This is a rolling update of our 2014-15 Events/Activities:

Since 1 July 2014, we have (most recent at top of list):

• delivered practice interviews to St Thomas More School students on 16, 18 June
  
• held a very successful Summer Fair & Charity Bazaar in Buxton Octagon on 6 June
  
• heard a very interesting Club talk by Buxton & Leek College Principal, Len Tildsly, as to why BLC was the best FE college in the region
  
• given St Thomas More schoolteacher, Roland York, £100 towards his fundraising for MS by cycling the length of Britain in July. Support him at http://biketheusforms.org/cyclists/detail.asp?cid=682
• presented member, and retired vet, David Hopkins with  a Paul Harris Fellowship award to recognise his service to communities near and far. David is Chairman of our International Committee
• sponsored six Year 11 students from St Thomas More and four from Chapel on a Rotary Youth Leadership Award (RYLA) Weekend, 8-10 May at White Hall Centre
• retired Big Dog Parker End Polio Now from fundraising. Thanks to a very generous bequest, and members ensuring he would reach his £1000 target, he almost doubled it: £1947.65 in all meaning £5842.95 for End Polio Now because of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's 2-to-1 pledge
  
• demonstrated Aquabox's filtration method at our Buxton Spring Fair Rotary Stall
  
• raised £1489.96 for Nepal at Buxton Spring Fair (£1389.96 street collection + £100 given outside the collecting time)
  
• organised public blood pressure measurements at The Devonshire Dome and The Springs Shopping Centre (of 197 people screened, four were advised to seek urgent help)
• had a Club visit from 10 Rotarians from RC Kettering
  
• saw the unveiling of King Sterndale Community's defibrillator and had delicious cakes in the church hall
• had very interesting talks at Club e.g. about Nestle Water, running Higher Buxton Post Office, Vision Buxton, Community Policing and Buxton Civic Association
• celebrated Club Historian Peter's and his wife Jane's 60th Wedding Anniversary
• collected £264.40 (4 April 2015) for an AquaFilter Community Aquabox for Vanuatu
• joined Made in Derbyshire 
• joined Streetlife (local online network)
  
• started booking stall-holders and outside attractions for our 6 June Summer Fair & Charity Bazaar
• delivered practice interviews to 76 St Thomas More School students
• received £200 from Rotary District 1050 towards a defibrillator for the King Sterndale Community making our total donation £400; the British Heart Foundation will pay the balance of the defibrillator's cost
• attended Buxton's Vision 2020 Conference (25/2/15) organised jointly by Buxton Town Team and Vision Buxton
• donated £500 towards Buxton Talking Newspaper's new digital technology
• donated £200 towards a defibrillator for the King Sterndale Community and are seeking a grant for the £200 balance (as King Sterndale must pay £400 towards the defibrillator's cost)
• held two 'Singing Santas' carol sessions that raised £392.09 for the Club's Bikes4Africa project (sending old bikes to The Gambia to help secondary school students who walk miles to school);
• sent off our first batch of unwanted bikes and are on our way towards our second batch;
• had an enjoyable President's Evening party at the Old Hall Hotel;
• delivered practice interviews to 79 Buxton Community School students;
• collected £150 from members for The Rotary Foundation in #GivingTuesday response to #BlackFriday;
• sent two batches of Teddies for Tragedies for Aquaboxes;
• sold and delivered 17 dozen Cwmbran Vale Rotary Christmas Puddings in aid of the Stroke Association
• given Christmas Puddings to Charis House for their Christmas Day dinner (and to Cancer Research Buxton & High Peak Hospice for prizes);
• nominated local students for the November Rotary Youth Leadership Awards (RYLA) weekend at White Hall Centre, and helped run team tasks;
• held an enjoyable Quiz Night at Burbage Institute with Inner Wheel Club of Buxton;
• helped make the 2015 Grinlow Arts Trail happen by pledging £100;
• Moved to The Old Hall Hotel when we could no longer meet at the Buckingham Hotel;
• thanked John Cornwell, former chef at the Bickingham Hotel, for looking after us so well;
• made visits to other Rotary Clubs;
• sent Big Dog Parker on fundraising visits for End Polio Now (£1000 target), with his first fund-raising being at Buxton Literary Festival;
• collected £315 for Children in Need's Rickshaw Challenge and met Pudsey!;
• sponsored Jane Arnfield's riveting solo theatre adaption of Holocaust survivor, Zdenka Fantlov's story, The Tin Ring at St John's Church;
• held a bric-a-brac sale at Buxton Methodist Church;
• donated to the brain cancer charity Brainstrust (£250) and to other good causes e.g. WaterAid's 'To Be A Girl' Campaign (£500, which was doubled up to £1,000 by the UK Government);
• Supported member John Cassidy in his personal fundraising of £346 for Brainstrust;
• sponsored Buxton Festival artists to entertain members of the Peak Visually Impaired People and Macular Degeneration Support Groups;
• marshaled at the Buxton Carnival and at Buxton Community Fireworks events;
• provided volunteer drivers for Buxton & District Summer Club;
• hosted a number of entertaining speakers at our Club twice-monthly evening meetings;
• Made £470 from a Flat Caps & Ferrets race night up to £1,000 for End Polio Now from other Club social events and 50:50 club; the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's 2-to-1 pledge made this £3,000.