Fundraising

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 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 ...]

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 ...]