26/01/10


The ROTARY CLUB of

 WATTON & DISTRICT
Registered Charity No 1046649

email: Webmaster@wattonrotary.org.uk
 

Meetings: Thursdays 7.30pm for 8pm Crown Hotel, Watton
ROTARY INTERNATIONAL
IN BRITAIN & IRELAND		 WE SELL FOR CHARITY WHAT OTHERS DISCARD!!
See our R-BAY listings
WE MAY HAVE WHAT YOU WANT?!
Our next  "JAZZ at the Queens Hall" featuring DIXIEMIX  is scheduled for Friday 12th March 2010.
HAITI  EARTHQUAKE APPEAL
FUNDRAISING  FOR  SHELTERBOXES		  Credit Card donations can be made at
Adcocks, High Street, Watton
   

    ShelterBox/appeal coordinator, Paul Weatherill, with          Amy Studer and Reya Muller present President               New member, Peter Cowling, on duty            President Richard and Watton's vicar, Revd Jeff Garrett,            Richard with £650 raised by the pupils of                       collecting at the ShelterBox Display
                   on Wednesday 20 January.                                  St Peter & St Paul Primary School, Carbrooke                            on Saturday 23 January
               The collection raised £1469.30                          (and they are still fundraising!). See their webpage                  The collection raised £1185.82
       In addition to the sums from the two days' street collection (assisted by Inner Wheel) and from Carbrooke School, St Mary's Church has raised enough (£490)
   for a ShelterBox. Also, a generous local resident gave us money for another box and Inner Wheel have purchased one with a donation matched from their charity fund.
At their recent meeting, the local branch of the National Farmers Union raised £502.30 for the ShelterBox Trust via Watton Rotary.
 Altogether, at least 11 ShelterBoxes will now be funded - that's shelter and essential living equipment for 110 homeless persons.

On 14 January 2010, a new member was inducted.

Welcome to
Peter Cowling

 And our speaker was
 Mrs Meryl Harrison
Chief Inspector, Zimbabwe National Society for the Protection of Cruelty to Animals.
She spoke movingly about her work rescuing animals from overtaken farms in Zimbabwe. She is holding her book "Innocent Victims"
 based on her diaries, written by
Catherine Buckle.		 Haiti Earthquake:
The collections on Watton High Street took place as planned on Wednesday Jan 20th and Saturday Jan 23rd between 9am and 1pm. We were assisted by members of  Watton Inner Wheel Club. [SEE ABOVE]
Proceeds will go to the Shelterbox Trust, which has already dispatched sufficient boxes to provide tented accommodation & equipment for nearly 20.000 people.

For our 2009 records and more about earlier Watton Rotary Events and Activities
 click here: ARCHIVES