Cliff Dochterman - When did Rotary really start?:- http://vimeo.com/25486711

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         Join Rotary and make a world of difference to your own community, to the lives of those less fortunate around the world, to your fellow club members - like-minded men and women of all ages - and, just as important, to yourself! The projects Rotarians get involved in are incredibly fulfilling, worthwhile and rewarding - and there's plenty of fun.

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Sunday Lunch for the Ex Residents from The Beechmere Care Home at Hope and Beams

What a good day on Sunday. Pictured the potato & carrot peelers and choppers +laying up, David Bushell, Tom Protheroe, Jane Whetnall all Crewe Rotary, June Poppleton Crewe Inner Wheel, Rod Stokes Nantwich Rotary, Ann Stokes Nantwich Inner wheel. We were the 9-0am to 10-15am team.             Frank Baldwin Rotary Crewe came later on to do the meet and greet, June volunteered all day, Derek Poppleton Crewe Rotary was on car duty fetching ex residents from their new addresses.

To finish off Jean and John Pass Crewe Rotary did the washing up.

Simon Yates Crewe & Nantwich Rotary President & Dennis Straine-Francis  Crewe President are regular volunteers.

If you have not volunteered thus far Jane Whetnall will continue these Sunday lunches until December so email Jerry Park park50@hotmail.com with your preferred session.                                                             if you can, peel & chop, meet & greet, serve meals, ferry people to Broad Street, wash up. All are welcome.

The Crewe and Nantwich 'Beechmere Cooks'

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Members and Guests on a visit to The Wingate Centre

Nantwich Primary Academy Pupils Enjoy Wingate Centre

Rotary Club of Nantwich Youth Service Supports School Sleepover

Thirty children from Nantwich Primary Academy spent two days and a night at the Wingate Centre in Wrenbury.  This was an opportunity many of the children, aged between six and eight would never have had - if not for the support of the Rotary Club of Nantwich.  The Club, as part of its Youth Service Support to the community, through the Youth Committee, donated £1,000 towards the costs and arranged for the Cheshire Ice Cream Farm ice cream van to come on both days as an extra treat for the children. 

Said Rotarian, John Crowe, who arranged the ice cream surprise, "I was in the hall when the children had just finished their lunch and the Cheshire Ice Cream van jingle started playing. I have never seen so many excited children jumping up and down waiting to get their free ice cream.  This, and watching them toast marshmallows during their out door activities, made it all worthwhile.  There is so much  to do at the Wingate Centre and their facilities are first class.”

Julia McGhie SENCO and Nantwich Primary Academy teacher who arranged the visit said:  "The generous contribution from the Rotary Club of Nantwich towards this wonderful trip meant that many children with Special Education Needs were able to go on this residential visit: A first most of them and memories made that will last for a very long time”

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Shoe Boxes starting their journey.

Collected by the Rotary Club of Nantwich with help from the Inner Wheel Club of Nantwich and Wych Malbank Rotary Club.

These boxes are being taken to Preston and they will be shipped to families in need. The last 3 countries to have benefitted are Lithuania, Romania and the Ukraine.

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Lend with Care

In the past four years The Rotary Club of Nantwich has supported 1,521 entrepreneurs, created 381 jobs and helped 5,200 family members in some of the poorest parts of the world.  They have managed this through Lendwithcare, a revolutionary way to help some of the world’s poorest people work their way out of poverty with dignity. 

   “Lendwithcare allows organisations or individuals to lend as little as £15 to fund a small business, and once the money is repaid, investors can choose to recycle their loan to support another poor entrepreneur, or to withdraw the money. The Rotary Club of Nantwich and individual members have invested £2,900. This has been re-invested as entrepreneurs repay their loans and £6,665 has been invested in total over the past four years making 118 loans, 100% of which goes to the entrepreneur. The difference we can make to thousands of desperately poor people for a relatively small investment is amazing!” 

“ This is an example of an entrepreneur group we’ve supported is in Zambia: 

“Nyangu Sakala runs a very interesting business, grinding maize into flour and sunflower seeds into oil. With the help of her Lendwithcare loans Nyangu has managed to purchase four grinding mills – two for the flour and two for the oil. She keeps one of each in a garage next to her home where people visit either have their maize ground, or to purchase the maize flour or oil already processed. Nyangu now employs six people to help in her business and she and her husband also have a small shop where they sell the oil they press. She charges 15 kwacha (just over £1) to press 50kg of sunflower seeds and 13 kwacha (about £1) for 50kg of maize! Not only have the loans have been very useful in helping her business to grow, but with the profits she has been able to send her children to school and cover all of their household expenses. Nyangu has four children but she looks after a total of 9 people, including two orphans and her younger sister.”

The Rotary Club of Nantwich continues to raise funds to support good causes both very close to home, and in very remote corners of the world.  New members to our club are always made most welcome.

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Christmas Float Beneficiaries 2019