cow Visually Impaired Sight Savers Health Promotion Days Sound Seekers Young Enterprise Vision Aid Overseas Mission Aviation Fellowship Hands on support for District projects Medicin Sans Frontiers Attendance at District Conference Life Straws Schools 4 all in Africa Financial support for District projects The Rotary Foundation Hands on support for Club Projects Eradicate Polio Overall management of the Bexley Veterans Club, for which we are the Trustees. *** THE ROTARY CLUB OF BEXLEY cont. THE ROTARY CLUB OF BROADSTAIRS cont. Support to Bexleyheath School Interact Club Driving for the Bexleyheath Club for the Disabled. to the circus which visit is greatly appreciated. Collection and delivery of spectacles for Sight Savers (30,000 pairs so far!) Each year the Club organizes a Winter Tea Party for 150 Support to Welling Round Table on Bonfire night. or so of our local more elderly folk with food/entertain- Dine Outs at local restaurants ment etc and this is greatly appreciated by all who attend. Snooker matches against local Rotary Clubs and the Vets Club *** Theatre trips Club Rotary golf events THE ROTARY CLUB OF BROMLEY Club Treasure Hunt Contact : Anthony Galley Anthony.galley@bluefingroup.co.uk Financial support for District projects The Rotary Foundation Fund Raising Mercy Ships Mara Fun Day Charity Golf Day *** Foundation Christmas Cards Christmas Puddings THE ROTARY CLUB OF BROADSTAIRS Christmas Calendars Contact: Mike Knill End Polio Fund Raiser [email protected] The Mayor’s Day The Schools’ Day Fund Raising Hyacinths for the Blind Outing Christmas Carol Concert Sea-front Fayre Charity Quiz This event was run by the club for many years raising Christmas Sleigh Collections thousands of pounds The Tree of Lights for local charities. It incorporated a ‘Craft’ tent – side- Maypole Project shows/games, kiddies train etc. The event was phased Used Cartridges out a couple of years ago as it was slowly becoming less Wine Tasting – charity event popular and very hard work to run. Barbecue
50’s/60’s Charity Music Night at the Marlowe Theatre, Practical Support for Good Causes Canterbury. Very successful one-off project which raised Old Folks’ Cream Tea a considerable amount of money. Thresher’s Day Nursery outing and Christmas Party Know your blood pressure Day Christmas Sleigh. During December each year we have Young Chef Project both static collections and evening tours around different Kids Out areas of Broadstairs. These events are very popular with Vocational visits – Courts of Justice, Chislehurst Caves the public who genuinely comment that they are pleased Collection of stamps and used spectacles to see us. Good collections are taken every year. Financial Support for Good Causes Pantomime Visit. Each February the Club organizes a Borehole Freshwater project in Kenya visit to a local pantomime for about 100/200 local mainly Life Education (Drugs Awareness Programme) special needs children. This is always appreciated by Bromley Youth Music Trust those attending. Bromley Women’s Aid Falcon Spartek Gymnastics Kids Out. For many years Broadstairs Club have orga- CASPA nized a ‘Kids Out’ event and for the last 5/6 years this has MENCAP taken the form of a visit to a circus in Thanet. A number Demelza House of other Thanet Rotary Clubs support this project and we Tools for self reliance take about 100/1200 local mainly special needs children Michael Project (families and street kids in Zimbabwe) THE ROTARY CLUB OF BROMLEY cont. THE ROTARY CLUB OF CANTERBURY FOREST OF BLEAN cont. Hands on Support for Club Projects Club visit to Voss (Norway) The Woodland Walk (www.rotarywalk.org.uk) Presentation of Rotary service awards Joint International Project with Zelst (Holland) Practical support for good causes Theatre and restaurant visits Enterprise Scheme Weekly Bridge Club Refurbishing playground equipment Club historical archiving project Strode Park Landscaping New members’ mailing initiative Financial support for good causes Financial Support for District Projects No Christmas cards - donation in place Aqua Box Shelter Box Hands on support for Club Projects The Rotary Foundation Girl Guide Cookery Challenge Day out for autistic children *** Young carers’ Annual Pantomime trip Valentine’s Evening out in conjunction with Age Concern THE ROTARY CLUB OF for elderly couples cooked and served by club members BROMLEY-BICKLEY New Home for Sea Cadets Contact: George Banks [email protected] Hands on support for District projects Presentation of Shelter Box to local schools Practical support for good causes Story Time – a weekly reading scheme to a group of Financial support for District projects primary school children. Male club members involved in The Rotary Foundation this era of one-parent families *** *** THE ROTARY CLUB OF THE ROTARY CLUB OF CANTERBURY SUNRISE CANTERBURY FOREST OF BLEAN Contact: Steve Root Contact: Tom Lynch [email protected] [email protected] Fund raising Fund raising Boot Fair Charity Barn Dance, Auction of Promises (selling donated bric-a-brac) E-Bay Auction Father Christmas Fund Raising Stone the Crows (street collections with Canterbury Lions) Hats off to Wurzel Cocktail party for Sea Cadets Wit and Wisdom (joint organisation with other service Sponsored Cycle Ride clubs in Canterbury) Charity Walk Street collections at Christmas Practical support for good causes Street collections when emergencies arise Music Festival Tent Collection Art Exhibition (collecting then passing on left behind Three peaks Challenge equipment to local youth groups) Promenade Concert Save Canterbury Cathedral Big Band Concert (Volunteering our time to sell raffle Cycling through France tickets in Canterbury for this charity) Annual Frugal meal The Woodland Walk Wine and Wisdom evening (Organised by Canterbury Cluster Rotary Round Britain Cycle Ride Clubs www.rotarywalk.org.uk) Tin shaking at Christmas THE ROTARY CLUB OF THE ROTARY CLUB OF CATFORD cont. CANTERBURY SUNRISE cont. North Kent Bike-athon Collections for British Humanitarian Aid Human Fruit Machine for LOPSIG (Collecting donations from local people Special Comment – when collecting, dress up in some- and delivering them to the charities thing different – a costume makes all the difference. Canterbury distribution centre) Teaching young people outdoor skills Practical support for good causes (organising a one day training event, 999 Club holiday accommodation for children through the allowing skilled volunteer instructors Coomb Trust from other non Rotary organisations Harambee for Kenya to pass on their skills to young people) Street collections for Mencap, Marie Curie and other charities Financial support for good causes Life Straws for the Congo Playing for Success Shelter Boxes for disaster areas Aquabox Organisation of networking evenings for local charities Shelterbox Renovation of Alms houses in Lewisham Cancer Patient Support Distribution of sleeping bags for homeless Odyssey Free distribution of 500 Usborne dictionaries to schools (Charity supporting people with cancer www.odyssey.org.uk ) Financial support for good causes 999 Club for the young Hands on support for Club Projects Holidays abroad for ‘Life threatened children’ Formation of Interact Club University Education sponsored for ‘Special Cases’ Twinning with RC Amiens Cathédrale (France) Sponsored boys club Charter night Odyssey Sponsored school in Tanzania and provided computer equipment Hands on support for District projects Rotary Fun Day Hands on support for Club Projects Rotary meals on wheels Financial support for District projects Wireless sets for bed-ridden Polio Eradication Clearing river Quaggy of debris Meals for elderly at Christmas *** Parties for lonely in residential homes Country coach outings for OAPs THE ROTARY CLUB OF CATFORD Contact: Alan Ash Pantomime visit for the lonely [email protected] Inter school orchestral music competition 1951/2007 – Founded, financed, managed a housing Fund raising association for older people housing fifty-six tenants Catford Dog Stadium – Rotary sponsored meetings and races Hands on support for District projects Boxing Evenings Kids Out Casino Nights RYLA Live Jazz Concert District Fun Day Dinner and Dances Stroke awareness Raffle for a motor car Wine Tastings Financial support for District projects Quiz Evenings The Rotary Foundation Barbecues Polio eradication Christmas collections House to house collections *** Father Christmas at Supermarkets Highway Robbery THE ROTARY CLUB OF CHATHAM THE ROTARY CLUB OF CHESTFIELD Contact: John Nowers cont. [email protected] Collect cash at Supermarkets at Christmas Fund raising Shake tins at Tankerton Christmas Fayre Christmas float collection Annual Wine and Wisdom Evening Race Evening Experts at Car Parking Quiz Nights Demelza House large Christmas card Practical support for good causes Golf Event Gifts for Blythswood along with packs of continence pads “Second to None” at Hazlitt Helped two young ladies raise funds for African country Supplied Usbourne dictionaries to a primary school Practical support for good causes Distribute tickets for Mount Ephraim Fireworks display to Manning gates at County Show children Arthritis care minibus driving Financial support for good causes Financial support for good causes Financed a young carers’ group to attend a fireworks Windows Children’s home display Love in a Box Neonatal charity to counteract Strep B AquaBox Bought Christmas lights for the Chestfield Roundabout Sponsor a child in Africa through the International Refurbished a statue in Canterbury Cathedral Childrens’ Fund Donated football shirts to Tankerton Under Nines SSAFA [Soldiers,Sailors and Airmens Families Associa- Helping 6th Whitstable Scouts to buy a minibus tion Forces Help] Financed a challenging sailing course to help young Marie Curie offenders to rehabilitate No More Landmines Bought talking books for a blind school Help for Heroes Dogs’ Trust Summer Funday Helping financially a member of the club who is building a Hands on support for Club Projects school in Tanzania in his gap year Visits to and from French contact club Visits to and from Danish contact club Hands on support for Club Projects Age Concern outing Extensive work at Whitstable Hospital gardens Mock interviews qt schools Decorating wards at Christmas at Community Hospital Young Enterprise Valentine’s Ball President Elect’s Christmas Party Hands on support for District projects Progressive suppers Young Musicians Treasure Hunts Fun Day Croquet matches Youth Speaks Ten pin Bowling Donkey Derby Financial support for District projects Host contact club annually Polio Eradication Financial support for District projects *** Mercy ships Shelter Boxes THE ROTARY CLUB OF CHESTFIELD Flood victims in England Contact: Hilary Brian [email protected] ***
Fund raising Bi-ennial Charity Golf Day Annual Non Coffee Morning Master at Arms at Club meetings Run stall at The Whitstable Regatta THE ROTARY CLUB OF CHISLEHURST THE ROTARY CLUB OF CHISLEHURST Contact: Robert Goldsmith cont. [email protected] St. Edwards Church, Mottingham. Mottingham Fund raising Community Day The Firework Event Dovetail Two Fulfillment of pledge for new Various Christmas collections ambulance. Charity for disabled people run bydisabled people. Practical support for good causes McMillan Cancer Support Cooking breakfast on three occasions for up to 150 Home Start Support for Mottingham families experiencing homeless at The Whitechapel Mission (this means leav- difficulties. ing home at 5.0 am) Bromley Welcare (FreeWheelers) Rotalink Party for the house-bound elderly of Mottingham Donation as a thank you to FreeWheelers and Chislehurst. A triumph! Bromley Women’s Aid - Donation for Christmas for Mottingham & Bromley Children’s Project Battered Wives British Heart Foundation-Top up for President’s 60 Under-privileged children taken to see Wizard of Oz at Harold donation Bob Hope Theatre Seafarers UK -Cheque presented on the evening. CRISP (Chislehurst Rotary in Schools Project) Chislehurst Active Age Centre - New kitchen equipment. Medway Rotary Club/Demelza Euro Disney holidays for Year 5 of 4 local schools congregate to give stage shows, families with life limited children. run workshops and provide food from different countries Robert Radcliffe sponsored cycle ride - Odyssey – a project involving primary schools likely to be of (cancer charity). considerable interest to many clubs. Sarah Newnham: Service Project in Namibia with Rotalink Party New Year party for the house-bound Girlguiding UK elderly of Mottingham and Chislehurst. SENSE Charity gave a talk, cheque presented Cruise on River Thames ~75 House-bound elderly of Hearing Dogs for Deaf People Mottingham and Chislehurst taken to Prostate Cancer Charity Greenwich to board a cruise boat for a trip up-river. Tea St. Edward’s Church, Mottingham Pledge served on board. towards a new bus The Chislehurst Fair organized by the Rotary club every Help for Heroes with other Rotary clubs, who meet at June – a community event, non money making Chislehurst Golf Club, Will Wheeler WW taking part in Youth Music Theatre Financial support for good causes Jubilee Sailing Trust International Contact: David Brown [email protected] *** Adult education in Cajamarca in Northern Peru School for All in Africa THE ROTARY CLUB OF CRANBROOK School equipment for the Valetta Christian Academy , & HAWKHURST Lusaka, Zambia. Contact: Peter Jones Hospital equipment for Nathon, Koi Samui, Thailand. [email protected] The Rotary Jaipur Limb Project. Proposed medical support for Children in Distress, Fund raising Bucharest, Romania. Boot Fairs, Auctions of Promises Support for No more Land Mines, Gap Year Charity work Classic Car Show in Ecuador, the elimination of Polio, Smile International, The Horse Show Shelter Boxes for the Australian Bush Fire emergency Parking at Ladies’ Golf and the earthquake in L’Aquila, Italy. Barbecues Alzheimer’s Society, Leonard Cheshire Disability .9.08 Tea Parties Replacement Flowtron Christmas Collections Replacement Flowtron Pump & Accessories Race Night Young Carers, Bromley , Donation toward a new carpet Quiz Nights originally wanted to refurbish their courtyard. Sponsored Walks Petts Wood Playgroup: Specially adapted bicycle for Treasure Hunts children with special needs. 100 Club THE ROTARY CLUB OF CRANBROOK & THE ROTARY CLUB OF HAWKHURST cont. CROWBOROUGH Tombola Contact John Burton Sponsored Horse Riding [email protected]
