Our Club achievements for the last 20 years

The Achievements of Meriden Rotary Club

During the last 20 years the Rotary Club of Meriden has held many fund-raising events, Motorcycle Megarides, Jazz on the Lawn, Santa Fun Runs, Speaker Events, Charity Dinners, Barbeques, Santa Sleigh Collections, Burns Suppers, Golf Days, Quizzes, Duck Races, Video Horse Races, Frog Races, Auctions, Tin Shakes and many more. A review of the money raised has been carried out and brief notes of the main charity donations that have been made are listed below. The club was chartered in 1979 and for many years all records were kept on paper, but unfortunately early records were lost in the late 1990s. During the first 20 years of the club’s life many fund-raising events were also held, a caravan raffle, multiple events to raise money to provide a minibus for a disabled charity in Meriden, the Motorcycle Megaride started, Annual Barbeques, Half Marathons at Stoneleigh Park and numerous smaller events for which we no longer have income or donation figures. In more recent years we do have records of donations that the club has made with funds raised by these events:

2024/25, £7450, Mary’s meals, various speakers, Royal British Legion, Myton Hospice, Kids Out Day, Warwickshire Lowland Rescue, Rotary Foundation, T S Stirling Sea Cadets.

2023/24, £11,963, Polio Plus, Royal British Legion, Debra UK, Global Sight Solutions, Zoe's Place, Rotary Foundation, Asthma and Lung UK, T S Stirling Sea Cadets, Kids Out Day, Helping Hands, Aquabox, Marie Curie, Neumann Pick.

2022/23, £13,300, A local child’s spinal operation, Fare-Share, Brave Little Soldiers, Aquabox, Ukraine, Debra UK, Royal British Legion, Parkinson's Research, Troop Aid, Kids Out Day, Marie Curie.

2021/22, £3492, Medical Detection Dogs, Anawim Charity, Rotary Foundation, Troop Aid, Children Seen and Heard, Aquabox, Marie Curie, The Olivia Stacey Challenge.

2020/21, £7,496, Tree of Thought, Children in Need, Poppy Appeal, Birmingham Prison Project, Pancreatic Cancer Research.

2019/20, £11,500, T S Sterling Sea Cadets, Rotary Foundation, Bwengu Projects in Malawi, Air Ambulance, Marie Curie, Trussel Trust, Woodlands School, Covid volunteer groups, The Kingshurst Covid Group.

2018/19, £8,400, Marie Curie, Aquabox, Kids Out Day, T S Stirling Sea Cadets, Rotary Foundation.

2017/18, £2,728, St Basils, Marie Curie, Aquabox, Project Trust, Poppy Appeal, Kids Out Day.

2016/17, £8,864, Emaeus, Shelterbox, Tree of Thought, Princes Trust, BEN, Marie Curie, Rotary Foundation, Woodlands School, Nuneaton Rotary, The Service Dogs Charity.

These donations from 2016 to 2025 total £75,193.

From 2005 to 2016 the club held similar events raising £163,138.

So during the period 2005 to 2025 Meriden Rotary Club has raised for good causes over

£238,000