Charity Golf Day

Rotary Club of Canterbury Sunrise Charity Golf Day, in aid of Pilgrims Hospices and Other Rotary Charities.

Thursday 17th May 2012 at Canterbury Golf Club.

50% of proceeds in aid of Pilgrims Hospices,
50% to other good causes.

Stableford Competition on handicap over 18 holes.

Join us and other teams for a pleasurable day of golf whilst we raise money for local good causes.

Teams of 4 required but if you can’t form a team then individuals can still apply and we can place you in a team. The day costs £45 per individual and includes coffee and bacon rolls on arrival, the golf, and a 2 course carvery at the end (vegetarian option can be made available on request).

Trophies will be provided for the winning team and winning individual. In addition there are prizes for the longest drive, nearest the pin, the winner of the putting competition and a special prize for the winning individual on gross score. There will also be a raffle and an auction of donated items including 4 rounds of golf worth £192 played at Canterbury Golf Club.

For more details or to book a place, please contact Steve Auty or use the booking form, here.

Pilgrims Hospices provide specialist palliative care to the people of east Kent. Registered Charity Number 293968

Coming up

• 16th May - Club business breakfast meeting & Club Assembly at which our incoming President will set out his ideas for the year to come.
• 17th May – Canterbury Sunrise Golf day.
• 20th May – RC Rye & Winchelsea walk.
• 23rd May – Fellowship breakfast meeting, with committee conversations.
• 30th May - 5th Wednesday vocational visit.
• 20th June - Club AGM.

Members are encouraged to bring guests to speaker meetings, however please use the club members’ website so we can notify numbers.

25th April 2012

1. The President Elect was in the chair.
2. Suzanne read the 2^nd part of the Object of Rotary.
3. B Riley bought greetings from the RC of  Folkestone.
4. The President Elect asked Sunrisers to consider the form of Fellowship meetings and Committee breakout meetings; were more simple fellowship meetings wanted; were more Committee breakout meetings favoured? The President Elect asked Sunrisers to feed back their views to him.
5. Committee reports;
   (a)  Steve reported on the Golf Day.
   (b)  Steve reported on the forthcoming Multi-Media Quiz.
   (c)  Jarle requested that ketchup bottles, which had been filled with change, should be handed in by 23^rd May at the latest.
6. AOB; Philip reported that the Top Choir of Kent competition had raised £6,900 and a leaving bucket collection had raised another £1,000 for Porchlight.
7. Ruth was the steward.

18th April 2012

1. The President welcomed Sunrisers, but as he was losing his voice,  handed the Chair to the President Elect.
2. Sarah read part 1 of the Object of Rotary.
3. Max introduced Rotarian Gavin A Fleten, a Rotary member from Dallas. Lucy brought greetings from RC Amiens Cathédrale, as did Andy from RC Hythe.
4.  The minutes of the meeting held on 14^th March were approved. There were no matters arising under those minutes.
5.  Reports from the Committee chairs
6. Lucy gave a preliminary report on the arrangements for the District Conference to be held in Lille from 26^th-28^th October 2012.
7.  AOB; following a request from Valerie and Dave , the Council will consider a policy for ‘thank you’ letters, as appropriate. Gavin Fleten reported that in his Club they would give a personal thank you with a photograph for their facebook page.
8.  Martin was the steward.

11th April 2012

1. Past President Jarle Tatt was in the chair.
2. He welcomed the following guests; Molly Dancer, Vanessa Tinkler ( Phd student at Kent in Peace Studies, with particular interest in Bosnia ), Noel Tatt and Dave Crawford ( both invited by Jarle ) and Ken Child, chaplain at the Cathedral, introduced by Andy Lingwood.
3. Max read part four of the Object of Rotary.
4. Valerie introduced the speaker, Molly Dancer. Molly is a Rotary Global Grant Scholar. Originally from Minnesota, she is spending this year studying for a Masters Degree at SOAS, with her dissertation on refugee issues.
5. Dave proposed the Vote of Thanks for Molly’s talk.
6. Rob Ward was the steward.

4th April 2012

1. The President was in the chair.
2. The President welcomed guests, ADG Ruth Portway and Janet Glass.
3. Ruth Portway brought greetings from DG Lynn Mitchell and from Rochester Rotary Club.
4. Rob read The Four Way Test.
5. Janet Glass of Kent College gave a talk on her school’s Global School Project with Klerruu School Iringa, Tanzania.
6. President Elect Jim proposed the Vote of Thanks.
7. Dave was the steward.

28th March 2012

1. The President was in the chair.
2. Martin read the fourth part of The Object of Rotary.
3. Dave announced that the Red Lion dinner on 18^th April will now be scheduled for later in the year.
4. Jim H gave his introductory speech –Jim the Early Years!!
5. Jarle was the steward.

Collecting Bikes for Africa

Rotary Club of Canterbury Sunrise were pleased to be part of the celebrations for Jole Rider sending it’s 10,000 refurbished bicycle to the Gambia under it’s Bikes4Africa campaign.  These bikes are refurbished at the Immigration Detention Centre at Dover and the project, which has been going for six years, benefits people all round.  Firstly the bikes are distributed to school children based on their needs and this has improved their school performance dramatically as it converts a three hour walk to school to a manageable one hour ride.  Secondly it allows people to donate their unused bikes to a good cause rather than letting them sit around gathering rust and thirdly it gives the maintenance team at the centre in Dover a chance to learn and practice a new skill.  

 Our Rotary Club have collected hundreds of bikes for this scheme and we were instrumental in getting the bikes at the Canterbury tip put to one side for collection for this project rather than being crushed for scrap metal.

In the photos are club Rotarians John Sarah at our bike collection point in the grounds of Canterbury Cathedral and Jason Morrison of the Dover Immigration Detention Centre handing up a bike to David and Helen from Jole Rider who are standing in the 40′ container about to be shipped to the Gambia.

If you have any bikes in a reasonable condition which you would like to donate for this cause please contact the club Secretary.

Author: John Morgan