Practical support for good causes Fund Raising Old Folks’ Entertainment Sponsored Golf Day Stroke Awareness Christmas Tin Rattling Carol Singing Race Night The Blind Club Carnival Float
Financial support for good causes Practical Support for good causes Hawkhurst Youth Club Carnival Day Marshalling Bedgebury Pinetum Seat Old Folks Party Cranbrook Museum Stroke Club Financial Support for good causes Hawkhurst Cottage Hospital Wheel Chair projects Vision Aid Local Junior Football League Defibrillator Local Scout Association Samaritans Red Cross Ambulance Hands on support for club projects Dutch contact club visit Hands on support for Club Projects Pantomime Old Folks’ Outings Angley School Farm Hands on support for District projects Stroke Club Fun Day Christmas Story Competition Financial support for District projects Financial support for District projects Rotary Foundation The Rotary Foundation Shelter Box
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THE ROTARY CLUB OF CRAYFORD THE ROTARY CLUB OF Contact: Rtn: Graham Magness DARENT VALLEY [email protected] Contact: Alan Denton 01 322 279 793 Fund raising Christmas Carols collection - static and taking a float Fund raising around the local streets Barbecues Hi-cycle - a sponsored walk or cycle around the same House to house collections with Father Christmas route, usually in conjunction with local Scout groups to Stall at Fun Day raise funds for international projects. Collections on Market Days Local funday including duck races Quiz Nights A Night at the Dogs - a mainly social event at the local Silent Auctions greyhound racing track Weight-loss competition Silent auctions Collections at Asda Supermarket Theme evenings - in conjunction with our Inner Wheel Semi-professional Music Halls biennially club and based on a particular country (we got the idea Wine and Cheese evening from the Rotary Club of Isle of Sheppey) Major raffles Cheese and wine evenings *** Race Nights Sportsmen’s Evening with dinner THE ROTARY CLUB OF THE ROTARY CLUB OF DARTFORD cont. DARENT VALLEY cont. Good Companions Singing Group Concert Practical support for good causes Mediterranean Evening of Light Opera Support for local school library Caribbean Evening of Steel Drums Help for {Parents’ consortium Easter Concert (1930-40’s music) Distribution of Usbourne Dictionary 75th Birthday Part with Inner Wheel’s 60th Collection for Aquabox Charity Golf Day ShelterBox promotion Human Fruit Machine
Financial support for good causes Financial support for good causes Multiple Sclerosis - Swanley Unit Fishermen’s Mission Ellenor Foundation St John Ambulance Brigade Anthony Nolan Trust Demelza Capital Appeal Demelza House Darent Valley Hospital Lollipop Appeal British Heart Foundation Hearing Dogs for the Deaf Water Project in Bengal Prostate Cancer Three matching grants in Kolkata British Heart Foundation Water Aid Hands on support for Club Projects Old Folk from local nursing home Dinners and Buffets for prospective members and Kent Association for the Blind partners Simon Paul Foundation Hosting Group Study Exchange dinners Make a Wish DSG Sensory Garden District Simplified Grant Toy Library Hands on support for District projects Attendance at District Conference Hands on support for District projects Hosting GSE members Financial support for District projects Attendance at District Conference The Rotary Foundation
Financial support for District projects *** The Rotary Foundation Polio Eradication THE ROTARY CLUB OF DEAL Contact: Roger Evans *** [email protected]
THE ROTARY CLUB OF DARTFORD Practical support for good causes Contact: Lynn Mitchell Working on project with Royal College of Dental [email protected] Surgeons
Fund raising Financial support for good causes Curry evenings, Cottage pie evenings Clean Water Source for village in Zambia President’s Tea Party Kernal of a school for a leper village Fish lunch Decent sanitary facilities for a village in Africa Wine and Cheese Supplied £1,000 brass instruments for Betteshanger Chocolate Evening Junior Brass Band Pudding and Pie Auction Barbecue Hands on support for Club Projects Medieval Banquet Send a cow (or goat) to Africa Carol Singing (outside the Bull & Vic with Father Christ- mas) Hands on support for District projects Dartford Symphony Orchestra Concert Purchase and distribution of 400 Usbourne dictionaries Old Time Music Hall for eight Primary schools in Deal Sponsor a Song Evening Interact clubs THE ROTARY CLUB OF DEAL cont. THE ROTARY CLUB OF EASTBOURNE AM Financial support for District projects Contacts The Rotary Foundation Chris Brenchley: [email protected] David Tritton: [email protected] *** Fund Raising THE ROTARY CLUB OF DOVER Race & Casino Nights Contact: Phil Janaway The Tree of Light [email protected] International Meals Opera Nights Fund raising Stationary Bike Rides Christmas collections B-B-Q & Auction Evenings Fund raising evenings Quiz Nights Cycling with Calais RC to raise funds for charity Draw Ticket Sales Annual indoor Bowling fixture. Win A Car Achievers’ Award Evening Practical support for good causes Marie Curie Collections Practical Support For Good Causes Assisting Dover Girls’ Grammar School with career Collection of used spectacles advice. Christmas hampers for Refuge Breakaway Weekend – For physically and mentally Financial support for good causes challenged young people at a specially adapted centre Supporting some local children and such groups in partnered with Interact and SASBAH purchase of equipment Aqua boxes with Ratton School Interact Club Kent and Sussex Air Ambulance, Children’s Christmas Party Prostate Cancer, Kids Out at Eastbourne Miniature Steam Railway Demelza, Achievers Award Evening SASBAH Hands on support for Club Projects Cancer Research Relay for Life Assisting Dover Girls’ Grammar School with career advice. Financial Support For Good Causes Evening meeting devoted to prospective new members. SASBAH Members entertained by successive Presidents on their Quicken Trust respective home territories with much success. Adoption of Justine and Grandmother in Kabubbu The Anthony Nolan Trust Uganda ICC Missions in Ukraine Hands on support for District projects Water supply to Kasangati Hospital in Uganda with Support for “Health for All” Altenburg link Club Promoting Youth Speaks Jaipur Limb Project Promoting Rotary Young Chef Sovereign Swimming Club for the disabled Supporting and engaging with Interact Club based at the Mini bus for local MS Society Dover Girls’ Grammar School Chestnut Tree House Children’s Hospice RYLA Financial support for District projects Supporting training for AIDS staff in South Africa Financial & Hands On Support For District Projects Purchase of Aqua & Shelter Boxes The Rotary Foundation Make A Wish *** No More Land Mines Sale of Christmas Puddings
*** THE ROTARY CLUB OF THE ROTARY CLUB OF EASTBOURNE EASTBOURNE SOVEREIGN cont. Contact: John Voice [email protected] House-to-house Christmas collection via motor trailer, tree, carol music Fund raising Foreign coins collection, 25,000 envelopes distributed, Providing parking on St Andrew’s playing field for East- banks/shops as drop-off points bourne Airbourne (at time of Euro launch, coins from holidays collected) Selling raffle tickets at Arndale Centre The Tree of Light with Eastbourne AM Practical support for good causes Progress towards formation of an Interact club Practical support for good causes ShoeBox The Tree of Light provides a decorated Christmas tree Greenhouse for Council Home for Mentally handicapped outside The Congress Theatre Financial support for good causes Financial support for good causes Ambulance for Kabubbu, Uganda 200 Usbourne Dictionaries for primary school children Funding of two years’ schooling for girl in Bulawayo Published book “Reading for the Blind” in concert with Provision of furniture for schools in Amreli, India German contact club Provision of water and sanitation services for Amreli Jaipur Artificial Limbs Hands on support for Club Projects Girl Guide sent to India Marshalling at Cancer Run for Life Make a Wish Marshals at St Andrew’s Walk Maritime Volunteer Service Christmas dinner for the Blind Association each year Royal National Institute for the Blind Sequel Trust Hands on support for District projects Eastbourne Allotments Attendance at District Conference Rowing Boat for Lifesaving/Rescue at Birling Gap Sea Cadets Minibus Financial support for District projects Hazel Court Hydrotherapy Pool The Rotary Foundation Hands on support for Club Projects *** Tripartite - annual rotational weekend with contact clubs in France and Belgium THE ROTARY CLUB OF EASTBOURNE Twice-yearly Outings for party of 20 senior citizens from Contact: Ron Genty care homes [email protected] “Alone at Christmas” (30th year) 120 Senior Citizens enjoy Christmas dinner with club president etc Fund raising Kids Out Day, Stroke Awareness Day Recycling used printer cartridges, mobile telephones (for Fun Walk Day “No More Land Mines”) Reading Help for Schools Annual Jazz Concert (19th year) Centenary Project - Life Histories produced for Care Fun Walk Day Home Residents Annual Carol Concerts (44th year, two performances Eastbourne Music and Arts Festival each year) East Sussex Music Service - Musical Extravaganza Caribbean Evening – Pevensey Project (oncology ward Hearing Dogs for the Deaf at DGH) Charity Golf Days Ball in the Fall – Pevensey Project RYLA Abseiling down the Congress Theatre Duke of Edinburgh’s Award Charity Tombolas Crimestoppers Charity Golf Days Gliding Croquet Matches Greenhouse for Council Home for Mentally handicapped Bowling Matches Polytunnel Project (for kids playground) Fly Fishing Competitions Assisting local Rotary Clubs with their projects and fund Car Boot Sale raising, e.g. Tree of Light (CRUSE etc.) THE ROTARY CLUB OF EASTBOURNE THE ROTARY CLUB OF ELTHAM cont. PHOENIX Contact: Peter Green Hands on support for District projects [email protected] No More Land Mines Practical support for good causes Financial support for District projects Supporting local women’s refuge Aquabox Christmas party for children who are victims of domestic ShelterBox violence Mercy Ships - Offshore Mobile Hospitals IMPACT Foundation - Onshore Mobile Hospitals Financial support for good causes Wheelchair Foundation Demelza Hospice Care for Children Polio Eradication International Aid Trust Jaipur Limb Project *** Hands on support for District projects THE ROTARY CLUB OF EDENBRIDGE Attendance at District Conference Contact: Brenda Risdon [email protected] ***
Fund raising THE ROTARY CLUB OF FAVERSHAM The Edenbridge Festival Contact: David Simmons Bacon Butty Stall [email protected] Edenbridge Fireworks Carol Singing in December Fund raising Murder Mystery Evening Faversham Carnival Quiz Night Beetle Drive Practical support for good causes Edenbridge Dancing Leading the Faversham Carnival Sponsored walk Cheese and Wine *** Call my Bluff Clay pigeon shoot THE ROTARY CLUB OF FOLKESTONE Barn Dance Contact: Andrew Beggs 60’s Night [email protected] Treasure Hunt Foundation Tea Party Fund raising Baked Cake Competition Charity Boot Fairs, Charity Race Night Rotawalk Practical support for good causes Folkestone Rotary Half Marathon The Town Quiz Wine & Wisdom Quiz Evenings Baked Cake Competition Christmas Collections on Streets
Financial support for good causes Practical support for good causes Annual Strawberry Tea for Senior Citizens Assisting with the annual Race for Life Life Education Caravan Hands on support for Club Projects McMillan Nurses The Cheese and Wine Stroke Awareness Day Marie Curie Cancer Care Financial support for District projects The Rotary Foundation Financial Support for good causes Life Education Caravan *** Mission Aviation Fellowship Citizens Advice Bureau THE ROTARY CLUB OF FOLKESTONE THE ROTARY CLUB OF FOLKESTONE cont. cont.
