Wessex Mead (Trowbridge) Rotary Club

Shoebox Appeal

It is only a few weeks until Christmas, so the members of Wessex Mead have been busy making up shoe boxes to be sent away as part of Operation Christmas Child. This is something that we have been doing as personal donations for a number of years and are please to support this charity.

The Rotary Club of Chippenham organise the fireworks in Chippenham, this year it was on Saturday 3rd November and members of Wessex Mead were pleased to be able to support them again on the evening, we were there selling/checking tickets at the gates as well as selling glow sticks. It was once again a fabulous evening, the weather was perfect even if it was a bit wet underfoot  - a great show! 

Over the weeks leading up to Rememberance Sunday, members from Wessex Mead will be supporting the Royal British Legion in Trowbridge with Poppy selling, some of us will help out in the Shires stand, and others have been responsible for issuing and collecting the collection boxes at various local establishments.

Thanks to everyone who supported the big breakfast today, particularly John Knight and Peter Barnett from Fair Trade who supplied all our teas and coffees, plus Walter Rose and Sons, who gave us a wonderful deal on our bacon and sausages.  Thanks also to Celia Young who donated the free range eggs.

Around 120 guests enjoyed their 3 course breakfast at North Bradley Memorial Hall, there was a buzz in the room where groups and couples arrived at various seatings throughout the morning, our instant raffle was a hit, and helped our total profit for Polio Erradication raise to approx £620, this will really make a difference in the fight against Polio.

On Wednesday 19 September, President Caroline and Andrew visited the Mead Community Primary School community assemblies at both the Paxcroft Mead and Wingfield sites to present them with Rotary produced illustrated dictionaries which have been funded  by Wessex Mead - 24 to the Paxcroft Mead site and 8 to the Wingfield site.

Ann, Caroline, Andrew and Deon hit the streets of Trowbridge during the new Art Festival launch to help promote the 10th annual Bavarian evening. 

The Rotary Club of Trowbridge Wessex Mead attended our first event since our rename when we had a stall at the annual Trowbridge Country Fayre in the Town park, it was a wine or air stall - could the bottle contain wine or is it just full of air? plus a hook-a-lucky duck for the kids with sweets for prizes.

It was a beautiful day once the mist shifted, though numbers attending were down on previous years which could have been as the Frome Cheese show was on the same day.

Ann and Caroline - wine or air?

The Rotary Organisation are dedicated to the erradication of Polio, and we are “this close” to making history by eradicating the crippling disease polio once and for all. We are at a true tipping point: case counts have never been lower, the number of countries affected has never been fewer—the time to beat polio is now. Only smallpox has ever been eradicated, and we will make history again by vanquishing polio. But to achieve a polio-free world, Rotary and its partners in the Global Polio Eradication Initiative need your support to spread the word. .  

For more information and how you can help please see the endpolionow.org website - where people can rally together to finish the fight to end polio.