Welcome to the website of the Rotary Club of Chestfield
Welcome to Our Club!
Thanks for taking the time to look us up on our website. Hopefully you'll find a few things on the site that will "tempt you" to want to know more about us and for further information, please drop me a note directly: Philip.Lennard@BT.Com and I'll get back to you, usually quite quickly.
Our club is quite new, founded in 2004. It is a very upbeat and positive place and is dual gender. Our members come from a wide variety of professions and we use this knowledge to good effect for our club.
We perform a wide range of activities that includes fundraising, social, fellowship and educational activities. This year our fund raising activities will focus on three types of organisations. Firstly, ones that have a "young person element", for example, local schools and colleges--it is the youth of today that will power the future. The second area is to do what we can for local organisations that bring benefits by providing urgently needed help in times of severe distress, for example, the local branch (Whitstable) of the RNLI and Kent Air Ambulance. This year we are hoping to carry out a major fundraising activity for some people in Africa who struggle to get that most basic commodity in life, clean drinking water. Lastly, its worth noting that in the past twelve months the terrible tragedy in Haiti has been the beneficiary of some of our funds. More news to follow!
Yours in Rotary
Philip Lennard, President 2010/2011
Please Join Us at One of Our Meetings
We meet every Thursday morning for breakfast (7.15 for 7.30am) at Chestfield Golf Club (see details on the right hand column). Please be sure to check out our latest news below as well as our extensive photo galleries.
Did You Know?
Chestfield is a village close to the north Kent coast and is close to Whitstable.
Chestfield Golf Club is reputed to have the oldest golf clubhouse in the world - not only does the Clubhouse date back to before the dawn of the 15th Century, but it is believed to be the oldest building in the world in use as a Golf Clubhouse. It was originally part of the Chestfield Manor, which was recorded in the Domesday Book.
Rotary Club Chestfield is twinned with the Rotary Club Apeldoorn 't Loo in The Netherlands ; we enjoy mutual fellowship and visits as well as work together on international charity projects.
We are linked with the Chestfield Parish Council, with whom we work on joint projects.
Latest News
Chestfield Golf Tournament September 10, 2010
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We will be holding our annual golf tournament in September in support of a number of charities. Please contact us for more info or complete and send in the application form, which can be downloaded here Golf Day 2010.pdf |
Free Blood Pressure Check - April 17 - Whitstable
| Chestfield Rotary Club is again supporting National Stroke Awareness Day to Know Your Blood Pressure on Saturday April 17th at St. Mary's Hall, Whitstable, from 10.00 am to 4.00 pm A free blood pressure reading, for all, is being offered by qualified medical staff, in private. A copy of each individual result will be given, along with information and advice to make a follow up appointed with a GP, if necessary. Leaflets providing further information will be available to participants and for members of the public to access on the stand outside. We will also have "spring flowers" available to purchase for a donation, that will go to The Stroke Association to support their valuable work. |
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Haiti Earthquake - Rotary Chestfield Sends First ShelterBox
| Chestfield Rotary have already donated a ShelterBox and would like to send more. Each box costs £490 – including the cost of all materials, packing, storage, transport worldwide and distribution to the needy.If you would like to donate towards providing additional boxes please send your cheques to; Rotary Club of Chestfield,for the attention of David Mann at Oast View, The Drove, Chestfield, CT5 3NY. |
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News update: ShelterBox team on the ground: ‘There is no more Haiti’
Aid workers for the international disaster relief charity ShelterBox are on the ground in Port au Prince, Haiti. ShelterBox Response Team (SRT) members Dave Eby (US), Wayne Robinson (US) and Mark Pearson (UK) arrived in the island’s capital on Thursday, January 14 and have already been in contact with government officials, ACTED and Rotarians in the country. ShelterBox’s Head of Operations John Leach said: ‘We spoke with our team in Haiti this morning and already they’ve been working with other aid agencies and the government to assess where ShelterBoxes are most needed. ‘Our priority is now getting logistics in and doing all we can to get it on the island. We’re sending a ShelterBox Logistics team into Miami to work and coordinate logistics into Haiti from there.’ ShelterBox’s Logistics Manager Richard Lewis added: ‘We’re doing everything we can to make sure emergency aid reaches the people of Haiti.
930 ShelterBoxes have already been dispatched and are en route to Haiti while another 1,000 are being packed today at ShelterBox HQ by ShelterBox’s team of volunteers. Virgin Atlantic are supporting the relief effort by flying hundreds of the ShelterBoxes on their planes. Sir Richard Branson, President of Virgin Atlantic, said: ‘Everyone who has seen the sheer destruction in Haiti over the last few days will have been moved to help in any way they can. ‘We will fly in as much aid as possible so that the agencies on the ground can respond to the needs of everyone in Haiti whose lives have been devastated by this tragedy.’
With the need in Haiti growing each day, there are millions of people in need of emergency shelter. ShelterBox Founder Tom Henderson, OBE, says support at this time is crucial. ‘The support we’ve seen in the last few days has been staggering,’ he said. ‘It’s all hands on deck for ShelterBox right across the globe. People in Haiti need our help and we stop until they get it.
About ShelterBox
ShelterBox is an international disaster relief charity specialising in emergency shelter provision. Humanitarian aid is delivered in iconic green ShelterBoxes. Each one contains a disaster relief tent for up to 10 people, a stove, blankets and other items essential for survival. ShelterBox responds to disaster as quickly as possible with the aim of helping the people who are most in need. Every box is individually numbered and can be tracked by donors.
Each box costs £490 – including the cost of all materials, packing, storage, transport worldwide and distribution to the needy.