Folkestone Rainbow Centre Kent Social Services Rotary Sports Foundation Cystic Fibrosis Kent Cancer Trust Financial support for District Projects Kent Blind Foundation Food Stop Make a Wish Christ Church Childrens Project Usborne Dictionaries Headway Aqua Box Rotary Rosette Award Shelter Box Sea Cadets Kent Air Ambulance International Projects Folkestone and District Mind Co-operation with Rotary Club in Thailand following the Handicamp Sunami ($3K) in addition to Aqua Boxes and Shelter Rainbow Centre Boxes being delivered. Womens Welfare Jointly with our Quadrangular Clubs of Cologne, Guide Dogs for the Blind Liege and Lille: 2003 – Provision of Laser Equipment to Scouts Ghana ($18K). Prostate Cancer 2004 – Provision of Medical Equipment toGhana ($24K). William Harvey Hospital 2005 – Planting 300,000 trees in Senegal to stop the Victim Support Sahara Desert spreading ($38K). Gurkha Trust 2006 – Sinking over 50 drinking water wells in the Congo Ovarian Cancer, Young Carers ($58K). 2007 – Surgical Equipment to Ghana ($45K). ***
Current Project 2008 THE ROTARY CLUB OF FOLKESTONE To set up a Micro Credit scheme to support employment CHANNEL in Ghana ($63K). Contact: Colin Tomson [email protected] Practical support for Club Projects Annual Young Chefs’ Competition Fund raising Annual Rotawalk Fundraising Antiques Fair Annual Valentine’s Ball Channel Spectacular Air display and Fun Day Annual Race Night Charity Boot Fairs Annual Rotary Half Marathon Charity Darts Competition, Charity Golf Tournament Annually Kids Out Charity Music in the Meadow Santa’s Giant Fun Run Past Projects Wine & Wisdom Quiz Evening Boxing Evening, Snooker Evening Folkestone Music Festival Practical support for good causes Support for District Painting Competition Provision and coordination of local Rotary club support Indoor Bowls Evenings with other Clubs for dedicated Life Education Mobile Classroom and Football and Netball Competitions for Young People Educator covering 11,000 children in 50 primary schools Clearing Folkestone Harbour in South East Kent Folkestone Folklore Festival Hands-on support for local schools (eg governors, practi- Old People’s Outing (Blossom Run) cal job hunt & interview training and hardship funds)and Shepway Air Display good causes (eg trustees for local St Johns Ambulance Brigade) Some Charities and Causes we have and are General support to 1st & 2nd battalions of the Royal continuing to support Gurkha Rifles & Gurkha Welfare Fund Multiple Sclerosis Society 18 Shelter Boxes provided for humanitarian relief in 6 Citizens Advice Bureau countries since 2002 THE ROTARY CLUB OF FOLKESTONE THE ROTARY CLUB OF FOLKESTONE CHANNEL cont. CHANNEL cont.
Institute of Cancer Research 1995 - Ghana Water Aid to provide fresh water for 15 Kent Air Ambulance villages (£6K). Life Education Mobile Classroom 1992 - Age Concern Bus (£12K) Samaritans 1989 onwards - Motor Neurone Disease Association East Kent Life Education caravan – marshals/logistics for the annual Saltwood Boxing Day Pilgrims Hospices Fun Run (largest in Britain – nearly 1,000 runners). Cystic Fibrosis Trust (Kent) 1988 - PolioPlus – Rotary’s worldwide polio eradication East Kent Life Education programme (£6K) Folkestone Samaritans 1985 onwards - drivers for the Shepway Disabled As- sociation bus Some Charities and Causes we have & are 1981 (our 1st year) - Italian Earthquake Disaster - £4.5K supporting raised in 2 days and 3 caravans of relief supplies driven there by Channel Rotary and Folkestone Round Table Age Concern Antony Nolan Bone Marrow Trust Boy members. Scouts Channel High School Citizens Advice Bureau Demelza House Childrens’ Hospice Dutch Tulip Bulbs for *** Folkestone’s Leas (c. 100,000 bulbs) Folkestone Floods Appeal Folkestone Pipe Band THE ROTARY CLUB OF GIBRALTAR Folkestone Rainbow Centre Folkestone Red Cross Girl Gibraltar is one of only 5 non-districted clubs in the world, Guides Guide Dogs for the Blind Gurkha Welfare Trust therefore is not a club within district 1120 nor in RIBI, but Hearing Dogs for the Deaf Institute of Cancer Research- has a comraderie relationship with the Rotary Club of Kent Accident & Emergency Rescue Service Kent Air Bromley. Ambulance Kent Autistic Trust Kent Social Services Kids Contact: William Anijar-Serfaty Out Charity Life Education Centres Make a Wish Charity e-mail: [email protected] McMillan Nurses Motor Neurone Disease Research Operation Raleigh Pent Valley School Pilgrims Hospices Fund raising RNLI Royal Society for the Deaf Royal Victoria Hospital Raffles radio service Salvation Army Folkestone Samaritans The Rock Climb & sale of dvd’s Shepway Disabled Association St John’s Ambulance Auctions – ‘silent’ and real (Cheriton) Varne Light Ship (Xmas Visits on the Dover Quiz Nights Lifeboat) William Harvey Hospital Scanner Appeal Young Sponsored Abseiling Life FoundationMission Aviation Fellowship Rotary Afri- Ten Pin Bowling Night can Vision Rotary Foundation Rotary Polioplus Campaign Christmas Mince Pies/Mulled Wine night ShelterBox Somalia Famine Relief Sudan Famine Relief B.B.Q. night Water Aid Zimbabwe Drought Relief Murder Mystery Evening Sponsored Rock Climb by world famous climbers. Financial support for good causes - Some Significant Collection Boxes around the town Support Highlights Flag Day Message-in-a-Bottle Scheme 2008 - Charity Dinner with the 2nd Battalion Royal Car Boot Sales Gurkha Rifles (£5K) Bungy Jumping for children 2007 – Pilgrims Hospices (£4K) and Institute of Cancer Research (£3K) Practical support for good causes 2006 – Kent Air Ambulance (£2.5K), Member Lee Robin- Construction of a basket ball court (1969) son climbs the Matterhorn to swell our charity pot, and we Supplies for the Dar-el-Hanna/Cheshire home, Tangier help MAF to open an airstrip in South Sudan. Gymnasium for the Cancer Day-Care Centre 2005 onwards - Life Education Mobile Classroom and The Panic Button System Educator for Shepway schools (£75K) plus on-going Annual Christmas Party for the KGV Mental Hospital. contribution to running costs. Joint Organisation of Forces Day in aid of ‘Help for 1996 onwards - Handicamp Holidays (£20K) –holidays for Heroes’ and local charities handicapped local people Annual Honoured Elder Award THE ROTARY CLUB OF GIBRALTAR THE ROTARY CLUB OF GRAVESEND & cont. MEOPHAM Contact Doug Grierson Annual Young Persons’ Award e-mail: [email protected] Annual Public Servant of the Year Award Junior Rotarian Community Award Fund raising Tree for he Botanic Garden Eyecamp - Beer can collection Equipped a Parents’ Room in Hospital Maternity Suite Grant Applications including National Lottery Provide instruments for Scouts band Ink cartridges (returns) Annual ESG – ‘Clean Up The World’ Campaign Charity Collection at Fireworks event Lady Williams Centre (Sports equipment and building Ascot day - Day at the Races materials) Charity Ball, Quiz Evenings, Car Rally, Race NIght, Sponsor young chess player Casino Evenings, 100 Club, Lottery Club. Annual Christmas gifts to needy children Special Gourmet events - Greek, Chinese and Indian Annual Easter eggs to children in hospital evenings. Curry Day with comprehensive raffle Joint Projects with other Clubs Christmas Dinner - Auction of Promises Travelling Art Exhibitions Open House Days Special Vehicle for Day Care / Respite Centre for the Physically Challenged Hands on support for Club Projects Playground in Tangier Assisted Shopping for the Elderly Washing-Machines for charity in Ceuta Christmas Dinners and entertainment for Elderly Road & water provision in Africa Stroke Awareness days School provision in Morocco PHAB outings to Theatre & Seaside plus meals Furtherance of International Understanding ‘It’s A Knock-Out’ events Creation of the Association of the Clubs of the Strait. Graffiti removal and shrub planting at Primary School Attendance at the District Conferences of North Morocco Clearing Gardens at Old Peoples Homes Attendance at District 1120 Conference Addiction Rehabilitation Centre - assisted with funding Hosting of District Governors (several since 1967) and management Membership of the e-Club of London Landscaping, BBQ and seating area in garden at Warden Support to Brother Chincotta, Namibia Controlled flats Clubs of the Straits – Tangier, Ceuta, Melilla, Algeciras, Landscaping and pathwork at woodland project for Gibraltar. Links with Estepona and Bromley Clubs children with learning difficulties Marshalling and Charity Collections at Fireworks events Financial support for good causes British Legion Poppy Collection and counting funds. Support Local Charities/Organisations (38 organisations Young Chef of the Year assisted) Young Musician of the year St.Bernard’s School Library Decorating Youth Club, Kids Out Cheshire Home & Orphanage in Tangier Celebration of Youth Festival McMillan Nursing - Gibraltar, Childline - Gibraltar Vaisaiki Parade float celebrating Youth (Indian Festival) Women in Need Association for Kids in Need Practical support for good causes Sponsorship for patients to Hyperbaric Chamber (MS) Sea Cadets - help with funding applications, equipment Centre & decorating Bosum Buddies - Cancer charity Youth theatre project assistance Research into Children’s Cancer (RICC) Rotary Convoy of Hope Book Aid International Hands on support for Club Projects Spectacle collections Educational Garden within the Botanic Gardens Numerous youth projects locally Obtained premises, fitted out hands-on and handed over Mock interviews for schoolchildren for the first Senior citizens’ club (1974) School governorships
Financial support for The Rotary Charity Financial support for District projects The Rotary Foundation Polio+ The Rotary Foundation
