Rotary Round-up

All too soon, my year as president of Tavistock Rotary has come to an end and in the summer, I handed over to my good friend Norrie Philip at a celebration attended by the mayor and mayoress, along with guests we work with closely from the Lions, Inner Wheel, Tavistock Heritage and the Sensory Garden. Norrie announced plans for a busy schedule of events including Goose Fair, Dickensian Evening, outings for Santa Claus in the lead up to Christmas, the CHICKS Santa Run and the Christmas Day Lunch at the URC as well as collecting for local charities and our main charity, Tavistock Triangle Centre. Norrie said: “We will continue to promote Young Photographer and Youth Speaks, and will definitely repeat the very successful Tavistock Young Artist Exhibition. As government cuts bite, we also need to redouble our support for Junior Life Skills and South West Youth Games.”  

Rotary is also an international charity and Tavistock Rotary continues to work with the UN and Bill Gates to rid the world of polio and support ShelterBox in helping people survive disasters. However, this year, we will join a major project led by Dawlish Water Rotary to build sand dams in Kenya enabling communities to access fresh water and rich soil in some of the driest places – more details to come but look up ‘sand dams’ on Google! Finally, as Norrie reminded us, Tavistock Rotary enjoys a great social life, and plans for this year include barbecues, poetry evenings, quizzes, skittles, snooker, boules, most of which involve food and drink, as well as our legendary Christmas party! We welcome new members and it would be great to see you at any of these events.

Graham Parker

To get involved with Tavistock Rotary activities or help with fundraising, contact Graham Parker on 07545 075942 or grahamparker1@me.com