The Month That Was That Was April 24

April saw the club as active as ever, with the club welcoming Ray Adlam into the fold, an inspirational guest speaker and members engaging in a wet and windy charity walk, packing water survival boxes and supporting our neighbouring club (Shepton Rotary) celebrate their 75^th charter anniversary. But best of all, April saw the inauguration of a RotaKidsclub at one of our local schools.

Our guest for April's social evening was Helen McCann and her Guide dog Poppy. Helen is one of our listeners at the Talking (Journal) Newspaper project. Helen’s talk was very inspirational and showed how having a 

positive attitude can help one through the darkest of days. Helen is registered blind and deaf yet felt the need to raise money for Guide Dogs for the Blind, by running the London marathon and much more.

Nine members of the club dedicated a morning to helping pack water boxes – a charity the club has long supported both through the funding of water boxes and also the packing of them. One Rotarian brought her granddaughter - it is never too soon to introduce the next generations to Rotary to help keep up the good work!

John Feaver was the guest speaker as Shepton Mallet Rotary Club celebrated their 75th anniversary. John played professional tennis in the 70s and 80s and had many an interesting story to tell. The  raffle raised  £475.00 for Rotary Foundation.

Well done to the fitter club members who donned their boots and walked the challenging Exmoor “Windy” walk. This is an annual fund raising event staged by the Exmoor Rotary club and raised £480.00 for the Children's Hospice SW charity.

A few more Rotarians visited Dairy House a local charity supporting rough sleepers in the Mendips. We were very impressed with the setup they have and identified projects at Dairy House that we will probably want to help out with. More to follow in future months.

RotaKids

We were very pleased when St Cuthbert’s school in Wells agreed to work with Wells Rotary to start a RotaKids club at the school. Following meetings with the school's head teacher and then with the children in their assembly to talk about Rotary and what it entails, an enthusiastic show of hands from the children to join the club gives us every confidence that the first RotaKids club in Wells will be a roaring success.