*** THE ROTARY CLUB OF GRAVESEND & THE ROTARY CLUB OF HAILSHAM MEOPHAM cont. Contact: Keith Mullen [email protected] Rotary Youth Leadership Award (RYLA) Wheel Chair project Fund raising Christmas sleigh collections Financial support for good causes Street collections Donations to House of Mercy Golf Day at Willingdon Jubilee Sailing Trust - TS Nelson placements Classic Motor Cycle Rally Festival of Music and Speech - awards for youth Stewarding at the Seven Sisters Marathon St John’s ambulance Coffee mornings Disabled Riding School Help Stationary Cycle Session Sponsoring Schoolchildren in Gambia St Valentine’s Night dinner – home cooking! Shelterboxes Boule Evening at local pub Aquaboxes Outdoor Concert Link & funding with Dutch Rotary Contact Club re Child- rens Orphanage in Romania Practical support for good causes Eyecamps Stroke Awareness Youth Talent Event Old Folks outing Plus numerous donations/assistance for worthy causes Christmas parcels for the lonely Schools Quiz at four primary schools *** Intercare project – returned pharmaceuticals
THE ROTARY CLUB OF GRAVESEND Financial support for good causes Contact: Tony Randall McMillan Nursing [email protected] Quicken Trust Starfish Fund raising Aquaboxes Street Collections, On Your Bike, Weekly raffle Shelter Boxes Quiz Night Hands on support for Club Projects Practical support for good causes Scatter week to other clubs Young Chef, Promoting ShelterBox at schools Club visit to Senlac club Burmese meal by member and partner Financial support for good causes Ladies’ Night with visitors Marie Curie Cancer Care, McMillan Cancer Christmas party for members and partners Sightsavers Visit to Danish contact club Donations to various charities Visit to Lille contact club Dictionaries for primary schools Cycle trip to Ypres with picnic Footsteps Great Egg Race against Eastbourne Sovereign Telemedicine Hands on support for District projects Hands on support for Club Projects District Golf Tournament Keep schools tidy, Mock Interviews Attendance at District conference Finance Forum – the practical way to organise income and expenditure Financial support for District projects The Rotary Foundation Hands on support for District projects Attendance at District Conference ***
Financial support for District projects The Rotary Foundation, Polio Eradication
*** THE ROTARY CLUB OF HEATHFIELD & THE ROTARY CLUB OF HERNE BAY WALDRON Contact: Brian Tutt Contact: Colin Harwood [email protected] [email protected] Fund raising Fund raising The Club Golf Tournament The Heathfield & Waldron Carnival – procession and fete Marshalling for car parking The Three day Christmas collection Christmas Party Raffle Santa present delivery service on Christmas Day Shaking tins for good causes Quiz Evening s Last Night of the Proms charity evening Race evenings Christmas shop Casino Evenings Stamp collecting Two film nights taking over cinema with supper and raffle Wine and Wisdom evening Murder mystery evening with supper Safari Supper The Brighton Greyhound Racing Stadium evening Snooker evening Old time musical put on by and featuring Club members Tele-go-round seafront attraction Fund raising dinner Practical support for good causes Practical support for good causes The local sea cadets The Heathfield Agricultural Show, stalls & stewarding Delivering for Age Concern weekly The Heathfield & Waldron Carnival_ run by the Club Restocking fishpond The French Market, stall & stewarding Helping with refurbishment for Little Theatre The Cuckoo Fair, stewarding Collecting used and unused spectacles Charity music concert, stewarding Fun Day
Financial support for good causes Financial support for good causes Lambok (near Bali) clean water project employing filters Marie Curie Cancer Care Sponsor young people on educational and vocational MacMillan Nurses projects abroad The Crypt Club, a youth club for handicapped teenagers Defibrillator for local GP’s surgery Purchasing new strip for local youth football team Demelza House Support for field and roller hockey teams Activenture Purchasing cooker for Strode Park Home for Disabled Scouts, guides,youth groups New banner for local scout group Purchasing computers for immigrants staying locally Hands on support for Club Projects Supporting children orphaned in Sri Lanka after tsunami The new Heathfield Town sign designed and made by Love in a Box Rotarians The Heathfield Town Clock Hands on support for Club Projects Heathfield Carol Service Marshalling at Race for Life The seniors’ day out – tea and a ride on the Dotto train at Assisting schools with work experience Eastbourne Visiting contact clubs in France and Germany The seniors’ Christmas party Buying and distributing Usbourne dictionaries to Primary Schools’ awards for local primary schools. school Mock Interviewing Hands on support for District projects Working with contact clubs on overseas projects Shelter Box Annual meeting for potential new members The Usbourne dictionary project for primary schools. For Presentation of Public Service Award to non Rotarian all school leavers in 10 local schools. Finding good speakers who make club meetings come to life Financial support for District projects The Rotary Foundation Hands on support for District projects Life Education caravan *** THE ROTARY CLUB OF HERNE BAY THE ROTARY CLUB OF cont. THE ISLE OF SHEPPEY Contact: Peter Bell Financial support for District projects e-mail: [email protected] The Rotary Foundation, Polio Plus Sponsoring local students for PYLA Fund raising Supporting ShelterBox and Aquabox projects Street collection with Father Christmas Annual Christmas collection at the clock tower *** Christmas collection at Tesco’s, Sponsored walks Quiz evenings, Horse racing nights THE ROTARY CLUB OF HYTHE Wine and Wisdom evenings, Shooting evenings Contact: Robert Spicer Sponsored Walk [email protected] Financial support for good causes Fund raising Support for Sheppey Sea Cadets Hythe annual Round the Houses Race Christmas gifts for the needy, Help the Aged Boot Fairs, Car Parking duties Cancer Research, McMillan Nurses Christmas collections, Tin shaking at supermarkets etc Demelza House Hospice Providing equipment for local swimming club Practical support for good causes Supporting karate and boxing clubs locally Health Awareness Sponsored child via Plan International Providing transport for youth club Air Ambulance Publicising ShelterBox at Schools Hands on support for good causes Financial support for good causes Senior Citizens’ Tea Party McMillan Nursing, Marie Curie Christmas service Finding bursaries for students from Memorial Fund Annual Carol Service Provision of homes for orphaned children in Uganda Young Chef Education and healthcare for children in Uganda Organise art and design competition Mock Interviews Hands on support for Club Projects Collection of used and unused spectacles Providing transport for local schools Community Service awards for non Rotarians Providing grinding mills for village in Uganda Contact weekend in May with partners from Holland and Club service France Visits to docks, tugs, paper mill, brewery Bereavement Lunch Contact club visits to Holland Meeting Point Bowling evenings Mock Interviews Barbecues Club members supervising Ugandan projects Partners; evenings with MP’s, celebrities etc 60th anniversary celebrations President’s Ball
Hands on support for District projects Hands on support for District projects Supporting Group Study Exchange Kids Out visit to circus in Thanet Setting up Interact club Stroke Awareness at Tesco car park Funding four applicants RYLA annually Ambassadorial Scholar Make a Wish Financial support for District projects Shelter Box No More Landmines Schools4All Financial support for District projects The Rotary Foundation The Rotary Foundation Shelter Boxes Shelter Box, Aqua Box Polio Eradication Love in a Box (with Inner Wheel)
*** *** THE ROTARY CLUB OF THE ISLE OF THE ROTARY CLUB OF LANGLEY PARK THANET SUNRISE cont. Contact: Yvonne Rodgers [email protected] Bromley Mencap Magpie Dance Fund raising Polio Eradication Race Night Water Aid First to prick the balloon Bromley Swimming club Horses on a string St Mungo’s Quiz Night Hands on support for Club Projects Programme sponsoring Love in a Box Club Picnics Interact club based on Langley Park Girls’ School Film Evening – taking over the local cinema Boot Fayres *** Shop premises to sell secondhand clothes, shoes and bags THE ROTARY CLUB OF Golf Days with sponsorship MAIDSTONE RIVERSIDE Raffles Contact: Clive Bradburn Windscreen washes at local garages [email protected] Sponsored walks Murder Mystery evening Fund raising Give members £5 and ask them to make it grow. Spiral wishing well General collecting tins *** Sponsored golf days Christmas tin rattling THE ROTARY CLUB OF Computer cartridges LANGLEY PARK Go-carting, Auctions Contact: Jerry Cope Dragon Boat racing [email protected] Concerts- several years Open air live rock concert Fund raising Jazz evenings Quiz Night, Bingo Evening, Camel Racing Treasure hunts Antique and Collectors’ Fairs, Lars Tharp event Race evenings Bromley Boy Singers’ Concert Quiz nights, Abseiling 100 Club – 6 monthly club draw Practical support for good causes Christmas car parking Assisting with running of Normanhurst Festival (£6,000 Tandem Ride to Holland (2009) raised) Assisting with St Christopher’s Fun Walk Practical support for good causes Helping at community Christmas lunch County Show gates Running a Stroke Awareness day Age Concern- Provision of drivers Building a bar-b-q at Nash College Stroke Association- Provision of drivers Helping to organise and run a olf day for Bromley Mencap Disabled Swimming Club Providing volunteers to help Bromley Mencap with street Stroke Awareness Day ( now Blood Pressure Day) with fund raising Red Cross Marshals for Harris Hospicecare sponsored walk Bellwood School Christmas Visit Vision Aid (Spectacles collection) Financial support for good causes Crossroads Caring for Carers Water Pump Project in Ghana with “Kids Out”, Annual Carol Service Kumasi Rotary Club Good, recommended club speakers Ambulance for medical centre in Juri (Bangladesh) The ShelterBox Trust, The Whitechapel Mission Financial support for good causes Deaf Access Macmillan Nursing THE ROTARY CLUB OF THE ROTARY CLUB OF MAIDSTONE MAIDSTONE RIVERSIDE cont. cont.
