Community Projects

With Covid restrictions limiting the normal range of Rotary activities and meetings taking place through the medium of zoom, the Queensferry club decided to focus on working to improve and refurbish community facilities. Such projects, under the expert guidance of Rotarians with experience in project management, the building, decorating and gardening trades, offered members the chance to meet and socialise within legal limits while benefiting the community and environment.

The programme was started under Immediate Past President Irene Brownless and continues under the presidency of Derek Clark. Project leader Craig MacKenzie was awarded the Jim Boyd Paperweight in recognition of his work in identifying and supervising the projects. Particular mention should also be made of Gerald Smith, Jim McCulloch, Matt Purdie, Graham Clarkson, Neil Mckinlay and Sandy and Liz Mackenzie whose skills and hard work were much appreciated. Patrick Boilson, who lives in Queensferry and attends Watson's school, also assisted as part of the Duke of Edinburgh Awards scheme.

Over the past three months, the club has carried out a complete renovation and redecoration of the Garden at The Haven Centre operated By Queensferry Churches Care in The Community  for senior citizens and other groups. The club received £200 worth of painting materials from Dulux as part of AkzoNobel's 125th Anniversary Fund for Community project. In the Play Area at the Community Centre in School Lane, removal of rubbish and unwanted shrubs and trees is complete. Painting of picnic tables, benches and fencing is almost finished. Painting the container for the Trishaw at The Haven will start soon. The planned removal and replacement of trees at Rosebery Hall will now take place in the autumn.