EVENTS 2010-11

Some our our events this year.

  LEEDS ROTARY TECHNOLOGY TOURNAMENT FOR SCHOOLS

Our members support the Tournament as Organisers, Judges and Stewards. The last event took place on 8th March 2011. CLICK HERE to listen to a report on BBC Radio Leeds (Andrew Edwards - Drive Time). 

IS YOUR SCHOOL REGISTERED FOR THE 2012 EVENT (on 06/03/2012)?

CLICK here to go to the Tournament Website for details of the events.

LOCAL SCHOOL FILLS 15 AQUABOXES

At the request of the Head of Community Outreach at Gateways School, Harewood, Leeds, the Club supplied 15 empty Aquaboxes to the School at the beginning of February 2011. The filled boxes were returned by  Club members to the Rotary Club of Wirksworth's Derbyshire Depot in March so that they could be shipped off to a disaster area somewhere in the world. A big thank you and well done to the girls and their teachers at Gateways.

WALKING AIDS DELIVERED TO PHYSIONET

A number of redundant walking sticks, various walking aids, a wheelchair and a commode(!) were delivered by one of our members to PhysioNet (email physionet@bramley.prestel.co.uk) on 23rd March 2011. After refurbishment they will be shipped out to Fiji in April.  

One of our members was pleased to act as 'Santa' on 13th December, and delivered some presents from the Club to Martin House Children's Hospice at Clifford, Wetherby. The gifts were mainly board games, including 'Monopoly' (York version), 'The Logo', and 'Pass The Bomb' along with a small monetary donation. 

The Corporate Fundraiser has assured us that the children will have great fun with the games. We saw on television that the real Santa arrived at the Hospice by helicopter (again) a few days before Christmas day, causing great excitement for young and old alike.

'FOCUS ON THE CROCUS'

Our Club (1000 bulbs) took part in one of the 'plantings', along with the Leeds Rotary Club (2000 bulbs), on Friday 8^th October at the side of the Dewsbury Road (A653) outside New Bewerley Street Community School, Leeds 11. We were grateful for help with planting from a number of the school's pupils and their teacher Mrs Barnes, who runs their gardening Club. We all had some fun in getting the bulbs in the ground. Thanks are also due to members of the Leeds City Council Parks Department who prepared the holes in the turf ready for the bulbs. We should see a big splash of colour early in the spring which will remind us of the Thanks For Life initiative supporting Polio Plus - eradication Polio from the World.

Since 1985, Rotarians across the whole world have been raising funds, raising awareness and helping administer the polio vaccine in endemic countries. Millions of young children have been spared from the curse of this crippling and potentially fatal disease thanks to the hard work of Rotary members working alongside Unicef, WHO and other health organisations. Once, there were 129 endemic countries with 350,000 children being infected every year. Now, 25 years on, there are only 4 endemic countries and new cases have declined to around 1,000 per year.

The Purple Giant crocuses will not only brighten up the environment, when they bloom in February it will be at the climax of the Thanks for Life campaign. The purple colour is symbolic of the dye used to mark a child's little finger once they have been protected from the disease.

Presentation to three new Paul Harris Fellows

 At the Club meeting on 29th July, Immediate Past President Ken Garrett made Paul Harris Fellows of 3 of our Club's members in recognition of their service to the Club and to Rotary over many years. Rotarians Mike Crawford, Bill Jones and Jim Tomlinson were highly delighted to receive their Certificates and PHF lapel pins (as illustrated above). All of them had no idea that the presentations were to be made, and were left somewhat speechless!

Jim, Mike, President Eddie (holding one of the certificates), and Bill.

PHYSIO PRIZES 2010

Visit by Rotary Club of Leeds Elmete to Ireland Wood Primary and Ralph Thoresby High Schools, Leeds, on 9th July 2010.

When our District Governor Roger Percival visited our Club on a Thursday evening a few weeks ago, little did he realise he would be up very early the next morning to travel from the darkest regions of North Yorkshire to join a few of the members of the Rotary Club of Leeds Elmete in presenting trophies, certificates and book tokens to some 'star' students at both Ireland Wood Primary and Ralph Thoresby High Schools, in north Leeds.These are two of the schools in Leeds that take disabled children and integrate them into normal school activities. As required, the children are taken out of lessons to have their necessary physiotherapy. The 'special' children were chosen to receive prizes by June Grainger, Chief Co-ordinator of Physiotherapy, because they had performed well and made outstanding progress during the year.

The prizes were presented by our Past President Peter Whelan, in the company of President Eddie Nathan and Rotarians Alastair Henderson, Jack Transport and Tony Vincent. We don't know if this is the best thing we do as a Club, but it is certainly the nicest. All credit to the DG - our Boss (as he was introduced to the children) for turning up at not inconsiderable inconvenience, on very short notice.