Homestart Saturdays leading up to Christmas (this year we are add- Wheel Chair project ing the last Sunday before Christmas, for the first time). St John’s Ambulance – new ambulance provided. We ask for donations (suggesting £2 or £2.50, depending World Challenge on location) for members of the public to park all day – many are very generous and give £5 or even £10. We Hands on support for Club Projects usually raise at least £5,000 each year Dutch visit Kingfisher Boat – crewing river-boat for the disabled The Young Musician of the Year Competition (run in New Horizons conjunction with the Maidstone Dawn Patrol club and Pahar Trust- school buildings and visit to Nepal Kent Music) – this raises many thousands of pounds to help young musicians, from poor backgrounds, to attend Hands on support for District projects Kent Music courses. District Fun Day – club member lead in District team A Tandoori evening. The restaurant owner had seen a Financial support for District projects TV news item about Rotary sending Shelter Boxes to the RYLA Bangladesh disaster area, and he offered to give part of The Rotary Foundation his takings, from the evening, to fund a box. Polio Eradication A Hog Roast, Bangers and Mash, or Safari Supper at Hands on support for Club Projects members’ homes. Some Recent Significant Support Highlights Charity concerts, Kart racing evenings at Buckmore Park, Defibrillator project- purchased and positioned defibrilla- Charity walks, and tors in town centre and on a bus. Nordic Walking Taster sessions New Horizons – part funded sailing dinghy and providing qualified assistance for youngsters. Practical support for good causes School Opening Nepal - New school and a school We took a coach load of Maidstone’s Age Concern clients extension funded by the Club. Member and his wife off to enjoy a fish and chip lunch, and walk along the visited one of the schools in the high mountain region and sea front, at Hastings – we hope that this will become an officially opened it. annual event. County Show- Major Annual Event. Organised ticket sales and gate control through workgroups consisting of Financial support for good causes Rotary Clubs and other organisations. In place of Kids Out we tend to give them funding to have entertainment for all, rather than just a few of the children, *** such as circus acts.
THE ROTARY CLUB OF MAIDSTONE We also have a weekly collection, run by the Almoner/ Contact: Pat Thomas Welfare Officer. He looks out for cases, eg, where a [email protected] family cannot afford a school uniform for a child, or an elderly, or disabled, person who needs special help, etc Fund raising – each case is investigated to ensure that they are really Newspaper collections – we have half a dozen, or so, deserving medium sized recycling wheelie bins located at shops, businesses and schools, around the Maidstone area. *** These raise around £3,000 per year in payments from the local council and the recycling company. We have recently added a sign to each bin, explaining who we are, and, very briefly, what we do with the funds raised.
Christmas Car Parking – we take over three privately owned town centre business car parks, on the three THE ROTARY CLUB OF MALLING THE ROTARY CLUB OF MARGATE Contact: Tony Williamson Contact: Ray Holdstock [email protected] [email protected]
Fund raising Fund raising Collections at local supermarkets during the Christmas Christmas Street Collections Period General fund raising For Millennium Fund Collecting around Kings Hill with Father Christmas, sleigh and real snow Practical support for good causes Quiz Night in Ryarsh Hall Meals for the old and lonely on Christmas Day Race Night at Ryarsh Blossom Tour by coach and high tea in a village hall for Charity Bike Ride the elderly Fun Stalls at “Malling Lights” Swimathon in conjunction with a local swimming pool Earnings from Kent Show support Financial support for good causes Practical support for good causes Fill Aqua boxes Helping collections for: Help younger people achieve a personal goal in the arts, British Heart Foundation sport, education etc. from Millennium Fund Marie Curie Daffodil Poppy Appeal ***
Financial support for good causes THE ROTARY CLUB OF MEDWAY Age Concern Contact: Bob Curtis British Heart Foundation e-mail: [email protected] Cancer Research UK Local school for autistic children Fund raising Hermitage lane children support Charity Walks Make-a-Wish foundation Darts Marathon Leonard Cheshire Disability Wine and Wisdom event to raise money for Crossroads Shelter Box Appeal Street Collections Local Scouts and Guides MacMillan Nurses Heart of Kent Hospice Oliver Fisher Special Baby Unit Build Africa Local Hospice Hearing Dogs for the Deaf ACM Gospel Choir Concert For Demelza Mencap Practical support for good causes Hands on support for Club Projects Disaster Clothing collections Leeds Castle Fun Day Decorating the outside of “The Haven” for Borough Green Fun Day local handicapped residents. Malling Day Taking 6 children from Demelza and their families to Quiz Night Disney in Paris. Race Night Decorating a room for Parents at the Oliver Fisher Baby Street Collections at Christmas Unit Mustard Seed Relief Mission (Love in a Box) Taking children from local Special Schools on a day out to a Theme Park Hands on support for District projects Robot Wars Fun Day at Detling Try Angle Awards Awards for Young Enterprise Financial support for District projects Foundation Financial support for good causes Polio Plus Appeal Life Straws and Rotary Flood Appeal Shelter boxes (over £25,000 collected for these two projects) *** THE ROTARY CLUB OF MEDWAY cont. THE ROTARY CLUB OF THE NORTH DOWNS cont. Rotary-Demelza EuroDisney holiday. £40,000.00 col- lected for 6 families to stay for 4 days in May 2009 Schools Mock Interviews Sri Lanka School refurbishment. Jeff Glover Memorial Orphanage School (Uganda)
Hands on support for Club Projects Hands on support for District projects Handicamp Love in a Box Help the Aged mini bus driving Financial support for District projects Hands on support for District projects The Rotary Foundation Raising funds for Polio Plus Emergency Boxes
Financial support for District projects *** The Rotary Foundation THE ROTARY CLUB OF *** NORTHFLEET WITH EBBSFLEET Contact: Brian Hirst THE ROTARY CLUB OF [email protected] MINSTER ON SEA Contact: Michael Brown Fund raising [email protected] Go Karting events Quiz & race evenings, Raffles Fund raising Presenting ‘Cameo Opera’ Charity Darts Marathon Christmas collections at stores County Show Stewarding, Donkey Derby Christmas Street Collections World Walking the plank championship ‘Open Garden’ days Beer Festival Practical support for good causes Financial support for good causes Production of Talking Newspaper for the Sheerness Lifeboat Blind in Gravesham Ask local groups through newspaper to bid up to £250 for Collecting would be ‘Blood Donors’ for the help for their projects National Blood Service Assisting the Marie Curie ‘Daffodil’ collection *** Promoting and participating in ‘Stroke Awareness’ Days Assisting with operation of local ‘Remembrance Day’ THE ROTARY CLUB OF Services THE NORTH DOWNS Collecting used spectacles and mobile phones for 3rd Contact: Rtn: Jeff Glover world re-cycling e-mail: [email protected] Financial support for good causes Practical support for good causes Provision of furniture for local hospice. Carols in Hospital for the elderly, Stroke awareness Day Provision of Equipment for Darenth Hospital Annual Citizen of the Year Award Provision of equipment for local ‘Community Centre’ Marie Curie collection Provision of equipment for local ‘special needs’ schools Assisting enterprising youngsters to take part in interna- Financial support for good causes tional ‘character building’ events RNLI Inshore Lifeboat Miscellaneous for needy individuals/families Ellenor Foundation Hands on support for Club Projects The Hospice of Hope Romania Eye camp for cataracts Demelza Hospice Christmas Day transport to Salvation Army lunch Wish Brazil: support for Church education mission week for elderly (Home Projects) India: micro credit for farmers Young Musician of the Year THE ROTARY CLUB OF THE ROTARY CLUB OF NORTHFLEET WITH EBBSFLEET cont. ORPINGTON CROFTON cont.
