Rotary Club of Carlton

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If you are a Rotarian visiting the area, you will be made welcome at one of our meetings - check the venue and programme pages for further details.

The Club members include people from all walks of life. The area in which the Club is based is economically varied, bringing many challenges fulfilling the needs of the local people.

The Club performs a variety of charity and fundraising activities. The highest profile events are The Leukaemia Research Bikeathon which in 2008 raised over £40,000, the Christmas Float which regularly raises around £10,000 for good causes and The Charity Duck Race which provides around £15000 shared between two nominated charities.

 

 
Club President Mike Harvey is particularly keen to continue the work of previous Presidents, building meaningful and visible links with the local community. Much of this will involve working through local schools with projects such as providing spaces on outward bound courses, and helping with literacy and preparations for getting a job.

 

As well as Social and Fundraising activities, the Club hosts three speakers a month to entertain and inform the members.

 

STOP PRESS - PRESENTATION OF WHEELCHAIR-ADAPTED MINIBUS TO CARLTON DIGBY SCHOOL

 

 

Paul Hicking, Project Organiser, Coun. James O'Riordan, Lisa McIndoe of Cooperative Community Trust, President Mike Harvey and Brenda Harvey, President Carlton Inner Wheel Club, watch as Joseph hands the keys to headteacher Glenys Clifton.

Joseph in his Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat hands over Carlton Rotary school mini-bus.

On 14^th October, President, Mike Harvey, handed over the keys of a new, specially adapted, mini-bus to Glenys Clifton, the head of Carlton Digby School. Arriving in the bus for the presentation at the school was Craig Chalmers, runner up in the TV show "Any Dream will Do" and now appearing at Nottingham's Theatre Royal as Joseph in "Joseph and The Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat".

During the last eighteen months, Carlton Rotary Club raised over £29,000 in order to purchase the wheel-chair adapted mini-bus which was so desperatly needed to replace the school's existing twelve year old vehicle. Mike Harvey praised the people of Carlton and Nottingham for their extremely generous response to the Carlton Rotary appeal and particularly thanked the Inner Wheel Club of Carlton for all their fund raising activities.

Carlton Rotary Club has been a supporter of Carlton Digby School for a number of years, recognising the vital role that the school plays within the local community. When the club first heard about the school's need for a replacement wheel-chair adapted mini-bus it was keen to help wherever it could and embarked on the fund raising project. It recognised that mini-bus access for wheel-chair bound pupils has helped them to integrate into the community and has enabled pupils from mainstream schools have a better understanding of the needs of children with disabilities. 

The mini-bus will be used by disabled pupils during the school day to extend their curricular experiences and outside of school hours, will provide the sort of opportunities taken for granted by able bodied pupils from mainstream schools. The school enjoys good relations with other schools (both mainstream and special) and shares activities when possible and if appropriate. These typically include joint group activities with local primary, junior and secondary schools plus individual integration projects and link courses for some of the sixth form at local colleges.  

During the past two years day visits have taken place to zoos, farms, museums, theatres, outdoor education centres, theme parks, water sports centres, leisure centres and parks. Residential activities have also been undertaken, involving a wide range of students to various residential educational and holiday centres.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Next Meeting: 27/11/2008 Topic: Attendance Centres - David Williams MBE


Last Meeting: 20/11/2008 Topic: Business Meeting

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