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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 Sunday 2 January 2005
The
Rotary Club of Burnley Pendleside in District
1190 took over the foyer of Tesco Burnley on New Years Eve from
9am to 4.30pm and collected £4,500 in six buckets for the earthquake
disaster fund. We also spent most of New Year's Day counting it.
£2500 was immediately sent for Aquaboxes and the rest will go
to RIBI's disaster fund.
The Rotary Club of Ulverston in Cumbria who were
holding their annual Houghton Weavers Christmas Concert on 30th
December, decided to have the exit collection and the raffle proceeds
go towards the Tsunami appeal for Aquabox30's. The collection
was a staggering £921, the raffle a further £300. With such a
response the Club then decided to put the entire evening's profits
towards the appeal, making a final amount of £2,250 to buy Aquabox30's.
The Club had already responded by sending £500 to the Aquabox
appeal.
The
Rotary Club of Glossop in Derbyshire raised nearly
£16,000 from collecting last week at the local Tescos and Co-op
stores aided by both Inner Wheel and the local mountain rescue.The
public response was fantastic.
The Rotary Clubs of Chichester Priory, Chichester and Chichester
Harbour in District 1250 have been jointing collecting in Chichester
City Centre, Waitrose, Sainsbury’s and Tesco’s and
have collected £21,000 to date. Further collections are
currently taking place and planned.
Rotarians of the Rotary Club of Saxmundham and District
in Suffolk organised a bucket collection at four store sites on
Friday 31st December and in just six hours raised £6400. Already
this sum has been increased by clubs members donating their Christmas
card collection money and the raffle proceeds of a socialevent
held later the same day.
An update from the RC of Godalming Woolsack on
their collection over the last two days outside Sainsburys...
A staggering £12,018 was collected with a gift aid potential of
a further £1400, plus a donation £1112 from the members of the
Puttenham Golf Club. A lottery ticket for next Wednesday's draw
was also given by one of the hundreds of people who filled our
buckets --- fingers crossed! Our grateful thanks to themanagement
at Sainsburys Godalming for their willing assistance.
The Three Rotary Clubs in Southport (Southport
, Southport Meols and Southport Links) were joined by members
of the local Lions Clubs to raise funds from the public at two
Supermarkets this past week. With some funds still to be counted,
pledges to be received and another day's collection on Tuesday,
anticipated amount will be well over £12,000. A great tribute
to the public's generosity and great cooperation andfriendship
between Rotary and Lions.
Following an announcement in the local Lynn News and Eastern Daily
Press the Rotary Club of Swaffham in Norfolk
undertook a two day bucket collection with the support of Waitrose.
Between 10am and 4pm on Friday and Sunday well over £5,000 was
raised for Shelter Boxes and Aqua Boxes thanks to the generosity
of the local communty. President Nigel Chambers praised the remarkable
response from our community who have reacted magificently - "a
great two days and a big thank you to the public and to Waitrose"
ROTARY'S GRATEFUL THANKS GO TO ALL MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC FOR THEIR AMAZING GENEROSITY ACROSS THE COUNTRY