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CIRENCESTER ‘LOCKDOWN UNLOCKED’ CHARITY PHOTO COMPETITION

Cirencester Rotary Club is running a fun digital photo competition for charity, to showcase a wide variety of meaningful images captured throughout this extraordinary Covid-19 lockdown period.  

Your ‘picture can paint a thousand words’ and this competition is open to three age groups: (1) under 11, (2) 12 – 18, (3) 19 – 109 years! Entries can be made online via this Cirencester Rotary Club Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/Cirencester-Rotary-Club-108689144196261/  where images will be uploaded (after admin approval).  A suggested minimum donation of £5 via Facebook Fundraising, will be divided equally between this year’s two chosen local charities, The Big Yellow Bus Project (Registered Charity No. 1186515) and Cotswold Counselling (Registered Charity No. 1108979). 

There will be cash prizes offered for each category, 10% of monies raised.  Entries are accepted from now until August 31st 2020.

Please choose a photo that you have taken during Lockdown, save as a JPG file and send to Cirencester Rotary Club Lockdown Unlocked Photo Competition enter via the Facebook page giving the following information:

Name: ………………………………….…………..

Age (or category): …………………………….

Brief Description of Picture: ……………..

Entry donation: Y/N

Contact details from Facebook or Email entries will be used by Cirencester Rotary Club to notify winners.

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May 2020 - COVID-19 Rotarians Help The Local Community

 The COVID-19 pandemic has meant that the members of Cirencester Rotary Club can no longer meet face to face. However thanks to modern technology they have continued to get together via Zoom, social media and telephone conversations.

As part of their response to the crisis they have decided to focus on what could be done to assist local groups who are having to deal with depleted funds during these challenging times.

To get started, the Club members have agreed to donate their regular payment for tea meetings to Cirencester Foodbank. In addition individual Rotarians have been asked, if they wish, to donate directly to the Foodbank some of the money that they would normally spend on the fortnightly  Rotary Dinners.

As the Club cannot organise formal fund raising events they have also decided to use some of their Charitable Reserves to help the Sue Ryder Hospice and Longfield Hospice Care.

Club President Mark Wilton said “ We are part of one of the largest Community Service Organisations in the World and as such we  respond to the difficulties and challenges faced by this pandemic crisis”

A spokeman for the Cirencester Foodbank said “ This is a very generous donation  given the circumstances we find ourselves in.Since lockdown the bank had distributed more meals in one week than in the previous month.”

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