Club Service and Social Committee

BLOW YOUR OWN TRUMPET RE 2022-2023

2022-23 has been a very busy year for the Club with many events staged, and donations made to good causes

Many thanks to all concerned for a great year of achievement.

Funds have been raised or received from the following principal events (net of costs):

Member donations to Rotary Foundation and End Polio                 2,119

Sharnbrook Theatre show                                                                       1,943

Trolley Dash raffle – Waitrose                                                                2,923

Northampton Male Voice Choir Concert                                              1,472

Donation received from Enterprise Rent a Car                                   1,500

Grant received from NNC for garden project                                      2,400

Raffles and miscellaneous sales                                                                861

Country & Western Evening                                                                      573

Broadway & West End Theatres evening                                            1,490

Racenight                                                                                                    1,348

 TOTAL                                                                                                    £16,629

And the following sums have been contributed  (including use of some of the prior year surplus)

Rotary Foundation and End Polio charities                                        4,220                                                                     

Kids Out – Wicksteed Park                                                                         800 

Horticultural projects                                                                             1,355                                                                                                      

Prison Me No Way staging costs                                                           2,840

Bansang Hospital Fund - Gambia                                                          1,318

Cransley Hospice                                                                                      3,000  

Encompass – Food banks                                                                        2,147

Turkey Earthquake Disaster Fund                                                         1,000                                         

Sundry donations to- 

Mobility scooters                    630

Park Run defibrillator            150

Mercy Ships - Africa               300

Medecins sans Frontieres     300

Meningitis Research               250      

Environmental projects         120

Nene Valley Scouts                 250

Calvert Trust                             850

Shelterbox                                 590                                                           3,440

TOTAL                                                                                                   £20,120                                                                                                 

Committee members are: Mark Darnell – Chairman, Gina Lawless ( Minutes Secretary), Arthur Wright, Mike Neville,