Four Woolsack Rotarians, Simon, Tony, Graham, Tim, joined a group of happy church volunteers and others in Stoughton recently to load redundant church furniture into a full size sea container. The hire of the container and the cost of the passage to The Gambia were arranged by Ryan Kelley through a charitable trust.
It was a brilliant day of sunshine and in less than three hours an enormous quantity of chairs, tables, cabinets, books, medical equipment and much else besides was moved from the church and into the container. Not a cubic centimetre of container space was wasted. And lest you think this is an easy job, just look at the sequence of photos to see what was involved.
The picture above shows a very happy team at the end of a job well done.
more More than 10,000 Rotarians volunteer on the day at over 100 venues. Whether they live with critical health issues, in refuge or with a disability, children across the country are taken on a fun day out, often for the first time in their lives.
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more In July 2021 a group of Rotarians and Friends clear rubbish from woodland in Godalming
more In June 2021, a group of Rotarians launched an initiative to rejuvenate Willow Wood in the Farncombe area of Godalming
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more On Saturday 23rd March a successful concert was organised by Woolsack Rotary, primarily for older members of the Godalming community
more Again in 2018, Woolsack and Godalming Rotary Clubs helped with marshalling at the hugely popular Godalming Town Fireworks
more On sunny 27th May 2018, both Godalming Rotary Clubs sponsored the concert in Godalming Bandstand
more From the funds raised by our various events during the 2016-17 Rotary year, the club made a donation of £4,750 to the CRDA
more Godalming and Woolsack Clubs regularly help the Hydon Hill Cheshire home with fundraising, gardening and special events
more Godalming Rotarians looked after the ticket and programme sales again this year
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more The Godalming Woolsack club joins with other Rotary clubs every year to provide hundreds of disadvantaged young people with a great day out. In 2018, there were over 900 children in total and some great feedback from the event.
more Godalming District Scouts held their St George's Day Celebration this year on the Burys and then paraded through the town.
back Every year Woolsack members engage in a wide variety of Community Service projects