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On the 7th July some 13 members of The Rotary Club of Guildford Wey held mock interviews with pupils from year 11 of Kings College. This is done to help pupils with cv writing and the interview process where one can be confronted with sometimes quite obscure questions.
Such a lot of work by the Guildford in Bloom committee (GIB), Sallie Barker, Sian Davies and many others, to set up the event in the Castle grounds on Saturday the 6th June and Rotary Guildford Wey were only too delighted to assist with marshalling on the day.
Unfortunately it turned out to be not quite the Summer’s day the organisers were hoping for ! A grey start turned into a very soggy afternoon so due credit to the musical performers attending in the afternoon and to the Guildford Fringe for organising the entertainment.
An early dry spell allowed our Mayor, Jane Tyson, to open the event and also gave the opportunity for the Mayor and past Mayor Sallie Barker to visit our HexB project which was the brainchild of our Rotary member Andrew Day. The installation has been very well received by members of the public and local councillors who were very impressed and seen nothing like it – all said well-done Rotary for our contribution to the town.
We welcomed people at the entrance, encouraged people to go to see our HexB tiles, helped the flower stilts girl with her visit to Tunsgate, ran various errands, ran the raffle card reader and so helped collect most of the money on the day, plus generally chatting to people from the various organisations and the public. We also helped with some of the packing up at the close down such as with gazebos for Guildford Fringe and GIB
Managing to brighten the day a little was the lovely flower girl on stilts !
At the opening L-R:
Guildford Mayor Jane Tyson, GIB Committee member Shirley West, GIB Chairman Sallie Barker & Sima Rostami Club Captain of the Castle Green Bowling Club
Following on from this year’s successful GLive ‘Schools Got Talent’ production on the 10th March, we were very pleased to be able to pass cheques to our four schools that entertained us. The monies were for each individual school’s ticket sales. Overall a total of £3,145 was distributed to the schools
A little light on children to read to today but it is 32c so perhaps a town centre is not the place to be. We did have some visitors though.
We are at the Bee Aware Week at the Tunsgate Quarter also on Thursday 27th May for the Bee Brave Story for the young and to meet our Brave Bees. Afterwards visit our HexB homes for solitary bees in the Castle Grounds opposite the Tunsgate.
https://rotaryinguildford.org/hexb-tiles/
As a supporter of Global Sight Solutions the Rotary Club of Gridih India with A Rotary Foundation Grant inaugarated a mobile eye clinic to tour their district.
We would like to thanks all those Charities that took part in our Big Charity Walk on Sunday 17th May. Our Mayor Jane Tyson set the walk off from Shalford Park, walked with her family and stayed to welcome back the 10 mile walkers and some of those who went at a more leisurely pace. Weather was kind to us also. Overall the Day earned over £5,000 for the participating Charities. Thanks also to our Corporate Member Silverbirch House Care Home – Barchester Healthcare.
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Lewes Artist and sculptor Will Nash has defined the relationship between art and ecology with his project, HexB Tiles. Elegant terracotta sculptures that double as homes for beneficial insects. Designed to encourage biodiversity in both urban and rural spaces, HexB Tiles blend beauty, function and environmental purpose.
On the 25th April 2026 The Rotary Club of Guildford Wey bought and placed 20 of these HexB tiles in the wonderful Castle grounds to compliment the wonderful work that the Guildford Borough Council Parks & Gardens team achieve and to add to the Guildford in Bloom initiative.
Small in size but big in impact, each HexB Tile features a network of internal cavities where pollinators and other invertebrates can nest. The tiles can be installed individually or combined in decorative honeycomb arrangements on walls, fences or posts transforming functional insect habitats into striking garden features.
Our team can be seen auguring the holes, placing stakes and fixing the HexB tiles on a warm Saturday morning.
Our ‘Schools Got Talent’ event on the 10th March once again proved to be an awesome display of the young talent at some of our local Schools. The Finale brought all 4 schools, Glebelands, Duke of Kent, Ash Manor and Prior’s Field, together for an amazing rendition of “Don’t stop believin” from Glee
The packed theatre gave a standing ovation !!
Remembering our planting of 4,000 crocuses last October This Spring we can see our first season’s results. Wind and rain unfortunately battered them somewhat but they are there to see and have been well received by passers by.
