Charities We Support

‘Thanks for Life’, is a project involving the clubs and members of Rotary International in Great Britain & Ireland, aimed at helping to eradicate polio throughout the world.

Thanks For Life is a purpose-built initiative, specifically designed to combine the talents and efforts of every Rotary club in RIBI with these main aims…

• To raise £1m for Polio Eradication through the Thanks for Life initiative.
• To maximise public awareness of the Rotary Polio campaign, the Gates Challenge and Rotary in general.
• To increase membership.

Farnborough Rotary Club will join other clubs throughout the UK in helping to raise awareness about ending polio in the third world.

We will be organising a number of initiatives locally and hope to involve the public in our efforts.

There is a great site which details a lot of information about polio and how rotary clubs have been involved in helping to eradicate this disease.  You can click here to go to the dedicated site http://www.ribi.org/thanks-for-life

Farnborough Rotary Club will join forces with our other local clubs to visit schools to help educate local children.

If you want to understand the story of Polio and how it affected children in the western world, there is a great cartoon on the story of polio on the site I mentioned above. Or you can click on the picture for polio on the top right corner.

11 members of Farnborough Rotary Club and two guests enjoyed a great day out yesterday.

The weather was glorious when our first player, Rotarian Dave Thomas, stepped up to the first tee at just after 9am.

The weather remained fantastic and the course was in reasonable condition.

Now I play off 28 and there was the usual heckling about being a bandit, which may have been true considering some of my very lucky shots. Especially when you learn that I came in joint 2nd but on a countback of my points (of just 29) I was relegated to third.

Some of our players, play with good handicaps 12s 16s and 18s, so I don’t know how I did it but Hey Ho!

But the game was played in great spirit, the banter, which for me makes up part of the game was excellent, especially when one of my playing partners Geoff Robinshaw told us jokes and anecdotes all the way round the course.

The game is organised twice a year spring and autumn and on this occasion it was organised by Brian Fagg.

The winner was Laurie Dudley, who left before the presentation so is not featured in the photographs below, but as he won, he will organise the autumn event. Also not show in the photograph because he’d left early Andrew Clarke

After the game we headed back to the CourtHouse pub for a beer and a delicious lunch .

Courtesy of the BBC

The Cornish charity ShelterBox has sent a disaster response team to the scene of an earthquake which struck central Italy earlier.

The workers will report back on the level of aid needed.

An initial 40 survival boxes containing tents, sleeping bags and cooking equipment are being sent out overnight from the charity’s Helston base.

And as many as 50,000 people are feared to have been made homeless in the area around the medieval city of L’Aquila.

Toby Ash, from ShelterBox, said: “In earthquakes there tends to be a lot of movement, a lot of confused, displaced, homeless people not knowing what to do.

“There will be people wanting to help but not sure how to.

“We have sent an experienced team who can get emergency shelters up and deal with the immediate need.”

He said it would probably take between 24 and 48 hours to assess the full scale of the disaster and the ShelterBox team would liaise with the local emergency services on the ground.