MASSIVE FUNDS BEING RAISED ALL AROUND THE COUNTRY

NOTE TO CLUBS: If you have any stories of what you have been able to achieve, with the support of your local community, let us know by emailing a brief note (not more than 50 words if possible) to appeal@eycemedia.co.uk, and we will endeavour to publish as many as we can on this site.

REPORTS RECEIVED Saturday 1 January 2005

RIBI President Gordon McInally visited a group of nine clubs from District 1230 in Scotland. Led by the Rotary Club of Renfrew, collecting at the Braehead Shopping Centre on the west side of Glasgow, they raised over £30,000 in two days.

After visiting Glasgow, the RIBI President collected for a couple of hours with his own club outside Tescos in South Queensferry and at a second collection point at the Queensferry Scotmid Coop Supermarket, raising over £5,000 in one day. President Gwilym Griffith of Havant Rotary Club in Hampshire and Frankie Moore of Inner Wheel told the press and local radio " this is not a time to stop and worry about "how best" the job should be done, we will go out and do whatever is necessary in every way possible, and put into practice the Rotary motto of "service before self". This action resulted in over £12,000 being raised for the appeal in two days, due to the considerable assistance of the local Council, the supermarkets, Tesco and Waitrose and the generosity of the residents of Havant, Hampshire

The Rotary Club of Godalming Woolsack collected £5,400 in notes and around a further £600 in cash on New Years Eve outside Sainsburys in Godalming. Spurred on by the fantastic response, Club membersreturned to Sainsburys on Saturday to receive more funds and are hopeful that they might reach £8,000 over the two days. The collection was supported by the erection of a shelter by the main entrance to the store which attracted great interest.

And the Rotary Club of Ringwood in District 1110 raised an unprecedented £8,900 in two days from a generous public donating to our street collection.

vUp to Friday night, the combined collection from Aldershot, Farnborough, Fleet and Rushmoor Clubs was over £60,000. At some locations the income rate is in excess of £1,000 per hour. Collections are continuing and it is expected that the total from these four Clubs to be close to £100,000 if the current support continues. Chertsey have also started collecting on Friday and raised over £3,000.

Street collections in Cornwall are yielding very large sums for ShelterBox - in some cases in excess of £10,000 in a day. Falmouth is setting out to achieve 30+ boxes for the Shelter Box Trust. The Club has also set up a Shelterbox in a member's office and has collected over £2,000 to date, mostly Gift aided,. Leaflets have been printed and are being taken house to house. Over the New Years Eve the main hotels and pubs in Falmouth were asked to put a bucket on the counter for donations, one pub has already promised £1,000, The Royal Cornwall YC party collected £600 and Penryn and Falmouth Rotary Clubs are collecting at Asda on Monday. The Club is also supplying labour to pack Shelterboxes, and is donating £1000 out of its Benevolent Account .

The Rotary Club of Largs in the West of Scotland collected well over £5,500 during a collection yesterday. The Club has also received promises by phone calls. "It was quite a remarkable day ... humbling." commented one Rotarian.

Members of the Rotary Clubs of Marlow and Marlow Thames, district 1090, were humbled and overwhelmed by the huge number of donations from the townsfolk of Marlow. Contributions of just under £7,000 were received during a collection on New Year’s Eve outside the local branch of Waitrose and at the nearby Esso filling station. The Rotarians of Marlow, home of Olympian Sir Steve Redgrave, struck gold thanks to the generosity of the local community.

ROTARY'S GRATEFUL THANKS GO TO ALL MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC FOR THEIR AMAZING GENEROSITY ACROSS THE COUNTRY

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