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Dr Helen Roberts MBE to visit the Rotary Club of Fleet
Helen Roberts, the medical director, of Kwale District Eye Centre, Kenya is taking time out of her busy schedule to visit the Rotary Club of Fleet on 13/7/09
The Rotary Club of Fleet have been supporting Dr Roberts and her team for over 15 years in cooperation with the Eyes for East Africa UK Charity which is also based in Fleet
Please take a look at their website at www.eyesforeastafrica.org
The Rotary Club of Fleet has planned a partners evening on the 13/7/09 at Fleet's North Hants Golf Club - we welcome all Rotarians and their partners to the evening which will also feature young speakers from our local senior schools Please click here to book your meals for the 13/7/09 - the cost of the evening is £14.50 and is strictly 6.30pm for 7.00pm We look forward to seeing you on 13/7/09
The Rotary Club of Fleet have been supporting Dr Roberts and her team for over 15 years in cooperation with the Eyes for East Africa UK Charity which is also based in Fleet
Please take a look at their website at www.eyesforeastafrica.org
The Rotary Club of Fleet has planned a partners evening on the 13/7/09 at Fleet's North Hants Golf Club - we welcome all Rotarians and their partners to the evening which will also feature young speakers from our local senior schools Please click here to book your meals for the 13/7/09 - the cost of the evening is £14.50 and is strictly 6.30pm for 7.00pm We look forward to seeing you on 13/7/09
Splash 4 Cash - 2009
was held on Saturday 20th June 2009 at The Hart Leisure Centre
teams of six or more swimmers raised funds for Naomi House, Children’s Hospice
- the Rotary Club of Fleet Nominated Charity for Splash 4 Cash 2009
Splash 4 Cash - 2009 was a Fun Event for the whole Family
SPLASH-4-CASH 2009
SATURDAY 20th JUNE 2009
HART LEISURE CENTRE, Hitches Lane, FLEET
Please call 01252 684684 for details of Future Events
From Court Moor School's website:
The Rotary Club of Fleet's annual Splash4Cash is a team event, open to both students and staff, with a minimum of six and a maximum of ten in a team. Each team swims continuously for 50 minutes, with each team member swimming in turn. Money raised will be divided equally between Naomi House children's hospice and our school charities.
This year sixteen students represented Court Moor School. They were split into three teams on the night and one team surpassed all expectations and swam a total of 177 lengths! The other two teams swam 100 lengths and 86 lengths. What an effort they all made and they had fun as well. Not a bad way to spend a Saturday evening! At the moment the final sponsorship figure is not available but one student has raised just over £100.
Court Moor School and Rotary Club of Fleet Collaboration
For several years Court Moor students have taken part in the Fleet Rotary Club's Young Speakers event in which students address Club members on topical events and then answer questions. The audience provides written "feedback" which is summarised and presented confidentially to the students.
Similarly, Rotarians take part in a major annual event for senior students aimed at improving and practising their CV writing and job interview skills.
However, since the appointment of Suki Binning as Community Director, projects involving the school and Fleet Rotary have mushroomed. There is now a strong one-to-one relationship between the Community Director and the Rotary Schools Liaison Officer. This has led to a number of significant collaborative events and activities:
1. Rotary helped to fund Activate – a programme aimed at helping the school hit its national target for student engagement in physical activity.
2. Court Moor Head Boy and Head Girl, Dan Ginger and Ceri Fenwick, were sponsored to take part in the Rotary Young Leaders' Award during the Easter holidays. They participated in a residential training weekend enabling young people to develop teamwork, social and leadership skills.
3. The school has entered a team in Rotary's annual Splash for Cash event. This is an opportunity for teams of at least six people to swim as many lengths as possible in 55 minutes. Teams seek sponsorship and the funds raised are divided between school and Rotary charities.
4. Court Moor School grounds became the venue for a major Pancake Day celebration this year. Whilst Fleet Rotarians excelled themselves in organising effectively a complex event, Court Moor teachers, administration and senior pupils put the finishing touches to the first Rotary Pancake celebration in Fleet. Schools across Fleet entered teams supported by their head teachers, staff and parents; the net result was a truly schools based community project! Congratulations to Velmead Junior School who won the major trophy – a rather special frying pan!
