The Club provides helpers for the annual Disabled Games, held at Chester each September. We take responsibility for the tennis activity and members are always impressed by how participants respond to a new challenge and the chance to acquire a new skill.

In 2005, Borderland Rotary Club took over the organisation of the Oswestry Christmas Parade. This takes place on the first Saturday in December and announces the arrival of Father Christmas in the town. The 1996 parade showed a large increase in the number of floats which promises well for the future of the event. Additional marshalling support is provided by members of Oswestry Rotary Club and Oswestry Round Table. The proceeds of the street collection are distributed to local good causes.

Old Oswestry Iron Age Hill Fort - early in 2005, a meeting was held with English Heritage to explore possible ways in which Rotary could contribute to the development of this site of international importance. A tour of the site revealed not only the magnificence of the edifice but also the lack of TLC!

The initiative has paid off, in that both English Heritage and the local authority have been persuaded to make funds available for the maintenance and development of the site. Unfortunately progress has been painfully slow and the challenge for the Club is to keep the momentum going, both by providing a practical input on the ground and by raising public awareness of this unique local asset of national importance. However much has been achieved: English Heritage have provided new signage and kissing gates; the Club has committed funds for a new entrance gate; the Borough Council are preparing plans for improved parking; the Club has been instrumental in providing an interpretive leaflet for use in the Tourist Information Centres

Recently, the Club has agreed to support Community First Responders by funding the purchase of emergency kits for new volunteers in Oswestry and Dudleston.

Every June, the Club provides a secondhand bookstall at the Derwen College Fete and a bottle tombola at the Summer Fete organised by the League of Friends of the Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital, Gobowen.

The Community Service Committee is always happy to consider requests for financial assistance or practical help from individuals and good causes within the local community.