SPEAKER MEETING - MARGARET CAREY FOUNDATION
Thu, Sep 10th 2015 at 7:15 pm - 9:30 pm
Helen Rowlands from the Margaret Carey Foundation will tell us about this charity that delivers community and prison-based work projects that ensure offenders will pay back and make amends to society as they serve their sentences.
We rescue scrapped bicycles and wheelchairs that are no longer in use and set up workshops where offenders clean, adjust and repair them to a high standard. We then give the refurbished bikes and wheelchairs to communities in need, in England and in developing countries.
We are currently experiencing a shortage of unwanted bicycles to be repaired in our workshops and would welcome the support of the rotary club in organising an “unwanted bike donation day” in your local community. Your rotary club colleagues in Tarporley, Skipton and Harrogate have organised several successful bike donation days in the past which have proved very effective in securing a good number of bicycles to keep our workshops supplied.
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Stainborough Rotary Club is very active in the community, supporting worthy causes such as Centrepoint, Silkstone Scout Camp and Young People’s leadership programme. The Club also helps Santa with his Sleigh every Christmas.
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We have close links, over many years, with Ho in Ghana. We have helped to fund the building of a Women's Co-operative, a Rotary Community Hall, a Street Children's centre, a water borehole and now the building of a sand dam.
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Stainborough raises funds for charities through organising events, Sponsorship, car boot & table top sales, competitions and selling merchandise.
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Stainborough is a friendly club with lots of well supported events throughout the year. Some are 'just for fun', whilst others raise money for good causes at the same time.
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