Helping our Community and Raising Funds

* Investing in 'Ready Steady Read' projects in three local schools giving assistance to  pupils with reading difficulties - and achieving remarkable results. 

* Maintaining our Rotary Well (see above) in the Town Centre which acts as a resting place for shoppers and others. 

* Organising a community event (normally) each year in Tiverton.The 2024 event was in the Rugby Union Ground and included a Family Dog Show plus plenty of music and other attractions. as well as lots to eat and drink. The 2025 event will be held in the Rugby Ground on Sunday 20th July 2025.

* Building and staffing a Christmas Grotto in the Market when Santa Claus hands out presents to around 400 local children. Funds raised go to local charities.

* Supporting our Interact Club at Tiverton High School where pupil Interactors get involved in fundraising and projects both in the school and locally.

* Supporting and fundraising for ShelterBox, the disaster charity in Cornwall which was founded by a Rotarian.

* Sponsoring a young adult at Kira Farm in Uganda which helps to forge a career for those who would otherwise have no quality of life. 

* Raising funds for Kira Farm via our Annual Quiz which for 2025 will be announced shortly.

* Helping with the Mid Devon Messenger the talking newspaper for the visually impaired.

* Warm Places - providing tea/coffee plus refreshments at Tiverton Library once a week primarily to help those who find it difficult to maitain a warm home.

* Raising funds for local charities. One of those is the Churches Housing Action Team (CHAT) which caters for the homeless and provides food for the needy.

* Supporting the Rotary International and World Health Organisation drive to eliminate polio from the world - we're almost there! 

* Assisting sister Clubs in  Exmoor and Exe Valley in the annual Exmoor Challenge (a 16 mile hike for youngsters on the moor) . This year's Challenge is on Saturday  3rd May.. 

* Assisting Uplift, the Tiverton pre-school charity, with financial and practical help including serving on their committee.

* Planting new trees to put something back into our local environment.

* We ask local primary schools to nominate a "Unsung Hero" (a pupil who may not be in the forefront of examination results or sporting achievements but who contributes to the life of the school and fellow pupils in a real and caring way). We then make an award to that pupil  at a school assembly.