Welcome to the website of the Rotary Club of Skipton Craven
FLOODS IN PAKISTAN Please scroll down for ShelterBox details
Dates for your diary
On 28th November this year we will be organising the first "Great Skipton Santa Fun Run" a 5km lap of the streets of Skipton, with all entrants wearing Santa suits. The event is in support of local, plus one national charity. Runners, joggers and walkers of any age and ability (over 8yrs) can take part and we would encourage families and teams from the community to enter the event. Click on Santa to go to the Fun Run homepage.
Whether you are a Rotarian just visiting this area and looking for a Rotary Club with whom to share fellowship, or just curious, please spend a short while looking at our website and read about our Club.
When you entered Skipton you will have probably seen the town signs which 
were funded by both the Rotary Clubs in Skipton. Our Rotary Club is the younger of the two in that we celebrated our "coming-of-age" – 21 years old in April last year. Our membership is drawn from all walks of life but once we get together we are just "Rotarians" who have one purpose in coming together and that is "Service"
Christmas sees us taking Santa's sleigh round the streets of Skipton and the neighbouring villages. We have an old-fashioned "Roll-a-Penny" stall which we take to local shows, the various street markets in Grassington and Skipton, all to raise funds for our local charities. We can also be seen collecting locally, both in the local supermarkets and at events leading up to Christmas.
We support young people by giving them access to leadership experiences on land through the Rotary Young Leadership scheme, and at sea by working with the Ocean Youth Trust. We provide interview panels to hold mock interviews before they go into higher education or apply for jobs. We try to broaden their horizons by giving them the opportunity to take part in young chef competitions and technology tournaments. We also support many individual young people over the course of the year in all sorts of projects and enterprises, the only condition being that they come and tell us about what they have done.
We look after the environment by working in the gardens of a local old people's residential home and by planting bulbs alongside roads. We support Rotary international projects and we also have our own project helping a school in Romania. For an increasing number of larger projects we work with our sister club, the Rotary Club of Skipton.
This Club is renowned locally and throughout the Rotary District 1040 for the warmth of its welcome extended to visiting Rotarians. We hope you will visit us if you are in the area and our meeting times are to be found elsewhere on this website.
My theme for this year is Fun through Fellowship and the main charities I have chosen to support are the Martin House Hospice for young people and Manorlands. There will of course be other charities and communities needing our support during the year.
If you are not a Rotarian but are interested in what we do and would like to find out more then please don't hesitate, - get in touch with us either by contacting a member or using the contact form and we shall get back to you. You will be assured of a warm welcome for the only way to discover what Rotary is about is to visit a Club and find out at first hand.
We look forward to meeting you.
Mick Brooks
President
Airedale NHS Trust Trainee of The Year Awards
Today 02 July marked the end of an era with the final presentations of the Trainee of the Year 
Awards taking place. The scheme is being wound down owing to a change in government funding which means the cost to the Trust would be unsustainable. Skipton Craven have been involved with the Vocational programme at Airedale for fifteen of the twenty one years the scheme has been running. The apprentices are nominated for the award after meeting strict criteria regarding work, stud
y and attendance. Selection for the Award is by interview and this year the decisions were very difficult as all the young people were of an exceptionally high standard. In the end those chosen were judged to have that little bit extra to offer over their colleagues.
Vice President John Schofield is pictured with Natalie Riddiough who won the Administration Award. Hollie Hill the second year Healthcare Award and Rebecca Harrison the first ye
ar Healthcare Award.
All nominees.
Butterfly Gardens Project
The winners of the competition were announced at the Award Ceremony on Thursday July 22 at Skipton Town Hall. Overall joint winners were The Boyle and Petyt Primary School and Greatwood Community Primary School. The two schools were so evenly matched that the judges could not separate the two.
To see all the results please click on the photograph to view the slideshow.
Photo by kind permission of the Craven Herald. Photographer: Stephen Garnett.
Technology Tournament 09 March 2010 Sponsored by Systagenix
Click on the photo to view slideshow
ShelterBox
Homes washed away, infrastructure destroyed and hundreds dead. This is the scene in Pakistan after the worst flooding in more than 80 years.
Aid for 1,000 families in Pakistan has been delivered in the last 48 hours thanks to ShelterBox.
Families whose homes were destroyed in the floods have now found emergency shelter beneath the canvas of ShelterBox tents after 1,000 ShelterBox tents were distributed in Kyber Pukhtunkwa (KPK) and Punjab regions of Pakistan i
n the past two days.
ShelterBox’s partners in Pakistan, the NRSP (National Rural Support Programme), delivered the aid to families who have been rescued from Pakistan’s worst floods in living memory.
The tents were pre-positioned in Pakistan by ShelterBox Field Operations Advisor, Mark Pears
on, a month ago on NRSP’s advice.
If you want to donate to ShelterBox and for the latest information please click on a picture.
Photographs by courtesy of ShelterBox.
Registered Charity No. 1126881
In the next 30 days..
07/09/2010 Club Weekly Meeting - TBA.14/09/2010 Club Weekly Meeting - Speaker: John Sheard. Bess of Hardwick.
21/09/2010 Club Weekly Meeting - Business Meeting.
28/09/2010 Club Weekly Meeting - Early Days Of Skipton B.S..
