EVENING MEETING with wives and friends. Speaker Lynne Symonds.

Tue, Jul 12th 2011 at 12:00 am - 2:00 am

Lynne is the tribal chief to over 2M of the poorest people in the world and came to tell us about this role.

EVENING MEETING with wives and friends. Speaker Lynne Symonds. - One of our guests modelling a garment produced by one of the vocational students in Ghana.

EVENING MEETING with wives and friends. Speaker Lynne Symonds. - Lynne Symonds receives a cheque for the Wulugu Project charity from Keith Higgin after her most interesting and informative talk.

EVENING MEETING with wives and friends. Speaker Lynne Symonds. - New Paul Harris Fellow Peter Calvert pictured with President Brian Franklin and former member John Lloyd, who was President of the club when Peter joined.

EVENING MEETING with wives and friends. Speaker Lynne Symonds. - A very surprised Peter Calvert receives his Paul Harris Fellowship award from President Brian Franklin.

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Lynne Symonds was a teacher and is an honorary fellow at Sunderland University. She was born in Sunderland, but now lives in Norfolk with her farmer husband. Some 18 years ago she began to help children in the poor northern area of Ghana, with schooling and vocational skills. The charity is know as the Wulugu Project and it has helped tens of thousands of children. The funds raised have been used to open or re-open 30 schools and provide desks and books for these and other schools. Hostels have been provided for girls and teachers and six vocational colleges have been opened.

The work continues and building a hostel at Karaga is the next project. In thanking Lynne, we were able to give a donation towards the work of the trust.

Before Lynne had spoken to us, President Brian Franklin had awarded a Paul Harris Fellowship to a very surprised Past President Peter Calvert for all his work in the club over many years.

'What We Do' Main Pages:

Community Service

'We're for Communities' and work within our local community, whose assistance and support we value greatly.

Youth Opportunities

Activities include working with schools,Youth Competitions, Rotary Youth Leadership Award scheme, our Interact Club, Rotakids clubs and much more.

Members of Seaburn Rotary wish to express their condolences to members of The Royal Family upon the death of Her Majesty.

World Community/Internat'l Service

Rotary Club of Seaburn works with communities overseas, mostly through The Rotary Foundation.

End Polio Now

Rotary International's big effort to rid the world of this crippling disease started in 1985. We are so close to completing the job. Just one last push!

Vocational Service

We follow this avenue of service by helping in schools in a variety of ways. We also have speakers who tell us about their occupations.

Satellite Club

Former Rotary Club of Seaburn Satellite Club, which was formed into a separate Rotary Club SR1.

Club/Membership Services

This committee is concerned with the administration of the club. It incorporates: House; Registrar; Fellowship; Programme; Sport. The President Elect is usually the chairman of the committee, with other members taking a lead in each particular activity.

A collage of the seven cards we have on offer for sale in 2020.

Each year a new card is painted by Rotarian Randle Oliver. These are sold to friends as well as other Rotary club members to raise funds for Rotary Foundation and other charities, including our own Benevolent Fund.

MEMORY CAFE

This new community venture opened in August 2017. The meetings are held at 2.00 pm on the last Wednesday each month.

Redby Rotakids with their charter and Rotarians

Redby Academy Rotakids were excited to received the charter on 17th May 2016

Membership

Rotary's main purpose is to encourage and nurture volunteerism locally, nationally and internationally. We have an active Membership Committee and would like to hear from anyone interested in finding out more about Rotary.

The Rotary Club of Seaburn received a banner award in recognition of its generous support of Rotary Foundation, being the 3rd highest donor in Rotary North East. It demonstrates the club's commitment to Doing Good in the World.