Fun, Fellowship and Fundraising!

Rotary gets up to Fun and Games!

So after the excitement last month of the Hyde Hall Live weekend, Rotary Wickford, hasn’t stopped for a break.

On the basis of our mantra of “Fun, Fellowship and Fundraising”, members got together for a relaxing evening of games in the garden of one of our members’ homes.

A beautiful evening, during which we took part in various games resulted in a convivial evening of gentle rivalry. One of our members was introduced to darts, which he had never played before, and we discovered just how cutthroat some of our members could be during the croquet match, when some pretty dastardly tactics were employed to stop people from winning! Meanwhile some just lazed and watched the play from the shade of a nearby tree.

After the fun and games were over, we then enjoyed a barbecue with a difference, where we all cooked our own food on tabletop grills. A really enjoyable time underlining the “Fun and Fellowship” of Rotary.

However the “Fundraising” was addressed too, as the event raised £350 to support Shelterbox,  Rotary Wickford are proud to be Silver partners with Shelterbox (shelterbox.org), a charity which supports people around the world caught up in conflict or are victims of natural disasters, currently helping people struggling with the after effects of flooding in Bangladesh, Pakistan and Malawi, and conflict in Mozambique, Syria, Sudan and most recently in Gaza.