Club meeting - speaker via zoom

Thu, Apr 11th 2024 at 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Colin Perrott speaking to us about spec sort

The SpecSort project, co-ordinated by Ruth and Colin Perrott, was launched by Rotary York Ainsty more than 25 years ago. Rotarians meet regularly to sort, clean and grade redundant and unwanted specatcles collected from Yorkshire opticians - which are then given to needy recipients in Africa. Volunteers from the UK go to African countries, where they run diagnostic clinics and give the spectacles. Optometrist Ruth Perrott has visited the African continent on at least twelve occasions, providing spectacles and training communities in The Cameroon, Burkina Faso, Sierra Leone, Malawi, Tanzania and Senegal.

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Stainborough Rotary Club is very active in the community, supporting worthy causes such as Centrepoint, Silkstone Scout Camp and Young People’s leadership programme. The Club also helps Santa with his Sleigh every Christmas.

Enthusiastic volunteers helping to create the vital water borehole. Water = life !!

We have close links, over many years, with Ho in Ghana. We have helped to fund the building of a Women's Co-operative, a Rotary Community Hall, a Street Children's centre, a water borehole and now the building of a sand dam.

Stainborough raises funds for charities through organising events, Sponsorship, car boot & table top sales, competitions and selling merchandise.

Our own charity - the Rotary Foundation.

Stainborough is a friendly club with lots of well supported events throughout the year. Some are 'just for fun', whilst others raise money for good causes at the same time.