The Rotary Club of Medway > Archive 2005-6

Medway Rotary Receives Award

The 42 members of the Rotary club of Medway celebrated another successful year, under the presidency of Jim Foad, at a ladies night held at Leeds Castle. Guest of Honour District Governor Tony Hodge who presented the club with a certificate of achievement said, "The record of fund raising by the club was outstanding"

During the past twelve months the club has:

Raised substantial monies for charitable causes

Members spent 12,311 hours in doing so
Assisted by helpers who gave up a total of 2,096 hours
A grand total of 14, 407 hours which is equal to seven full years of fund raising!

Major Projects include

Sri Lanka where £25K was spent by the club in September 2005 in re building a school roof, refurbishment of the school and the provision of a new toilet block, with a new water supply to the school of 200 children. The club also provided seven new fishing boats for local communities all affected by the tsunami

The 10th Handicamp over a 20 year period, where the club provide and organise a holiday for disabled children. The club raised the £17K needed to fund the holidays which accounted for some 3,000 hours.

Among the other events held over the past year were

Darts Marathon will raise £9k for Demelza House
Sponsored Walk for Malaria raised £1.2K
Funds Raised for Mercy Ships (Bringing Medical Care to Africa) raised £1.5K
Wine and Wisdom Evening in aid of Wisdom Hospice raised £1,2K
A fund Day at Detling Raised £670

AND FINALLY.........................................

Past Presidents (L to R) Geoff Bell and Dai Liyanage

A road in a new Gillingham housing development has been named Rotary Gardens in recognition of the work carried out by the world wide Rotary Movement and in particular the local efforts of the Rotary club of Medway.

Rotary gardens is on former Gillingham TA site which is being developed by builders David Wilson

Darts Marathon

2006 Darts Marathon winners - Chris Carter(left) of the Weston Arms Pub in Strood presents club president Jim Foad and Bobby George with a cheque from the pub's tremendous fundraising efforts for charity.

District Governor Visit

(L to R) David Hatcher (Medway Rotary 1st Vice President), District Governor Tony Hodges, President Jim Foad and Ray Toms (2nd Vice President).

HANDICAMP 2006 NEWS

Going!

Members of Medway Rotary at Chatham's Pentagon Centre

The Rotary Club of Medway stepped up a gear in efforts to raise funds for the 2006 Handicamp appeal. (see link to Handicamp page). This year the club sold lottery tickets where the one and only prize is a brand new VW polo car. The lottery draw was held on Friday 27th January at the clubs annual Burns Supper.

Going!

Dr. David Menzies (Centre) picks out the winning ticket,

GONE!

And the winner is.........................................

Mr. Burge of Rochester receives the keys to his new Polo VW from club President Jim Foad.

Pictured (L to R) Jim Foad, Bob Burge, Ray Toms and JCB Medway dealer principal Jonathan Bischoff

MERCY SHIP DONATION

President Jim Foad(Left) and Glen Tainio

On Tuesday 6th December Glen Tanio who works for Mercy ships gave a presentation to the club about the work of that organisation, after which Jim Foad presented Glen with a cheque for £1588.25, monies which were raised by members from various events.

Mercy ships provide free medical care to the poor in ports around the world where such facilities are not readily available. Last year they performed more than 18,000 operations such as cleft lip and palate, cataract removal, straightening of crossed-eyes, orthopedic and facial reconstruction.

XMAS STREET COLLECTION 2005

On Friday 10th December 2005 the Rotary Club of Medway assisted Santa with a street collection in Parkwood, Rainham. Thanks to the generosity of the residents of Parkwood a total of £276.87 was raised for charity!

Roubaix Rotary Club Visit

On the week-end of 14th October 2005 members of Medway Rotary were hosts to Roubaix Rotary with whom they are twinned. During the week-end the visitors were entertained by visits to local attractions including Leeds castle, near Maidstone and the Historic Dockyard in Chatham.

Back in the eighties, Roubaix Rotary Club generously gave the Medway Rotary Club a very ancient document. It is an indenture of debts signed by Lady Hamilton.

Past President Michel Lejeune of the Roubaix Club who was President at the time of the presentation.

Having no place to display such a magnificent document the Club decided to donate it to the Historic Dockyard Museum Trust so that it could, if space was available, be displayed for the benefit of the public. During our visit to the Historic Dockyard with our Roubaix friends we were very gratified to find it proudly on display within the fabulous new, greatly enlarged, museum.