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CLUB REPORTS
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
FIRST REPORTS FROM CLUBS AND DISTRICTS
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ONGOING REPORTS FROM CLUBS AND DISTRICTS
MARKET
DRAYTON ... With the help of the local community the
Rotary Club of Market Drayton and Inner Wheel have raised in excess
of £7,000 plus enough aid to fill 50 aqua boxes. The club
has purchased eight Aqua30s and are currently jointly sorting
with Inner Wheel through the endless mountain of goods - 24 large
vans full in one day. After sorting Aquabox items, the club was
able, with the co-operation of Grocontinental (a local international
haulier), to send a 100' trailer full of clothes and blankets
to the Oxfam depot in Yorkshire for sorting and shipping to the
disaster areas.
SHETLAND
... The RC of Shetland may seem a long way offshore, but the Club
has so far donated £2,500 immediately for ten Aquabox 30
units, and plan that further funds will be donated in the next
couple of months.
GUERNSEY
... The Rotary Club of Guernsey and Rotary Guernesiais are continuing
with their appeal for the sponsorship of Aquaboxes. The total
amount donated to the appeal is over £78,000 (from a population
of 60,000) which has enabled the Club to pay for 310 boxes already
with more to follow. Support for the appeal has not only
come from local companies sponsoring one or more boxes but also
from private individuals, 'mufti' days, collecting boxes and in
particular Island schools who have have been tremendously enthusiatic
in their support of the project. For the future, both the
Island's Rotary Clubs are now considering medium and long term
projects where we can work with communities or other Rotary Clubs
in the area to help in recovering the losses caused by the disaster.
In the meantime the Aquabox appeal continues...
JEDBURGH
... The Club rom Charity A/c donated a Shelterbox and two Aquabox
30 already been donated from the CLub's Charity Account; the town
is to be asked to focus donations for more of the same via Health
Centre, Contacts made in Phuket for long term aid.
CHELWOOD
BRIDGE ... As at 16 January, the Club had sorted and
packed in excess of 1,300 Aquaboxes. Following a massive public
response to their appeal in the Bristol area, 300 filled Aquaboxes
were sent to the distribution centre in Derbyshire. A further
1,500 temporary Aquaboxes are ready to be placed in heavy-duty
Aquaboxes equipped with filtration pack and survival bags as soon
as Chelwood Bridge have the money to buy them.
AYLSHAM
... Buxton Primary School have been raising funds and collecting
items for the Rotary Club of Aylsham Aquabox Appeal. They widely
exceeded their expectations and the headmaster Mr John
Nicholls presented a cheque for £900 to Philip Green of
the Rotary Club to purchase 20 standard Aquaboxes.
IRELAND
... Clubs in Ireland (District 1160) have been collecting since
the onset of the disaster. Support has been given to the RIBI
appeal; to the many ngo's working in the region, the Red Cross,
and directly to Rotary clubs in the affected region. Rotarians
in District 1160 have also contributed toi Aquabox and Shelterbox,
and up to 19 January, over 140,000 euros has been dispatched to
tsunami victims
ASHBY
DE LA ZOUCH CASTLE … President Chris Knight was
interviewed on BBC Radio Leicester a week after the disaster.
As a result, donations of almost £3,500 have been received
fro listeners in Leicestershire & South Derbyshire to fund
seven Emergency Boxes, four Shelterboxes, three standard Aquaboxes
and two Aquabox 30s for the disaster area. In addition, 1 ¼
tons of soap have been donated by Standard Soap Company of Ashby
and is ready for delivery to Wirksworth.
KILMARNOCK
... The Rotary Club of Kilmarnock in Scotland made an approach
to local businesses to support the appeal and, to date, have raised
in excess of £10,000. Donations are still coming in. The
Club are supporting the Shelter Box Trust and expect to finance
over 20 boxes by the time the fund is closed.
SETTLE
... The Rotary Club of Settle, with the help of local churches,
has been collecting in Booths Supermarket every day since December
29th. The total to date is over £18,000 and is expected
to top £20,000 by the time the collection ends on Saturday
15th January.
DORCHESTER
... The clubs of Dorchester and Dorchester Casterbridge (Pop 16,000)
have just past £63,000. They have purchased 54 Shelter Boxes,
44 Aqua box 30s, and 163 Aqua boxes, spending over £40,000
of the funds. The plan is now to adopt a community, and the many
Dorchester organisations and people are behind this resolve, from
the Churches to the local Echo due to the astonishing success
of Rotary in this small county town.