5. Rotary organises many youth based competitions. This year has been the first occasion when Fleet Rotary has been involved in supporting a student entering the Young Writers Award. This is a competition for young people aged 7 to 17 who submit a prose or poetry entry on the current year's Rotary theme "Make Dreams Real". Entries are made at junior and intermediate levels. Natasha Pain (8RR) submitted an entry, which reached the final stage and was adjudged to be the winning intermediate entry against stiff competition at national level. Congratulations to Natasha who will soon be presented with a trophy and certificate.
Future collaboration between the school and The Rotary Club of Fleet will concentrate on a major promotion of the Rotary Young Chef programme and on fundraising for Rotary's humanitarian aid charity – Water Survival Boxes. In 2011 Fleet Rotary Club will celebrate its 50th birthday and already Court Moor is looking forward to its involvement in an "intergenerational project".
Then and now at Kwale District Eye Centre, Kenya
One of the early events in the Rotary Club of Fleet's ongoing support for Kwale District Eye Centre in Kenya, happened in 1998 when we funded a portable steriliser which cost £560.00, this was to replace the old, domestic pressure cooker which Dr Helen Roberts had been using to sterilise surgical instruments up to that time.
Our timeline of photographs show Dr Helen with her pressure cooker, in 1998 with the new sterilizer and the sterilizer in 2009
- still going strong and giving sterling service - daily
Our timeline of photographs show Dr Helen with her pressure cooker, in 1998 with the new sterilizer and the sterilizer in 2009
- still going strong and giving sterling service - daily
Eloisa-Fleur Thom
We were very proud to welcome Eloisa-Fleur to be the guest star at our New Year's Party in January.
Eloisa-Fleur is excelling in her violin studies at the Royal Acadamy of Music and has played for many audiences around the world.
Other entertainment for the evening was performed by pupils from Fleet's Calthorpe Park Secondary School - We were pleased to be able to reunite head of music, Mr Ross Walker with his ex-pupil Eloisa-Fleur
Eloisa-Fleur Thom, 21, holds the ABRSM scholarship at the Royal Academy of Music and is currently studying with Maurice Hasson. Eloisa attended the junior department of RAM where she gained first place in both violin and chamber music prizes. In 2006 she received first prize in the Concerto Prize and performed Dvorak's Violin Concerto in A minor with the Symphony Orchestra. Eloisa has been a prize winner in the Kocian International Violin competition and the Remember Enescu Violin Competition.
Eloisa has enjoyed performing as soloist with the Croydon Symphony Orchestra, Guildford Symphony Orchestra, Farnborough Symphony Orchestra, Guildford Philharmonic, Reading Symphony Orchestra, Haselmere Music Society Orchestra, and Southern-Pro Musica Orchestra. Eloisa has performed recitals at the Royal Festival Hall Foyer Concerts, Fairfield's Hall, St Martin-in-the-fields, Christ's Hospital, Pitville Pump Room, Dukes Hall RAM, Chichester Festival and for a Wigmore Hall Open Day.
In November 2006, Eloisa performed the Sibelius Violin Concerto in a Masterclass with Maxim Vengerov, filmed by the Masterclass Media Foundation and released on DVD. Eloisa has also received masterclasses from Thomas Brandis, Aleksander Pavlovic, Zvi Zeitlin, Tasmin Little and Sylvia Rosenburg. She was awarded the John Waterhouse Prize (2007) and the Amadeus Scholarship (2008). Eloisa has represented Britain in the Musica Mundi International Chamber Music Festival in Brussels and returned last summer to perform in their 10th anniversary concert.
Eloisa leads the Universities of London Symphony Orchestra.
Foundation Lunch 2009
72 Rotarians from Fleet, Farnborough, Rushmoor, Aldershot and Blackwater Valley clubs and a number of guests met at Fleet's El Castello restaurant for lunch on Tuesday 10/3/09 and raised over £650.00 for Rotary Foundation - our own Charity.
As is usual El Castello looked after us very well and we thank owners Kalina and Rotarian Ivan Penev, their manageress Olga Makarenko and the rest of the staff for their usual attentiveness.
photo 1 - Olga, Danny & Paula from El Castello, photo 3 - Rotarian John Wood, photo 4 - Rotarians Geoff Sumner, John Gibbons & Jim Drew,
photo 5 - President Chrys Goodburn with Rotarian Owen Durrett, photo 6 - Rotarian Rod Cutler - chair of Internation & Foundation Committee
Download your copy of Rotarian Ross Mitchell's photo montage from here
ROTARY CLUB of FLEET PANCAKE DAY RACE
Tuesday 24th FEBRUARY 2009
A terrific day was had on Shrove Tuesday when pancake tossing teams from local schools competed in Fleet’s first Pancake Day Race for the honour of winning The Rotary Club of Fleet Frying Pan.
