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Adopt a Minefield

The Rotary Club of Cwmbran Vale with the Rotary Club of Thorpe Bay
No More Landmines Christmas Pudding Appeal 2009

All Clubs will be aware of this RIBI approved appeal that has been supported by clubs in District 1240 for the last three years. As you know, the principal aims of No More Landmines are to provide support and training for local de-mining teams and help for the victims of mines. No-one who has heard of the widespread and gruesome nature of the minefield problem has not shuddered to see the results of indiscriminate and un-charted mine-laying upon innocent populations and has yearned to be able to do something tangible to help.

We hope that Rotarian pudding-eaters and their friends and families will buy at least one of the puddings and will then be able, while munching away at Christmas, to reflect on the help they have thereby given to the clearance of another 3.5sq m of a minefield. Full details are on the attached flyer produced by No More Landmines.

Christmas puddingMost families buy a Christmas pudding. If they buy the pudding from us, No More Landmines make the profit - but we are not asking members to buy something that they wouldn't already probably buy. Even if members don't want to buy the pudding for themselves, it is a remarkably easy item to sell or give as a gift to friends and family.

You will be aware however that the minimum order is normally one case of twelve puddings at £10 each - a total of £120 and we are aware that some Clubs may wish to order lesser quantities of puddings.

The Rotary Club of Thorpe Bay has therefore received the permission of DG John Banks and the Rotary Club of Cwmbran Vale to once again act as distributors of the Christmas puddings within District 1240 and to accept minimum orders of just two puddings. The price will remain at £10 including shipping and all proceeds will be forwarded to the Rotary Club of Cwmbran Vale for the No More Landmines Appeal.

Last year 23 clubs in District 1240 purchased 360 puddings and we received many compliments about the quality of the puddings - even repeat orders! Please help us to do even better this year.

The puddings will be delivered direct to the address as submitted on the Order Form below and Rotarians are encouraged to submit their orders as soon as possible to ensure delivery without delay.

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Foulness Bike Ride 2009

Success in 2009!

The Rotary Club of Thorpe Bay is pleased to announce that there WILL be a Bike Ride for charity on Foulness Island this year. Details to be announced. Watch this space!


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Cycling the Seine

Support for Rotary Wheelchair Foundation

During the week ending 19th May 2007 Rosemary Sudlow and Pam Watson-Jones will cycle 197 miles down the Seine to Paris and also walk from Pont de Chatou to The Arc de Triomphe (7 miles) to raise funds for the Wheelchair Foundation.

Over 100 million children, teens and adults worldwide are in need of a wheelchair but cannot afford one. Each £50.00 (70 euros) donated to Rosemary and Pam will be combined with funds provided from Rotary International specifically for the purpose of delivering a wheelchair to a needy person child, teenager or adult without mobility, freedom and often hope.
The aim is to raise £14,000 for 280 wheelchairs to fill a container destined for Africa.
The Rotary Club of Thorpe Bay will cycle with the Rotary Club of Colchester Forum as part of the worldwide Rotary International service organisation.

For more information visit our fundraising page, www.justgiving.com/rotaryride and www.ribi.org.

Please dig deep and sponsor online. Donating through the fundraising page is simple, fast and totally secure. It is also the most efficient way to sponsor us.
The Rotary Club Of Thorpe Bay Charity Trust will receive your money faster and, if you are a UK taxpayer, an extra 28% in tax will be added to your gift at no cost to you. So please sponsor now!


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Southend Business Awards

Charity-Community Winners

The Rotary Club of Thorpe Bay has been named the Winner of the Charity-Community section of the Southend Business Awards

A report with photos of the event can be found:


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Leap for Life

Civic Centre Sponsored Abseil Event

The Rotary Club of Thorpe bay held an abseiling event to help raise funds to provide a defibrillator for the gynaecologica and obstetrics ward at Southend University Hospital.
The event has been named the Leap for Life!

A report with photos of the event can be found:


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Paul Harris Fellowship

Pam Watson-Jones Awarded with Paul Harris Fellowship

Pam and Steve MunnsWednesday 14th September was a very special day in the diary for our members because Rtn. Pam Watson-Jones was recognised for her outstanding services to Rotary by her club.

D.G. Steve Munns presented the highest honour that any rotarian can be given, a Paul Harris Fellow.

Pam and Rosemary
Pam Watson-Jones with President Rosemary Sudlow


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Southend-on-Sea Carnival

Thorpe Bay Rally Round Thomas

Thomas the Tank Engine, built by the Rotary Clubs in and around Southend-on-Sea, had another very warm reception from the crowds lining the Southend Esplanade on Saturday 19th August as Thomas and his Rotary friends collected for local charities.  Thomas and Crew

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Last year Thomas and his Rotary Friends won 1st Prize.


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Rotary Youth Leadership Awards Presentation

2nd August 2006

RYLA PresentationBetween April 28th and May 1st an intensive weekend was held in the Lake District, with various activities and tasks, gaining important life skills, learning about Rotary. Following this highly successful RYLA trip a presentation was made by Penny Popham, Thorpe Bay Rotary's RYLA Officer.

The award for the RYLA Best Leadership Potential was made to Kavita Aggarwal who subsequently gave the club a short and very enlivening talk on the weekend.

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John Gooms Southend Charity Walk - Sunday 11th June

Pam Watson-Jones Reports

My chosen event as a committee member for the charity was a sponsored walk along the sea front from Leigh Station to Shoebury Station, a walk of some 8 miles, with a train ride back. The hardier walked - to Uncle Toms Cabin and back which is a total of approximately 14 miles.

