Welcome
Welcome
Welcome to the website of the
Rotary Club of Kirkby in Ashfield.
The club meets at 7:30pm every Tuesday (except following a Bank Holiday). Our meetings are at The Summit Centre, Pavilion Road, Kirkby-in-Ashfield, Nottingham NG17 7LL where our President Frank Blake(pictured below) will be pleased to welcome you.
If you would like to attend or want more information please contact our Secretary Rotarian David Turner
Address: 57 Church Drive, Ravenshead, Nottingham NG15 9FG
NEWS FOR THIS WEEK
1st July 2008
The new Rotary year starts with a change over meeting at the Cottage Blackwell 7 for 7.30pm
10th June 2008
President Bill Wilson welcomed Rotns James Pinder and John Berrington of the Mansfield and Mapperley clubs respectively, from whom they brought fraternal greetings. Members also gave birthday greetings to Rotns Bill Wilson and Ian Mackay.
James Pinder, representing VisionAid Overseas (VAO), received a cheque for £400 raised at a recent charity Bangladesh Buffet, and around 500 pairs of unwanted spectacles brought by members. As a practising optometrist, he said he could not over-emphasise the value of both the funds and the glasses; he expected to go on a VAO visit to Ethiopia in the spring, when local people would be taught how to do eye tests.
District Governor Roger Pursey thanked his fellow club members for their support throughout the Rotary year just ending. Rotn Ron Walker read out a letter of thanks for the club's recent £1000 donation to a Rotary borehole water wells scheme in India, and reported that Kingsway Primary School had formally presented the club with 90 filled shoeboxes, the first instalment of a 250-unit 'Love in a Box' programme that sends small presents to deprived children in eastern Europe.
LAST WEEK'S NEWS
3rd June 2008
President Bill Wilson welcomed seven visitors: Rotns Val and Terry Leivers, the speakers; President Brian Dawson, Secretary Ivor Cresswell and Rotn Terry Fensome from the Sutton-in-Ashfield Club; and Colin and Michelle Hall, Kirkby residents. The visiting Rotarians brought fraternal greetings from their clubs, and the Kirkby and Sutton presidents presented two £1000 cheques to the speakers in aid of water projects in India.
Rotn Ron Walker reminded members that in the next few days Kingsway Primary School would be presenting up to 250 gift shoeboxes to the club for orphanages in eastern Europe, and that the club would be handing over £400 to VisionAid Overseas. Rotn Brenda Hurt presented a cheque for £250 from Kirkby Fundraisers for an 'Aqua 30' emergency water filtration unit and Rotn John McEwen announced that McEwen Travel is donating £100 to buy two standard Aquaboxes.
Speakers Val and Terry Leivers gave a detailed presentation on their visits to India, showing how Rotary projects help schools, orphanages, hospitals, old people's homes and water supply improvements in the north western state of Andhra Pradesh.
Where we meet
Pavilion Road is off Lowmoor Road, Kirkby in Ashfield
Presidents Change
On 1st July 2008 Rtn Frank Blake became President for the next 12 months. He has taken over from Immediate Past President Bill Wilson who has had a successful year. The actual formal hand over ceremony will occur on 1st July 2007 at the normal meeting of the club to be held at The Cottage Blackwell.
Pictured above are current President Frank,Senior Vice President Richard Woodhouse and Junior Vice President Roger Pursey. Richard will take over the Presidency from Frank on 1st July 2009. Also pictured is Immediate Past President Bill Wilson
Immediate Past District Governor from Kirkby Club
We are delighted that Kirkby in Ashfield Rotarian Roger Pursey has just ended a succesful year as
District Governor of our
RI District 1220.
He now bcomes Immediate past District Governor.
As a founder member of the Ravenshead Rotary club back in 1986 he served as Chairman of most club committee's before taking office as President in 1986. In 1994/95 and 1996 Roger served on the District Vocational Committee before rising to Chairman of that Committee in 1997/98 and 1998/99. After moving to join Kirkby Rotary Club he served as Assistant District Governor from 2002 to 2006 before finally taking office as District Governor last year.
The Club was enormously proud to have Roger as a member of our club
Pictured above is
IPDG Roger (left) with
RI Immediate Past President Wilf Wilkinson
amd his wife
at the RI Assembly
in San Diego,
California
January 2007