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CHRISTMAS COLLECTION AT
NUNEATON ASDA STORE
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
The Rotary Club of Arbury
is now thirty years old
and held a Celebration Dinner to mark the event.
In the
photograph the President of the Rotary Club of Arbury Dick
Sharrott is flanked by
Past
District Governor
David Robinson, District
Governor Peter Smith,
Assistant DG Steve Cartwright, and the
Presidents of Bedworth & Nuneaton Rotary Clubs.
Formed on December 5th 1978, after eight months of discussion, Arbury
grew out of the existing Nuneaton & Bedworth Clubs who had identified a
need for a Rotary Club that met in the evening rather than at lunch
time.
There were thirty founder members, eight of whom are still very much
part of the Club. A ninth, founder President Brian Morgans, only
recently stepped down from active membership.
The
birthday celebrations were marked by the fact that Arbury rotary Club
made two charitable donations. One to Warwickshire & Northamptonshire
Air Ambulance made earlier in the day at their base at Coventry Airport
and President Dick Sharrott presented that cheque to the fund raiser Jo
Payne.
The
other, to the Rotary’s Polio Eradication Programme, was received by the
District Governor, Peter Smith, at the dinner.
Each
donation of £655 was raised recently in a collection at the Nuneaton
ASDA during a five day period at Halloween. |
PROSTATE AWARENESS EVENT
 
A new initiative to
raise Cancer Awareness took place at the Out Patients Department of George
Eliot Hospital on Saturday 18th October 2008.
Seven members of
Arbury Rotary Club volunteered their services to support Consultants, Nurses
and Admin Staff by providing free refreshments and helping to guide members
of the public to obtain a free P.S.A. Blood Test which can often help to
indicate an abnormality in the prostate gland.
119 members of the
public attended the free session which was highly successful and it is hoped
will be repeated early next year.
 
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BURSARY PRESENTATION
Student Sarah Johnson receives the £300 Community Award from
Dick Sharrott, President of the Rotary Club of Arbury, to help with her
studies. She is a student at King Edward V! Sixth Form College and is about
to embark on a four year course in modern languages at Durham University.
Arbury Rotarians make this Award annually
to the Student who they judge to have done the most worthwhile voluntary
work in Nuneaton and Bedworth. |
The Rotary Club of
Arbury
in Association with
The Dance Studios of
Zoe
Waknall, Tracy Porter & Judith Vardy
presented
 
at
The Civic Hall in Bedworth
on
Friday 9th May 2008
Dozens of Dancers --
The Spirit of the Dance
The Dance x 3 Extravaganza and
Celebration of Modern Dance held at Bedworth Civic Hall in May raised over
£750 for the Rotary Club Projects and for the three Dance Schools, the
Nuneaton Dancentre, Tracy Porter School of Dance and the Judith Vardy
Studios of Performing Arts. Around 170 dancers entertained an audience of
over 400 people.
As a result the Rotary Club of Arbury
was able to buy a Shelter Box which has been sent to Burma. The Rotary Clubs
in Britain, Shelterbox Trust, has 4 people authorised by the Burmese
Government, with visas, to assist distributing Shelter Boxes. So far 1648
boxes have been sent by Rotary from all over the world and the box purchased
by funds raised at the Dance x 3 will join another 1000 boxes being sent
from Birmingham.
Shelter Boxes contain a 10 person high
quality tent, 10 durable sleeping bags and equipment such as a multi fuel
cooker, torch, spade and rope.
David Clayfield, Press Officer for the
Club, said he was pleased the Show was a great success and thanks everyone,
especially the Dancers and supporters for their hard work and the generosity
of the audience who bought raffle tickets and programmes. The programme was
sponsored by Cawthorne’s Printers, Nuneaton.
We feel privileged to have had so many dancers from the
Judith Vardy, Tracy Porter and Zoe Waknall dance studios.
Mayor's Visit
to Arbury Rotary Club
TheThe
Mayor of Nuneaton and Bedworth Councillor Bill
Sheppard and his wife Jill visited the club on 7 February and he spoke
about his charitable appeal during his mayoral year.
Each year the Mayo
Arbury Rotary Club
Community Person of the Year Award
2007/08
Presentation to Gladys Barden (Leffy)
Gladys has
been in guiding all her life and has helped and inspired many people along
the way. She does a lot behind the scenes, that not many people know about,
has done a lot of fund raising in the past and still continues with all the
proceeds going to charity. She has helped buy camping equipment and has
helped the units out as and when necessary.
She has great knowledge of
the world of Guiding, is extremely popular and is always ready with advice
and help if needed. When she celebrated her 90th Birthday last
year many people with whom she had come into contact over the years turned
up to help her remember the occasion and to bring back memories from the
past.
Gladys has taken girls
camping in this country and on holidays abroad, and amongst other things has
taught them to cook on open fires, helped them to get camping permits and
become Queen’s Guides. At the age of 82 she went abseiling
from a tower
showing some of the younger members of the party how it was done. It is not
too long ago that she stopped riding her small powered motor bike around the
town. That takes some courage with today’s traffic flows.
She is well known around
Weddington for collecting newspapers to sell for Charity purposes. She
pushes an old pram around from house to house. Takes the papers home and
stores them in her shed until she has enough for them to be collected and
taken away. She started this long before it became fashionable to recycle.
She is still active to this day and attends
all the local Guiding District meetings and supports any activities that are
arranged.
Gladys is a real person of the Community and is a worthy recipient of the
Arbury Rotary Club Community Person of the Year Award for 2007/2008
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