Planning meeting: May Morning Event

Wed, Mar 18th 2020 at 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

To be held in the King's Head & Bell


May Day 2020 (Friday) Abingdon Rotary Club organisers

7.30 am choir from Our Lady’s School gather

A stall with flowers, flower favours to be handed out Abingdon Flower Club

May Day Quiz

7.45 am to 8.15 am         Singing Market Place Our Lady’s School choir

8 am                                      Abingdon Traditional Morris

8.20 am                                Ian Giles (accordian) from Oxford Waits possibly Caroline Ritson on fiddle

8.30 am                                Abingdon Traditional Morris Punchbowl then Market Place
                                                Hemmings Morris Guildhall         

9 am                                      Culham Fusion Choir
9.30 am                                Abingdon Handbell ringers (Susan Reed handbells Brian Reed church bells??

Liaison between Rod Hunt and the Museum team for use of the roof area with a payment being made for staffing if before 10 am.

Flowery hat competition and Green man. Possibly judge this on Saturday 2nd May.

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Setting up for the great evening ahead

One of the most popular events on our calendar, the regular DNAPQuizzes raise a lot of money for our local charities, supported by the Rotary Club of Abingdon.

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Group Photo taken by AbiBinit

On Saturday the 24th We joined other groups in Abingdon on a River Litter Pick. The Sun shone and we all had a great time. We look forward to being involved with the Plastic Blitz next time.

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Rotarians hard at work to End Polio Now

4000 crocuses planted outside Abingdon Police Station in two hours to celebrate our Rotary Foundation ending Polio across the world

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Larkmead School 6th Formers take on the Rotary Club Weighty Challenge

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Installing water tanks in Africa

We worked with the Nasio Trust to install water tanks in Tanzania, to provide safe drinking water. Ground water in the region is heavily fluoridised and causes health problems for the population.

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Two splendid cups commissioned for our Club's annual Youth Speaks competition.

Two splendid cups commissioned for our Club's annual Youth Speaks competition. Often won by our talented young people from Abingdon's six secondary schools, our winning teams often go on to the next levels of this national Rotary Competition!

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The Club's foreign conscience - here immunising under-fives in India against Polio. There is no cure for Polio but it is preventable with a vaccine. Only two countries now remain endemic. We’ve reduced cases by 99.9% since 1988

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Member of Abingdon's Interact Club (=Junior Rotary) immunising an Indian child against polio on Rotary's 110th birthday. Photo taken from her camera.

The Rotary Foundation is Rotary International's own charity. It does an enormous amount of good in the world. Watch the video The Heart of Rotary for a flavour!

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Abingdon Rotarians nourishing the local community - in historical dress!

The Club's local conscience

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