Stourbridge Rotary

70 members of the club meet every Wednesday for fellowship. Annually we raise over £15,000 for local and international charities and enjoy ourselves doing so.

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Easter Egg collection
The club was pleased to help Mary Steven's Hospice raise funds by taking part in its Easter Egg Hamper programme. The egg collection was organised by Vida Worsey, seen here with Hospice business partner/ fundraiser Ruth Longville

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On 14th Dec. President Julia presented a cheque for £1200 to Project Gambia for funding a toilet block in a school in The Gambia .Club funds were helped by a grant from District 1060 of £600.

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Socialy distanced members and their partners responded to President Julia’s invitation to join her at 10.00 o’clock on Wednesday 11th November in Mary Steven’s Park for the laying of the club wreath at the War Memorial.

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Past President Chris Fonteyne, Chairman of the governors at Wollescote School presents a cheque for £375 to Lynne Hudson, Head Teacher.
The amount which includes a £250 grant from Rotary District’s Community Fund will help the school support families during the Covid19 lockdown.

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The World Health Organization’s African region has been certified wild polio-free. Now 5 of the 6 WHO regions – representing over 90% of the world’s population – are free of the wild poliovirus. #PeopleOFAction #EndPolio

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Local charities supported by the Rotary Club of Stourbridge in the year to July 2020 have included, The Chris Westwood Charity, Mary Stevens Hospice, Black Country Food Bank, Midland Air Ambulance, Acorn Children's Hospice, Living Springs, Discover U and Loaves and Fishes.

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Over forty donations to charity, totalling £21,000 were made to local,national and international charities in the year 2019-2020 by the Rotary Club of Stourbridge.

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The Club now meets weekly on Zoom with up to 40 members on-line. In July, Julia Savage was welcomed as the first lady President of the Club and she received her badge of office at a socially distanced ceremony. We wish Julia a happy and successful, if different year of office.

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22 pupils from Wollescote school and 12 Rotarians spent the morning planting 400 young trees in Wollescote Park and got very wet and muddy in the process!

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We will be at the Bonded Warehouse Open Day again tomorrow. Do come and say hello, take part in our family raffle and 'splatt the rat'!

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Stourbridge Rotarians will be out in force tomorrow planting 5,000 more purple crocus corms on the grass embankment on Birmingham St (near the tip) all to raise awareness of the campaign to eradicate Polio.

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Update on the bucket collection for Kerala at the Town Hall on Wednesday - total collected £371! Thank you Stourbridge.

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Thanks to the audience at Stourbridge Town Hall tonight for their generous donations to the the bucket collection for the people of Kerala.

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Fantastic evening at Stourbridge Town Hall when a full house heard Will Farmer talk about his experience on the Antiques Roadshow - thanks Will!

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Filling up nicely for tonight’s event I’m Engineering @ Stourbridge Town Hall with Antiques Roadshow auctioneer and local legend @Will_Farmer with his “Rostrum to Roadshow” event. #stourbridge #antiquesroadshow

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The Club celebrated the start of the new Rotary year with a service at St Mary's Old Swinford followed by a cream tea, New President Andrew is shown with Pam and the team for the coming year.

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Stourbridge Rotary was delighted to welcome Lord Cobham as speaker at its meeting on 30th May. Lord Cobham gave the members an entertaining talk on Hagley and the Lytteltons.

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On the 23th May 2018 the Palfrey Award was presented to Graham Beckley by the Rotary Club of Stourbridge in recognition of the prominent and active role he has taken as a team member working to clean up the River Stour, giving much time and effort. https://t.co/OPAP6UmSrc

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Proms in the Park - Picnic Concert - Himley Park 17th June 2018.
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