Community Support Projects

Rotary Youth Leardership Awards Two Modern Apprentices from Stowmarket's PPG Industries plant have successfully completed a training course in leadership skills run by the Rotary International movement.

Rotarians Complete Garden Project at Residential Home Residents of Jubilee Court home for the elderly in Stowupland now have a courtyard garden to enjoy, thanks to the efforts of members of the Gipping Valley Rotary Club.

Gipping Valley Rotarians 'Make their MIND up' Members of Gipping Rotary Club gave up two days of their time to redecorate the Stowmarket Community Resource Centre operated by East Suffolk Mind.                        The mental health charity's Ipswich Street centre was badly in need of a spruce-up, and the club volunteered to do the job over the weekend while it was closed.   "We are ever so grateful for the voluntary work put in by our friends in Rotary," said centre manager Rick Keating-Fedders. "It has helped us give the place a clean, warm and friendly atmosphere."

Help for Harry Gipping Valley Rotary Club president Philip Freeman is pictured presenting a cheque for £1,000 to the appeal fund for Stowmarket youngster Harry Toope.   The appeal, which has attracted donations from many Stowmarket charities and match funding from Mid Suffolk District Council, is for a specially designed and equipped extension to the family’s home on the Chilton Hall estate so that the six-year-old severely disabled boy can be cared for in a purpose-built room.   The Rotary cheque, which was received by Harry’s mother, Nicola Toope, will be put towards furnishings for the room.