What we did in President Bills Year 2013-14
Wed, Jun 25th 2014 at 12:00 am - 12:00 am
What happened in Bills Year 2013-14
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Rotary Club of Birstall Luddites |
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Club President Bill Hildred 2013/14 |
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| Home of District 1040 Immediate Past DG Keith Davison and Inner9 Assistant Governor Nigel Arthurs | ||||||
| Mon 1st July Club Handover | |||
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| Past Pres David shakes hands with new Birstall Luddite President William (Bill) Hildred |
Bill presents David with his Past Presidents award | ||
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| President Bill shakes hands with President Elect David Keeton | |||
| Mon 22 July, Club visit to the Rotary Club of Mirfield. Members visited Dewsbury Golf Club and enjoyed a social evening and speaker with the Rotary Club of Mirfield. |
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| President Bill with assembled Luddite's on the golf course. |
| Mon 29th July - Club Speaker evening. Guest speaker was Gillian Poole who gave a talk on her visits to Nepal |
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| Gillian pictured with President Bill
(more info on the Club Speakers web page) |
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| Rotary Club of Birstall Luddites Speakers Evening Mon 2nd Sept 13 |
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| Big thanks to Keith Womersley and Rob Greaves from Solar Opportunities Ltd who at short notice stepped in to fill a speaker cancellation and gave a talk on solar panels. Solar Opportunities Ltd are a renewable energy company that specializes in solar photovoltaic (PV) systems. |
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They talked about the 2010 Government initiative of feed in tarrifs paid to households who have installed solar panels to generate electricity and reduce carbon footprint.
Solar radiation converts to dc using photo voltaic effect - more panels more watts inverted to ac power and fed either to the household for free electricity to reduce bills or fed back into the power system. |
| Keith, Rob and President Bill after the talk | |
| Link to Solar Opportunities Ltd
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Mon 9th Sept Club Speaker John MacKail |
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| John gave a moving talk and video to coincide with the 12th anniversary of 9/11 disaster. John showed a RI video featuring the Lady President in 2001 Helen Reisler. In the video members of the RC of New York recall how the club took action after the attacks on the World Trade Centre twelve years ago. |
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How "America's Host Club" Responded to 9-11 from Rotary International on Vimeo. |
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| Mon 28th Oct Good news for Birstall Luddites four new members inducted |
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| New members left to right Jeremy Parkinson and wife Carol next President Bill followed by Paul Barnes and wife Kathryn. |
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| Birstall Luddites help Kirkwood Hospice Fund Raising. | |
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| Sat 7th Dec. Santa (President Bill) and Luddites gave time to help at a Kirkwood Hospice Coffee morning at Batley Town Hall. Santa and Luddites seen here with the Mayor of Kirklees. Luddite Bill Fox on the right is also chairman of the Batley and Birstall branch of the Kirkwood Hospice support group. |
| Luddites at Christmas | |
| Santa Sleigh | Christmas Walk |
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| Santa with his luddite helpers have toured the local streets of Birstall to raise funds for local charities. Santa has also helped to raise funds for Kirkwood Hospice at their Craft Fare. |
A walk aroung Gomersal and Drub villages followed by a breakfast lunch was the order just before Christmas. Led by Rotarian Robert Jackson. |
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Luddite winter events |
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| Sunday 2 Feb the International Committee led by Margaret Arthurs held a lunch at Ossett Community Centre for a club Shelter Box Appeal. | Sat 8th Feb Luddites in Environment mode held a morning cutting and burning at Oakwell Hall country Park led by Jim Pilkington. |
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| Speaker John MacKail- Rotary | |
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| Friday 7th Feb Race Night at Batley Grammar School. Joint fund raiser with Batley Rotary and BGS . The evening organised by Luddite Ian Blamires. |
On Mon 3rd Feb the Club had two speakers- Top John MacKail and above President Bill giving a talk on his visit to Tanzania on the Mwanza Project LINK Mwanza Project |
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International Committee Brass Band Concert SHELTER BOX APPEAL On Sunday 16th Feb the International Committee organised a Brass Band Concert featuring the DRIGHLINGTON BRASS Band at St Thomas Church Batley. Committee member Margaret Arthurs organised the event assisted on the evening by International Committee Chairman John Logan. An enjoyable evening resulted, the band started with a Testpiece St Magnus which was a practice piece for their coming competitions. Further pieces led to the interval with coffee tea and biscuits and the drawing of the raffle. The second half finished with a rousing "You'll never walk alone" and an encore of Toccata and Fugue. Big thanks to Margaret for organising the event., John and ladies for running the refreshments and raffle etc. |
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| Drighlington Brass Band | |
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| Valentines Evening | Seat of Knowledge Quiz 2014 |
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| The club enjoyed a family evening at Healds Hall. After the meal Rotarians listened to the speaker Rev John Trevenna who spoke about the Batley Drop in Centre. LINK Valentines Evening |
President Bill awards the Seat of Knowledge to team Invisible Ladies
LINK Seat of KnowledgeQuiz |
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| Mon 3rd March
DG Mark Stewart-Clarke Visits Birstall Luddites. After the meal at Healds Hall Mark addressed the club. He talked about Rotary GB&I RI and Rotaract and the need to start new clubs to involve a younger generation of Rotarians using new technologies. He answered questions talking about Associate Membership with Skipton Building Soc as an example. |
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| President Bill with Mark | Three District 1040 DGs !
