A school in Blackburn, Aberdeenshire collaborated with Blackburn and District Rotary Club in an effort to encourage the young pupils to raise awareness of polio and polio vaccinations.
As part of their Bronze Right Respecting School Award, pupils from Kinellar Primary School delivered a polio awareness session for their whole school.
The girls were incredibly dedicated to their project – researching as much as they could about polio and then finding a way to present the information to pupils in the upper, middle and infant stages of their school.
Ava, Katy, Savannah and Teninla waiting to paint pinkies purple.
After the girls delivered their power points successfully to all the age groups, they went about collecting donations from their fellow pupils in return for painting their pinkies purple – the colour a someone’s pinkie is dyed once they receive the polio vaccine.
After a day of fundraising, which included planting purple crocuses, the girls donations totalled up to over £90 which will go towards polio charities.
One of their teachers said: “Ava, Katy, Savannah and Teninla did an excellent job in creating information that was clear and informative for everyone across the school.
“On the day, they created a buzz at the table and enticed pupils to come over and find out more information about getting their pinkies painted.”
Down towards Gateshead, Whickham Rotary are celebrating a successful period of supporting their local community in various ways.
Clothes banks have been placed in key points around the town which proved vital to the club, who weren’t able to continue with a lot of their usual fundraising activities due to lockdown restrictions.
Whickham Rotary provided clothes banks at a vital time when they weren’t able to hold some of their usual fundraisers because of lockdown.
The club provided grit bins and gardening equipment to the community group Friends of Chase Park after storms devastated the park in the early parts of the year while also planting tens of thousands of crocus bulbs for the purple for polio initiative.
Speaking of the environment, a Rotarian from Kimbolton Castle Rotary Club, Cambridgeshire is looking for help from fellow Rotarians for a project regarding energy efficiency.
John Howlatt is a researcher for De Montfort University in Leicester as well as part of the environmental team for his district and he is aiming to create his own consensus that shows the wants and needs of the modern housing occupant as an alternative to the government’s English Housing Survey.
The project has the backing of John’s District Governor, Steve Howe, and those who want to help John can do so via a quick and free survey which you can access here.
If you wish to contact John with any questions about the survey, don’t hesitate to send him an email.
Eddie Dymond receiving the Lord Clinton Trophy from the North Devon Agricultural Society.
Finally, down in North Devon the Rotary Club of Barnstaple Link were delighted to announce that one of their members, Eddie Dymond, had been presented with a prestigious award by the North Devon Agricultural Society.
The award is given on an annual basis to those who have either given their voluntary support or have made a significant contribution to promoting the North Devon Show – an agricultural show formed in 1966 that is a celebration of all things rural.
In acceptance of the award, Eddie Dymond said: “This award isn’t just for me, it is for all of the members of the Rotary Club of Barnstaple Link who have contributed to the success of the North Devon Show over the years.”
