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Farnborough Rotary club is out of the annual district badminton competition.

Sean Usher and Jim Thomson from Farnborough played John Dumbrell and Karen Sutton from the Shepperton Aurora club.

Shepperton Aurora beat Farnborough A 2-0 (21-19, 21-15).

Two other Farnborough members Tim Dunkley and Gil Puxley lost to Rushmoor Rotary Club

“It was a great game,  I was a last minute replacement and only started playing last week, but I intend to take it up now and play more regularly. But Jim played really well, covering up for me on more than one occasion.

Karen and John had only played together once before but you could see that they have both played quite a bit and they both played really well”.

This was just another example of the rotary clubs getting together for some fun and sport.

If you want to get involved with Rotary,  contact Farnborough Rotary club’s secretary John Anderson. We would love you to come along to one of our lunches or events. John’s Email

By the way, apart from organising the event, local rotary clubs are having a stall at the annual Donkey Derby event at the King George V Playing fields on Bank Holiday Monday 25th May. Why not come along and have a chat to members of our local rotary clubs.

You never know, you might just want to get involved.

Quite often our club will invite guests to talk to the club.

A couple of weeks ago the guest was Bob Legget from The Leonard Cheshire Trust, who have launched a campaign to provide schooling for Africa’s disabled children.

Afterwards  Sean Usher caught up with Bob to ask about the Leonard Cheshire Trust’s involvement.

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Bob Legget speaking to rotarian Sean Usher

Website for Leonard Cheshire’s School For All Click Here

One of the main fund raising events that Farnborough Rotary club is involved in, is making street collections.

We man the float at static locations in Farnborough town centre, outside Waitrose supermarket in Frimley, in North Camp and we also endeavour to visit most roads in Farnborough when we take the float on the road during December every year.

Here is a video of two Rotarians talking about the collections over the last Christmas period.

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