Shoebox Appeal


 

Last autumn, club once again took part in the Rotary Shoebox scheme.

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30 boxes, were bought and filled with a range of toys, gifts and toiletries. The advised cost of each contents is £20. Sadly no pre-owned or perishable goods can be accepted.

These were taken to the regional collection centre by Dave Chapman for onward shipment to eastern European countries.

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The container, with 11,328 boxes including ours, was temporarily held up as the port of Odessa was blockaded and diverted through Romania. A second container (11,220 boxes) has been sent to Chisinau in Moldova in April this Year.

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Romania 2021

Romania Last Year, If you would like to be involved for your school,

work or sports club, please contact Robbie Dale and we’ll get back to you

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Club members collect used postage stamps throughout the year. These are used to fund a Rotary project in Sri Lanka in conjunction with the district 1180 Rotary Passport Club.

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Club members collected at the Christmas tree light switch on and at Sainsbury's in early December. £226 and £508 were collected respectively. Sadly one complete day's Sainsbury' collection had to be cancelled due to the 50-70 mph winds of Storm Darragh.

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Crosby Club, helped by members of the public and youth service organisations collected £11,000 over 9 routes throughout Crosby, Waterloo, Thornton, Hightown and Little Crosby this year. One route had to be cancelled due to Storm Eowyn. Thanks to all.

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Crosby Rotarians partnered Craig Lawson Landscapes to refurbish the neglected Princess Diana bed. Crosby Rotary raised £900 to buy the plants, Craig Lawson and team excavated and cleared the site and did the planting.Crosby & Waterloo in bloom contributed

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Club members seek sponsorship to walk a mile ( or more ) over the weekend of World Polio Day. Monies raised go to help eradicate polio worldwide with funds matched by The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. ( £281.00 was this year's total raised by Crosby)

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Crosby Rotary has adopted a section of the Leeds & Liverpool canal and regularly undertakes weekly/fortnightly litter picking walks along the towpath, taking bags of rubbish and discarded larger items to the Canal & River Trust depot in Litherland.

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An International Project to provide much needed breast prostheses to mastectomy patients in Pune

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Santa Collection Presentation Evening

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