The FIFA World Cup was in progress and yet we still had 33 walkers of differing ages who took part - and on a very hot day at that!.

The sponsor money is still coming in, and I hope to have made £950.00 for the charity. Not a vast sum, but everyone who took part enjoyed the walk along the sea front and spending the morning talking with family and friends.

This event supports the new home being built for the disabled in Southend which will be completed November 2006.

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Handover Evening

The 2006 Handover Evening Event

The event was held at the Atheneum Club in Aviation Way, Rochford on 7th July and was a great success.

A pictoral record of the evening can be found:


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Saturday 15th July 2006

Cressing Rock

On a beautiful sunny afternoon 20 Rotarians and friends went to the Cressing Rock Open Air Rock Charity Concert at Cressing Temple, Braintree in aid of The Teenage Cancer Trust and other rotary charities.

The evening featured The Manfreds, The Jones Gang and The Animals.  Wonderful music, wonderful food, wonderful weather, wonderful company and plenty of drink made for a perfect social time together, this was the first social event of the year for President Rosemary.

A pictoral record of the evening can be found:


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2006 Foulness Bike Ride

Postponed but not Abandoned

Operational commitments at Foulness Island, which QinetiQ operates on behalf of the MOD meant that the company could not this year accommodate the Annual Bike Ride until September.  Animated bike rides

Unfortunately, because of the advent of the football season, this timing precludes the use of essential external support facilities such as Cupid's Country Club, which is used for parking, toilets, refreshments, marshalling etc and so we have reluctantly taken the decision not to hold the Bike Ride this year. 

However, QinetiQ, the MOD and the Rotary Club of Thorpe Bay are in total accord in wishing this important and popular fixture in the community and fundraising calendar to take place in future, and will work towards agreeing a date for 2007.


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Polio Reaches All-Time Low

Countries with Indigenous Polio Drops to Four

The eradication drive against polio has entered a new phase with global roll-out of monovalent vaccines.  

The number of countries with indigenous polio has dropped to an all-time low of four, as polio eradication efforts enter a new phase involving the use of next-generation vaccines targeted at the two surviving strains of virus.  
In 2006, monovalent vaccines, aimed at individual virus strains, will be the primary platform for eradication in all remaining polio-affected areas, announced the core partners in polio eradication – the World Health Organization, Rotary International, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and UNICEF – enabling the eradication drive to hone in on poliovirus types 1 and 3.

This new phase was announced alongside the confirmation that indigenous poliovirus has not circulated in Egypt and Niger for over 12 months. This is the first time in three years that the number of polio-endemic countries has fallen, leaving Nigeria, India, Pakistan and Afghanistan as the only countries that have never stopped indigenous polio transmission.  

"Polio has been endemic in our country for all of recorded history,"
said Egyptian Minister of Health Dr. Hatem Mostafa El-Gabaly.
"The best tools of our age finally defeated this enemy who has been with us from pharaonic times."

Monovalent vaccine targeted at the type-1 poliovirus circulating in Egypt was used during vaccination campaigns there in May 2005.    Unlike Egypt – where the challenge to eradication was highly efficient polio transmission in crowded cities – Niger faced a sparse population, some of it nomadic, scattered over a vast country with a heavily-travelled border with Nigeria, the world's largest reservoir of poliovirus.
Multiple immunization campaigns in Niger were painstakingly planned to ensure children were being vaccinated even in the remotest and border areas. In 2005, the nine polio cases reported in Niger were all the result of importations over this border.   

The success in Niger and Egypt is the result of intense efforts in 2004-05 to halt Africa’s polio epidemic and fast-track the introduction of monovalent polio vaccines into selected areas. The number of cases of polio in India and Pakistan in the last quarter of 2005 also fell by more than half compared with the previous year, due to more effective immunization strategies and the use of monovalent vaccine.  

"To fully exploit these new tools, government commitment in Nigeria  must remain high at all levels to ensure that all children are vaccinated,”
said Jonathan Majiyagbe of Kano, Nigeria and past President of Rotary International, which has contributed more than US$ 600 million and countless volunteer hours to a polio-free world.
Ninety per cent of polio cases in Nigeria are concentrated in just eight of the country's 37 states.  

In addition to mass immunization with monovalent vaccines in the four endemic countries, large-scale campaigns with these vaccines will need to take place in 2006 in eight countries –  including Somalia, Indonesia and Yemen – to stop recently imported polioviruses. Critical to the success of these campaigns is a US$ 150 million shortfall which must be filled as rapidly as possible.   The eradication effort requires a further US$ 425 million for the 2007-2008 period.


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Rotary Ebay Initiative

Help for the RIBI International Mercy Ship Appeal

The Rotary Club of Thorpe Bay has begun an initiative to use the highly successful and popular Ebay auction system to sell members donated items either gratefully accepting the purchase money or claiming a percentage for the club's International Appeal.

RIBI is looking to raise a considerable sum of money for the Mercy Ship (link)programme and particularly for the refurbishment of the Africa Mercy (link).

The Ebay pages currently being run by the Rotary Club of Thorpe Bay on behalf of Rotary District 1240 can be found at:
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Sandra Allen - Thorpe Bay's DG

Dynamic District Governor from Thorpe Bay Rotary

Sandra in her car

The Rotary Club of Thorpe Bay is proud to have one of it's own prominent members as the 1240 District Governor for 2005-6

Well done Sandra!



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