WORCESTER
... The Worcester South club immediately started collecting in
the town for Shelterboxes for the disaster, and local BBC radio
presenter Dave Bradley advised people to donate by coming along
to one of the club's collection points. Then he offered to shave
off his moustache with listeners sponsoring him. This moustache
appeal has raised pledges and money in excess of £30,000,
together with the club collections of over £13,000 plus
Gift Aid of over £2,000 gives a total of in excess of £45,000
(enough for 90 Shelterbox's). This Sundays radio programme will
feature Dave Bradley at the Helston Club talking about the scheme.
PITLOCHRY
... The Rotary and Inner Wheel clubs of Pitlochry have deposited
all the monies raised in their recent collections and coffee mornings
with the DEC Tsunami Disaster Appeal. The total donated in the
town has come to over £8200, and although the clubs are
no longer actively fundraising, donations are still trickling
in to the treasurers. Said Rotary treasurer Ian Moyes’ When
we started this joint fundraising, we thought we might raise £2000,
but the response has been tremendous,” Inner Wheel treasurer
Jenny Allison added, “and this is the monies given to our
fundraising and we have spoken to so many people who had already
made a donation directly to DEC”
FARNHAM
... The Rotary Club of Farnham Weyside (Dist 1250) has raised
about £17,000 this past 10 days (they are still counting
buckets of "brass" money, but say it makes excellent
ballast to anchor down their display Shelterbox tent!).
Last Thursday, 6th January, the Club ordered 20 more Shelterboxes
from Helston and have sent a cheque for £3,000 to the RIBI
fund. They have yet to decide how to use the other money, which
is still coming in from gift-aid donors.
ARUNDEL
... Thanks to the people of Arundel, the Rotary Club of Arundel
which stepped in as soon as it could to assist the rescue effort
in Asia, collected more than £5.000, thereby contributing
to the airlifting of 250 Shelterboxes, fully equipped for survival
and capable of housing up to ten people, to affected areas. This
was positive, timely and focused action as part of the International
Rotary effort. Mark Bacchus, International Chairman of the Arundel
Rotary Club said "We are absolutely staggered and humbled
by the generosity of the people of Arundel"
The thanks of the people of Arundel are due to Rotary for rising so quickly and effectively to the occasion and for giving the people a positive opportunity to give support in the knowledge that it would properly reflect their intention to help those so badly affected. Congratulations to those who had the initiative and will to do something to help others and from the size of the local effort, that probably embraces the majority of the town. (Extract from the West Sussex Gazette Diary)
KENDAL
... Having had the privilege of funding the 2,000 Shelter Box,
members of the RC of Kendal (District 1190) were keen to collect
to raise funds for Aquaboxes and Shelter Boxes. We arranged collecting
boxes at each Asda checkout and were outside two supermarkets
on New Year's Eve. Via the local newspaper we also invited donations
to be posted to us. We have been at supermarkets subsequently
and thanks to the generosity of the local people, have raised
£26,000. £13,000 each has been passed to Aquaboxes
and Shelter Boxes.
DRONFIELD
... The Rotary Club of Dronfield collected £2,700 in seven
hours during their New Years Eve collection at the local Sainsburys.
Fundraising has now risen over £7,500. Demonstration Aqua
Boxes were on display during all fund raising events. The money
raised so far has provided 130 Aqua Boxes which local schools
have filled within five days, 13 Aqua 30 boxes and two shelter
boxes.
UTTOXETER
... As a small market town club, Uttoxeter have surprised themselves
by raising nearly £7,000 specifically for Aquaboxes, over
£1,600 being collected from racegoers at the meeting last
Saturday. They have also been successful in raising the profile
of Rotary, being featured on TV in BBC Midlands Today packing
Aquaboxes, and also on local BBC Radio which, amongst others,
produced a single donation of £1,300.
HUMBERSIDE
,,, The Rotary Club of Humberside initially donated £490
to provide one Shelter Box. An all day collection by club members
at Morrisons Supermarket on Saturday 8th January raised a total
of £1,400. A fund raising social evening is being held on
Saturday 15th January at a club members home. A club member won
£750 at a golf club draw on new year's eve and immediately
donated £500 to the Tsumani fund raising.
