John Newton, secretary to the club, was also given the runner’s up certificate for the Caring for Our Environment award. Howard Hughes, President was very active at the award cere- mony - being presented with the club award and taking the opportunity to tell the large audience about Rotary, presenting an award to Connor Webb for being the Young Fundraiser of the Year and presenting a cheque for £1,100 for the Bedwas Workmens Hall Lift Appeal. From the £6,900 collected by our Sleigh
in October to promote Purple4Polio. This received a positive response especially as one of our members, Angela Ellis produced a number of Purple4Polio cupcakes to give away to the public and Rtn Ivan Jones. Although we did not expect donations, people were generous and interested in chatting about polio and Rotary.
That month we also attended Knighton Primary School’s assembly, with the support of the dynamic Head, Mary Strong. President Howard Goslyn gave a presentation about the history of polio and polio vaccination, as well as our progress with eradication in those more vulnerable countries. With some reinforce- ment by Ms Strong we felt the message got across to the students. We also donated crocus bulbs to the school for their planters and these should be emerging as we speak. A similar presentation was made by PP Kim Smith to the audience at a screening of the movie “Breathe” at the Knighton Community Centre in March and people came during the interval to our stall for a chat about polio and Rotary’s involvement.
MACHEN Machen’s main winter activity has been its
Santa Sleigh activity, visiting many locations in Caerphilly, Bedwas, Trethomas, Machen, Lower Machen, Rudry, Waterloo, Draethen, Bassaleg and Rhiwderin in the days and nights prior to Christmas. We were support- ed by a large number of others, particularly Machen RFC and the local soccer club. Recruiting new members continues to be a problem, exacerbated by the fact that we lost two of our stalwart members in Tony Nowell and Lewis Richards in the latter months of the year. However, we are attracting good publicity and were delighted to have been given the Community Engagement Award at the Bedwas, Trethomas and Machen Commu- nity Council award ceremony in April as rec- ognition for the club’s work in the community.
Howard with BTM Award, following the presentation by Chris Morgan, Chair of the Community Council and Inspector Gavin Clifton.
MERTHYR TYDFIL Members of Merthyr Tydfil Rotary, with
help from Merthyr Tydfil Scouts Group planted 125 trees at the Millennium Park in Treharris. Pictured is Past President Keith Jones with one of the scouts.
School pupils also joined in with the permission of head teacher Nia Ward.
The club donated a large box of purple crocus corms which the pupils have en- thusiastically started to plant alongside the grass verge in front of their school (above). President David Haward commented that he is grateful to his members, Mary Adams, Yvonne Llewellyn and Ann Jones for helping to get the crocuses planted and the inception of the “Rota Kids” scheme.
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activity, we have made grants to a number of individuals and bodies such as Rotary Founda- tion, Rotary Polio Eradication Fund, Shelter- Box, Life Straw, the Gwent Wildlife Trust, Machen Primary School, the Machen Junior Soccer Club, the National Trust in respect of the tree planting campaign, and welcome further bids. Howard’s New York Marathon Run raised over £2,200 and a cheque will be presented to the Royal Gwent Hospital Acute Cardiac Unit in the summer. The club has been involved with Young Musicians competition, Kids Out (helping send about 30 children to the seaside), making bird boxes with the local primary school and working with children to maintain the wild flower garden created for the community at St Johns church, Machen. Events coming up include diabetes testing and working with Caerphilly Lions at the Caerphilly Big Cheese event in July, playing a major support role at the Machen Agricultural Show in July and, of course, RYLA.
This project is a response to RI President Ian Risley’s call for Rotarians to plant trees. We consulted the local parks dept, and The Woodland Trust about the trees and where to plant. The trees are all different. The 4th Merthyr Tydfil Scout Troop was very happy to assist as it will go towards their community service award.
MUMBLES We decided to do something different in
Mumbles (naturally!) for RI President’s call to plant trees. We planted a Flowering Cherry in the heart of Mumbles - it’s different and we think a pretty good outcome. We have per- mission to plant a good mass of crocus bulbs around the tree later in the year to tie into Rotary’s ‘Purple4Polio’ campaign. Yes that battle is almost won! We also plan to have an appropriate plaque or sign to record this event.
Pictured, Mumbles rotarians and the local authority planting team early on site in Oystermouth Castle grounds.
NARBERTH & WHITLAND To celebrate Purple4Polio Day, the rotarians
of Narberth & Whitland encouraged the local primary school and the Queens Hall to get involved in the purple theme.
On the outskirts of the town the Primary
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