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COWBRIDGE ROTARY and FOODBANK DONATION

Presentatioin of foodOn Wednesday 29th January, the Rotary Club of Cowbridge donated £1000 worth of groceries and toiletries to the Vale Food Bank.

Several full trolleys were received from Matthew, Store Manager at Filco Cowbridge; and with the assistance of the President of the Club, Piero Fulgoni and other members, transported to the Foodbank Warehouse in Thompson Street in Barry. The donations were well received and appreciated by the staff at the centre. All donations are weighed on arrival, and ours came to 222kg.

 The donation was made possible by a matching grant from the District 1150 Committee, to which Cowbridge Rotary Club belongs to. The Club is very grateful for this support.

 The amount of stock received at the warehouse in the month of December was 5191kg, but the amount given out was 7476kg.  96 households had been referred for the first time in that month. The most needed items currently are sugar, corned beef, microwave pasta, jam and carrier bags. Please consider these when you do your shopping in February.

 Cowbridge Rotary Club has been supporting the Vale Food bank for several years now, and before Christmas, our junior Interact,club, at Cowbridge School donated many hampers, again from Filco, to the Food Bank. President Piero has nominated the charity as one of his preferred for this Rotary year. The raffles at the previous Cowbridge Food and Drink festivals have also benefited the Vale Food Bank.

 If after reading this article, you wish to learn more about Rotary and it’s activities, please approach one of the Rotarians, visit the club website, or come along to one of the car boot sales that will restart in April. We welcome any volunteers and potential new members – there is room for everyone.

Cowbridge School Food Hampers

food parcelsCongratulations to all the Year 7 and 8 classes at Cowbridge School who donated food for the Vale Food Bank and made incrediblehampers to enter in the competition. The designs were many and various and they all contained a wonderful collection of food donations. Judging of the competition by the school for the best hamper was based not only on design but the food content. Thanks also to the Interact Club for organmising the competition. Click on the image to see some photos of the hampers taken during the presentation of the hampers to the Vale Food Bank by Interact President Elin Potter and Deputy Head Jonathan Ling and a couple of Rotarians!


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RotaKids logoThe RotaKids of Y Bont Faen Primary School had a stall at the Key ringschool fair selling items they had made and some End-Polio-Now key rings. They raised a total of £49 for the Rotary Polio eradication programme. Well done RotaKids!

Young Musician - Instrumental

On Wednesday 20th November, seven talented pupils from Cowbridge Comprehensive School competed in the Club round of the RotaryYoung Musician Competition - Instumental. The performances on the piano, violin, trumpet and trumbone were all of a very high standard and the judging was not an easy task. The winner was Osian Bowen who played a spellbinding piano performance of the 2nd Movement of Beethoven's Pathetique Sonata No8 in C Minor followed by Ostinato from Mikrokosmos by Bartok. The runner-up was Isabel Harris who played "Blues", Violin Sonata No 2 by Ravel and "Andantina" from Hoimeland by Smetana.

During the period when the adjudicators were making their decision, the audience were entertained by the School Concert Band.



Charity Quiz

A successful and enjoyable Charity Quiz was held with 19 teams representing local associations was held in the Cowbridge Scout Hall on Saturday, 16th November. More information and pictures coming soon.




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