Wroxham Bure Valley Rotary Club
First of all, a great start to 2012. We have just heard that our claim for a matching grant from Rotary HQ in the USA has been approved (matching grants are what they say - HQ has matched the money we have already raised), so we now have the full £15k that we need to supply a new tractor and plough to the Faith orphanage and village project in Zambia. May we say a great big thank you to all who have contributed to this appeal, which will make a huge difference to Faith.Closer to home we collected almost £2k from our Father Christmas collections - again a great big thank you to all, and various local charities including the East Anglian Air Ambulance and East Anglia Children's Hospice will soon be receiving donations from us.
Our next fund raising event is a Michael Buble tribute evening to be held at Wroxham Sailing Club. Please note the change of date - this will now take place on Saturday 14th April. Tickets are only £20 each to include a 2 course meal as well as some great music and dancing, and can be ordered now, just contact Jilly on 07818 214277 - everyone is welcome but numbers are limited so hurry up and get your order in.
A note for diaries further ahead - we are repeating our fabulous 40's night on 16th June, only this time extending the theme to include the 50's as well so even more excuse to get dressed up and come along to what will be one of the not to be missed events of the year .
If you are interested in joining us please come along to one of our meetings where guests are always welcome, we meet Monday evenings from 7pm at the Norfolk Mead Hotel in Coltishall. Visit our web-site on www.wroxhamrotary.org.uk or alternatively contact our secretary Ian Benson on ianbenson1950@gmail.com or our president, Stewart Kemp on 01603 738555 for more information.
Press for January 2012
By the time you read this we will have completed our Father Christmas collections, the turkey will all be eaten and we will all be looking forward to a bright new year in 2012.
Maybe it’s time to stop and have a think about whether you are up to a new challenge in your life – have you thought about joining Rotary. Rotary is an international organisation dedicated to service and helping worthy causes. We at Wroxham Bure Valley Rotary club are a young lively and friendly group. We regularly raise over £20k per annum for a whole range of local and international charities and good causes. We work hard, but have a lot of fun doing it. We run a series of events, and plans for 2012 include a Michael Buble tribute evening to be held at Wroxham Yacht Club on Saturday 31st March. Tickets are only £20 each to include a 2 course meal, and can be ordered now, just contact Jilly on 07818 214277. We are also repeating our fabulous 40’s night on 16th June, only this time extending the theme to include the 50's as well.
If you are interested in joining us please come along to one of our meetings where guests are always welcome, we meet Monday evenings from 7pm at the Norfolk Mead Hotel in Coltishall. Our first meeting of the New Year is 16th January. Visit our web-site on www.wroxhamrotary.org.uk or alternatively contact our secretary Ian Benson on ianbenson1950@gmail.com or our president, Stewart Kemp on 01603 738555 for more information.
Pree Release 1st December 2011
Recently we have enjoyed two excellent presentations and made two significant donations. The first was from Mel Lacey of the Blue Ribbon Foundation, a recently founded charity in Norfolk devoted to raising awareness of men’s health issues particularly cancer. After his thought provoking talk president Stewart Kemp presented a cheque for £1300, part of the money raised from our Sponsored Walk in aid of prostate cancer last year. The second was a very moving and inspirational talk by Alison Burgess of the Viking Family Support Group, set up to support families of serving men and women in the Royal Anglian Regiment, especially needed during and after tours of duty in Afghanistan. Again we were pleased to present Alison with a cheque for £500, money raised from the raffle at our big 40’s night event back in June.
We recently helped at Brundall School fireworks night by running the barbeque, and we will shortly be dusting down our Santa Claus float ready for our Christmas charity collection, again in support of a range of local rotary charities. We are also currently preparing another Aquabox to send off overseas. Our big project to provide a new tractor to a community self sufficiency project in Zambia is progressing well.
We have some exciting plans for 2012, so make a note of some of these now. We have a Michael Buble tribute evening planned, to be held at Wroxham Yacht Club the Saturday immediately before or after Easter, and we are repeating our fabulous 40’s night on 16th June
We were delighted to welcome new member Richard Laws into the club recently and we have further potential new members in the wings, so if you are interested in joining a lively and friendly branch of the largest service organisation in the world please come along to one of our meetings where guests are always welcome, we meet Monday evenings from 7pm at the Norfolk Mead Hotel in Coltishall. Visit our web-site on www.wroxhamrotary.org.uk or alternatively contact our secretary Ian Benson on ianbenson1950@gmail.com or our president, Stewart Kemp on 01603 738555 for more information.
Wroxham Bure Valley Rotary Club 1st November 2011
Recently we enjoyed a presentation from a young lady, Connie, who has been out to India with the Vidyal Trust and met the two children we are helping by sponsoring their schooling. It was great to hear firsthand how our efforts are really doing a good job and to see the latest photographs.
Locally we held our regular autumn gardening work to help some of the partially sighted in Wroxham and Hoveton, and we will soon be planning our Christmas float collections.
We have some exciting plans for 2012, of which more details next time
As usual we have a full programme of interesting guests and speakers lined up for the next few months, as well as a great social programme. If you are interested in joining a lively and friendly branch of the largest service organisation in the world please come along to one of our meetings where guests are always welcome, we meet Monday evenings from 7pm at the Norfolk Mead Hotel in Coltishall. Visit our web-site on www.wroxhamrotary.org.uk or alternatively contact our secretary Ian Benson on ian@broadlandaccs.fsnet.co.uk or our president Stewart Kemp on 01603 738555 for more information.
Press Release 1st October 2011
Wroxham Bure Valley Rotary Club
We are now well into the new Rotary year and busy planning for our 2011/2012 programme. Our overseas projects including the Faith project to supply a tractor and plough to a Zambian village, and our Indian project supporting two disadvantaged children through school are both proceeding well.
Locally we helped at Brundall School fete on 17th September by running the barbeque, and we have recently been pleased to be able to make a donation to help found the 1st Hoveton brownies, a new troop being formed in Hoveton. We will be continuing our regular Autumn gardening work to help some of the partially sighted in Wroxham, and we will soon be planning our Christmas float collections (yes it really is nearly that time already!)
We have a full programme of interesting guests and speakers lined up for the next few months, as well as a great social programme. If you are interested in joining a lively and friendly branch of the largest service organisation in the world please come along to one of our meetings where guests are always welcome, we meet Monday evenings from 7pm at the Norfolk Mead Hotel in Coltishall. Visit our web-site on www.wroxhamrotary.org.uk or alternatively contact our secretary Ian Benson on ian@broadlandaccs.fsnet.co.uk or our president Stewart Kemp on 01603 738555 for more information.