Four New Members of the Satellite Club of Milton Keynes

After three months of intense activity, the Rotary Satellite Group of Milton Keynes held their inaugural dinner on April 20th 2017. Members were accompanied by guests, visitors, Rotarians from the main club and DG Chalmers Cursley and his wife Barbara.

Four new Satellite members were inducted into Milton Keynes Rotary Club by President David Biles and District Governor Chalmers Cursley. Two other Satellite members could not attend the dinner and will be inducted on May 4th when fully paid up Satellite numbers will number eight; six new members and two Rotarians from the main club, with two or three other potential new members in the pipeline.

A raffle followed a pleasant meal at the Holiday Inn which reached the Satellite’s financial target to pay for a group of young people from around Milton Keynes to stay at a weekend’s residential placement at Caldecotte Xperience, MK. This will allow them time and space to gel together as a team before jetting off to work with African children – the Satellite’s International project.

This project, ‘MK Youth to Uganda’, had come to the Satelliters’ notice by the second meeting of the group. It seemed an amazing opportunity to use the enthusiasm of the new Satellite members to show Rotary off with a project which would see a group of disadvantaged, local children being taken to Uganda by a group of self-funded adults, to build a playground in a village for rescued orphaned and displaced children in Kampala. Within three weeks of the approval to support this Local/International cause, a Charity Golf Day had been agreed and two major sponsors, The Eden Projects and Ashe Construction, had pledged a large amount between them.

A District grant for £500 was obtained and the Satellite Club are expecting to raise £3,000+ at the Golf Day. If this is what we can achieve with a few Satelliters, the future is rosy for the future, when we expect our numbers to rise quickly.

Jill Moss (Chair)
jillmoss55@gmail.com