50th Anniversary

Last night our club joined forces with the Blackwater Valley Rotary club at the Holiday Inn Farnborough, to hear a very motivating and inspirational talk given by Helene Raynsford, the young paralympian who has achieved so much in the last 8 years.

Helene spoke about her illness that left her disabled whilst at university, the challenges she faced up to, on the way to becoming a gold medal winner and she gave us a blow by blow account of how she was feeling as she won the gold medal race.  Truly inspirational..

As I mentioned she was extremely candid and over 150 rotarians and rotoractors (younger rotarians) from other local clubs came to hear her talk.

Another great night out

Helene’s website click here

Gil Puxley and I talked to the Manager at Prince’s mead about installing our Anniversary Clock and this has been received with enthusiasm, although there are some minor problems still to be overcome.  I hope the clock will arrive next week and we can sort out these minor problems.

The anniversary Dinner is coming along well with 108 expected guests.  Andrew Clark and I will talk with the catering Manager at the Golf Club in the coming week to organise the menu for the evening.

I will keep you informed as to future development of this event.

Jeremy Kayll (Chairman of the Anniversary Committee)

This year Farnborough Rotary Club are celebrating our 50th anniversary.

We have a number of things planned privately and for the general public.

We have a 50th anniversary dinner planned for the 8th of May and we are planning an anniversary week from the 4th May.

More details to follow.