Colwall Rotary News

Light Up a Life (Christmas 2011)

publicity@colwallrotary.org.uk — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT

In December Colwall Rotary Club hosted two ‘Light Up a Life’ Christmas trees – one outside the Colwall Coffee Lounge, the other above the Brewers Arms in West Malvern. This year we were blessed with fair weather, the tree light dedication services were extremely well attended and the money raised for St Michael’s Hospice surpassed all expectations. Gift Aid has still to be added in to the total, but so far the income raised for the Hospice has reached £1342.

Nicky West, the Hospice’s Chief Executive said: “This is an amazing total. The money raised will make a significant difference to patients and carers at the hospice”.

None of this would be possible without the wonderful support of the two venues, local businesses and individuals. Thank you so much to everybody who contributed so generously to Light Up a Life through their time, efforts and donations.

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Rotary Young Chef and Textiles Competition 2011

publicity@colwallrotary.org.uk — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT

During the evening of Tuesday 6th December, 12 finalists from The Chase took part in a cook off to gain a place in the next round of the ‘Rotary Young Chef of the Year’ competition.

Category: Community Service

Scatter Week

publicity@colwallrotary.org.uk — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT

This is the week our members deny themselves the comforts of the Malvern Hills Hotel and travel to meet with other Rotary Clubs and participate in their club activity.

This fulfils one of Rotary's objectives; The development of aquaintance as an opportunity for Service.

We do not know who we will meet, or what they do or who they know, but someone at that meeting may be able to help us in one of our local activities at some time in the future.

Locations already identified for visits are Ross-on-Wye, Worcester and Southam (in Warwickshire).

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New Members

publicity@colwallrotary.org.uk — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Colwall Rotary Club has welcomed two new members since the start of the new Rotary year in July.

Sarah Grout has transferred to the club from Hereford City RC following a change of career. She is a resident of West Malvern.

Chris Mill joined Colwall Rotary Club at our meeting on the 18th August. He also lives in West Malvern.

We are keen to get moew members from the West Malvern area so if you are interested in learning more about what being a member could mean to you then contact us to find out more.

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New President for 2011-12

publicity@colwallrotary.org.uk — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Tonight at Colwall Rotary Club Granville Orange takes over as Club President from John Keenan.

Granville has nominated Noah's Ark as his charity for this year.

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Category: General News

Blue Ball Success

publicity@colwallrotary.org.uk — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMT

The Rotary Club's main fund raising activity for 2010-2011 was held on Saturday evening 11th June. This proved to be a dry window in the weather.

Over 470 people attended the event and contributed to the fund raising success - our final total is £18,500+ profit. This will be distributed between The Emily Jordan Foundation, Robocap (a charity raising money for new treatment methods of Prostate Cancer) and Water Survival Boxes (a charity founded by the Rotary Club of Chelwood Bridge).

Colwall Rotary Club wishes to thank everyone who supported the event whether by attending, donating prizes for the Auction or providing their services at reduced rates.

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Tags: fund raising,robocap,emily jordan,community service

Category: Community Service

Colwall Rotary visit Berlin

publicity@colwallrotary.org.uk — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMT

A group of 9 members of Colwall Rotary Club paid a visit to Berlin last weekend.

One of the objects of Rotary is to Promote International Understanding & Goodwill through visits, exchanges and other means.

During this visit we met with a local club - The Rotary Club of Berlin Unter den Linden, where we were made extrememly welcome; to such an extent that they held the meeting totaly in English! I think that we would struggle to return the compliment.

Featuring amongst other acivities a cycle ride through the city centre on Sunday morning and a visit the to DDR Museum all the group achieved a greater understanding of what the city has been through. The general feeling was that this was a place to go back to.

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Tags: International,overseas trip,fellowship

Category: International

Back in time on the Severn Valley Railway

publicity@colwallrotary.org.uk — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT

People think that Rotarians are "old people" so what better than to show it by going back in time !

The Severn Valley Railway regularly hosts 1940s weekends and this year members of Colwall Rotary Club attended, and did so in style by wearing period costume. As the planned train journey from Malvern to Kidderminster was replaced by a Bus Service due to engineering works, we gave a lot of people something to smile about.

This event gets a high profile in Kidderminster and the venue was packed. Our train left at noon and part of the ride was taken up with Sunday Lunch. Afterwards the train progressed up the line past various stations, all of which were themed for the weekend. The was much live music at many stations and the quality of the music was top class.

Many thanks to Rotarian Nick Paul for organising this enjoyable day out.

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Tags: fellowship

Category: General News

Colwall Rotary social weekend in Dartmouth

publicity@colwallrotary.org.uk — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMT

The club went away for a holiday over the last weekend in March.

A large number of club members and spouses went to Dartmouth where some played Golf, others did the local sites and sampled the shopping.

Friday night was "dining where you pleased", with a dinner in the hotel on the Saturday.

The feature trip was a boat trip up river to Greenway, the house that had been owned by Agatha Christie.

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Category: General News

Colwall Rotary at the Mountain Mayhem

publicity@colwallrotary.org.uk — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Colwall Rotary Mayhem Riders Tony Brook, Russell Horton, John Remmington,David and Katie Watson battled through wind, rain and mud to finish in the top 84% of teams in the 24hr Mountain Mayhem at the weekend - "pretty good for old folks in their first competition" as Russell said.

Over 1850 solo riders and teams took part in the world's biggest mountain bike festival in the scenic splendour of Eastnor deer park.
The professional teams were aiming to complete up to 30 circuits of the 10 mile course through woods, twists and turns,up steep hills and down technically challenging steps and jumps.

Tags: mountain mayhem,Rotary riders

Category: General News