From L to R Rot. Tim Leeson; Mr Stuart Sykes; President Phil Alcock.

Tonights guest speaker was Mr Stuart Sykes, founder and leader of The Windmill Project. Stuart was joined by Patricia Appleton, Ben Foster and Lauren Kenyon. Their message tonight was "Value for money" and pointed out that the money previously donated by Kirkham Rotary helped them raise a further £2000. Our speakers highlighted the work that the group did with young people and included various projects including providing a mountain first aid course; Carrying a dark Vigil in aid of the motor neurone disease where the group slept in complete darkness for 14 hours in a cave and then a 10km walk back to their pick up point which raised £500.

An Easter expidition to the Isle of Skye where the group battled gales force wind and snow and dramatically resulted in part of the group being rescued from Mount Hedra after being caught in the storm. The expidition ended with a run up "Glamaig" a small hill measuring 2543 feet in height.

The group have also been to Anglesey Kayaking and maintianing the woodlands at Snow Height planting oak saplings. The group have raised enough money to purchase three shelter boxes which were sent to Nepal. Lauren expalined how she raises money at her school by selling bags of sweets for a £1. The school also organised a non uniform day where it raised £600 for the group.

The talk ended with details of the group's next expidition to Brittany surveying ancient sites of interest. Kirkham Rotary were proud to present a cheque for £1000 to further enable The Windmill Group to help young people.

Rotarian PP Paul Leeson gave the vote of thanks and mentioned the clubs visit to the group on the 18th April of this year. Paul echoed all our thoughts by commenting that the speakers had given alot of themselves into the project and thanked them for the work that they do.

If you are age 13yrs to 25yrs

and are looking for 

Adventure ~ Challenge ~ Development

the Windmill Youth Development Group 

could be the place for you.

If this is your first visit to our site we invite you 

to click through the boxes on the top of this page 

Start with 

'Windmill History'

then 

To view current and future events click the 

'What's On' box  & then Recent Events.

Do not miss reading our Testimonial page.

The Windmill Youth Group is not

school or a youth club

Please understand that our discipline, standards and expectations of you are very high. 

If you can accept that, we will vigorously encourage you all the way to success.

The Windmill Group has been in existence since 1978

We are totally independent.

We are totally voluntary with unpaid leaders and we do not supply services for a fee.

The Group specialises in creating future team leaders and managers in Commerce, World Affairs,The State Sector and Voluntary Bodies.

We are not interested in how academic you are. We are just interested in you as a person. 

We involve ANYyoung person.

If we find you have a Spark, we will bring it to Life.

We have  our own insurance, for third party liability.

Health & Safety

With regard to Health and Safety, our philosophy is to keep our youngsters 

"Safe and Healthy "

With the achievement of youngsters foremost in mind, 

we  get out there and do the job safely and for free.

"Cannot"

is not part of that Philosophy,

HOW TO MEET US

We meet every Wednesday evening at 6pm 

Come to Stanley Park Sports Centre Sports Arena 

Best drop off point is the Stanley Park Sports Centre Car Park on West Park Drive.

However we encourage the use of bicycles or walking/running there.

JOINING

All Windmill participants have to join the organisation to involve themselves in the activities. 

We train outside every week throughout the year.

No matter what the weather.

(Come Wind/Rain/Snow/Ice or Shine)

There is no joining fee and the weekly donation to the Windmill Charity is just £1.00.

We are totally funded by other charitable bodies, various grant making organisations and mostly by our own efforts.

If you are interested in financially supporting the Windmill Group Charity

Please do.