Summary of Club Activities

Our very first Charity Race Night was held in late November and proved to be a huge success and with a full room of 80 attendees the club raised £1100, approximately half of which will be donated to Prostate Cancer UK and the remainder to our club charity account. On 7^th December the club had its customary stall at the Chipping Sodbury Christmas Sunday event selling mulled wine/cider and mince pies. Despite the unpleasant weather a huge crowd turned out and we enjoyed being part of the day.

The season of Rotary tea dances is now well underway with some 90 attendees at the November event and with a good attendance anticipated for the Christmas special.

Club members were delighted to welcome Sean Suleman to our meeting on 1^st December where we handed over 30 ‘Christmas Spirit’ bags, donated by club members, each filled with a range of seasonal goodies to be distributed to homeless people in Bristol and Bath by the Blonde Angel Street Team volunteers. And we have also made a financial donation towards much needed items of clothing.  At that meeting, former Rotarian, Graham Miller was presented with a Rotary Long Service Award in recognition of the many years of tireless service he gave to our club and formerly to Newport Rotary Club.

The club made a financial donation to the Rotary Children’s Toy Box Appeal to enable the provision of 15 filled boxes of toys to go to children living in domestic abuse refuges across the UK. Recently, several club members acted as mock interviewers to three students at Brimsham Green School hoping to win places at Oxford or Cambridge Universities. During December the club also completed its financial donations to the One25 charity and to the Caring in Bristol charity via the ‘Big Give’ Christmas Appeal.

As we end 2025 the club can reflect on another very busy and successful year, staging five fundraising events, a programme of five tea dances, supporting a number of local community organisations, making donations to several requests from schools and youth organisations and responding to urgent international humanitarian and disaster relief appeals. Further details of our reflections of 2025 can be found on the club facebook page.

Finally, on behalf of the club, warm wishes to everyone in our local community for an enjoyable festive period and a prosperous 2026. Also, a sincere thank you for the support the club has enjoyed for its various events throughout the year.

We are keen to attract new members from all backgrounds. If you would like to know more about Rotary and the varied activities of our club, contact us at csrotaryapplication@gmail.com.

CLUB ACTIVITIES 2025