Hello from Sawbridgeworth and District Rotary Club
Hello from
Sawbridgeworth and
District Rotary
Club
Sawbridgeworth
& District Rotary Club administers a Registered Charity called the
Rotary International is the
world's largest service organisation for business and professional people with
some 1,180,000 members
in 163 countries world-wide. There are now over 59,000
Rotarians in 1834 Clubs in Great Britain and Ireland, helping those in need
and
working towards world understanding and peace.
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Michael Vincent is our 2011-12 Club President. If YOU want to know anything about Rotary or would like to come along to one of our meetings, please call the Secretary, Peter Clark on 07770 978256 or e-mail. |
At 6.30 pm on every Christmas Eve the Rotary Club invites the people of Sawbridgeworth to come to Fair Green to sing carols. Fair Green was again packed on Christmas Eve 2011. The ice under foot for the second year running added to the atmosphere. Profits go to charities for the blind and visually impaired - £2,300 shared between to RNIB and the Herts Society for the Blind.
An early morning collection at the Station enabled the Club to purchase a seat for shoppers waiting for the Sawbobus in Budgens car park. A thank you card was received from 25 users of the service. Here Jim Barrie, the President of the Club (right), hands the bench over to the Town Mayor Cllr Eric Buckmaster and Emma Cameron Budgens Marketing Manager.
Street Collection for Shelterboxes after the Haiti earthquake: With a generous donation from the staff and customers of Toplines salon and funds raised from its own members, the total amount raised was nearly £1,200 - enough to send two Shelterboxes on their way to Haiti and start on a third.
Here are some of the other people and organisations we have supported, with your help, in the last year or so...
We raised £275 in a street
collection for local charities. £250 of this goes to Youth CREATE.
Bike Bengal - £475 for Dr. Graham’s Homes, Kalimpong
Youth Create - £100 for the Christmas Lights in Bell Street
Don Patel - £150 for climbing Kilamanjaro in aid of Breast Cancer
Emma Sullivan - £350 Leventhorpe pupil in Madagascar
Banin Foundation – Douala - £500 to Educate boys to ‘job application level’
Joseph Ahuja – Dodoma - £150 towards his trip to Dodoma, to work in a school
Jessica Foster – Tenacious - £250 for Sail training on board the Tenacious for a local girl with disability
Miles Carpenter – £250 towards replacing a stolen Quad bike for a local boy with disability
Sheering Youth Club - £200 towards giving them something to do in the evenings
Previous support has been given to...
Massage Chair for Isabel Hospice out-patients at the St Barnabus Centre in Thorley and Hoist for the Rehab Unit at Bishop's Stortford hospital (the hoist was a joint donation with two neighbouring Rotary Clubs).
Raising
money for Sawbridgeworth Orphanage in Sri Lanka. A Pooh Sticks
Race with about 500 numbered sticks on the River Stort. The race was
started by three year old Heidi. First Prize (£100) went to Gillian
Melling and the Bear went to Gill Hawkins.
Carols
on Fair Green Christmas 2005 More people there
than ever before were there and a record
collection of £1,900 was raised (£950 for
the RNIB plus £950 for the Herts Society for the Blind). The carols were led by Gt St Mary's Choir and
Epping Forest Band members, conducted by Derek Harrison.
EARTHQUAKE: We have donated £1000 for two Shelter Boxes plus a little bit extra to replenish stocks sent to an earthquake area.
To celebrate 100 years of Rotary International, the Club decided to renovate the War Memorial which was looking bedraggled. It raised the money and obtained permissions from interested parties before engaging local stonemasons Day & Son to undertake the work. Here are the results...
Before:
and
after: 
SE ASIA DISASTER/TSUNAMI The Club collected enough to send 4 Shelterboxes to Sri Lanka region for a local Rotary Club there to dispense. Each shelterbox contains a tent for ten people, ten sleeping bags, tools, sheeting, ropes, a stove, a torch and water purification facilities to supply them for three months. It also had four fishing boats made in India and given to fishing families in Andra Pradesh:
Other
recent donations have included £350.00 for Dogs for people with Epilepsy, £500.00
to sponsor a pupil at the
Carols on Fair Green Christmas 2004 had a record attendance and raised a record collection £750 for the RNIB plus £750 for the Herts Society for the Blind.
JIM Mark's Memorial: Organised the unveilling of a Memorial panel commemorating the life of Wing Commander Jim Marks by his sister Mrs Joan Walters. The event included a fly past by a Lancaster from the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight.
Click here for Jim Marks' life story and more pictures.
Group Study Exchange visitors from Sri Lanka, hosted by the Club in 2004 ...
Here are a few of our charity results from 2002-3
£100 to Cancer care in memory of Keith Hall
£400 for repairs to the Evergreen Minibus
£750 for the RNLI
£1165 for RNIB raised at Carols on Fair Green on Christmas Eve 2003
£1201 for RNIB raised at Carols on Fair Green on Christmas Eve 2002
£1171 for the Friends of the Memorial Hall and £303 for St Clare's Hospice from the Duck Race (click for details and picture).
£400 to Rotary Foundation, the scholarship charity for fostering international understanding and for humanitarian projects around the world.
£400 to educating a pupil (her name is Cherok) in Limaru Agricultural School Kenya.
£500 to Hope and Homes for Children (orphanages).
£300 to Little Haven Children's Hospice from members collecting 20p pieces in Smartie tubes.
£400 to another children's hospice by taking part in a Sponsored Walk.
£800 to the Bell Street Surgery towards foetal monitoring equipment and an electronic sphygmomanometer. The latter, (pronounced “SFIG'mo-mah-NOM'eh-ter”), is for measuring blood pressure.
£250 has been earmarked for the Hatfield Heath Surgery. THANK YOU to everyone who helped.
Carol service and afternoon tea and entertainment at High Wych for senior citizens.
Door chains and smoke alarms.
As part of the work for SAWBRIDGEWORTH 2000 we provided the hall for the Indoor Street Party and decorated it. We also had various roles behind the scenes in the staging of the Millennium Beacon on Fair Green, the Medieval Mystery plays, the Schools Procession etc. The sound of the bells and fireworks were captured on the Rotary CD, featuring music from local schools, church choirs, and musicians.
Here is a picture of Emmerdale star Stephen McGann (Sean Reynolds) holding Rotary's 'Sounds of Sawbridgeworth' CD with two young stars from Youth CREATE. Former President Norman Grimes presents the digital recording equipment to Carol Russell of Youth CREATE.
Carol and Norman pose for the local press, on stage at the Rhodes Centre, with some of the younger stars of Youth CREATE...
WHO are we?
Our President changes every year (see top of page)
Our Secretary is Peter Clark of 10 The Stables, Great Hyde Hall, Sawbridgeworth, Herts, CM21 9JA.If you would like to find out anything about Rotary please phone Peter on 01279 726108 or 07770 978256 or e-mail clarkpf@hydehall.demon.co.uk
…………………………………………………………..or ask any local Rotarian.
Where do we meet?
At the Market House Hotel on Monday Nights. If you are already a Rotarian you will know that you are welcome to attend any Rotary meetings and we will be delighted to see you. If you run a local business or are a professional or do a lot in the community who would like to know more and perhaps would like to be invited to sample Rotary, please contact us.
For more information….
Visit the main web site of ROTARY INTERNATIONAL or click HERE for information about Rotary Clubs in the UK.
To find out more about our Rotary District 1240, which covers Essex and a part of Hertfordshire, click HERE
…….or send an e-mail to: mailto:clarkpf@hydehall.demon.co.uk
The costs of these pages have been donated by Rotarians: no part of them comes from Rotary charitable fundraising.