Carr Lodge Park - Walled Garden Progress
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The walled garden in Carr Lodge Park is a 50 metres x 50 metres Grade II listed site and whilst originally cultivated to provide food for the occupants of the mansion was converted into a quiet area with Carr Lodge Park prior to being effectively abandoned over the past 20 years or so. During that time its walls had become overcome with ivy and brambles and weeds had grown to 6 feet high. Self seeded trees were left to grow wild and the garden has been used from time to time for illicit drinking and glue sniffing.
After our successful apprenticeship at creating new herbaceous borders and planting up the old rose beds with bedding plants during 2009. We were granted permission to start the first phase of bringing the Carr Lodge Walled Garden back into community use by clearing away the self seeded weeds, brambles and trees which had overgrown the garden over the past 20 years or so.
Gaining permission to start was delayed somewhat because of the need for Wakefield Council to consider the implications of the sale of the mansion house and whether or not the walled garden was to be included. Once the decision was made to exclude the garden from the sale and following representations through Councillor Ripley, the Council Cabinet member responsible for Parks and recreation, Cllr Hudson, gave authority for the work to start. Further consultation with Council officers, Friends of Horbury Park and the Horbury Heritage Group concluded with the Rotary Club undertaking delivery of Phase 1, which will also include putting a gate on the walled garden entrance to facilitate safe working for subsequent stages.
Mosquito Net Project
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Mosquito net provision and installation was commenced in 2009 by the school,financed 50% by the Rotary Club of Horbury and Ossett Phoenix, along with a few smaller donations. For background and a description of what we actually did, please see
Phoenix Donates to West Yorkshire's Forget-Me-Not Trust
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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
Phoenix Donates to Breakthru Project
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As an organisation based in the Horbury & Ossett area, Horbury & Ossett Phoenix Rotary Club has a commitment to support and help to build its local community. "The Breakthru Youth Project was founded by Horbury Council of Churches and has been running since 2000. Its aim is to provide youth groups and activities for young people in and around the Horbury area, and to run weekends away for youngsters. The Club has supported the Project financially in the past and welcomed the opportunity to do so again when the Project's Senior Youth Leader Mark Robinson and one of its Trustees John Gallagher visited and addressed the Club on 30 September. Members heard about the range of activities and support offered by the Project to young people in the area, and a cheque for
Phoenix Donates to Water Aid
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Horbury & Ossett Phoenix Rotary Club hosted a visit on 23 September from Chris Freeman representing Water Aid, which is one of President Mike Bradley's selected Charities to receive donations from the Club during his Presidential year. Water Aid is an international non profit organisation dedicated to helping people escape the poverty and disease caused by living without safe water and sanitation. It was established by the UK water industry as a Charitable Trust in 1981, and 2010/11 sees the 25th anniversary of its partnership with Rotary in the British Isles. Since 1985 Rotary in the UK has raised over
Vision Aid - Specs
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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.
Walled Garden Update
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