Your local Clubs in Area 1145
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.
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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.
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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 !!
A good start to the new year with 24 articles brought in for repair.
Summary
| Item Repaired | Class | Weight Kg |
| Repairs handled | Total | 87.73kg |
| *unable to repair, advice given | 28.62kg | |
| #=in progress | 10.00kg |
Full details of repairs HERE
Those few items that we couldn´t repair on the day were returned to the owners with advice on further action to avoid them being discarded or where bespoke components could be purchased that we could use for repair at a future Repair Café date.
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Merrow Junior School (formerly Bushy Hill) is proud to be a sporty and outdoors-loving school. They are lucky to have extensive facilities that enable this, including a large playing field, a trim trail, climbing areas and an all-weather MUGA pitch ( Multi use Games Area)
However, the all weather pitch was over 20 years old. It has been shut for the last 12 months as it has been too slippery to use. The consequences to the school have been dramatic – it meant the lunchtimes, break times and PE lessons have been restricted to the much smaller tarmac areas, which has caused significant disruption.
Costing of the project to renew the pitch is expected to total £133,000. Through the amazing efforts of the school, they have managed to secure over £125,000 from ‘Your Fund Surrey’, PTA fund raising, The Football Foundation, Governors’ Fund and Corporate sponsorship. Recognising the efforts already made, and to help get the project to its completion, Rotary Club of Guildford Wey were pleased to be able to help with a donation of £500 towards the completion of the new all weather pitch.
Ancillary facilities are yet to be completed, however it has been possible to get the actual pitch installed in advance of the next phase which is to install toilets and portable floodlights. It will be open for use for local community hire and access as well as for school use.
Rotary Club of Guildford Wey President, Andy Bowen-Ashwin, was pleased to be able to present the Club’s cheque of £500 to the Executive Head Teacher of the Merrow Federation, Mrs Louisa Dormer
They are both standing on the new sand-dressed artificial turf surface.
Mrs Dormer has written to the Club to express her “… heartfelt thanks for your extremely generous donation of £500 towards our All Weather Pitch project. It is very much appreciated and has helped enormously with our fundraising. “
On Sunday the 10th August we were pleased to able to help the Guildford Fringe Festival with marshalling duties in Guildford High St. The Guildford Fringe Co. had given invaluable help to facilitate the Diversity Concert held earlier in the year so we were pleased to be able to assist them on this occasion.
Rotary Club of Guildford Wey has donated £250 to the Shelterbox initiative supported by Rotary international. The monies were specifically to be used for relief required as a result of the Myanmar earthquakes of the 28th March & the 13th April
That the process for importing material aid into Myanmar has its challenges. There are few organisations set up to do it, and those that are don’t necessarily have the capacity or experience to cover large volumes.
We are working with Rotary colleagues and partners to overcome this, and we are exploring all avenues.
It appears that most organisations here are in a similar position. There is a great deal of collaboration, and information sharing taking place to enable all actors to implement projects.
for more information on Shelterbox CLICK HERE
On a glorious sunny afternoon our secretary Peter O’Keefe and wife Pat kindly hosted the presidential handover for the coming year 2025-2026.
President of The Rotary Club of Guildford Wey for 2024-2025, Michael Ramcharan handed over the presidential collar to the incoming President for 2026-2027, Andrew(Andy) Bowen-Ashwin.
Andy thanked Michael for an outstanding year and outlined his targets for the coming year.
In attendance also were the ex Guildford Mayor, Sallie Barker, who supported so many of our events during her past year in office, together with the current Mayor Howard Smith.