Palestine, India and China: BESO expertise for paper Financial support for good causes pulp production Darrick Wood School in Nepal Poland: help for disadvantaged and needy children The Starfish Project Ukraine: Church repairs and wheelchair for Elf – helping eliminate leukaemia handicapped boy Life Education caravan India: digging water wells Romania: video conferencing for hospice Financial support for District projects Ukraine: consultancy in dairy, brick and bookbinding Shelter Box industries *** Hands on support for Club Projects Running ‘Youth Speaks’ competitions THE ROTARY CLUB OF ORPINGTON Providing Usbourne Dictionaries for local schools Contact: Stanley Goldsmith Community ‘Good Citizen’ Award [email protected] Supporting ‘Young Enterprise’ Introducing Rotary to Junior Schools using the Rotary Practical support for good causes Jigsaw New soft play area and repair/replacement the toy store doors Hands on support for District projects Assisting with ‘Kids Out’ and similar Financial support for good causes Assisting with ‘Fun Day’ Water purification in Madagascar with help from French club Financial support for District projects Egyptian village project with matching grant Hearing Dogs for deaf people The Rotary Foundation Hands on support for Club Projects Lifeboat Appeal Salvation Army Cancer Research Shelter Box *** Aqua Box Shoe Boxes THE ROTARY CLUB OF The Wheelchair Foundation THE PANTILES, TUNBRIDGE WELLS Contact: Michael Devonshire *** [email protected]
THE ROTARY CLUB OF Fund raising ORPINGTON CROFTON Annual Sponsored Ramble Contact: Keith Hickey Auctions of Promises [email protected] Car Park on four Saturdays preceding Christmas Car Raffle Fund raising Women’s European Golf Tour Pro – Am Competition Static collections at Christmas time at local shops and Help in Schools stations Help run the annual Firework display organised by the Round the houses with Father Christmas on his sleigh local Round Table, Street Collections – very productive and popular Car Park for the Tour de France Collecting at Polhill Garden Centre, Village Fetes Theme dinners in local hall twice a year Practical support for good causes Christmas lunches served for Age Concern Practical support for good causes Quicken Trust premises redecorated Trustees for Life Education Caravan Highland House for the elderly gardens revamped Turkeys at Christmas to Abbeyfield Houses Tunbridge Wells half marathon, Citizens Advice Bureau Talking Newspapers THE ROTARY CLUB OF THE ROTARY CLUB OF RAMSGATE THE PANTILES, TUNBRIDGE WELLS Contact: Brian Whitehead cont. [email protected]
Financial support for good causes Fund raising Hospice in the Weald, Demelza House Fun Day Macmillan Nurses, Kent Association for the Blind Haematology Research Fund Practical support for good causes Maternity Amenity Fund Red Cross, St Johns’ Ambulance Quicken Trust Child sponsored annually Leukaemia Research Quicken Trust New house for a teacher funded Holy Trinity School, Ramsgate –Minster C of E School Smoke alarms fitted, Premises re-carpeted Kenward Trust, Wheelchair Foundation Kent Air Ambulance Oasis – Women’s Refuge, Water Aid Measles Campaign Fegans, Rapid UK Rescue Seats on Common Pantiles and Donorlan Park Cruse Bereavement Trust, Thanet District Scouts Kent & Sussex Hospital Track Monitors for A & E Stroke Awareness Day, Ramsgate Guides Kent & Sussex Hospital Scanner Hi-Kent – Deaf Highland House for the elderly surgical mattresses Highland House telephone points provided Financial support for good causes A patient lift to get patients in/out of bed/baths for the Flood Relief – North of England Neurosurgical Unit Kings College Hospital Tsunami Appeal International Chernobyl Children’s Trust Burma Flood Appeal Invicta Community Care Trust Toys at Newington Clinic –(with Foundation - DSG) Crossways Community Make-a-Wish Age Concern Cancer Appeal – QEQM St Johns Ambulance Brigade Age Concern Gujerati disaster appeal PolioPlusStroke Association Multiple Sclerosis Society Breast CancerCare National Youth Music Theatre Hearing Dogs for the Deaf Equipment for Pembury Orthopaedic Ward Dream Holidays Headway National Trust Pembury Jacoby Ward Lets Face It St Georges Community Trust Kent Air Ambulance New audio equipment for Talking Newspapers Stroke Association Tsunami Appeal Walk for Your Life Appeal Hands on support for Club Projects Rotary Centenary Outing for Elderly Bridge2Aid Kids Out Pickering Cancer Centre TADSAD – (Sport for the disabled) Donations of PCs to the Quicken Trust St Mary’s church – Christmas for local elderly people Hospice of Hope – Rumania Newington Project Building project in Mauritius Marlowe Academy Sensory Garden – QEQM Hands on support for Club Projects Newington Children’s Centre Kids Out supported since 1994 Shotokan Karate Club, Viking Concert Band
Hands on support for District projects Hands on support for District projects The Rotary Foundation RYLA
Financial support for District projects Financial support for District projects Mercy Ships, District Governors Wheelchair Appeal Aquabox, ShelterBox, No More Landmines Shelter Boxes, Aqua Boxex, Water Aid Rotary Foundation
*** *** THE ROTARY CLUB OF ROCHESTER THE ROTARY CLUB OF Contact: Bob Burge ROMNEY MARSH cont. [email protected] Sponsored Baa Baa walk Fund raising Boot Fairs Arranging sponsored walks Dances Selling Mulled Wine and mince pies at Rochester’s BBQs Victorian Christmas weekend Golf Day Marshalling at The Kent Show Cancer wear PINK night Bodgit and Scarper Financial support for good causes Practical support for good causes Multiple Sclerosis Constructing a sensory garden at Tourist Information CASE Centre Projects in India Organising and running a local Triathlon Cancer Research Marshalling at various events at Rochester Castle Demelza House Hospice Planting a rose garden in the castle grounds Sea cadets Providing toys and decorating the children’s ward at Scouts Medway Hospital Young Lives Foundation Marshalling at various Tri-athlons in the South of England Hands on support for Club Projects Financial support for good causes meetings with our German contact Club Funding essential equipment for prostate cancer treat- Life Education Caravan ment at Medway Hospital Raising funds to buy property in Rochester for Veterans’ Financial support for District projects club The Rotary Foundation Supporting Jubilee Sailing Trust Polio Plus Sending optical equipment to South Africa Supplying desks for schools at Kenya *** Mercy Ships THE ROTARY CLUB OF Hands on support for Club Projects RYE AND WINCHELSEA Contact with clubs in France, Denmark and Serbia Contact: Denis Hyson Members travelling overseas to pinpoint areas of need [email protected] were Foundation grants can be employed For building special needs swimming pool Fund raising organised a sponsored walk in May Financial support for District projects ran a sponsored cycle ride, the “Tour de Rye”, The Rotary Foundation Practical support for good causes *** Christmas float (with penguins,snow and carols) in high street and at local supermarket THE ROTARY CLUB OF ran a human fruit machine at the maritime fair ROMNEY MARSH Financial support for good causes Contact: Peter Maddieson [email protected] Hands on support for Club Projects designed, produced and distributed brochure to celebrate Fund raising our 60th year, explaining who we are and listing the main Xmas street collection with sleigh beneficiaries over the years Curry Quiz Night, Race Night Summer fetes with coconut shy & cake stall Financial support for District projects Barn Dance Aqua and Shelter boxes Kids Choir 2000 ( from Essex ) Sponsored walk along sea wall *** THE ROTARY CLUB OF SENLAC THE ROTARY CLUB OF Contact: Nigel Faulkner SEVENOAKS AMHERST cont. [email protected] Ladies Night with 80 plus guests. Fund raising Young Enterprise. Charity Golf Day Jazz Concert by Roy. Classic Car Show A sponsored Diet that raised £750 for Make a Wish Murder Mystery Evening Foundation. A Generator for a School in Gambia - £800 raised. Practical support for good causes Charities – 3 Arts Festival, Hospice in the Weald, Age Decorating OAPs property Concern etc, Bursaries to deserving causes. Children’s Christmas party Interviews at Bradbourne School. OAPs Christmas party Wine visit to Tenterden wineyard. Setting up Interact club Christmas Parties with visits from Father Christmas Collecting & distributing used spectacles to Kenya Wine Tasting Italian style and Sunday lunch. Construction of a clinic in Marich, NW Kenya (including Fireworks at St Julians, car parking. on-going bi annual visits) District Conferences, in Eastbourne – complete with Ital- ian evenings, sponsored beach running, lift jumping and Financial support for good causes dancing!, President’s trip to Amsterdam Sponsorship of Indian Ocean Rowing Race Ightham Mote open air Concert. Financial support for children’s orphanage in Cambodia Summer BBQs, Shelter box, The walking group. Holidays for Demelza House. Hands on support for Club Projects Weekend trip to the Christmas Spectacular at Thursford Mock interviews Claverham School including a meal at Delia Smith’s Restaurant in Norwich. Assistance with work experience Geology trip to Weymouth and Lyme Regis Annual Walking Weekend Sponsorship for Tamara working in Lesotho. Rotary theme evenings, Mexican, Chinese, and Indian, Financial support for District projects Sunday lunch trips to Hadlow Manor. Supporting Aquabox and Shelterbox Cheese tasting, Churchill Dinner. Interviews at local schools, Walthamstow Hall, Brad- *** bourne and Wildernesse schools. Bowls Evening. THE ROTARY CLUB OF Support for MacMillian Cancer Care SEVENOAKS AMHERST Visit to Hospice in the Weald plus serious Contact: Colin Hook sponsorship. [email protected] Help at Valance School. No more Landmines. Lingfield Race Meeting Whizz Kids French visit at the end of May 2008 Crohns disease support. Visits to Docklands, London Parks, BBQs, jazz concert Banyama School Project, Uganda and Sunday lunch in Faversham. Children in Need - £3000 last November Golf Day, twelfth year coming up. 50 illustrated dictionaries donated to local schools Quiz of Quizzes Rotary Foundation, In house talks. Cyclo Sportif –Probably now over £200,000 raised. Two Knowle Park New Year Walk and Sunday Lunch. routes around Kent – 700 riders. Christmas gift parcels to British troops in Afghanistan. Support and events with St John’s School. Raids from other Clubs. Similar with Sevenoaks Primary School. Dinner Parties Try Angle Awards – a special evening in Margate in Inta Sisi, Ecuador – purchase of Computers. November 2007 Sevenoaks Nursery. The Young Achievers Award – what an evening! Plus sponsorship by Waitrose! Events planned for the next few months. Friends of Rotary. Murder Mystery event. Detling Funday. Trip to Westerham Brewery Walks West Malling and Greenwich. THE ROTARY CLUB OF THE ROTARY CLUB OF SIDCUP SEVENOAKS AMHERST cont. Contact: Chris Elms [email protected] Stroke Awareness event in Sevenoaks Community awards Fund raising Tall ships. Collecting on street corners Young Achievers. Christmas street collection with Santa and sleigh Trip to Roubaix for the Weekend Barrel organ at Sidcup Railway station to Ladies Night catch commuters Trip to Cornwall, Eden project, geology and a Tin Mine. Team with music at Morrison’s supermarket Rotary Convention in Birmingham. Collecting at Garden Centres Rotary Citizen Awards – Chris Myers. President’s Challenge – 15 mile walk round Bewl Water RYLA Courses for Bradbourne and Wildernesse Schools Set up a Wine Club Practical support for good causes Young Enterprise. Collectors for Cancer Care Conference in Brighton. Collectors for British Red Cross Judging Young Enterprise *** Hands on help for Sidcup Social club for the Blind
THE ROTARY CLUB OF SEVENOAKS Financial support for good causes Contact: John Carrie Assist with funding for Sidcup Social Club for the Blind [email protected] Funding Christmas lunch for needy in Sidcup Donate prize for best business report for Young Enter- Fund raising prise 10K Run in Knole Park in March which attracts some 4-500 competitors Hands on support for Club Projects Wine tasting Young Enterprise Race Night Young Musician competition Special speaker, Weekly lunch surcharge Preparing Sidcup Christmas Lunch for old Tesco/Sainsbury Collections people living alone An evening with Tom Hart-Dyke Transporting senior people to Christmas lunch Bob Ogley’s garden Open to the Public Sidcup Rotary Club Community Day Author’s book signing for charity Assist Langley Park club with running of the sponsored Concerts and Talks at The Stag Theatre, Sevenoaks walk in aid of St Christopher’s Hospice Visit and talk from one of the WI Calendar Girls Teaming with Crayford, Danson, Bexley and Erith RCs to Four sponsored members cycled to Witten in the Rhur, organise Bexley Young Musician competition Germany Bob Ogley rode his bike from John o’Groats to Lands End Hands on support for District projects raising over £6,000 Stroke Awareness Day Stall at Fun Day Practical support for good causes Make a Wish for handicapped children locally Financial support for District projects Visited Maidstone prison to play darts, billiards etc., and The Rotary Foundation had a meal with category A prisoners *** Financial support for good causes Christian Aid, Polio Plus , Landmine Appeal Leonard Cheshire Homes, Cancer Scanner Appeal
Hands on support for Club Projects The Dordrecht Adventure
