President's Night - May Charity Ball

Roborough Rotary Club invite you to their Summer BBQ

Sat 29th June At 12.30, Mowbray House, 459 Tavistock Road, Roborough, Plymouth. Tickets £15 each including Pimms, Strawberries and Cream and Lawn Games

Disabled Activity Day

Highlight of the 2013 event was Attik Dance, a mixed group of able and disabled people, who performed their own Strictly Come Dancing style routine – Strictly 360.

First Rotakids in Devon

We are proud to be the sponsors of the first Rotakids Club in Devon, set up in Pomphlett Junior school on 18th March 2013 with 20 members, increased to 28 members on 20th May 2013.

Literacy in a Box

A big thank you to the 23 Clubs from Districts 1290 and 1170 who pledged £8,075 and to the Rotary Foundation for approving the matching grant which will provide £28,262 in total for the project.

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We meet on Tuesdays at 1300 (or 1900 on the fifth Tuesday in the month) at the Moorland Garden Hotel

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We are proud to be the sponsors of the first Rotakids Club in Devon, set up in Pomphlett Junior school on 18th March.

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Disabled Activity Day

June 1 2013

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Highlight of the day was Attik Dance, a mixed group of able and disabled people, who performed their own Strictly Come Dancing style routine – Strictly 360.

Other attractions were the opportunity to take part in disabled games, a fairground, a teddy bear parachute jump and various charities running information stalls.

School Choirs Festival - February 9 2013

SINGERS from five Plymouth youth choirs sang their hearts out during our third annual Schools Choir Festival.

Youngsters from Oreston Community Academy, Goosewell Lads Singing , the Military Children's Choir, St Andrew's Primary School and Woodford Primary School all participated.

The event  raised more than £400 for the Rotary Polio Eradication Project

Organiser Tony Adams said: "The schools put so much into it, the Goosewell Lads did a wonderful change of words on What Shall We Do With The Drunken Sailor, changing it to 'What shall we do with the grumpy teacher?', which brought a lot of smiles. At the end the five choirs all came together to sing Abba's Thank You For The Music."

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Literacy in a Box - Matching Grant Appeal - February Update

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A big thank you to the 23 Clubs from Districts 1290 and 1170 who pledged £8,075 and to the Rotary Foundation for approving the matching grant which will provide £28,262 in total for the project.

Visit from Ambassadorial Scholar Monique Macfarlane - January 30 2013

After the autumn rugby I wasn't sure how our visitor from New Zealand would be.  No need to worry in the few months since arriving in September Monique had visited the Millennium Stadium and experienced the All Blacks overcoming Wales – sorry Vernon.

Miss Monique MacFarlane (no relation to our Macfarlanes) is one of the last of the Rotary Foundation Sponsored Ambassadorial Scholars and spoke of the history of this scheme.  She hails from the North Island and started her studies at Wellington and is now doing her Masters in Plymouth studying “Photography and Books”.  She is an enthusiastic young woman – in everything she does.  Since arriving in the UK she has travelled north to Scotland and down into Cornwall.  If you want to learn more about Monique then she is a prolific blogger at http://moniquemacfarlane.com/blog/ which includes several photos, what a surprise!

When Monique visited for our last Tuesday evening meeting her approach was as professional as ever and fitted in with our timings.  She spoke eloquently and enthusiastically about her experiences with Rotary in New Zealand and explaining the many major fundraising schemes that the Clubs there undertake.  As to her photos and description of her home town – one wonders why she wanted to come to “sunny” Plymouth!

The “technical” part of her talk covered her studies on how digital  photography had changed home photography and wondered how much it had changed our memories.  Printed photos selected carefully because of cost to produce, were stored on paper in various locations and brought out to aid memories.  How has storage on a disk of thousands of images, quite possibly of the same scene, affected this.  And of course how easy it is to lose it all in a crash!  Some very interesting concepts and ideas considered and discussed.

Monique is very proud to be an Ambassadorial Scholar and really feels indebted to Rotary for the opportunity she now is experiencing and hopes that we will take advantage of the changes through Future Vision to encourage others.

Ron Dickerson

Burns Night January 26 2013

Thanks to everyone who supported our Burns night celebrations. Over £1,000 was made for the charities we support, in particular, Age UK Plymouth and RYLA (Rotary Youth Leadership Awards)

Christmas Sleigh

Despite the rain, wind and economic climate your generosity helped us to raise a total of £5135 for local charities.

On  27^th Feb 2013 representatives of four of the charities joined club members and Lord Mayor Cllr Michael Wright in the Lord Mayor’s Parlour.

Cheques were presented by Club President Maureen Dickerson to Roy Beaumont and Tracy Wright of Plymouth Street Pastors, Judy Price of Childrens Hospice South West, Karen Body of Cann Bridge School, and Theresa Burt of ASK (Activities for Special Kids).

For photos of individual presentations left mouse click on the recipients name(s) above and for more information about the charities left mouse click on the charity name. Group photo below. Pictured, along with those already mentioned, are Ron Dickerson, John Hanson, Jane Abdel-Salam, Peter Norton and Karen Walsh. Also present are Beryl Cole from ASK and Beryl Norton of Roborough Inner Wheel Club.

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