Small Grants Scheme

Comments and emails of thanks from the 2023 Small Grant Scheme:

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Thank you very much - please pass my thanks on to the Casterbridge Rotary Club.

We are very grateful.

Regards

Di

Dianne Lawrence

Secretary to the Mill Street Housing Society

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Thank you so much on behalf of Mid Dorset Mencap Group for your kind generosity to

provide a grant for our garden project at 33 Trinity Street Dorchester the donation will

help and assist for the people we support who are the most vulnerable in our society.

When we have completed our project we will invite you to view what we have achived.

Again our sincere thanks.

Regards

Mervyn Harris

For Mid Dorset Mencap Group

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Dear Les, Lorraine and Casterbridge Rotary Members, thank you

so much!

Very best and see you soon!

Helena Conibear

CEO - The Alcohol Education Trust

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Hi Les.

I have just received an email stating that the Rotary club has made a donation to Devon

Freewheelers Dorchester.

I would personally like to thank you for raising it with the Rotary club so Thank you.

Kindest regards

Kim Hick

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On behalf of all the YFW members thank you very much for the £400 received in the

bank yesterday. I believe this is to be put towards Hi Viz vests and I'm sure all the

members will be extremely grateful for these funds to be put towards this essential part

of our uniform.

Kind regards

Jennie Furlonger

Treasurer

Yeovil Freewheelers (EVS)

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Dear Les and all at The Rotary Club Dorchester.

Thank you so much for our Small Grant money, as stated it will help set up our brand new Trishaw with a rack and pannier and will also provide all the 'spare' parts necessary for maintenance over the coming year. It has just arrived from Copenhagen so as you can imagine we have a lot of excited volunteers as it's quite high tech! We are thrilled with how CWA has taken off this year in Dorchester, so far giving around 500 people rides and getting those out and about to places they otherwise cannot visit. We are sure there is still so much more to come too. Thanks again for the support of the Rotary Club in Dorchester, it is very much appreciated. Kind Regards

Cheryl

CWA Dorchester Trustee Cycling without Age __________________________________________________________________________

Les, Happy Christmas !!!!! I am writing to thank you, sincerely, on behalf of the Dorchester Casterbridge Rotary Club, for our donation. We now have the lanyards, all printed up, and we are awaiting the new joint practice logo before we have the ID cards printed. (I am advised that this is imminent.) Please pass our wishes to all your members for a wonderful Christmas, and I look forward to meeting up with you in the Spring.

 Best Regards

Peter Hazelton

Chairman Prince of Wales Drs Surgery Patient Participation Group (PPG)

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Dear Casterbridge Rotary,

We're pleased to enclose photos of just some of the fruit hampers we were able to provide this Christmas, thanks to your kind funding via the Rotary Small Grant Scheme. After a busy couple of months, with a high level of referrals, we finally delivered 102 food parcels in the week before Christmas and each delivery was accompanied by a fruit hamper. It was lovely to see the reaction on the faces of the recipients and the parcels came as a welcome and unexpected surprise. The feedback we have received includes: "Wow... Thank you so much for the amazing fruit box... Have a lovely Christmas" "Beautiful Thank You! Lovely welcome needed surprise " We were not surprised to find the fruit more expensive this year or sadly to see an increase in referrals in the lead up to Christmas. The Rotary grant has greatly helped with the cost of providing the increased number of hampers and the purchase of the fruit to build them. The parcels we provide would not be possible without the fantastic community support we receive and we are fortunate in the Dorchester area to have groups, such as the Casterbridge Rotary, supporting us.

On behalf of everyone who received a fruit hamper this year, thank you so much for making this possible.

With our sincere wishes for 2024.

Liz Meech

Food Share Administrator

Registered Charity: 1163128 Dorchester Food Share