Oct 2023
This year we have donated £100 each to Hipperholme Grammar School, William Henry Smith Foundation and Brighouse High School towards their student prize awards events.
Oct 2022All prize money for schools to award has been sent and increased to £30 per student
Background
Each year six Secondary schools in the Brighouse area award Rotary prizes to pupils who have contributed to the community or the health and well-being of their fellow pupils.
Each awardee gets a trophy to keep for a year and a gift voucher provided by the club. The current President has the honour of attending the school prize giving evening to award the trophy.
more We regularly arrange fun quiz nights with the proceeds to support our nominated charities
more A club for primary school pupils run by the children and facilitated by Rotarians
more We have adopted a section of the Brighouse Canal from Brighouse Basin to Anchor Bridge where we shall be helping to improve the appearance of the canal paths, the flower beds and boxes. Come and help us
more "Buy" a light to remember a loved one, all money goes to the President's chosen LOCAL charity.
more We manage the car park for the event. There is a free vintage bus ride into town and back from the car park.
more While we don't organise the gala we do provide useful support
more We decorate the rest centre and provide refreshments one Saturday in December - allowing the volunteerl team a week off.
more Rotary's key humanitarian project to rid the world of polio.
more A professionally run development course for the leaders of tomorrow. Attended by those pupils in 6th form and supported by Rotary members.
more The Project Local Santa Float is our annual collaboration with other service organisations in Brighouse. Walking the streets collecting money!
more Working with Halifax Rotary we distribute Shoeboxes to the schools in our area to be filled with gifts for those less fortunate.
more An initiative with the other Rotary clubs in Calderdale to plant trees to improve the environment
more Helping the British Legion by distributing the poppies to shops and businesses around Brighouse as well as helping on the sale tables in Tesco and Sainsburys.