Past presidents Lunch and Speaker Meeting 

Welcome: David Pratt

Host: Nigel Henham 

Members Announcements:- 

Debbie Vincent;  Debbie announced the amazing news that Martin Tredham from the Wasdell Group will be sponsoring our Charity Ball next year the sum of  £20,000.00

Martin Groombridge;   the membership meeting held on 18th November went very well and a report will be following soon 

Richard Deacon; Deacons will be holding an event to mark the opening of the new shop on the 5th November, this will be a ticket only event, please contact Richard if you would like to attend.

Jan Blankenstein; The quiz tem came second in the first round of the quiz 

Skittles season starts soon anyone wishing to be on the team please contact Jan 

Sue Huck; The Hub at Diepsloot is coming along well  and will be ready in January 

Guests: Welcome to:-

Martin Tredham guest of Mike Bawden  

Neil Montgomery (Thamesdown Hydrotherapy Pool) guest of Mike Morse

Ross Stein, guest of Sue Huck

Dr. John Philip, Chair of the International Fellowship of Rotarian Doctors, and member of the Rotary Club of Newbury. Our Speaker today and guest of Drago Pausek 

Drago Pausek ; Rotary Club of Zagreb

Howard Small ADG

Presidents Announcements:

The President welcomed our guests and all Past Presidents  

Secretary Announcements:

Christmas Tree , Christ Church event ; Apologies for forgetting the decorations that we were hoping the members would use to hang on the ‘memory tree’ I will have to resort to plan B ( as soon as come up with one ! )

The handbook states that next week is an evening event , this is incorrect please all turn up next Thursday lunch time , our speaker is Chief Supt. Debs Smith who will be talking about her work as public protection lead for Wiltshire police.

Host is Gary Herbert 

Happy Birthday to Ian Larrard for the 25th November 

Debbie Vincent, Sue Frawley and I attended a meeting of the Phoenix Club last night, we were made very welcome and had some interesting discussions, one of which included their Christmas party, Alan Goulding and a pea shooter 

Speaker: Dr. John Philip, Am I my Brother’s keeper?

Dr John Phillip is a past District Governor, a member of the Rotary Club of Newbury and Chair of the International Fellowship of Rotarian Doctors

John spoke to us today about a project in Ukerewe which is the largest inhabited island in Lake Victoria, Tanzania 

The project supports schools on the island, their general aim was to ‘inspire and empower children to be engaged in preserving and protecting their environment as well as benefitting from it as future farmers’ 

Most schools have 1000 pupils, these pupils are eager to learn and often have to walk long distances on an empty stomach and would be lucky to get something to eat when they get home  

At the moment the project has been supporting 7 schools, and there are 120 schools on the island. The aim is to turn the unused areas of the schools into farms, where they plant, grow and harvest a variety of crops. The crops are used to feed the pupils and some are sold to generate funds to buy items needed.

Each school has also managed to establish a tree nursery (total trees planted exceed 35,000.00) these included many fruit trees 

The mission of Newbury Rotary Club is to offer 7,000 pupils porridge breakfast 3 times a week, this costs just £1.20 per child per year 

Raffle; the raffle is week was won by Ray Fisher, who donated it to the speakers project 

 Lesley