Bristol Breakfast Rotary Club’s Dragon Boat Festival raised a wonderful total of £45,000 this year, so President Roger Key sends his thanks to all companies and individuals who took part in making it such a successful event.
On 19th September we held a presentation breakfast at which we passed on £27,000 to our lead charity Caring in Bristol, who do a brilliant job providing temporary overnight accommodation for some of Bristol’s homeless. We also awarded prizes to teams for the best fancy dress costumes and the most amount raised, and to the participants who raised the largest sums.
Other causes supported with the balance of the proceeds include:
• a local charity, Water Survival Box, for the Indonesian Tsunami http://www.watersurvivalbox.org/ ;
• Swifts Inclusive Sports’ Swimming Gala at Horfield Leisure Centre – the event is now so popular among the disability swimming community that competitors travelled from as far as Birmingham and Plymouth https://www.somersetasa.org/sasa/en/News/News-Items?newsid=3120
• Two of Rotary’s programmes for young people - the Young Musician https://www.rotarygbi.org/projects/young-people/competitions/ and Youth Leadership Awards https://www.rotarygbi.org/projects/young-people/rotary-youth-leadership-...
• the national Rotary flooding appeal in Kerala, India https://www.rotarygbi.org/rotary-assist-kerala-flooding/ ;
• Rotary’s own international charity, Rotary Foundation https://www.rotary.org/en/about-rotary/rotary-foundation ;
• Rotary’s international campaign to eradicate polio, End Polio Now https://www.endpolio.org/ ;
• Maji Safi (Kenya) https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/12197910/Librar... ;
• Carel du Toit Centre for deaf children (South Africa) http://careldutoit.co.za/
Please put next year’s Dragon Boat Festival event in your diary for Sunday 9th June 2019. https://www.bristolrotarydragons.org/entering-a-team
The list above gives just a taste of what’s on offer through one of the Rotary Clubs in Bristol. If you think you might enjoy giving back to the community by joining a forward looking Rotary Club, please contact Membership Chairman Tony Hughes or President Roger Key, who will happily welcome you to Bristol Breakfast Rotary Club, or if breakfast is not for you, introduce you to the clubs in the city.
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