Rotary Membership

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Cheltenham Circular Challenge: An annual event raising money for a large number of charities. more Prescott Hill Classic Car Event: An annual event in aid of Rotary charities more Rotary Club of Chantonnay et Bocage Vendéen: We have strong friendships with our twin club in the Vendée. Clubs visit each other in alternate years for a weekend of activities and renewing of these friendships.
Supporting the Community: Every year the club puts together a free carol concert and using cars and minibuses transports our guests from their homes and return. Tewkesbury Town Band is hired to entertain and accompany the carols. The infamous Rotary Choir has them all laughing and gasping for air. The club's ladies supply mince pies, tea and coffee in the interval. Members are involved in a whole range of other activities under the Club's umbrella. These include school governors, mock job interviews for young people about to leave school, and driving minibuses transporting older people to their social activities. The Club is an active supporter of Gloucestershire Life Education Trust and the Jubilee Sailing Trust. We have recently provided a communal electric wheelchair for a local retirement home.
Helping Overseas: Being part of Rotary International we were able to work directly with local clubs to help the victims of the Asian Tsunami in the countries affected to purchase and deliver replacement fishing boats directly to those fishermen who lost their own. The Club is also involved in a wider, longer term project to fund rebuilding of schools and housing. The club fills emergency boxes to be used in natural disasters, and gives active support to individual charities such as the Chernobyl 2000 appeal. Members are also involved in a range of individual projects including the recycling of spectacles and tools for shipping to underdeveloped nations.
Working with Youth: 'Kids Out' is a special day every year where we join other Rotary clubs throughout the country to take thousands of disabled, learning difficulty or otherwise challenged children for a day out at a fun venue. We end the day exhausted and emotionally challenged ourselves! Working through Rotary's International Foundation charity, the Club supports exchanges of young people across the world, the world-wide project to eradicate polio, and other international humanitarian, educational, and cultural programs. The Club and its members assist from time to time on Rotary International projects such as the world-wide eradication of Polio. We have raised substantial funds to support a Mother and Baby Clinic and Hospital in Uganda and helped on other projects such as the financing of a computer for a school in Malekula Island, Vanuatu in the South Pacific. For some years the club has sponsored a disabled person to join the Jubilee Sailing Trust sailing and working on the Tallship, Lord Nelson.
Social: Speakers at our evening meetings cover a range of interesting subjects. Our programme is available here. Charter Night is our annual birthday party where we all scrub up and enjoy a more formal dinner together. President's Night is another excuse for an annual party as are such events as Burn's night. There is an annual District Conference, usually on the South Coast and a group of club members attend each year. Groups of members enjoy walking holidays and other group activities and we have skittles and golf teams