And Now For Something Completely Different! and quite mad and a Great Fund Raiser For Your Club. Well, it’s not actually completely different because we have done this before. All of our Previous flyers had the thrill of a lifetime doing the ‘Loop’ and they couldn’t stop smiling. All sponsorship money raised will be split 50/50 with Wolverton and Stony Stratford Rotary Club and your Club.

For further information please download the flyer by clicking on the link below:

 Loop the Loop 2012 flyer 508.16 Kb

On Monday December 12th  Past President Andy Griggs of Marondera Rotary Club, Zimbabwe gave a presentation on the progress of our project for the provision of a water supply to the Mushewe Vanhu  orphanage. With the addition of a matching grant to the funds from  Milton Keynes and our twin club in Holland, Helmond Regio  $12,000 was eventually sent to Zimbabwe via Zambia to finance this project.

It might have been a frosty January night outside, but in the Holiday Inn’s Orchard Suite on Monday night the room sizzled with warmth and goodwill when Rotarians met with local dignitaries and charity representatives to gear themselves up for the Swimathon on March 10 at Stantonbury.  The Mayor of Milton Keynes, Cllr Allan Richards, The Mayor of Newport Pagnell, Cllr Wendy Egan and the Rotary District Governor, John Bromley were there and they were joined by a number of guests including Radcliffe school Head Teacher, John O’Donnell. (There is intense competition amongst local schools for the Trophy awarded for the most lengths swum.)

On the 18th October 2011, members of Potters Bar Rotary Club, Roger Philpott, Doug Fussell and Pierre-Paul Tengwo gave a presentation about Shelter Box to the Potters Bar Guides, invited by the Potters Bar Guide Leader Janet Reid. Everybody enjoyed the evening judging by the amount of interest the girls showed during the presentation and judging by the pertinent questions asked during the session by the girls.

Following the presentation a large number of our members attended the Potters Bar and District Guides and Brownies Christmas Carol Service on the 1st December 2011 at St Mary's Church in Potters Bar. The Club members helped set up the tent as well as showing the items in the Box during the Church service.

We certainly know how to party in the Brickhills and we showed this skill off to our friends and fellow Rotarians last night 14th January when we celebrated our 10th Charter at The George in Little Brickhill.

There were 47 of us including past members of the clubs some had travelled quite a distance to be with us for the evening. After and introduction form Andy Sheldon and words of welcome form Elizabeth including a past presidential role call, Alison said an appropriately amusing grace. Other guests included 3 Milton Keynes Zone club presidents, Richard and Ann Jackson Bass from Hemel Hemstead Rotary Club, District Governor John Bromley and Ann plus Past District Governor Sandy and David Aked-Walker who gave the toast to the club.

Club President Elizabeth gave the response to Sandy's toast and told the audience how the club has grown and about all the new things that we are doing and what a good shape we are in.

The treat of the evening was the guest Speaker Craig Cooper "the tick tock man" who gave us a serious yet amusing account of this time commanding a bomb disposal squad in Northern Ireland in the 1990's. It was a great talk, a surprise for the audience but one that was fully appreciated and the vote of thanks by Helen Richardson was truly fitting for such a talk and occasion.

Great atmosphere, fellowship, banter, friendship, food, wine and everything!

The Rotary Club of Newport Pagnell is holding its sixteenth annual Jaipur Limb Charity Dinner at the Jaipur Restaurant, Milton Keynes. This very popular and enjoyable event in the Newport Pagnell Rotary Club’s social calendar has raised in excess of  £35,000 for the Jaipur Limb charity and, with the blessing and continued encouragement of Rtn.Mr Ahad - the proprietor of the Jaipur Restaurant, and an honorary member of our Club, we hope to fill the Restaurant once more and enjoy an exclusive evening at this renowned venue.

President John Neale and the members of the Newport Pagnell Club would be most appreciative of your support for this very worthwhile cause. 

A flyer with full details of the event can be downloaded by clicking the link below.

 Newport Pagnell RC Jaipur Limb Charity Dinner 2012 36.30 Kb

The Watford Club had another very successful Christmas collection during December with their recently refurbished Santa Claus Float. Over eight evenings they travelled more than twenty miles through the streets of North Watford. They also spent 7 days collecting with the float outside Watford’s Sainsbury, Asda and Tesco Supermarkets.

Organiser Allan Packham said “The reception from the public was even better than previous years and they all gave us a warm welcome despite the weather”. Children were delighted to see the brightly painted sleigh with its reindeers and elves carrying Santa past their doors. The club has been running the Christmas collection for some thirty years and many residents look out for the float with children and grandchildren ready at the door.

Altogether twenty five members and friends of the club volunteered to take part in the collection. The final amount raised was £7,836.36 which will all go to Rotary supported charities local, national and international.

Club President Peter O’Connor said “We are very grateful for the help from our sponsors, Scottall (Watford), Kings Langley Building Supplies and Taylors Tools; and to The Harlequin who allow us to store the float in their basement during the event”.

By Peter Clark

Watford Rotary Club

http://www.rotarywatford.org/

An estimated 878 million people around the world — nearly half of them employed — live on less than US$1.25 a day. Rotarians bring economic and community development to impoverished areas through projects that provide vocational training, support local entrepreneurs and community leaders, and assist with long-term recovery in places struck by natural disaster.