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Epsom Rotary are working hard to get involved with the nation's response to COVID-19.

Foodbank £2000

Meeting Room £2100

Dyscover £768

Cottage Hospital £500

Epsom Hospital £2600

Shooting Star Hospice £500

PPE for Age Concern £75

PPE for the AMECA hospital we support in Malawi £2000

All in all we donated £ 10,343 during the period.

The money came from funds we had collected from the local community over the year to support our charities.

See the bench we donated to Epsom Hospital Staff

See our donation of the 5 Samsung tablets to the IT department of Epsom Hospital.  Click here. 

A MESSAGE FROM EPSOM ROTARY CLUB

As we all too well know almost all elements of our daily lives are being impacted by the Coronavirus outbreak. Rotary clubs are no different and there is no way we can continue ”business as usual”. But as all Rotary clubs and members often do in times of need, Epsom Rotary will continue to carry out activities that can best help the local community during these unprecedented times.

We are using our contacts within the locality, built up over many years, to help us understand what is required, whether it be cash or help in kind, and crucially for it to be targeted at the right areas. In these extraordinary times of social distancing we, like so many others, now hold regular Zoom meetings so we can review what we are doing and what needs to be done. On a lighter note we’ve even held a Zoom quiz which seemed to work well!

Reflecting the Rotary ethos of service above self individual Rotarians and partners of Rotarians made a public appeal for face and hand creams and lip balms to protect frontline workers from the damage caused by PPE and for scrub bags. Over 2000 creams/balms and several hundred scrub bags have been delivered to various parts of the Epsom and St Hellier Trust. Many thanks to all those within Rotary and the wider community who donated creams/balms and made scrub bags and to the organisers of the appeal. You have made a real difference.

We have donated £1500 to Epsom food bank and also £1000 specifically to Meeting Room, both for the covid-19 crisis. We are currently arranging for more equipment to be purchased by Epsom Rotary Club and donated and will post an update on this as soon a possible. There has also been an urgent need for face cream to help with the chafing caused by face masks so we have recently delivered to Epsom hospital some 40-50 jars of face cream.

We have held a number of fund-raising activities including a members’ “camp in” which raised just under £300 and an auction of a bottle of wine signed by the Prime Minister which raised £60; all the proceeds from which went to the NHS. Also, individual members of Epsom Rotary Club have like so many of us in the local community made personal donations to NHS frontline workers. Rotarians are also volunteering to help out in their neighbourhoods.

Over the following weeks and months Epsom Rotary Club will continue to help the local community in the most effective way it can. From time to time we will keep you informed about what we have done and what we are currently doing. If you would like to make a difference to the community but are not sure how to do it you might like to contact us about volunteering to help.  You can email our Club President, Ronnie Smith at president@epsomrotary.uk  for more details. You might even consider joining us so to see more have a look at our website at  www.epsomrotary.uk . Once again, many thanks for your support for what Epsom Rotary Club and other local community support groups are doing. Your help is so much appreciated by all our frontline workers and it does make a difference in the fight against Coronavirus. 

Veronica (Ronnie) Smith

President of Epsom Rotary Club

Other activities

We purchased PPE equipment and paid for testing for the clinical staff in the AMECA clinic in Malawi - COVID-19 will stretch their resources in the same way it has stretched the NHS.

 Foodbank  are running desperately low on a variety of items

They have no dried milk, tinned rice pudding or instant mashed potato.
They are low on UHT milk, pasta sauce, cooking sauces, tinned meat and tinned vegetables.
The appeal is to those who shop where there is a Foodbank collection point to kindly donate an item and if possible one of the items listed above.

We have donated money to Meeting Room

We have asked individual  Rotarians to help with Help the Aged (Age Concern)

We are working with Central Surrey Voluntary Action

We are working with people in our own neighbourhoods to deliver food, pick up medicines etc

What's On in Epsom has produced useful list of links to COVID-19 related sites

https://epsom.woimtg.com/covid-19-information/

Of course we are not currently meeting face to face, but we schedule regular Zoom conference calls on the Internet and use old fashioned means such as the telephone.

If you wish to help the community, please contact us and we can help put you in touch with the right people