Wessex Mead (Trowbridge) Rotary Club

After spending much of December collecting for charity, the New Year has brought more business into the lives of Wessex Mead Rotarians.  We have four events to organize in the next four months, so it is all hands required to make those final preparations.

The ‘Big Breakfast ‘ in February is a first for us, and will be raising money for ‘Thanks for Life – Polio Eradication, where as the Bavarian night in March is an old favorite, we are now in our 8^th year and it is always a sellout event. This year’s money will go to Alzheimer's Support South West and Wessex Mead's Indonesian Mobile Health Clinic Project.  In April we will be running our popular Quiz night and May brings a Casino night.

Despite all the planning we are doing, we found time to collect in the Castle Place Shopping centre, to raise money for the Rotary Charities Shelter Box and Water Survival Box, these both provide emergency shelter, tools and water purification for disaster areas like Haiti.  We would like to thank Trowbridge Rotary Club for helping us on the day, and sourcing sample Shelter and Water Survival boxes; they certainly were a talking point and enabled us to show where people’s money goes.  We raised enough  to purchase a Shelter Box and two Water Survival boxes.