Lunch time meeting - Speaker Rose Duncan from Brighter Futures Health Hub

On Thursday 18th August 2022 President Brian Johnson, welcomed 16 club Rotarians also Rose Duncan and guests Linda Ballingall (former member) and Derek Stahly to this our lunch time meeting held at the Gilvenbank Hotel.

President Brian had the pleasure of officially introducing Linda Ballingall back into the club as a member. He also spoke about a £25k District grant which he had applied for and was accepted for a Ukrainian Project.

Anne Sampson spoke about the forthcoming Fundraising Quiz night where teams from District Rotary Clubs and Community organisations had been invited. The Quiz is being compered by Rotarians Eoin and Marilyn Robertson.

Wilna Roger spoke about the Big Hoose project and visits which had been organised for 31st August and 3rd September. She also mentioned that she had visited the Glenrothes Community health and sports hub and had spoken with Suzanne McRoberts and the need for further food stuffs.

Our speaker this week was Rose Duncan of the Brighter Futures Group unfortunately Bernadette (Berni) Brown, Pharmacist from Cadham shopping centre was unable to attend. Rose spoke about the creation of the group, she got to know Berni at the end of March 2020 during COVID when she had repurposed the Collydean community Centre as a Crisis COVID centre, where Rose was involved with Befriending, delivering food parcels to the community. Berni had mentioned that health visits to many of these people should be a priority as many people were identified as notes of concern. It took the organisation 3 months to get charity status. As the organisation has at the moment no base, they had to be peripatetic, travelling from place to place, in particular working or based in various places for relatively short periods, to meet the needs of the people. They are now trying to introduce differing services to the community offering health bonds to make the services affordable to many. Their charitable purpose amongst a few were for social prescribing, advancement of health and improving conditions of life. The group have been supporting Bield housing at Inchkeith court,President 

Brian gave the Rotary Vote of Thanks.

Next week 25th August will be an evening meeting at Gilvenbank Hotel meeting at 6.15pm and commencing at 6.30pm where we have many community groups participating in a fundraising Quiz. Rotarians Eoin and Marilyn Robertson will be organising the quiz.

If you were interested in supporting the community and international projects get in touch by Private message on The Rotary Club of Glenrothes Facebook page. You will be made most welcome.