DORCHESTER
... The Rotary Clubs of Dorchester and Dorchester Casterbridge
started collecting on the Wednesday 29 December in Dorchester
(pop 16,000) and within two weeks had over £60,000. Of this
£40K has been used for Shelter and Aqua boxes. We plan medium
term help with some of the rest.
CORSHAM
... It was a bitterly cold day, however, the people of Corsham
in Wiltshire were warm in their support and generous with their
donations. We were delighted and surprised to collect over £1,250
from local residents, say the Rotary Club of Corsham. Many thanks
to them for their support!
RHYL
... Following the joint effort with Rotary Club of St. Asaph on
New Year's Eve and Day, collecting outside Sainsbury's and Tweedmill
Retail outlet, which raised over £8,500, the Rotary Club
of Rhyl collected at Asda, Kinmel Bay, on 6th January, raising
£1,250. With other donations 12 Aquabox 30's were financed
in addition to the 30 already provided from the New Year collections.
KINGSBRIDGE
... Kingsbridge Estuary and Kingsbridge Rotary Clubs joined forces
with Kingsbridge Lions Club and other local clubs to raise £11,645
in one day for the Shelterbox Trust by means of a street collection
in Kingsbridge, Devon on New Year’s Eve.
SUTTON
... Rotary aid for Tsunami Relief tops £20,000. The six
Rotary Clubs have between them raised over £20,000 with
store and street collections along with donation from Rotary members
and their friends. Commenting on the success of the Rotary collection
for the Tsunami disaster appeal, the Mayor of Sutton, Cllr Tony
Brett Young said: "It is fitting that at the beginning of
the centenary of the international Rotary movement so many members
of Sutton's six Rotary clubs have given such strong support to
this truly international appeal. Sutton's Rotarians can always
be found at the heart of any community activity in our borough."
Picture (right) shows the six Presidents)
SOLIHULL
... Mike Holdsworth, a designer with Rolls Royce Aero Engines
and President of Monkspath Rotary Solihull says that Rolls Royce
have given £250,000 to the Tsunami fund, and will match
any activity by employees up to another £250k. So far his
Club have purchased 20 Aquaboxes and 1 Aquabox 30 throughy donations
from club members (17 members and Rolls Royce Precision Casting
Facility.employees) Keep up the good work. Rotary and peace the
world over!
PLYMOUTH
... The nine clubs in the Plymouth district nearly topped £20
K with their collections. When added to their New Year's Eve effort
(see 3rd Jan) Saturday's collection in Plymouth City Centre brought
their total to £19,871. On Saturday, Rotary had over 100
collectors in the main shopping area; personnel included members
of the ambulance service and doctors from PLIMS (Plymouth Locality
Immediate Medical Support).
MARKET
HARBOROUGH ... In the second week after the disaster
the Market Harborough club donated four Aqua 30 boxes and two
shelter boxes, Inner Wheel adding another. Over 40 collected in
the Town centre on the 8 January raising £3,300, which will
probably be used to fund more boxes. A number of enquiries were
ereceived from people wishing to fill Aqua boxes, which seem really
to have caught people’s imagination, being seen as a sure
way of getting donations to the people who really need them
SIDCUP
... The RC of Sidcup collected outside their local supermarket
on Saturday and raised £893 which the Club rounded up to
£900, as well as making a donation from their benevolent
account. The total was much in line with what they had collected
on Saturdays prior to Christmas. Nevertheless the supermarket
had boxes on the check outs and many people had already donated,
so Sidcup RC was pleased with the total collected.
WELLINGBOROUGH
... The two Wellingborough clubs joined forces to collect at various
points around the town on Saturday 8th January. Over £4,600
was collected thanks to the generosity of the people of the town.
GREAT
YARMOUTH ... Of the initial £13,000 collected Great
Yarmouth Haven Rotary Club at various locations throughout the
town, a sum of £12,250 has been credited direct to the Shelterbox
account for payment of 25 Shelterboxes. These will provide semi-permanent
shelter and basic necessities for 250 people and are in addition
to the five previously funded from the Club’s Charity fund.
The Shelter Boxes have already been despatched. Ongoing collections
have increased the current amount received to over £16,000.
