Welcome to the website of the Rotary Club of Sudbury Talbot
Welcome to the Sudbury Talbot Web-site
The Talbots form a relatively small but very enthusiastic club who enjoy many aspects of Rotary in the Sudbury area. Firm friendships are forged by working together to raise money for a lot of needy causes and charities locally, nationally and internationally.
In the Sudbury area we are to be seen supporting some local charity events and for a major part of December collecting with members from Sudbury Rotary Club at their Santa's Grotto, a favourite with local children.
We meet on a Monday evening at Newton Green Golf Club for a meal and visiting Rotarians are welcome (need to let us know by the Friday before to arrange catering). We also welcome any local people who are interested in joining or are just curious about Rotary. Please contact our Secretary or talk to any Rotarian you may happen to know to arrange a visit to one of our meetings.
Nadine is Sudbury Rotary Young Citizen of the Year 2010
Nadine Fisher, a 16-year-old student from Great Cornard, was named as Sudbury Rotary Young Citizen of the Year 2010 at a presentation evening in Sudbury Town Hall on Thursday (25-2-10), and has been entered for the national Rotary Young Citizen Awards.
Nadine was nominated by her home tutor, Sue Heaton and her piano teacher, Jane Wright, for her courage and determination in coping with a serious medical condition that kept her away from Great Cornard Upper School for all but about ten weeks in the past three years. She was awarded the Sudbury Young Citizen of the Year Challenge Trophy, the gold medal, a certificate and £100 as overall winner at the Awards event, attended by about 60 people, including the Town Mayor, Cllr. Adrian Osborne and the Mayoress Jan Osborne, Rotary 1080 District Governor John Samuel, representatives of both Sudbury and Sudbury Talbot Rotary Clubs, other nominees and nominators and school head teachers.
“Nadine impressed the judges not only because she has shown courage in dealing with a difficult medical condition, while keeping up with her studies, but also found the strength to help others,” said Valerie Goodchild, of Sudbury Talbot Rotary Club, the main organiser of the Awards. “Although she has been unable to leave the house without a wheelchair for some time, Nadine has volunteered at both her local library and Wells Hall Primary School, as well as counselling other fellow young sufferers with a similar condition through an on-line support group.” Nadine received her prizes from President of Sudbury Talbot Rotary Club, Alan Scott, and last year’s Sudbury Young Citizen of the Year, Harriet Sims from Monks Eleigh.
Second prize in the main awards went to 18-year-old Aaron Keeble, from Bures, who was nominated by his grandmother Pat Fox, of Great Cornard. The teenager won the admiration of the judges for the way he helped his disabled grandparents, and also did so much in the wider community. Aaron helps with the South West Suffolk Schools Sports Partnership events and works as groundsman at Chappel Cricket Club as well as helping coach the youth team. He has previously coached AFC Sudbury girls’ team which became Melford Girls team, and is on the main AFC Sudbury Committee, helping maintain the website and at fundraising events. Now studying at Essex University, Aaron is also a stalwart of the Bures Music Festival and Jazz by the Stour events, helping provide marquee security. After receiving his award, Aaron said he’d be dedicating it to his granddad Doug Fox, who had died a few days earlier.
Danielle Marchant, 17, from Clare, for whom volunteering seems to be a way of life, was the third-prize winner. Danielle has been working in Sudbury’s St Nicholas Hospice Shop every Saturday since she was 15, and now works there during the week as well, and with her father also runs fundraising stalls for the ‘Children in Hunger’ charity. Danielle was also chosen as the runner up in the People’s Award, from votes cast by readers of the Suffolk Free Press.
Winner of the People’s Award was 19-year-old Domenic Ward from Sudbury, who has overcome his learning difficulty to teach himself physics and chemistry to AS level standard, and hopes to gain sufficient A Levels at Sudbury Upper School & Arts College to fulfil his ambition to study physics at university. The People’s Awards were presented by Phil Minett, Editor of the Suffolk Free Press, and Miles Beasley, Manager of Sudbury Waitrose.
Although unable to be at the awards event this year, because of a prior commitment at the House of Lords, Andrew, Lord Phillips of Sudbury, President and a founding member of the Citizenship Foundation, in a recorded message commended the two Sudbury Rotary Clubs, the Suffolk Free Press and Waitrose for working together to stage the Sudbury Rotary Young Citizen of the Year. He stressed the importance of celebrating all the positive achievements of our young people, and encourage them to continue to be the role models for their generation and future generations, to counter the negative messages that sometimes seem to dominate the media.
This year’s Sudbury Young Citizen Awards attracted eleven nominees, and the winners were selected by a panel of judges comprising, Lady Penelope Phillips, Philip Minett, Editor of the Suffolk Free Press, Phil Hawes, Deputy Manager of Sudbury Waitrose, Alan Scott, president of Sudbury Talbot Rotary and Tim McNeill, president of Sudbury Rotary. Mayor of Sudbury, Adrian Osborne, said: “I am very pleased to be able to be part of this event, and congratulate Nadine, Aaron and Danielle, for all they have done to be chosen as the winners of this year’s Sudbury Rotary Young Citizen Awards, their stories were inspiring. I also congratulate all those who were nominated, which shows just how much so many of our young people contribute to the life of our community.”
Speaking at the ceremony, John Samuel, Rotary 1080 District Governor, praised the two Sudbury Rotary Clubs for their initiative in working in partnership with the Suffolk Free Press and Waitrose to stage these awards. He spoke of how the national Rotary Young Citizen Awards have led on to great things for some of the past winners, and served to encourage others to strive to serve their community.
