dronfield EYE Town’s busy 41 club
Dronfield 41 Club strives to make a difference to the lives of local people and organisations
Pictured at the presentation of a donation to Hearing Dogs for the Deaf are, from left:
Trevor Jewitt, Dronfield 41 Club Community Liaison Officer; Becky Crook, local co-ordinator for Hearing Dogs for the Deaf; and Andrew Taylor, Dronfield 41 Club President
D
RONFIELD is well served with organisations which do their bit to help good causes and local deserving folk who need a little assistance from time to time. Here is one such organisation which has never before featured in Dronfield Eye.
Dronfield 41 Club was founded in 1976, recently celebrating its 35th Charter anniversary. The club is part of
the Round Table family, with a membership consisting largely of former members of Dronfield Round Table which dates back to 1970.
Striving to be actively involved within the community, the Round Table movement identifies, evaluates and supports a variety of worthy causes. Its overall aim is “to make a difference”. Dronfield 41 Club’s main fund-raising activity is its annual charity golf day, played over the local Hallowes course on the first “perfect” Friday in August. The event has provided the group with charitible funds over many years, thanks to the assistance of its major sponsor, Gilders, together with the generosity of other local companies and organisations. In recent months, Dronfield 41 Club members have supported the local community in many ways. They provided a mobility scooter to one deserving Dronfield resident and in-house equipment to cater for the special needs of a severely disabled Dronfield boy.
Cash donations have also been made to Bluebell Wood Children’s Hospice, Stubbin Wood School, The Rochelle Baxter Fund, The Lewy Body Dementia Society, The Cathedral Archer Project, Hearing Dogs for the Deaf, The Royal British Legion, Brookview Nursing Homes, and the Our Vision, Our Future group. The total of the organisation’s gifting for 2011/12 amounts to almost £10,000.
Family’s plea for caravan
Dear Dronfield Eye, NOT many towns have the joy of knowing that one of their own families is helping people in a remote corner of the globe.
Many people in Dronfield know Linda (nee Bethell) and Pete Lugtigheid. They may even remember Linda’s Farewell Service at St Andrew’s before she set off for Bolivia ten years ago. They come back every three years and bring us up to date on all they are doing and what’s happening in and around the small Bolivian town of Apolo - and this is the year when they’re back. Linda, Pete, and their children, Finian (8), Aiden (6), Kalisha (4), and Kylan (2), will be based at Ramshaw Lodge, Unstone, until early November.
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But they have a very strange and special request; can anyone lend them a “shell”?
Linda, Pete and family would be so grateful if anyone could loan them a caravan, so when they visit their other supporters throughout the British Isles they don’t have to ask for accommodation for six. Instead, they can just ask for caravan parking space, which is so much easier for their host families.
Linda, Pete and family on the Andes with Apolo below and behind them
If you could loan your caravan, or know of someone who might be able to, please contact Linda’s parents, Tony and Jill
Bethell on 01246 413276 or email
jillbethell@doctors.org.uk
Dr Jill Bethell OBE, Ramshaw Lodge, Unstone
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