Community Support Projects

Community Achievers Recognised Thirty unsung heroes were honoured for their contribution to local life at the 2011 Mid Suffolk Community Achievement awards ceremony.   The awards scheme, originally set up by Mid Suffolk District Council, was this year jointly organised by the council and Stowmarket Gipping Valley Rotary Club.   [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 ...]

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 ...]