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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

Today author and former school teacher came to our rotary club lunch and gave a talk on his experiences as a teacher and now published author.

He has published 3 books and two of them have been turned into audio books.

He hails from Yorkshire originally, but now lives in Surrey.  Currently he is on a tour of Waterstones Bookstores.

His books are nostalgic and based on his own experiences.

You can visit  his website is here. Link

Sean Usher met up with him after he gave his talk and had a chat, listen to it below.

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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