INNER WHEEL MAGAZINE SUMMER 2017 Tracey’s Poppies


One of the members of Loudon Club (District 23) has been hand making 100% wool poppies to sell and raise money for Poppy Scotland.


She started off by making various felt goods for sale at fairs, then one evening decided she would make a poppy for herself for Remembrance Day. Her mother admired it, asked for one for herself which she wore to work where thirty workmates ask for ones for themselves!


Now the Tracey’s poppies are being sold in hospitals, hairdressers, coffee shops and many other places from Ayrshire to Aberdeenshire and can claim a Royal Appointment !She sent one to Prince Charles, Duke of Rothesay, and he was so impressed that he asked her to supply poppies to “His” Scottish Country House,


Kerala


The Children of Hope Community


Village in Kerala, India, were recently overjoyed to receive their new football kit and proudly posed for their Team photographs. Thanks to the very generous donation from the Inner Wheel Club of Alfreton (D22) they were able to play for the first time in football boots and proper shorts and shirts. The children had before played in bare feet and worn a whole range of different coloured tee shirts and bottoms.


Hope Community Village is an Orphanage for orphaned and destitute children set up by John Veitch PHF in 1995. His vision was for the Children to be loved and cared for in a family atmosphere with housemothers, having their own homes within a village setting. www.hopeindia.org Rtn. Dr Cheryle Berry of the Rotary Club


Dumfries House, owned and run by one of his Charitable Foundations. Each year Tracey starts work in early August, cutting, glueing and attaching brooch clips and to date Tracey has raised £7,449 for Poppy Scotland.


Her club members wear her creations with pride and are looking forward to her next production – maybe a sparkly one!


Ann Potts, Club


Correspondent, IW Club of Loudon 23


of Clay Cross (D1220) recently gave a talk to the Inner Wheel Club of Alfreton about the work she does on her visits to Hope Community Village each year. She teaches First Aid to the housemothers and older children, in English and the local dialect, which is Malayalam. As part of her talk to the club, she showed photographs of the children and explained how keen they were about playing football, particularly the girls. It is very good for their general health and for mixing with other children.


Dr. Berry was


delighted when the Inner Wheel Club of Alfreton contacted her to say they wanted to sponsor the football kit.


Thank You, Thank You for Giving Hope


to a Child’s Future - £119,206.75 !!!! Wow! What an incredible year with some very notable highlights. We are slowly distributing hand knitted teddies within some of our consignments and what a star Camon has proven to be! I know at one club he has had his SchoolBag filled multiple times and has raised over £600! And of course, through our Nepal Earthquake Appeal, Inner Wheel has funded the rebuild


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of Shree Deurali School in Tartong, Nepal giving the children a new school to learn in and the community a beacon of hope after such devastation.


Thank you so much for our unforgettable year from Luke, Charlotte, ZoÎ and Lis.


On her visit to India this January she was able to make sure that all 29 team players got boots, socks, shin pads, shirts and shorts. They were all delighted and sent a huge Thank You to Alfreton Inner Wheel.”


June Fox Club Correspondent IW Club of Alfreton D22


When the Lights go out


Members of IW Club of Holmfirth chose to celebrate WIW Day with a soup and roll lunch in a local church hall. Members made various soups and cakes to share in fellowship with our invited family and friends. Our guest speaker Sandie Nicholsonís weather photos appear quite often on Look North and national news weather watch. A projector and screen had been organised for her PowerPoint presentation which was an integral part of the event.


However, arriving to find the hall in darkness we were told storms had brought down the electricity cable! Inside with the hall very cold, those already present were still wearing coats and scarves. Fortunately, all was not lost. The sun started shining in and one of the kitchen cookers was gas, hoorah!


With the indomitable spirit and ingenuity of Inner Wheel members, some devised ways of warming all the soups and


boiling water whilst others entertained our guests with tales of previous club and domestic challenges. It wasnít long before laughter filled the air and when President Wendy Hirst mentioned the Tiller Girls, visions of us lining up to keep warm by kicking our heels added to the fun.


Unfortunately, speaker Sandie Nicholsonís photographic presentation remained a casualty of the situation, though she has kindly offered to re-schedule for another meeting. As we prepared to take our leave, the electricity came back on to a little wry cheering!


In memory of Ella Dickinson, who was a long term member, we held a collection for a donation to the Myloma charity.


Elizabeth Thompson IW of Holmfirth D4


Step and Smile Walk on Southend on Sea Pier Rose planting


District 24 Members have now donated roses to Billericay Lake Meadows where the roses were received in sunshine by the Mayor of Basildon and in Chelmsford City Central Park where the Mayor of Chelmsford received the roses. They will be maintained by Friends of Lake Meadows and volunteers of Chelmsford Central Park and will give pleasure for years to come. Immediate Past District Chairman and District Membership Officer Jane Brown had worked hard to organise the ceremonies and the publicity received from the events has been very good with articles appearing in the local newspapers in each area, as well as on Facebook and Twitter.


Members of District 24 with Rotarians and friends took A Breath of Fresh Air and Stepped and Smiled, wearing silly socks, along Southend Pier, the longest pleasure pier in the world, to raise awareness of Beat, Association President Zena’s charity.


The Echo newspaper sent a photographer who also wore silly socks, he photographed us as we stepped and smiled and chatted to friends old and new about Beat and Inner Wheel.


At the end of the Pier we stopped for lunch before walking back, those that were not able took the train. At the end of the day we had publicised Beat and Inner Wheel and had two potential new members. A couple of days later an article taking a full page in the Echo appeared showing Inner Wheel


in an interesting and lively way. Some very different fundraising!


On 23rd April, President Beryl Hale’s daughter-in-law, Anne, took part in a sponsored 10km Warrior Adrenalin Race in Hertford to raise funds for Southgate Inner Wheel Club’s two main charities,


Noah’s Ark Childrens’ Hospice and School in a Bag. For those of you who have not heard of these runs, they include traversing lots of obstacles such as giant steps and tunnels, hills, water and muddy


terrain and by the end Anne was both very wet and very muddy, but also delighted at completing the course and raising a good sum of money for charity. Karen Krestin Editor D13


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We will continue to promote Inner Wheel in an ongoing way by combining the use of the Inner Wheel Forever Rose and giving pleasure to passers-by with another planting at RHS Hyde Hall in the very near future.


Celia Clark Editor D24


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