Our Christmas Sleigh 2023 Collection for local charities

Sun, Dec 24th 2023 at 9:00 am - 4:00 pm

Thanks to the tremendous generosity of Swindon shoppers, our collections with gift aid added amounted to a fantastic £5.540

A Grand Collection! Five and a Half Grand in fact.

Thanks to the tremendous generosity of Swindon shoppers, after adding gift aid, our collections amounted to the huge sum of £5.540. It will be distributed to 11 charities - £500 each soon. Watch this space.

Where our Santa Sleigh collections were -

Saturday 9th December: Morrisons Haydon Wick, 9am to 5pm

Friday 15th December: Asda West Swindon shopping centre, 9am to 5pm

Saturday 16th December: Asda West Swindon shopping centre, 9am to 7pm

Sunday 17th December: Asda West Swindon shopping centre, 10am to 4pm

Friday 22nd December: Sainsburys, Stratton, 9am to 7pm

Saturday 23rd December: Asda West Swindon shopping centre, 9am to 5pm

Christmas Eve 24th December: Asda West Swindon shopping centre, 10am to 4pm

We are collecting for local charities and 100% of the money we collect will go to charity

Ways to donate:-

Visit our sleigh and drop cash into our collection buckets, or use your card
Scan the QR code below (it will also be displayed on the Sleigh) and use your smartphone
Donate online (click on the Good Hub button below)
If you are eligible please boost your donation by ticking "add Gift Aid"

Last year our Santa Sleigh Collection raised almost £6,000 which was distributed to these charities:

Crohn’s & Colitis UK
End Polio Now
Friends of Gloucester House, Highworth
NSPCC (Swindon Branch)
Operation Smile
Parkinson's Disease Swindon Singers (Parky's Singers)
Recycles
ShelterBox
Swindon 105FM Community Radio
Swindon Carers
Swindon Domestic Abuse Support Service
Wiltshire Treehouse
Youth Adventure Trust

'What We Do' Main Pages:

£1400 donated to children's bereavement charity

Children's bereavement charity Wiltshire Treehouse is based in Swindon

A Partner Club is a Rotary club that supports ShelterBox's work in disaster relief by donating over £2,000 in a Rotary year

24th October is World Polio Day

From Rotary Club local heats to national finals, Rotary Youth Competitions in a range of creative areas let young people’s skills flourish.

Brighter Futures launched their Radiotherapy Appeal in 2015. Today, 7 years later, a ribbon cutting ceremony has taken place at the Great Western Hospital

£1286 has been sent from our Emergency Disaster Fund to the Disasters Emergency Committee UKRAINE HUMANITARIAN APPEAL

Rotary’s second major donation, of £208,000, was handed over on 7th July 2021 when local Rotarians visited the Great Western Hospital to view the build progress of the nearly completed radiotherapy unit.

A brief summary of our Rotary year ending 30/06/2023

Giving money and support to the people in Swindon & district who need it most

We went to the races in March. It was a meeting with 10 races, 8 riders in each. It wasn’t at Epsom, or Haydock Park, or just up the M4 at Newbury. It was, of all places, in Wanborough Village Hall.

World-Wide Rotary Club Locator

"In musical entertainment Swindon punches way above its weight. Some of the youngsters we've heard tonight will go on to make a name for themselves"

The Rotary Club of North Wiltshire (the name was changed to the Rotary Club of Swindon North in 2008) received its charter from Rotary International on 28th September 1966

Rotarian Terry Williams' remarkable and unique fund raising effort, living in a ShelterBox emergency tent for a week in the Market Place, Highworth

Our Christmas Sleigh 2023 Collection for local charities

Sun, Dec 24th 2023 at 9:00 am - 4:00 pm

Thanks to the tremendous generosity of Swindon shoppers, our collections with gift aid added amounted to a fantastic £5.540