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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 Tuesday 4 January 2005
Coventry
North Rotary Club, with support from the other Coventry
Clubs, and in conjunction with Coventry City Football Club, organised
a 'bucket collection' at the Coventry City v Leeds match on Monday
3rd January. Forty Rotary volunteers collected for one and a half
hours before the match and for 15 minutes at the end, and collected
£7,023.
The
Rotary Club of Hemel Hempstead took immediate
action in response to the earthquake tragedy in the Indian Ocean.
Within hours of the news breaking Club president Andrew Lazarus
and his fund-raising team organised street collections with the
cooperation of Homebase, Tesco, Sainsburys and Asda at Apsley,
Jarman Park and the Town Centre. Over the two days the staggering
sum of £17 000 was raised. An immediate decision was to
arrange for Aquaboxes packed with water filtration units to be
sent to the devastated areas. Each filtration unit can supply
4 000 cups of clean water, using the plastic box as a reservoir
for the dirty water, and the full quantity should yield about
2 million cups. If these are dispatched on the 4th January, the
benefits will be felt just eight days after the fund-raising was
planned. The Club will also be sending a number of similar Aquaboxes
which will contain a single filtration unit in addition to essential
items such as tools, cups, bowls, pans, bags, hygiene materials
and some clothing.
Update
from Glossop ... Donations now over £16,000.
Many thanks to all who contributed and especially Inner Wheel
and Mountain Rescue who supported the collection and to Tescos
and the Co Op Glossop for their support.
On
Thursday morning 30th December Stirling Rotary
Club President Sandy Leven sent two Aqua boxes and two shelter
boxes. The club then started a collection in the Stirling Thistle
Centre to raise the £1,500 needed to pay for them. To our
surprise money was collected at the rate of £1,500 per hour
and over the two days we raised over £16,500 and still counting
as money is still being donated. Central FM Radio promoted our
appeal over the two days. Our thanks to all 27 Rotarians that
helped collect, but in particular our thanks to the general public
who contributed to generously. A very humbling experience.
In
May 2004, District 1210 organised a Disaster Camp on Cannock Chase
and created great awarness of Shelterbox, and one local business
purchased a Shelterbox then. Their Managing Director was on holiday
in The Maldives at Christmas, and survived the ordeal. He sent
a text message to his contact at the Cannock Chase
Chamber of Commerce saying that he would buy another ASAP as he
could see the need first hand. The Chamber has also said they
would organise an appeal amongst business.
The
Rotary Club of Richmond agreed to fund five Rotary
Shelterboxes which will be sent to Rotary Clubs in the tsunami
disaster area. Each will provide a tent, sleeping bags, and water
purification and cooking equipment for ten people for three months.
This is in addition to a Shelterbox which was purchased recently
by the five Borough Rotary Clubs as a result of a generous donation
by Mr John Young of Youngs Brewery. In a separate effort, Richmond's
newest Rotarian, Jean Athanassoula, appealed to her neighbours
in Barnes to contribute towards the Club’s fund-raising
efforts by supporting a raffle she was due to run at the Club
meeting. This would normally raise some £20 for Club funds.
With the support of the members, £422 was raised which will
be sent to a Rotary Club in Colombo, Sri Lanka, a member of which
was a recent visitor to the Richmond Club and who was lucky to
escape the tsunami when travelling to the south of the island
to assist with a Rotary charity.
Members
from the clubs of Carshalton (with Inner Wheel), Carshalton Beeches
and Cheam, were out in force at a number of locations across the
Borough of Sutton. Tim Ryan, President of Carshalton
Beeches, said “We have been overwhelmed by the astonishing
generosity some of the reactions of people were very
moving.” Phil Blake the Carshalton President adds “It
was great to get the clubs of Sutton working together to do what
we can to aid this awful catastrophe." It looks like about
£15,000 will have been raised over the weekend - even more
incredible because they had recently raised about £20,000
in Christmas store and street collections.
Rotarians
in Forres (District 1010) were out in force on
the last two days of 2004 and collected £10,750 - from a
town population of only 9,000! The Club managed to get the support
of a local Tesco store and shook buckets from 11am on Thursday
until 9pm, and followed on Friday from 10am until 6pm, before
going round pubs and finally to our Street Hogmanay party.
ROTARY'S GRATEFUL THANKS GO TO ALL MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC FOR THEIR AMAZING GENEROSITY ACROSS 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 what we can on this site.