|
Phoenix donation to West Yorkshire's Forget-Me-Not Trust |
 |
 |
|
Written by Jonathan Siddall
|
|
Friday, 06 March 2009 07:56 |
|
 Each Rotary year the President names one or more charities to be supported by the Phoenix Rotary Club. One of the charities chosen by this year's President Jim Donnan is the Forget-Me-Not Trust.
The West Yorkshire Forget-Me-Not Trust is a local charitable trust whose aims are to raise funds to build and run a children's respite centre and hospice in West Yorkshire.
At our Club's evening meeting of Thursday 5th March 2009 our guest speaker was Gina Fielding, Community Fund Raiser, for the Forget-Me-Not Trust. She spoke passionately about the local need for specific, purpose built facilities and specialist support for children with terminal illness and for their parents, brothers and sisters too.
Gina brought us up to date with the Trust's progress. Encompassing the acquisition of suitably located land, with sufficient space for the new hospice, respite centre buildings and for the all important gardens. Various problems with planning permission have been successfully overcome but, sensibly, building will not commence until funding is fully raised for both the building work and the the cost of running the facility for the first year after opening.
Previous speakers have mentioned the poor levels of grant funding for running an adult hospice but, apparently, help with funding a children's hospice is even less! Fundraising for the Trust will be a permanent necessity going forward.
The Rotary Club of Horbury and Ossett Phoenix were proud to present Gina with a cheque for £1500 towards this very worthwhile local cause.
Thank you Gina and the West Yorkshire Forget-Me-Not Trust
|
|
Last Updated on Thursday, 04 February 2010 08:33 |
|
Machu Picchu Trek |
|
|
|
Written by Jonathan Siddall
|
|
Sunday, 09 November 2008 17:50 |
|
Last year Phoenix supported Nigel Day on a sponsored trek on the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu, the lost Inca settlement high in the mountains of Peru (re-discovered in 1911).
At the Club's meeting of Thursday 6th Nov 2008 we heard of the difficulties encountered by the participants of Nigel's trek. Altitude sickness caused many to drop out. Nigel did not find it easy and despite the difficulties he experienced on the trek he did manage to complete this personal challenge.
We saw many slides of the stunning scenery, mountain passes, etc. and the talk culminated with some great shots of the famous Inca Machu Picchu.
In doing the trek, Nigel was raising money for research into Alzheimer's disease, a very worthy cause towards the relief of a disease which can be so very difficult for many sufferers and their families. |
|
Last Updated on Friday, 18 September 2009 08:23 |
|
Life Enhancing Rotary Scheme |
|
|
|
Written by Bill Sutton
|
|
Tuesday, 30 September 2008 23:00 |
|
On Thursday 25th September two Horbury youngsters, Danny Gibson and Marie Shires spent their evening with the Horbury and Ossett Rotary Club weekly meeting and told them about their experience of the Rotary Youth Leadership Award Scheme which had taken place in July.
The two 16 year olds were both pupils of the Horbury School when selected from year 11 pupils to attend the one week Leadership Award Scheme after completing their GCSEs. They told how despite being a little apprehensive on arrival at the Hebden Hey Outdoor Centre, near Hebden Bridge, they were quickly involved with 22 other young people in activities such as building rafts, fell walking, building bivouacs, and crossing ravines of zip wires. Along the way they were given various leadership problems and tasks to resolve in teams of four, with a different team member taking the lead role for each task.
Both spoke of the confidence they had built in themselves, but also in their team members; of the strong friendships they had built with others on the scheme; and the improvements in their communications, social and leadership skills. They summed the week up as ‘a life enhancing experience’.
Danny and Marie were accompanied on their visit to the Rotary Club by members of their families who remarked on the difference they had seen in them on their return from the scheme – more confident but also more understanding and conscious of other people.
The Phoenix Rotary Club has been sending pupils on the Leadership awards scheme for the past 12 years, funding the £400 per person cost from monies raised through the Horbury Show, the forthcoming boxing evening and other events. President Jim Donnan said, “We are delighted that Danny and Marie gained so much from the Award Scheme and their presentation to us reflected their confidence and enthusiasm. It also confirmed our confidence to continue supporting the development of young people by sending two more on next years scheme.”
Between them, Danny and Marie gained 22 GCSEs including several at A* and are both going on to study for A levels at Ossett School 6th form. Danny has also become the Wakefield Express Face of Wakefield. |
|
Last Updated on Thursday, 04 February 2010 08:11 |
|
Vision Aid - Specs |
|
|
|
Written by Mike Gill
|
|
Friday, 05 September 2008 13:30 |
|
Thank you for continuing to donate your unwanted spectacles which we deliver to Ruth Perrott an optician in Castleford who measures the prescription and ships your old specs to Malawi. Project Malawi was founded in 2003 by David and Gillian Mason who are Local Preachers in the York South Methodist Church Circuit. They are also Area Regional Directors for Community Bible Study International and it was during their work in trying to bring the Bible to
villagers that they realised that many were not only illiterate but had physical problems in reading. They set up a Vision Team and Ruth became a founder member. Ruth with friends and colleagues visit villages in Malawi, setting up eye clinics and dispensing your old spectacles. The delight on the faces of the villagers is emotional and hard to ignore especially when one old chap took Ruth by the hand and said |
|
Last Updated on Friday, 18 September 2009 08:05 |
|
Middlestown Youth Club thank Rotary Club for new Pool Table |
|
|
|
Written by Bill Sutton
|
|
Sunday, 20 April 2008 18:42 |
|
It is 8 years since Middlestown Youth Club was first started by Harry Hayes in St Lukes Church Hall, Overton and since that time with the help of Janet Anderton and Andrew Ingham the club has provided a safe relaxed environment every Wednesday evening for about 30 youngsters.
Harry explained, |
|
Last Updated on Friday, 18 September 2009 08:31 |
|
|
|
<< Start < Prev 1 2 3 4 5 Next > End >>
|
|
Page 4 of 5 |
