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Membership has remained steady at around 27. Members’ occupations are extremely varied and include shopkeepers, a kitchen fitter, a plumber, police, financial services, the legal profession, automotive design, a doctor and a magistrate. We meet every Monday evening at 7.30 pm at Lords Golf and Country Club. Some meetings are just social, but once a month there is a night for committee meetings, and another night for a business meeting. Fellowship is a key aspect of all these meetings. The officers of the Club meet once a month to hold a Council meeting, to discuss proposals before they are put to the whole Club for approval. As the Concert is the key fund raising activity of the year and requires a great deal of organising, there is a separate committee set up to do this. This meets once a month throughout the year starting shortly after the end of one concert and running right up to the next one. |
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The Club President, currently Roger Allen, explains
“The concert is our main fund raiser and 40% of the profit is allocated
to the charity of choice of the current president.
The remainder of the money is spent on local, and some
international, good causes.
This spend is suggested by our two main committees and has to be
approved by the club as a whole.
This left the bulk of the members with no direct access to
spending money on causes of their choice.
They had to become president to organise a major spend on a
charity of their choice.
With our current 27 members that could take a long time before becoming
president! It was decided
that each member should
have £100 to spend on a charity or good cause of their choice.
We are now into our third year of this concept.” |
The club has now spent £5400 on individual causes over
the past two years, some members have clubbed together so that some
causes have gained to the benefit of £400 or more.
Roger Allen continued “We have donated to all sorts of causes,
some of which the majority of our members have never heard of!
This is very informative for all of us and other clubs in the
area are starting to adopt this idea.”
So if you want to do your bit and help raise money for
those less fortunate than yourselves, the club would be more than happy
to have you visit them to see what being a Rotarian is all about. |