Supporting our Community
The Opportunity to help those in need with fundraising or with the time and experience of our members is important to the whole club. Our motto is "service before self"
Raising funds and awareness to support local (and some international) chariities but particularly local needs and local people.
£40,000 to CHSW
In 2019 we have made a major contribution to Littlebridge House for CHILDREN'S HOSPICE SOUTH WEST. With help from our twin club, Uelzen in Germany, we accessed a Rotary Foundation Global Grant which enabled us to donate nearly £40,000 to the Hospice . This paid for a complete electrical re-wiring of Littlebridge House and the installation of new surveillance and monitoring equipment, entrance security and a system of mobile alarm calls. It also funded a brand new, special, cot-type bed whech has enabled the care of very sick children in our community to be managed just a little more easily.
McMillan Coffee Mornings
This is a charity traditionally supported by The Rotary Club of Bideford as for years we have assisted the local McMillan group with their annual bucket collection at Morrisons. The World's Biggest Coffee Morning in September is something that is too good to miss and who can resist home made cakes?. Always popular and always an easy way to get friends together and to make new friends, the generous donations are really appreciated and enabled us to donate another £800 to McMillan in October 2021.
This year our President's chosen charity is North Devon against Domestic Violence.
We are proud of the long list of other organisations we have helped in the last couple of years too. Some funds were raised for a specific named cause (Shelterbox Disaster Relief, Children's Hospice South West, Bideford Bay Surf Lifesaving, RNLI etc) but the distribution of funds from the charity account (from our annual Water Festival, the Bideford wishing well, the Westward Ho Ho Ho New Year dip, quiz night funds to name just a few) is decided on the recommendation of a committee of Rotarians who look at each application for funding on its merit.
To apply for some of these funds, send an application in writing to President Moirag Clarke c/o The Royal Hotel, Bideford or by Email: bidefordrotary@gmail.com. (We would prefer applications to be from organisations rather than individuals and preferably not from political or religous groups)
Local community donations made recently
2018 Donations
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2019 Donations
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2020
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2021 Donations |
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| RNLI Appledore
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600 | 316 Energy
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25 | ||||
| Bideford Bay Surf Lifesaving | 600 | Alwington Village Hall
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100 | Bideford Work Club
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250 | ||
| Northam Lodge | 1,025 | Amegos
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100 | Northam Lodge
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350 | ||
| North Devon Hospice | 500 | North Devon Hospice
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225 | North Devon Hospice
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525 | ||
| TTVS Carewise | 433 | TTVS Carewise
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453
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| Harbour | 500 | North Devon Biosphere
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250 | Bid Community Fridge
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200 | Bid Community Fridge
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-165 |
| N Devon Foodbank
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90
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N Devon Foodbank
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482 | N Devon Foodbank
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500 | ||
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Foodbank Xmas
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500 | Foodbank Xmas
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1000 |
| N D Animal Hospital | 90 | British Naturalists N Devon
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25 | Calvert Trust (Young Carers)
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250 | ||
| Families in Grief | 235 | Cruise Berievement
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200 | Home Start Xmas Party
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250 | Noah's Place (Woolsery)
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558 |
| Rotakids | 703
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Rotaproj
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100 | ||||
| Dictionaries for Torridge Primary Schools
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1,176 | Dictionaries for Torridge Primary Schools
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1,176 | Westcroft School
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450 | Appledore School (for tablets)
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1000
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| 1st Edgehill & Torridge Scouts | 275 | Encompas Rough Sleepers
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800 | Torridge Friendship &VIPs
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100 | Woolsery School (for tablets)
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500 |
| Tarka Tennis Centre | 500 | Children's Hospice S West
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38,826 | Children's Hospice S West
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500 | ||
| N Devon Yacht Club Cadets | 500 | N Devon Young Gymnasts
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500 | ||||
| Bideford Street Pastors | 500 | N Devon Healthcare NHS Trust
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250 | Devon Freewheelers (blood bikes)
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500 | ||
| Bideford Amateur Athletics Club | 250 | Bideford Canoe Club
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250 | ||||
| Abbotsham Village Hall Trust
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250 | Appledore Hall Trust
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224 | ||||
| Torridge Scouts | 250 | Chemo Hero
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25 | Chemo Hero
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500 | ||
| Muddy Boots Preschool | 250 | Snapdragons Preschool
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250 | ||||
| Appledore Book Festival | 250 | Appledore Book Festival
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250 | Appledore Book Festival
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- | Appledore Book Festival
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240 |
| Flying Fish Artists | 250 | Freedom Com. Alliance
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279 | Growth Project Westward Ho!
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200 | ||
| Grow@Jigsaw | 250 | Freshspring | 250 | ||||
| Bideford College | 250 | Sounds Different
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250 | ||||
| Help for Heros | 25 | Help for Heros
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25 | ||||
| Lions of Bideford | 25 | Lions of Bideford
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25 | ||||
| Northam Twinning | 25 | Edukid | 250 | Edukid | 250 | ||
| Torridge Volunteer Cars | 25 | Exmoor Search & Rescue
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150 | Exmoor Search & Rescue
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25 | ||
| Bideford & District Sea Cadets | 25 | Bideford & District Sea Cadets
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25 | Bideford & District Sea Cadets
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25 | ||
| Surfers Against Sewage
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25 | Royal Marines Charity
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25 | ||||
| N Devon Sustainable Fish
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200 | ||||||
| TTVS Memory Cafes
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720 |
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TTVS Memory Cafe
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500 | |||
| Victoria Park Bowls Club
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250 | ||||||
| Appledore Gig Club
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25 | Bideford Gig Club
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| Devon Wildlife Trust
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25 | Devon Wildlife Trust
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25 |
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'What We Do' Main Pages:
What we have been up to.... We write a monthly bulletin highlighting some of the things we have done in the previous month. Looking back over The Bulletins gives a historical record of the club's activities
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The Opportunity to help those in need with fundraising or with the time and experience of our members is important to the whole club. Our motto is "service before self"
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£115,000 RAISED IN 20 YEARS! We support ShelterBox as this charity can really move quickly to get assistance to desperate communities around the world where and when it is needed.
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Encouraging young people to become confident, accomplished, valuable members of our community will always make us proud.
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Throughout the year there are several inter-club sporting competitions, including the infamous Skittles League, a multi-disciplined pub sports evening organised by Torrington Club at Langtree and last year both a table tennis and beach Petanque challenge.
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