Meet the Team
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Most Rotary Clubs have a new President every Year (Rotary Year is July to June). The President Elect is next year's President and the Vice President is President the year after.
Here is our current President's Team:
Left: Vice President Robert Trout. Centre: President Elect Steve Driver. Right: President Phil Johnson.
See list of all Phoenix Presidents - past and present
Another Great Job by Phoenix
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July 2019... Yet another bench was replaced this week in Horbury, courtesy of The Rotary Club of Horbury and Ossett Phoenix.
The bench was installed by our Immediate Past President Alan Hudders, Past President Mick Miller, Phoenix member Stuart Wilby and Roger Parkinson PHF. Roger gives a great deal of time as a local Woodland Creation Champion and Volunteer Speaker for the Woodland Trust, as well as through his leading role for Wakefield Tree Wardens Charter Branch. As if that wasn't enough he also is a great friend of Phoenix Rotary and regular volunteer on our local projects. This skillful team spent hours overcoming some technical difficulties in site preparation and previously team member Stuart welded extra steel tube to the legs of the refurbished bench to bring the seat height up to the new regulation height.
The bench is now fully installed and in use in the grassed area at the junction of Quarry Hill and Horbury Bypass.
Well done all and a lovely job it is too:
New Defibrillator for Horbury
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New Defibrillator for Horbury... located outside the Working Members Club in Cluntergate.
Jointly funded and organised by WMC and the Rotary Club of Horbury and Ossett Phoenix.
Further information will be available in the coming weeks so please "watch this space"
2019 Horbury Show - Thank You
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A huge thank you to all of you who either attended or supported The Horbury Show yesterday. The turnout was much higher than in previous years and we hope you thoroughly enjoyed the day. We are non profit making and all give freely of our time. All money raised goes to charitable causes and over the last two years we have made 150 payments to charities, local community groups and good causes which total £50,000. Two thirds of that total amount has come from the Horbury Show.
If you have the skills, energy and enthusiasm to work with us to make our community a better place to live, then please feel free to contact us. We are happy to accept support in whatever way you feel comfortable at either next year's show or other projects we are involved with throughout the year.
More photos of the Horbury Show here
Commemorative Trees for Horbury, Horbury Bridge and Sth. Ossett
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The Horbury and Ossett Phoenix project to plant a commemorative Oak Tree in Carr Lodge Park in remembrance of the people of Horbury who fell in the First World War (as 2018 was the centenary of the end of WW1) inspired our local Community Group - Friends of Horbury Parks, to plant further commemorative Oak trees in Horbury Bridge, Horbury Junction and South Ossett.
The photographs show:
1) Nick Bardsley (left), Chair of Phoenix Community and Vocational Committee and Councillor Darren Byford (right), Secretary of Friends of Horbury Park, who planted the second of three further commemorative Oak trees on Tuesday the 28th of May in the grass triangle on Daw Lane towards Horbury Junction, opposite Chestnut House (and with thanks to John and Liz Faulkner for taking delivery of the tree and it's protective ironworks before planting).
2) The Oak tree planted in Reid Park, Horbury Bridge.
The final tree will be planted in Illingworth Park, South Ossett in due course.
Thanks to Darren, who created the successful bids which financed the purchase of the three further trees, we will have a total of four commemorative Oak trees across our community.
21 Winners in Rotary Club Trust Fund Share-out
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Our picture shows representatives of 21 charities schools and good causes who received amounts of between £200 and £500 from the Charity Trust Fund of the Horbury and Ossett Phoenix Rotary Club at the presentation evening held in Horbury on Friday 10th May 2019. All the recipients had applied following an article in the Wakefield Express inviting bids for funding from the Rotary Club's Trust Fund which had raised the money through various events including the Horbury Show and Santa's Sleigh.
Club President Alan Hudders welcomed all the recipients and several guests saying, "The club members are also members of this, our local, community and the majority of the money we work to raise each year comes from our community. It is right therefore that it should be mainly returned to good causes here."
The invitation to bid for funding enables us to learn more about the excellent work being carried out by others in the area and to hopefully make a positive contribution to their efforts. The evening followed the pattern of last year and provided an excellent opportunity for networking among the many groups and organisations represented.
A full list of the recipients can be viewed on the Rotary Club website here (list of recipients with details) but in broad terms 6 grants went to schools, 5 to community groups who tackle the problems of the financially disadvantaged, 7 went organisations providing youth sports or other social activities, 1 to adult sport and 2 to groups tackling disability issues. One of the recipients who did not wish to be named thanked the club for their support and commented that the presentation evening had drawn to her attention at least 4 other charitable groups working in the same area as her, which she was not aware of and will now be working with them to tackle some real local problems.
Special Rotary Award for Roger Parkinson BEM*
President Alan Hudders took the opportunity of having a large audience on the presentation evening to award Roger Parkinson BEM with a Paul Harris Fellowship. Normally awarded to Rotarians for outstanding service to their club and community the unusual step of awarding it to non rotarian
Roger Parkinson was in recognition of his considerable contribution to the ecology of Wakefield District, including the planting of thousands of trees, the creation and maintenance of walkways, the work supporting the arboretum at Newmillerdam and the refurbishment of benches in park land
around Wakefield. The award was roundly applauded by the audience.
* British Empire Medal
Below: Photo showing Centre Roger Parkinson BEM, recipient of the Paul Harris Fellow award,
Left; Nick Bardsley Chair of H&O Phoenix Rotary Community Service,
Right; Phoenix Rotary Club President for 2018-19 Alan Hudders
Horbury Show Volunteers needed
The Horbury Show is the main source of funding for the many projects and charities supported by the Rotary Club and there is a need for some additional support in 2019 in the form of men and women able to volunteer for an hour or two on the show day, Sunday 30 June, to help with the show set up, gate and traffic control, programme distribution and a wide range of other tasks. Anyone wishing to volunteer should email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or contact Bill Sutton on 07717 108415. More information about timings and jobs is available on this website and the Horbury Show website. https://www.horburyshow.co.uk