Bodmin Boxing Club

Guardian Press Release:  7/09/12

Rotarys Record Gift to buy gym.  (Scroll down for photos)

The Rotary Club of Bodmin has through its Trust Fund, recently pledged a donation of 10,000 to the Walker Lines Gymnasium charity to enable the charity to complete the purchase of the gymnasium on the Walker Lines Industrial Estate in Bodmin.

President David Jenkins and Trustees of the Rotary Fund met the Gymnasium Trustees on Friday 7th September 2012 to confirm Rotarys commitment to the project.

The Rotary Club Trust Funds origins lie with a decision of the Rotary Club in 1960 to purchase a house in Gordon Terrace in Bodmin as a home for a refugee family from Eastern Europe. Funds for the purchase of this house were raised by Rotary by a mortgage and donations from local organisations and churches in the town. When the original tenants left the property in 1982 the house was sold and the Rotary Trust Fund was set up to protect the capital raised from the sale, to accrue interest and to use the proceeds for the benefit of the people of Bodmin and local charitable organisations. Over the years the Trust has made donations to assist with the purchase of an ambulance for the St Johns Ambulance Brigade, a Mini Bus for Bodmin Age Concern, roof repairs to the local Scout Hut, sending a local disabled youngster on the Jubilee Sailing Ship, annual outings for local children, and many other projects.

Tony Sandry, Chairman of the Trustees said this is the largest donation ever made by the Trust, but it is the sort of scheme we have been looking for to enhance facilities for the people of Bodmin, especially young people, through the Walker Lines Boxing Club, and it will safeguard the future use of the building as an amenity for the people of Bodmin.  

Comment by: Balu Madhvani, Chairman of Gym Board of Directors

Bodmin Boxing Club and Trustees of Walker Lines have been working together with The Bodmin Rotary Club for the last eight years in supporting each other including in fund raising. The most successful project culminating in an eye project in Kenya where 1,300 people with eye problems were treated including carrying out over 80 cataract operations. Balu Madhvani Chairman of The Board of directors of The Walker Lines Gymansium and president of the Boxing Club would like to thank Tony Sandry, Chairman of trustees of the Rotary Club of Bodmin, Dave Jenkins the President and all Rotarians for their tremendous support and pledge of 10,000 towards completing a dream which will safe guard a thriving facility for the current and future communities of Bodmin.

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