A magnificent effort by the staff at Potters Leisure Resort who
organised a special show last Sunday specifically to raise money
for the Disaster Appeal has produced a sum of £11,650, with
money still coming in. This is to be channelled through the Club
giving a current grand total in excess of £28,000. The 14
clubs (including Great Yarmouth Haven) in the area have raised
over £58,000 and the District 1080 figure is £260,000.
The funds will be used to address both the immediate and long-term
needs of those people in the disaster areas.
ORKNEY
... Orkney Rotary Club was on the streets of Stromness and Kirkwall
on Saturday 8th January, collecting to provide Shelterboxes for
Tsunami survivors, and received generous support from the people
of this Northerly island group towards the people of the Indian
Ocean islands and coastal areas. From the tiny population of Orkney
(19,000 over 17 islands, just 8,000 in the two towns) came an
outpouring of goodwill and an understanding of living at the mercy
of the power of the sea. In six hours of collecting, the club
raised £4067 towards Shelterboxes, each containing a ten-person
tent, ten sleeping bags, a water purification kit, tools and other
essentials.
LANCASTER
... Staff of Flexible Medical Packaging in Lancaster has raised
a total £192 after hearing local radio requests for the
RIBI to send out vital aid boxes. This money has been matched
by the company therefore a cheque for £384 will be posted
today. Good luck to all and keep up the good work!
PETERBOROUGH
... Members from Peterborough Ortons, Peterborough Minster, Peterborough
Werrington, Peterborough Dawn and Peterborough club pooled their
efforts and turned out in force with a Shelterbox and aqua box
proudly on display to attract attention! Unfortunately they were
unable to get a licence to collect on Saturday so collected on
Sunday instead, raising £775 with one member interviewed
by the local radio station.
PUDSEY
... Local people yet again showed how generous they can be. On
Saturday the Rotary Club of Pudsey turned up at the Owlcotes Centre,
Pudsey with collection buckets and despite the awful stormy weather
the buckets soon started filling with coins. During the day the
public contributed one thousand pounds which in effect provides
over a 130,000 litres of clean water at less than a penny a litre.
HEATHROW
AIRPORT ... Members of 22 Rotary Inner Wheel and Rotaract
Clubs from District 1090 combined to collect for the appeal in
all four Heathrow Terminals over three days last week. Thanks
to the unprecedented generosity of the travelling public and airport
staff the collection totaled more than £28,000.
READING
... All seven clubs in the Reading area mounted a combined collection
assault on the centre of Reading, Berks over the four days of
the New Year weekend targeting the Railway Station, the Oracle
Shopping Centre, Tescos and Asda. 160 members of the Family of
Rotary were involved and a total of £48,000 was collected.
LEITH
... Over eight days at the Ocean Terminal, new home of the Royal
Yacht Britannia, and the St James's shopping centre in Princes
St, Edinburgh and Leith Rotary clubs jointly raised £24,000
for Shelterboxes.
ELTHAM
... Thanks to the generosity of the people of Eltham, the staff
of Pathology at Queen Mary's Sidcup and the staff and patients
of The Oaks Surgery, Swanley, the Rotary Club of Eltham Phoenix
has raised £1,000 for this worthwhile cause.
GLENROTHES
... The members of Glenrothes Rotary Club in District 1010 turned
out in force on Saturday at a local supermarket (Morrisons) and
the town centre shopping area. Members managed to collect £4,520
and this will rise to more than £5,000 when other donations
are added.
LONGNIDDRY
... The Rotary Club of Longniddry and District (D-1020) collected
£1,256 on Saturday, January 8th through collection points
in the villages of Longniddry, Prestonpans and at the Co-op in
Port Seton. Despite the inclement weather and the small size of
our villages and shops we were surprised to break through the
£1,000 barrier.
COLCHESTER
... The four Rotary clubs in Colchester, supported by all the
other clubs in North East Essex, organised a Concert on 8 January
at St. Botolph’s Church. Over 20 local performers gave their
services free, and delighted the crowded audience. Colchester’s
Inner Wheel Clubs organised a supper, and the evening raised over
£7,000, which included a very substantial Gift Aid element.
CHICHESTER
... Assistant District Governor Mike Harvey of Chichester
Priory is seeking sponsors for his five mile swim in the local
pool. Already he has pledges of nearly £300, all proceeds
will go to the Disaster Appeal.
CARDIFF
... The Rotary Club of Cardiff Bay has responded to the disaster
by organiseing two collections and a charity Car Park in Cardiff
City Centre and in collaboration with Cardiff University have
funded 11 Shelter Boxes. The use of a site in the Queens Arcade
Shopping Centre, managed by IPP Michael Kelly allowed the club
to also display a filled "Emergency Box" to promote
the idea to the public and to add a touch of reality to the display.
The club plans further collections over the coming weeks.
REDDITCH
... Rotary Clubs of Redditch Kingfisher and Redditch combined
to hold a cash collection in the Kingfisher Shopping Centre on
Friday 31 December. Over £9,000 was collected on the day
and this has swelled since to £11,000 all of which has been
sent to Aquabox for provision of Aquabox 30's. Kingfisher was
also in the midst of a Standard Aquabox project for part of its
centenary appeal and more than 25 have been filled locally in
the last week and are being driven to Aquabox HQ in Derbyshire.
CUPAR
... Some 32 members of the Rotary Clubs of Cupar and the Howe
of Fife joined in the Tsunami Collection Day. Despite inclement
weather conditions that kept many shoppers indoors, and the fact
that many citizens of Cupar had already donated through numerous
other outlets, a grand total of £1,914 was collected.
LARGS
... Although the weather was very wild, the Largs Club in District
1230 on the Firth of Clyde still managed to collect as much as
£768.
PITLOCHRY
... Total tops £8k. Pitlochry folks turned out in force
at the weekend to support the coffee morning organised by the
Inner Wheel and Rotary Clubs of Pitlochry to raise funds for the
Tsunami Disaster Appeal and held in the Tryst Centre. Local MSP
John Swinney and his family braved the road conditions to visit
the fundraising effort. He said ”There has been a tremendous
level of support from the people of Pitlochry reaching out to
help those less fortunate and so terribly affected by the Tsunami
Disaster” The event raised over £2,600, which coupled
with the previous appeal collection held in the Pitlochry Co-op
means over £8,000 has been donated to the Disaster Fund
by the Rotary and Inner Wheel clubs.
CARSHALTON
... Carshalton Club has been out shaking a can on the street,
but the thing that made this collection different was - the willingness
to give. This time people were so keen to fill my can, says Club
President, Phil Blake. "Then at the count I found in my well
filled can only 4 x 1p coins, just lots of notes and gold coins.
Wonderful, maybe this world is not so bad after all."
ROMSEY
... The two clubs in Romsey, Hampshire, combined forces to collect
in the town on Saturday 8th January and raised over £5,000.
They were helped by the local Fire Brigade and by local garages
and stores who allowed the Clubs to collect on their premises.
Over 50 Rotarians and partners worked on the collection.
BRIGHTON
... January sales shoppers in Brighton gave well over £7,000
to Rotary’s Tsunami Disaster Relief Fund over the weekend.
Members of Brighton & Hove’s six clubs were out in force
around the town to support Rotary’s special nationwide collection.
AS ALWAYS, ROTARY'S GRATEFUL THANKS FOR THEIR AMAZING GENEROSITY GO TO ALL MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC ACROSS THE COUNTRY WHO HAVE CONTRIBUTED
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| President Gordon collecting with District Governor David Buchan in Edinburgh | The RIBI President with IPP Alex
Linkston and President Kate Keter of the RC of Linlithgow
Grange |
District 1230 Governor, John McLaren,
and fellow Rotarians in Glasgow's Buchanan Galleries |
PRESIDENT OUT ON THE STREETS IN SCOTLAND
Despite rain and gales, Rotarians throughout the country were out on the streets for Rotary's Tsunami Disaster Collection Day on Saturday. RIBI President Gordon McInally the day touring some of the collection sites in Scotland. He started this morning in District 1020 and paid a visit to The Gyle shopping centre in Edinburgh, meeting District Governor David Buchanan and members of the Rotary Club of Currie Balerno.Then it was on to the Regent Centre in Linlithgow collecting with the Rotary Club of Linlithgow Grange (of which Gordon's wife, Heather, is a member)
He ended the day in District 1230, visiting a group of clubs from the Glasgow area who were collecting in the Buchanan Galleries . Comments Gordon: "As has been happening all week, Rotarians rose to the challenge and turned out in force to help collect, despite some very inclement weather."