Club News Archive 2012

Read the news of our events and activities held during 2012

Rotary collects almost 1000 on Christmas Eve

Marlborough and District Rotary Club held a street collection on Christmas Eve for Naomi House and other charities supported by Rotary. Despite inclement weather for much of the day the Marlborough public responded generously and a total of just under 1000 was collected. 

Rotary meets Marlborough Chamber of Commerce

On Wednesday 19th December, our President Howard Small and Rotarian Rex Sandbach joined the Marlborough Chamber of Commerce at their Business Breakfast meeting at the Castle and Ball Hotel on Marlboroughs famous High Street. The idea of the meeting is for local business and professional people to be able to meet informally to get to know each other and to exchange ideas and information.
We attended the meeting with the intention of increasing the profile of Rotary within the local business community. Many of the attendees were aware of Rotary but didnt know what we do or why we do it and it was a great opportunity to spread the word. Based on our experience at the breakfast, were likely to do it again as its a good venue to meet potential future members and to raise our profile in general. 

School Photographic Competition: 17 December

The school photographic competition was hosted by Wellington Academy, Ludgershall and judging took place on 17 December. A report and photos are under the Recent Events tab to the left of the page

Visit to BBC Bristol: 15 December

Seventeen Rotarians, family and friends visited BBC Bristol on Saturday 15 December for a tour of the production studios. An interesting and informative trip ensued and its report and photos are under the Recent Events tab to the left of this window.

Swift Medics Present to Rotary

At our meeting of 10 December Dr Jonathan Glover and Dr Mapstone gave a stimulating talk on the work of Swift Medics, Wiltshire's Emergency Response Doctor's Charity.

A full report and photos can be found under the Recent Events tab to the left of this window

Young Chef Competition 2012, organised by Rotary

On Thursday 6th December, the Young Chefs competition took place at Pewsey School in which eleven students participated.

The eventual winner was Amy Huggins with Bernadette Pullin being the runner up. Both winners were presented with cookery books and Amy will go forward to the next round to be held in Cirencester in January.

The competition was most ably judged by Andrew McNaughton & Guy Manning

Rotary Christmas Tree 2012

Lights Illuminated 

                                        Cold Rotarians

Tree Erection

A few Rotary diehards,  led by Jack Torrens and Paul Cowan,  braved the cold at 8am on Sunday morning, 18th November to erect the Rotary Christmas in the centre of the High Street,  then made off to a local hostelry for coffee.

Remembrance Day

On Remembrance Sunday President Howard laid the Rotary wreath at the Cenotaph in Marlborough