*** THE ROTARY CLUB OF THE ROTARY CLUB OF SITTINGBOURNE & MILTON SITTINGBOURNE INVICTA cont. Contact: David Lloyd [email protected] Club Rotarian, Rob McCann, cycled 500 kilometres (300 miles) from Tallinn in Estonia to St Petersburg in Russia Fund raising during September 2008 and raised £7600 for Marie Curie Christmas collections, High Street, all major super- Cancer Care markets, railway station 6 am to 9 am to catch the commuters. Daffodil Day collection in Sittingbourne High Street for Supporting RC Whitstable pantomime horse race. Marie Curie Cancer Care Rambles, Pudding evenings, Hors d’oeuvre evenings, Raised £450 over the two days by selling raffle tickets for Traybake evenings, Garden parties and fun days. the Canterbury Cathedral Appeal Treasure Island game board which we take to local A pudding evening and charity auction event raised events. £1051 for The Rotary Foundation Dog Racing night. A Race Night helped to raise £1100 for MacMillan Nurses Quiz wine and wisdom night. and Talking Books for the Blind Supporting RC Maidstone Riverside at the County Show. This is no secret! but on Saturday last we had a gala film night Valentine’s day starting with a glass of bubbly, A su- Practical support for good causes perb finger buffet, the opportunity to buy raffle tickets and Christmas Supper with pantomime written and performed then watch the film Mama Mia. Ice cream in the interval by club members. a wonderful evening with nearly 300 people all friends of Always inviting widows of members to social and partners Rotary and we made getting on for £5000. We actually do evenings and arranging transport where necessary. this every 2 years. and the the alternative year we have Planting crocus bulbs each year for the past three years an auction of promises and stuff that nobody want which in different parts of the Town in conjunction with the last year made about £7000. Council and the ‘In Bloom Committee’. Practical support for good causes Financial support for good causes Blood Pressure Testing Day on 18th April Two 2-sleeper tents and sleeping bags for Swale Young London Marathon marshalling – community service as- Carers, one bought from Club funds, one from District sisting Rotary Club of Poplar Docklands in raising funds Simplified Grant. for Life Education Centres Supporting RC Invicta financially on a project to build a Love in a Box collection school library in India. Supply of Usborne Dictionaries purchased for local Supporting RC Maidstone Dawn Patrol on a project to schools build a rural school in India with a matching grant. Coach trip for elderly people to Bredgar & Wormshill Light Railway plus tea Hands on support for Club Projects Support to local children through RYLA Garden in a competition for children up to aged 11 in con- junction with local schools and the Horticultural Society. Financial support for good causes Three Kent hospices benefited from the proceeds of a *** recent Fashion Show at Mount Ephraim. On Monday 8th September 2008, Julie Roberts and Marion Minhall, THE ROTARY CLUB OF organisers of this fund-raising event, presented £1000 SITTINGBOURNE INVICTA cheques to Caroline Ford of Friends of Wisdom Hospice, Contact: John Williams Joan Wickenden of Demelza House Children’s Hospice [email protected] and Caroline Brinkman of Heart of Kent Hospice. Swale Young Carers were presented with a cheque for Fund raising £1000 from the proceeds of a charity concert Auction of members’ promises and gifts A cheque for £490 was sent to Shelterbox for the pur- Mulled wine stall at Christmas in Sittingbourne High chase of one Shelterbox. This has since been transported Street to Quetta in Pakistan to assist those made homeless by Wine & Wisdom Evening in March to raise funds for an earthquake in the province of Buluchistan. “Schools 4-All in Africa” Sponsorship of a child in Ethiopia through World Vision Charity Concert in in April aid of “No More Landmines” THE ROTARY CLUB OF THE ROTARY CLUB OF SITTINGBOURNE INVICTA cont. SOUTHBOROUGH AND PEMBURY cont.
Hands on support for Club Projects Toc H The club’s 2008/09 International project to supply of a Young Musician’s Prize school building in Nicaragua took a step forward on Mon- Wheelchair Fund day 17th November 2008 when President Nick presented Lychgate Ixil Torrez with a cheque for £3000 for the Peace and Oasis Trust India Hope Trust. Hospice in the Weald A joint 2007/08 International project with the Rotary Club Scope re Kilimanjo Climb of Guwahati East to build a school library in Assam is now Bidborough Play visit under construction thanks to funds amounting to £4500 S Christmas Lights from Invicta (with donations from Isle of Sheppey and St Matts Sittingbourne & Milton) Pembury Hospital Ch. Gifts The club is assisting St Michael’s Church in setting up Whizz Kids a drop-in centre for homeless people in the town centre Dictionaries for schools – plans to convert a church building (providing showers/ Scout banner toilets/kitchen) are now awaiting building regulations Life & Soul
Financial support for District projects Hands on support for Club Projects The Rotary Foundation Bliss Children’s Party Grandparents’ Day *** Hands on support for District projects THE ROTARY CLUB OF Shoeboxes SOUTH FORELAND Contact: Don Carless Financial support for District projects [email protected] Eleven Shelter Boxes RIBI Flood relief Fund raising Polio Plus Partner A Garden party Rotary Foundation Quiz Night Film Night *** Weekend in London Collecting at Christmas. THE ROTARY CLUB OF ST LEONARDS ON SEA Financial support for District projects Contact: Rtn: Ian Butters Polio , Shelter box. e-mail: [email protected]
*** Fund raising Christmas Tin rattling THE ROTARY CLUB OF Auctions – mock and real SOUTHBOROUGH AND PEMBURY Concerts- several years Contact: Nigel Stratton Treasure Hunts [email protected] Race Evenings Annual cycle marathon Financial support for good causes Quiz evenings Pembury Hospital Fund LEC Fund Practical support for good causes Crisis recovery Stroke Awareness Day with Red Cross Hospice in the Weald Carol Service St Matts St George’s day dinner S&HB Age Concern Good, recommended club speakers Compaid THE ROTARY CLUB OF THE ROTARY CLUB OF TENTERDEN ST LEONARDS ON SEA cont. cont.
Financial support for good causes Joint club project “Win a Car” Wheel Chair project Fund raising jazz concert at local church St Michaels Hospice Hastings Steam organ played during Christmas street collections RNLI, Mary House for disabled Town Carol Service, Sponsored cycle ride Local charities Christmas collections in Tenterden Fund Raising Barn Dance Hands on support for Club Projects Sponsored Presidential Parachute Jump Shoe box collections Christmas Sponsored Slim (IMPACT Mercy Train) ‘Come Dancing Evening’ Financial support for District projects Music Evening at Local Theatre The Rotary Foundation May Fair Stand (Static Bike Ride – Time & Distance) ‘Tentertainment’ (Fund raiser also for Town) Stand with *** Games Collecting Printer Cartridges and Mobile Phones THE ROTARY CLUB OF STROOD (Indirectly the Donation of Christmas Tree and Lights for Town), Frog Racing!, Auction of Promises Contact: Dudley Clark Tour de France Lunch (Joint event with Inner Wheel) [email protected] Soap Box Racing
Fund raising Practical support for good causes Annual Sponsored Dog Walk Christmas Essay competition with local schools Summer and Winter Rochester Dickens Festival Food Collection at Christmas Donated to Home Start and Soft Drinks, Mulled Wine, Roasted Chestnuts Salvation Army Street Collections Reading Partners (Reading at Local Junior Schools) Supermarket collections Delivery of Library Books to Elderly and Infirm Art Auction Cycling Safety Event at Local School Quiz Night Building of School Rooms in Tanzania Race Night Trip’s out for Elderly at the Day Centre Sponsorship of Students for Educational / Charitable Financial support for good causes Trips to Africa Demelza House Marshalling at School Fun Days (Health & Safety) Macmillan Nurses Kent Air Ambulance Financial support for good causes Hearing Dogs for the Deaf ROPE, Pestalozzi, St John Ambulance Australia Fire Appeal Demelza House, Macmillan Cancer Support Tsunami Appeal Payment of £50 to Guest Speakers on District Governors Appeal behalf of their Charity Shelter Boxes Tenterden Day Centre, Kent Air Ambulance Aqua Boxes Supporting local Scouts, The Girls Guides Water Aid Barnardos, Bexhill College “GoKili” Project Childhood First, Multiple Sclerosis Society *** Tenterden Cricket Club, Tivoli Trust Support for Tenterden Infant School THE ROTARY CLUB OF TENTERDEN The Children’s Society Contact: Justin Lang “Wototo” Child Care [email protected] The Pilgrims Hospice
Fund raising Hands on support for Club Projects An International meal Visits to Twin Clubs (Germany & France) particularly with Sponsored Golf Day view to Joint Projects, Stroke Awareness Sponsored Cycle Ride (annual) Library Service THE ROTARY CLUB OF TENTERDEN THE ROTARY CLUB OF TONBRIDGE cont. Contact: Clive Grenyer [email protected] Mulled Wine Sale Young Musicians Concert Fund raising Christmas car park collection Hands on support for District projects 85th Anniversary Quiz Night Youth Speaks Race Night Young Chef 2 Street collections in Tonbridge Youth Exchange Charity Golf Day Stroke Awareness Tonbridge School Concert Jubilee Sailing Trust Practical support for good causes Financial support for District projects Scarecrow Trail Foundation, Make a Wish Young Enterprise Speakers Competition Usbourne Dictionaries Christmas Carols at High Hilden with East Peckham Aqua Box / Shelter Box Silver Band, A first rate website
*** Financial support for good causes BBC Children in Need – High Street collection THE ROTARY CLUB OF THANET Shelter Box Contact: David Say Various contributions to this year’s selected charities [email protected] Hands on support for Club Projects Fund Raising Anniversary visit to Halle club in Belgium Christmas Pantomimes Joint Thanet clubs fund-raising activities *** Wine and wisdom, Race nights Boxing night THE ROTARY CLUB OF TUNBRIDGE WELLS Practical support for good causes Contact: Gordon Savage Black tie waiters at Yoakley House tri-centenary [email protected] Stroke association London bridges cycle rides RYLA transport Fund raising Raise funds through marshalling Tunbridge Wells Half Financial support for good causes Marathon. McMillan nursing, Cancer research Demelza House, Kent air ambulance Practical support for good causes Scout camp building fund, Schools rugby Exchange visits with Rotary Club of Fort Myers, Florida
Hands on support Financial support for good causes Refurbishing rest area at local hospital St Barnabas’ Community Contact club visits, Band concerts Headway and Hospice in the Weald. Film nights, Under-privileged children day outings Formulated new project with Rotary Club of Dunkerque Giggle club (our club to lead). Rugby club Start new water project in Nepal or Bangladesh, already School proms under discussion with Rotary Club of Leeuwarden Zuid. Kid’s day out Harvest suppers Hands on support for Club Projects Continue Horticultural Project in Turkey with Rotary Club Financial support for District projects of Dunkerque RYLA Fellowship dinners in member’s homes and 4/5 club din- ners with spouses per year. *** “Fit and friendly” walks. THE ROTARY CLUB OF THE ROTARY CLUB OF WADHURST TUNBRIDGE WELLS cont. Contact: Neil Rose [email protected] 01892 782608 Annual walking long week-end. International exchanges. Fund raising Raffles at Christmas Lights Hands on support for District projects Scarecrow Festival; Consider support to School-4-All in Africa as recom- miscellaneous activities at these events. mended by RIBI PennyPinching (High Street and stations pre Christmas) District 1120 appeal for No More Landmines Variety Concerts Members attend District, RIBI and RI convention and Shows conferences Annual Quiz Night Annual Jumble Sale Financial support for District projects Concerts in Parish Church Continue to be top contributor to Rotary Foundation funds Antique fairs in District 1120, ShelterBoxes. Canoe Challenge – River Rother from source (almost!) to the sea (when members were younger and fitter!) *** Practical support for good causes & other activities THE ROTARY CLUB OF UCKFIELD Driving rota to take elderly to weekly Club (CAMEO) Contact: Roy Thompson Taking elderly to Christmas lunches [email protected] Driving for Hospice in the Weald Providing publicity and Front of House for a biennial Fund raising charity Variety Show * Kit Car Grand Prix - fully sponsored Helping local Community assistance office – Carillon Uckfield Festival Cottage (Social Action Project) Jazz evening with a pig roast Helping local assistance charity (Mullins) Polio Plus Race Night Christmas Lights and Fayre Xmas Street Collections Long weekend away, typically Wed/Sun, walking in Lake Xmas Tree Ribbon Scheme District, Exmoor, on narrow-boats. President’s Xmas Appeal Monthly walks and evening walks in summer Maggot Racing, Beetle Nights, Magician Evenings etc. (all pubocentric!) Two good speakers each month. Practical support for good causes Monthly in-house speakers (often the best!) Kit Car Grand Prix, Uckfield Festival Visits to gardens, houses Stroke Awareness, Riverside Walk Clay disk shooting Elizabeth Gardens Curling (only rink in England is Fentons, near Tunbridge Old Peoples’ Summer Outing, Theatre Visits, Xmas Party Wells) Youthability Party, Outings Uckfield Carnival Financial support for good causes Young Chef of the Year Support for CAMEO Club (a Wadhurst older residents’ club) Financial support for good causes Providing toddlers’ playground equipment St Peter & St James Hospice (eg proceeds from Jazz Local Community transport (financial support) Night) Financial contributions towards meals for elderly Demelza House Support for Bridge2Aid, a Tanzanian dental charity run by Daniel Gamble ‘Make a Dream Come True’ Rotarian’s family. Acquisition of defibrillator and ECG machine for com- Hands on support for District projects munity use. Rotary Roadshow Demelza House Hospice Antony Nolan Trust * full details available Lynn’s Bowel Cancer Campaign Hospice in the Weald *** Jubilee Sailing Trust THE ROTARY CLUB OF WADHURST THE ROTARY CLUB OF cont. THE WEALD OF KENT cont.
