Projects of the Rotary Club of Skegness

Blood Pressure Testing Saturday 2lst April 2012
Blood Pressure Testing at the Motorcycle News weekend held at Butlins

RIBI Young Musician Competition 2012
The Rotary Club of Skegness supported Gawtham Ravivaruman a pupil of the Music Academy Skegness and George Damms a pupil of the Janice Sutton Theatre  School Skegness.

RIBI Young Chef Competition 2012
Rotary encouraging creativity in the kitchen.

Blood Pressure Testing took place at Butlins on lst October 2011 at the Disco Inferno Weekend.

Marion Blanchard has completed her STEP 2011 Aug
with Rotary District 1270.

>>> Big Green Box Week 2011
Big Green Box Week has been a resounding success with all the local schools visiting the Tower Gardens.

New Generations Exchange 2011
The Rotary initiative which is open to students between the ages of 18 and 25.

Diabetes
The Rotary Club of Skegness have been pleased to support the work of Diabetes UK and have presented the local Skegness branch with a cheque for £1000.

Wheelchair Foundation 2011
Plans are now in place to send out a container of wheelchairs to Namibia through the Wheelchair Foundation.

Aqua Box
Disasters come in many forms - earthquake; cyclone; flood; refugee displacement - but all share a common factor. The most urgent single problem facing the relief agencies is the provision of a supply of safe drinking-water.

Literacy in a Box
"Literacy and Numeracy projects allow Rotarians to make a creative contribution to building nations, reducing poverty and opening up opportunities to those that need them."

New Generations Exchange June 2011
This programme is ideal for university graduates to gain work experience in another country.

WaterAid
is an international non governmental organisation. Their mission is to transform lives by improving access to safe water, hygiene and sanitation in the world's poorest communities.

READ International
The Rotary Club of Skegness have been given the over 4 pallets of used library books by The Skegness Acedemy who are totally re furbishing the school library.

Community Larder
Major Penny Palmer-Taylor collected a donation for the Salvation Army Community larder

Butterfly Garden
The Rotary Club of Skegness have presented a cheque to Rachel Shaw at Gibraltar Point Wash Study Centre to enable them to establish a Butterfly Garden.

Blood Pressure Testing The Rotary Club of Skegness visited Butlins Holiday resort and completed a day of blood pressure testing.

Regional Young Chef Competition Lora Blackett represented District 1270 at the Regional Young Chef Competition.

>>> BLESMA
(British Limbless Ex Service Men's Association) The Rotary Club of Skegness raised over £2000 for BLESMA and President Margaret Taylor presents the cheque to Charley Streather.

National Nest Box Week
Burgh le Marsh give Garden Birds a Helping Hand

What is it?
President Margaret Taylor has presented copies of Dictionary 4 Life to children at Hogsthorpe Community Primary School.

Keith's Dogs is a registered charity and it serves to help people not just animals.

>>> Witham Lodge Salvation Army Hostel
£500 for the volunteers to purchase more tools and equipment.

Wash Study Centre at Gibraltar Point Nature Reserve. We have recently purchased resources for the centre.

Polio Eradication: Purple Pinkie
We have been visiting local Primary schools in an effort to raise awareness of the need to eradicate polio.

School Uniforms for South African Schools
School uniforms were donated by St Clements School when it became the Skegness Academy.

New Generations 2011: Sophie Bowler's Three Month visit to Australia.

Childrens Story Competition 2011
This years stories were full of imagination and the judges praised the grammar and punctuation.

Funds raised for the Wheelchair Foundation
by children of the Skegness Academy.

Young Chef Final
Rotary District Young Chef Final was held at Robert Pattinson School at North Hykeham.

Christmas Day Lunch
Margaret Taylor and Tony Tye cooked Christmas Day lunch for the residents and beneficiaries of the Salvation Army.

Golden Ticket: Peter Pan Pantomine
50 children attend pantomime through Golden ticket collections.

>>> Great Steeping Primary School packed 100 shoe boxes for the Rotary Shoebox Scheme

>>> Desks to Amreli Schools

>>> RIBI ROTARY YOUNG CHEF 2011

>>> Golden Ticket

>>> Blood Pressure Testing 2010

>>> ShelterBox – Aid for thousands in Haiti

>>> Skegness Lights

>>> Blood Pressure Testing

>>> Shelterbox

>>> Cholesterol Testing 2009

>>> Vision Aid

>>> Bird Boxes at Gibraltar Point

>>> Daffodil Bulb Planting

>>> Stoke Awareness