Rotary Club of Gloucester

A TOTAL of around 00 was raised by Rotary Christmas collections around the streets of Gloucester and at the city's supermarkets last month. This year's figure is lower than in recent years but the collections took place over a shorter period and two evening collections had to be abandoned
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DID you know that when the Bank of England moved part of its operations to Gloucester in 1990 it wasn't the first occasion it had done so. A branch of the bank opened in Westgate in the 1820s but a combination of lack of business, rivalry with other money lenders and atrocious hygiene conditions meant that its existence was short lived.
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In the week when the new Acorns Children's Hospice opened, its Gloucestershire Fundraising Officer, Lucy Howells, came to the Club lunchtime meeting to tell us of its work - just a month after RIBI announced that its partnership with the Association of Children's Hospices had raised over llion for the hospices
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Colin and Tess Rogers and David and Barbara Seed recently joined nearly 5,000 Rotarians and guests at the London's Royal Albert Hall for Rotary's Centenary Gala Concert. This is Barbara's report on the occasion.
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AS part of the district's centenary service the Dean of Gloucester (and club member) Nick Bury dedicated two new national flags in the Cathedral - the Union Jack and the American Stars and Stripes. The new flags had been presented to the Cathedral by our club to mark Rotary's centenary and to replace two threadbare originals.
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CONGRATULATIONS to Colin Rogers on being voted the club's Rotarian of the Year......a well deserved award. Colin is one of those unsung members who does an awful lot 'behind the scenes' to support and promote the club's agenda.
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A DINNER party conversation resulted in club member Clive Kingscote going on safari to central Africa in July. Former Newent Rotary president Ray Bell who was present said he was accompanying Newent School pupils on a visit to Kenya.
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THE story of how a medieval monastic order has transformed itself into a modern charity with an income in excess of £70m a year was explained to club members by fellow Rotarian Robin Morris.
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President Howard's Christmas message - AS I write this, I am one third of the way through my year of office. It seems incredible so much of the year has already elapsed, and yet I do not seem to have achieved anything like one third of my goals for the year!
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