Kent Air Ambulance & Sussex Air Ambulance Open Air Choral Evening Haematology Research Race Nights Crohns in Childhood Research The Pepperpot Golf Challenge Teenage Cancer Trust Multiple Sclerosis Society Practical support for good causes Talking Newspapers Breakthrough Breast Cancer Hearing Dogs for the Deaf Lenham and Harrietsham Judo Club Wheelchair Foundation of GB & Ireland Kingswood Scouts Medical Institute of Tamils Tsunami Appeal Maidstone Youth Sports Action Group Bicycles to Cambodia Five Acre Wood School Annual Community spirit prize at local College Kids Out Swadelands School Hands on support for Club Projects Teenage Trust Annual Scarecrow Festival weekend, both trail and Ulcombe pre-school Play Group music, sideshows, market stalls so it is something for whole community Financial support for good causes Christmas Lights to decorate shops & High Street plus South African project with contact club evening fayre and music South African Project with Bloemburg member Transport for meals for the elderly West Africa Appeal Transport to local pantomime Alzheimers’ Society (£405) Young musicians’ concert Babies2Toddlers (£100) Regular visits to/from Dutch contact club Crossroads Care (£500) Mock interview evenings at local College Headcorn Scouts Mike Collingwood Memorial Fund (£955) Hands on support for District projects Riding for the Disabled Blood pressure/ cholesterol test (stroke awareness) Heart of Kent Hospice (£507) Handicamps Kent County Show – gate manning Taxiing for Headcorn Eldercare Financial support for District projects Willington Players Buying Usbourne Dictionaries for six local primary Kent & Sussex Air Ambulance schools Make a Wish Foundation (£200) Financial support for local youngsters on community Cancer Research UK (£12,075) projects (UK and overseas), Make A Wish Foundation Challenging Behaviour Foundation (£500) The Rotary Foundation, Polio Plus, Aqua-boxes, Shelter Kent Association for the Blind (£100) Boxes, Various disaster and humanitarian appeals Kent Wildlife Trust (£30) Breakaway (Eastbourne AM RC) People’s Dispensary for Sick Animals (£200) Handicamps (RC of Medway) The Samaritans Vintner’s Valley Park Trust (£200)
*** Hands on support for Club Projects The Salvation Army THE ROTARY CLUB OF British Red Cross, British Heart Foundation THE WEALD OF KENT Contact: Norman McGill Financial support for District projects [email protected] Shelter Box The Rotary Foundation (£150) Fund raising Wheelchair Foundation UK North Downs Rotary Walk Open Air Brass Band Concert *** Carol Evenings Annual Art Show THE ROTARY CLUB OF THE ROTARY CLUB OF WEST WICKHAM WESTGATE & BIRCHINGTON Contact: Paul Winterflood Contact: John Hawkins 01883 653 017 [email protected] [email protected]
Fund raising Fund raising Concert in June or July Hog Roast and Country Fair Joint Fair with Inner Wheel 70’s Extravaganza Film Show Strictly Come Rotary Fireworks Display Wine and Wisdom Christmas collection The Snail Race Proms in the pews Santa’s Sleigh Thai Evening, The Westgate Beer Festival Financial support for good causes Carers Bromley Financial support for good causes Project Africa Financial support for District projects Cancer Care unit at local hospital (QEQM) The Rotary Foundation “Dad’s Quest” – local charity raising funds for prostate cancer PSA scanners *** Scrine Foundation – locals charity for the homeless The Coombe Trust – childrens’ homes THE ROTARY CLUB OF St. Nicholas Church restoration fund WESTERHAM & BIGGIN HILL Samaritans – Canterbury branch Contact: Zena Belton Deaf & Blind Association – Birchington branch [email protected] SENSE Autistic Children’s support fund Fund raising Local Women’s Refuge Spring/Summer Fair located on The Green, in centre of Stone Bay School Westerham; Demelza House – local children’s hospice Various stall events in Westerham Car parking at firework displays etc. Financial support for District projects The Annual Churchill Dinner Eight Aqua Boxes Carol singing at Waitrose The Rotary Foundation
Practical support for good causes *** Valence Special School (day and boarding) Brasted and Sundridge CE Primary School THE ROTARY CLUB OF WHITSTABLE Contact Roger Baker Financial support for good causes [email protected] in support of local RNLI event; African Vision organization Fund raising TS Gallant – Westerham Sea Cadets The Whitstable Races Sightsavers Rotary Charity Golf Day Gurkha Welfare Trust Whitstable Regatta Race Night Hands on support for Club Projects Summer Ball for special needs Dictée competition with our Contact Club in Normandy; Battle of the Bands Organisation of The Annual Churchill Dinner Sainsbury’s shopping vouchers Annual Beach Barbecue Financial support for District projects Concert for and by Kent Music Shelter Box Knowledge and Nosh evening Water Aid Christmas Collections at two major supermarkets The Woodland Walk with Canterbury clubs *** (see www.rotarywalk.org./uk) THE ROTARY CLUB OF WHITSTABLE DISTRICT 1120 INTERNATIONAL SERVICE cont. contact Evelyn le Chene: [email protected] or [email protected] Practical support for good causes Christmas party for local residents suffering from Downes International Service has proposed Club’s consideration Syndrome to areas falling within the RI and RIBI priorities. In order Night out at Pantomime for children unlikely to enjoy such not to “deluge” Clubs, these have been restricted to four an experience fund-raising projects and the suggestion of two further The Battle of the Bands between schools which create no fund raising. Support for children designing Santa’s Grotto Membership of the town’s liaison committee Fund Raising - These are: (a)– The Lombok Water Filter The Big Quiz - Canterbury Project (near Bali) led by RC Heathfield and Waldron (Ron Willis); (b) The Yellowmen of Kadongdong Project to Financial support for good causes reduce child mortality (currently at 67%) in NW Kenya led Water purification unit and new buildings in Thailand by RC Senlac; (c) An ambulance for Juri (Bangladesh) to Hearing dogs for the deaf alleviate severe and long-term health transport problems, Westbere Sailing Opportunities led by RC Langley Park and (d) Adult-Learning in North- Whitstable Sea Scouts ern Peru, a village at Cajamarca where currently there is Demelza House Hospice none and much deprivation. These cover water, health, Strode Park Gambian cleft palate project child mortality and literacy with, of course, poverty having Sensory Unit for handicapped children a role within each. Child Minding group ltoy liobrary Non-Fund Raising – These are: “Tools for Self Reliance” Whitstable Sea Scouts and Vision Aid for spectacles. Providing Santa’s presents for over 200 *** children in the town Supplying the town’s Christmas tree DISTRICT COMMUNITY AND VOCATIONAL SERVICE Kent Wildlife Trust Contact Ken Clark [email protected] Chestfield youth cricket Specialist equipment for Whitstable Baptist Church This is no secret! But we held a gala film night Valentines Swalecliffe table tennis youth club day starting with a glass of bubbly, a superb finger buffet, Rodong for the disabled the opportunity to buy raffle tickets and then watch the Pilgrims Hospice film Mama Mia. Ice cream in the interval a wonderful evening with nearly 300 people all friends of Rotary and Hands on support for Club Projects we made getting on for £5000. We actually do this every The Whitstable Races 2 years. And the the alternative year we have an auction Battle of the School Bands of promises: stuff that nobody wants which last year Charity Collection at local supermarkets made about £7,000. The Woodland Walk ***
Hands on support for District projects ROTARY CLUB HEALTH & SAFETY District Fun Day Contact: Doug Baguley [email protected] Financial support for District projects Polio Plus as the District Health & Safety Officer (DHSO), I do not Clearing landmines have any powers to enforce Health & Safety (H&S) on Make a Wish any Rotary Club or on any individual Rotarian. I can only The Rotary Foundation advise and strongly encourage clubs to manage H&S Australian Fire Emergency properly, and am very willing to give them help, if required Aquaboxes (eg, by email or telephone advice, or by visiting the club to speak about H&S). Occasional training sessions *** are run in the District (usually jointly with the District Protection Officer), aimed at teaching people to do risk assessments, including filling in the forms. *** Notes: