TRENT BRIDGE ROTARY HELPING CHARITY
Macmillan Cancer Support has provided help, support and advice to cancer sufferers and their families and carers for many years. They have also campaigned for better facilities and treatments, as well as research into the many forms of this disease which will affect one person in three at some time in their life. In recognition [...]
SCHOOLCHILDREN HELPING ROTARY
As December approached, the Vale of Belvoir Rotary Club were happy to see their refurbished Rudolph ready for action. He had finished last season with multiple fractures and it took the careful attention of pupils from Toot Hill Academy’s year seven to restore him to his former glory. Pupils describing the carnage said that his [...]
NEWS FROM ROTARY CLUB
West Bridgford Rotary Club recently donated £250 to Dr Mike Bishop, who is a consultant urologist at Nottingham City Hospital. The money will be used to buy surgical stitches for life-saving fistula operations in The Gambia and Nepal. Without treatment, women with fistulas are often ostracised from their village and are usually incontinent, so the [...]
ALL CHANGE AT THE ROTARY CLUB
George Golledge, recently-elected president of the Rotary Club of West Bridgford, is keen to dispel the misguided belief that Rotary is a gentlemen’s club which only enjoys long lunches. The West Bridgford club, which has both male and female members, is actively involved in making a real difference to both the local and International community. [...]
LEARNING LIFE-SAVING TECHNIQUES
The Vale First Responders delivered emergency life support training to the Vale of Belvoir Rotary Club. They ensured all 28 attendees were competent in CPR (Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation) and other basic life-saving techniques. This community training is an initiative by the British Heart Foundation, who are keen to ensure that people know how to offer CPR [...]
MAYOR TO VISIT WEST BRIDGFORD’S HOBBIES AND SPORTS EXHIBITION
By Charles Tyrie The forthcoming Sports, Leisure and Hobbies Exhibition arranged for Saturday 31st March in West Bridgford Community Hall, near St Giles Church, will offer everyone, irrespective of age and ability, the opportunity to discover or take up a new interest. For active sports, you can learn about dragon boat racing, football, tennis, karate, [...]
ROTARY CLUB RAISE MONEY AT CHRISTMAS
The West Bridgford Rotary Club raised money for various charities this Christmas. Pictured left are Father Christmas and his helpers Hilary Tyrie and Sheila Golledge, who helped raise £800 for Young Minds, the Nottinghamshire & Lincolnshire Air Ambulance and other charities at Lenton’s Park and Ride site. President Geoff Chivers, Mary Chivers and Gordon Wilcock [...]
BUSY TIMES FOR ROTARY CLUB
By Denis Bacon Much is happening in the final quarter of 2011 at the Vale of Belvoir Rotary Club. The Vale’s Got Talent 2011 final was held in October to a packed hall at The Grange in Radcliffe-on-Trent. Through October and November, Rotarians delivered illustrated dictionaries to 11 local primary schools in the Vale area. [...]
ROTARY HELPING LOCAL HOSPITALS
The Rotary Club of West Bridgford has donated £250 to Nottingham Hospitals Charity to support cystic fibrosis patients at the City Hospital. Cystic fibrosis is the UK’s most common life-threatening inherited disease, with one in 25 people carrying the gene. The current average age of survival is 36 years and there is currently no cure. [...]
ROTARY CLUB HELPING OTHERS
The Rotary Club of West Bridgford recently made donations of £1,000 to the British Heart Foundation, £500 to the Lady Bay Tennis Club to support local youngsters, £250 to the Sea Cadets and £100 to the Teddy Bears hospital. The donations were headed by president, John Walker, and it followed their successful Christmas collections in [...]