Over 100 contestants including mums & dads and Rotarians ran in four heats,
although the team of Rotarians never posed a real threat.
although the team of Rotarians never posed a real threat.
Teams were timed with penalties for dropping pancakes - great fun for the competitors, exciting for the spectators and demanding on the Rotarian time judges.
The "Sugar Cubes", a team of girls from Velmead Junior School emerged the victors
in a hard fought and fiercly competative final of the six fastest teams.
in a hard fought and fiercly competative final of the six fastest teams.
The Rotary Club of Fleet would like to thank Mrs Beverley Stevens, head teacher of
Court Moor School and her staff for supporting the event and allowing the races to be held on their premises and to Waitrose of Fleet for donating the ingredients for all the freshly cooked and very popular pancakes.
Over 200 pancakes were sold and the money raised will go to local Rotary charities.
The queue for the pancakes which were expertly cooked by the chefs from
The queue for the pancakes which were expertly cooked by the chefs from
Fleet's El Castello Restaurant never subsided all afternoon.
There was also a fun event for all ages that was a great hit with many trying their hand at tossing a pancake as many times as possible in a minute.
The winner was 12 year old Gaby Bramah from Court Moor School who managed to toss a pancake a complete half rotation eighty times - Gaby receives a £30 book voucher prize.
This is to be an annual event - if you didn't come this year then please put next Shrove Tuesday in your diary NOW!
Well done to all of the teams from our local schools -
Heatherside Junior, Church Crookham Junior, Velmead Junior, Court Moor and Calthorpe Park Schools.
Heatherside Junior, Church Crookham Junior, Velmead Junior, Court Moor and Calthorpe Park Schools.
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Rotary Club of Fleet Christmas Tableau
Our famous float travels the streets of Fleet
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After a month of long walks in rain, cold and sometimes, amazingly, fine weather the generous people of Fleet, Crookham and Elvetham Heath have helped the Rotary Cub of Fleet to raise in excess of £12,000 which will be distributed to worthy causes locally, nationally and internationally ~ Thankyou!
Rotarian John Smith, chairman of our community committee says "As well as thanking all members of our very generous public, I would particularly like to pay tribute to each and every one of the Rotarians, families, helpers and friends for their dedication and effort. As I said early on, if we do not get out there, then the public do not have the opportunity to contribute to the many just causes that we support. It is the public's generosity and your effort that together make all of these things possible. My heart-felt thanks to you all for your generous and unstinting support during the collection campaign, Thankyou!"
Sound for our tableau was kindly sponsored by Sound Services
Rotary Club of Fleet Wishing Well
The Rotary Club of Fleet Wishing Well which is located in the Hart Shopping Centre in Fleet has now passed another milestone in 2008 when the amount donated by the good people of Fleet in support of local charities reached a grand total of £15,000
NEW PLAY AREA FOR TAVISTOCK SCHOOL FLEET
With the help of teachers, parents and the Rotary Club of Fleet, Tavistock Infant School can now enjoy the benefits of a dedicated play area for children with special needs.
Chrys Goodburn, President of the Rotary Club of Fleet is seen about to cut the ribbon and declare the area open. Rotary is a worldwide charitable organisation dedicated to helping deserving causes from the local community through to major International initiatives.
Eyes for East Africa - The Kwale District Eye Centre, Kenya
The Rotary Club of Fleet are enthusiastic supporters of Dr. Helen Roberts MBE and her dedicated team at the Kwale District Eye Centre, Kenya. The Eye Centre battle to improve eyesight and reduce unnecessary blindness caused by cataracts. Please visit their website www.eyesforeastafrica.org.
A short video showing the work carried out by the team at the Kwale District Eye Centre can be found here.
To make a donation to the Rotary Club of Fleet to pass on to the Kwale District Eye Centre or to find out more about this vital project please click on the 'Contact Us' button for more details or email Kwale District Eye Centre at the Rotary Club of Fleet.
