Special Meeting with partners and Friends of Rotary, May 2023

Mon, May 15th 2023 at 6:30 pm - 9:30 pm

6.15 for 6.30pm start. Distribution of the money collected on our Santa Sleigh Appeal in December and at the Quiz with a Ploughman's Supper in March.

We distributed a total of £6,000 to charities at this meeting.

Operation Smile was sent £1,500

and

£500 went to Crohn’s & Colitis UK

Representatives from the following charities attended the meeting to accept their donations in person.

Each received £500

Gloucester House, Highworth
NSPCC (Swindon Branch)
Parkinson's Disease Swindon Singers (Parky's Singers)
Recycles
Swindon Carers
Swindon Domestic Abuse Support Service
Wiltshire Treehouse
Youth Adventure Trust

And, since the meeting, further donations have been made

ShelterBox - £1,180 (The cost of 2 ShelterBoxes)
Rotary's End Polio Now - £350
Swindon 105FM Community Radio - £500

THAT'S A GRAND TOTAL OF £8,030

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£1400 donated to children's bereavement charity

Children's bereavement charity Wiltshire Treehouse is based in Swindon

A Partner Club is a Rotary club that supports ShelterBox's work in disaster relief by donating over £2,000 in a Rotary year

24th October is World Polio Day

From Rotary Club local heats to national finals, Rotary Youth Competitions in a range of creative areas let young people’s skills flourish.

Brighter Futures launched their Radiotherapy Appeal in 2015. Today, 7 years later, a ribbon cutting ceremony has taken place at the Great Western Hospital

Giving money and support to the people in Swindon & district who need it most

A brief summary of our Rotary year ending 30/06/2024

£1286 has been sent from our Emergency Disaster Fund to the Disasters Emergency Committee UKRAINE HUMANITARIAN APPEAL

Rotary’s second major donation, of £208,000, was handed over on 7th July 2021 when local Rotarians visited the Great Western Hospital to view the build progress of the nearly completed radiotherapy unit.

We went to the races in March. It was a meeting with 10 races, 8 riders in each. It wasn’t at Epsom, or Haydock Park, or just up the M4 at Newbury. It was, of all places, in Wanborough Village Hall.

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"In musical entertainment Swindon punches way above its weight. Some of the youngsters we've heard tonight will go on to make a name for themselves"

The Rotary Club of North Wiltshire (the name was changed to the Rotary Club of Swindon North in 2008) received its charter from Rotary International on 28th September 1966

Rotarian Terry Williams' remarkable and unique fund raising effort, living in a ShelterBox emergency tent for a week in the Market Place, Highworth

Special Meeting with partners and Friends of Rotary, May 2023

Mon, May 15th 2023 at 6:30 pm - 9:30 pm

6.15 for 6.30pm start. Distribution of the money collected on our Santa Sleigh Appeal in December and at the Quiz with a Ploughman's Supper in March.