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Always keeping busy Thrapston Rotary Club are still zooming...
Our local Rotary Club continues to meet in the new way via Zoom and, by the time this article is published, we will have had two speakers in August.
We will also continue to help our local food banks. However, our thoughts have now turned to the Autumn and the rest of the year.
September is the time of the year when we begin to plan the range of young people’s competitions, along with the charitable events that we organise. For example, the schools in Thrapston and Raunds, and local individual music students, have often done very well in the Rotary Young Musician Competition.
This year Rotary in Great Britain and Ireland are launching a new Rotary Young Environmentalist Competition.
The competition is open to all: individuals,
Thrapston Shoebox Appeal
Due to the current situation and the uncertainty with buildings opening up fully, we will not be doing our Shoebox Launch Day. We feel we could not do these safely as we have in the past. We will have OCC boxes for people to fill themselves and we will arrange collection in November.
These boxes will be available at the end August and will cost £5 to send.
We are doing 200 boxes in the next month to go to the Rotary Shoebox Appeal – these go to some of the same destinations and they collect all year.
We feel the need is now and we also hope to do some household boxes.
Many of you have sponsored these at £2 a box and we are extremely grateful.
If you wish to fill one of these, let us know and we can supply you with information.
We hope next year to return to our workshops, fun days and Shoebox Launch Day.
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schools, scouts, cubs, guides, brownies, etc. and is split into age categories as Juniors, Intermediates and Seniors. The topic for this years project is “Climate Change – Carbon Reduction” and is intended to encourage young people to care for our planet.
The aim is to encourage the development of environmental skills by getting young people to Interact with the environment, address serious environmental issues, develop and explore solutions to the issues, explore, investigate, research and undertake an environmentally sustainable project.
We will be sending details to local schools and youth groups, but you can register your interest in finding out more by contacting Terry Franklin telephone: 01933 625642.
Coming soon to Thrapston.....
Following on from the support given throughout lockdown and the needs identified we have decided to set up a Thrapston FoodBank. This will operate from Thrapston Baptist Church and offer both regular and emergency care and food packages to families from Thrapston and surrounding villages. Donations of items are most welcome. For more information please email thrapstonfoodbank@gmail.com or visit our Facebook page.
Contact us on 01832 730019 or through our Facebook page – Thrapston Shoebox Appeal.
Thank you for your understandingand for bringing a smile to a needy child
God bless, stay safe, stay alert.
Lindsey Burch