Luddites DGs Keith Davison left and Robert Jackson right share the photo with the current DG District 1040 Mark Stewart-Clark |
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Inner 9 Technology Tournament 2014 Tuesday 4th March |
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Pupils from across the district used their ingenuity and imagination to battle it out in an annual technology tournament.
Groups of the same age competed against each other and were tasked to either make their car go forward, reverse or transport and drop off a load. |
| President Bill pictured with Luddite Terry Edwards at the Technology Tourament (Photo courtesy Robert Jackson). |
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| Mon 24th Mar Speaker Evening | Mon 31st Mar Outside Visit to
Robertos Resurant Batley GRAND DRAW 2014 |
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The Club took this outside visit opportunity to Robertos to draw our 2014 fund raising GRAN DRAW. Proceeds from the evening meal were donated to "Batley Care and Drop In" |
| President Bill shakes hand with speaker Stuart Wright the brother of Luddite Rotarian Jerry Wright.
Stuart spoke of his experiences as a TV extra .His first work was in 1972 in Fairfax Boys. Stuart worked for Yorkshire TV and Granada doing background work He explained the running of a film set and his parts in the Glory Boys,BBC threads, private solder amongst many TV shows. |
Rotary Club of Birstall Luddites GRAND Draw 2014. First Prize ticket 1988 S Godder. Second Prize ticket 4203 D Laycock. Third Prize ticket J Parkinson 3504. |
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| Mystery Weekend 2014
The club held its annual Mystery Weekend on 5/6 April. Organised by Nigel and Margaret Arthurs members met and set off from Woolley Edge Services following Treasure hunt clues down the M1. The trail led through to south of Birmingham to Strattord up Avon and ended in Alcaster the HQ of Rotary and onto the Kings Court Hotel. An enjoyable evening followed with Nigel announcing the winners of the Treasure Hunt - Stephen and Maggie Gooder. On Sunday the club drove back along the M42 to the National Memorial Arboretum near Alrewas Staffordshire. Luddites toured the centre of Rememberance which is set in 150 acres of woodlands and gardens with over 300 memorials to see. The weekend ended driving back up the M1 to Yorkshire. |
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| LINK National Memorial Arboretum | |
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Hows this for hands on governing. |
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| District 1040 DG Mark Stewart -Clarke, volunteered at Batley Care and Drop in yesterday as promised when he called in there last month. As you can see from the attached pictures he donned his apron and got to it. Mark was waiting when the volunteers turned up at 9.00am and helped set out the hall with tables and chairs before spending a couple of hours manning the counter.
(Pictures courtesy Jo Broadhead April 24th) |
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International Committee Ceilidh A successful evening was held Fri 16th May. |
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The International Committee led by chairman Rotarian John Logan held a Ceilidh to raise funds for their overseas projects. |
| Meat and potato pie supper is served by Fairweathers award winning butchers | |
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Dancing in full swing at Batley Old peoples Centre. The Ceilidth caller was Gillian who very kindly gave her services for free on her birthday. Thanks to John for organising the event , Thanks to Rotarian Keith Davison for running the music and Christine and Helen for selling raffle tickets. Thanks also to Bill Fox who organised the venue |
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Kids Out 2014. Sixteen pupils with eighteen staff set off from Fairfield School for the 2014 Kids Out excursion. The day out was organised by New generations committee and funded by the club. |
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All had a highly enjoyable, memorable day out.
Accompanied by two Luddites President Bill Hildred with Tony Smith. Lunch was provided by the club. Teachers sent their thanks to the club and the pupils sent their thanks by writing cards. |
| Fairfield pupils ready for off. | |
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Pupils and staff enjoying the ride. Fairfield staff member Luddite Helen Wall can be seen in centre of the coach. |
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Birstall Luddites End of Year BBQ. Sat 21st June the Club held President Bills end of year BBQ. |
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| Luddites gathering for their BBQ at Hosts David and Mandy's House. | |
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President Bill's AWARDS Mon 23rd June Club Meeting President Bill made one of his years charity awards. |
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| Picture shows Meadow Hudson from Sensory Leeds receiving a cheque for 1000 from President Bill.
Sensory Leeds are based in Headingley Railway Station Leeds, The sesory facilities give relaxation with a non talking therapy in a calm relaxing environment. Sensory Leeds believes that people with disabilities deserve more than just the essentials. That is why we are committed to providing the highest quality sensory experiences for our service users, unlike anything they can engage with at home, embracing the principles of learning and development through unstructured fun. We are a vibrant, safe and welcoming space for people with disabilities and those on the autistic spectrum, older people with dementia and Alzheimers, their support staff, families and carers. LINK Sensory Leeds |
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The Rotary Club of Birstall Luddites was Chartered in 1988
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Rotary Club of Birstall Luddites are very pleased to have presented, for the 5th year, all Year 6 Pupils at Brownhill C of E, Fieldhead, St Peters, St Patricks, Birstall County and Carlinghow Junior Schools.
Luddites 200 year Aniversary
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