General Meeting - Live - Speaker Meeting

Thursday, November 18^th – Emma Slade

It will be good to welcome Emma back when she and Sue Hills will update the Club on the latest projects of Open Your Hearts to Bhutan.

ROTARY CLUB OF CHESTFIELD

Breakfast Meeting 07.30am Thursday 12th December 2021 @ The Golf Club

Present:           Robert, Marian, Andrew B, Lesley, Margaret, Pat, Pippa & Spyros, Godfrey, Dave C, David M, David K, Paul, Maureen, Andrew & Jean M.  Pete & Kathy joined later via Zoom.

Guests             Neil Robertson, Sue Ward, Emma Wade, Gillian Sissons, Chris Gregson, Pat & Martin Prestage.

Apologies:       Elaine, Hilary, Iain, Jackie, Myfanwy, Nick, Reggie,  Sue, Trevor, David B.

Grace              Was said by Paul

BREAKFAST

Presentation:   Emma began by thanking the club for its ongoing support.  Open Your Hearts to Bhutan has raised over £455,000 since its inception.  Our support has gone towards safe electric cooking of meals, a library building, teacher training.  Emma talked about the need for the focus over the last two years on the safe drinking water project.  16 schools have now been equipped with water filters.  Note though that future support will be need to help with the cost of changing filter pads, and general maintenance.  The filter we have paid for is installed at the school at Dekiling on the southern border.

                        Emma ended by asking those present to consider registering with Amazon Smile, a way of contributing to fund raising while you shop online.

Business:         Sunday is the Christmas food run through Chestfield.  Meet at the usual place at 4.00pm.  14 members have said they will attend.

                        12th December fund raising stall in Tankerton High street.  More volunteers are needed especially at the start and end of the day.

Greetings:       Greetings from Canterbury Sunrise club.

Raffle:             Was won by Neil.

Master-at-Arms:  Godfrey did this in Nick’s absence.

Next Meetings:           

Board Meeting 18.30pm Tuesday 7th December @ Lesley’s house.

Breakfast Meeting 07.30am Thursday 9Th December @ the Golf Club