Community Support Projects

ShelterBoxes for Haiti In January 2010 Stowmarket Gipping Valley Rotary Club donated two ShelterBoxes, at a cost of £980, in response to the Haitian earthquake disaster. ShelterBoxes provide emergency shelter and basic survival equipment for people affected by worldwide disasters. [more ...]

First Responders Project Following a presentation in 2008 , the Stowmarket Gipping Valley Rotary Club embarked on a project to raise funds to establish a Community First Responders Scheme which would operate in the parishes of Mendlesham and Wickham Skeith , two of the many rural communities in the district served by the Club, including the outlying areas around them.   By February 2010 , the First Responder volunteers had been trained by the East of England Ambulance Service N.H.S. Trust and Mendlesham and Wickham Skeith First Responders had been formed.     [more ...]

Wattisham Support for Rotary Mike Favager, director of Aviation Training International's Wattisham facility, presents a cheque for £250 to Tim Evans, 2008/09 president of the Rotary Club of Stowmarket Gipping Valley to support work being undertaken in the community by local Rotarians.   [more ...]

Rotary Youth Leadership 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.   [more ...]

Rotary Money Helps Disabled Children Disabled children living in Mid-Suffolk will be able to benefit from a wide range of therapeutic toys and learning aids thanks to a large donation from our club.   During the past year we have given a total of £4,500 to the East Suffolk Child Development Service to dramatically enhance the range of equipment available to children and their parents attending the Laurel Centre at the Stowmarket Health Centre in Violet Hill Road. [more ...]

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.   [more ...]

Help for Historic Almshouses Residents of the historic Elmswell almshouses have some new facilities, thanks to a day of hard work by a group of Stowmarket Gipping Valley Rotarians.   Eight members of the club spent a Saturday constructing steps and a ramp to improve access to the road and also planting 100 yew plants to create a hedgerow along the back of the almshouse gardens.   [more ...]

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."     [more ...]