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The Rotary Club of
Ravenshead and Blidworth

Rotary supports Two Great Local Charities that provide help within
our Community: Blidworth on the Move & Ravenshead Ready Call

As mentioned in our feature last month, we are in particular this year, supporting Blidworth on the Move and Ravenshead
Ready Call. Two great organisations that give superb support within our communities and have made a significant impact over
the last difficult year.
Blidworth on the Move is a relatively new initative born out of the needs of the
community to help those who need assistance to get to doctors and hospital
clinics or other important appointments. With their own specially adapted vehicle,
they have over the recent months covered over 4726 miles with more than 400
return trips to local care facilities.
The charities chairperson,
Gilly Hagen, with Mark
Himsworth, joined us at
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our January 19 meeting
to tell us how during the
pandemic, their services
and support had been
extended and developed Gill Hagen - Blidworth on the Move
to meet the needs of the
community. Delivering meals and Food Aid over the last year being one
of the big extra services, together with finding ways to help those who
need just someone to talk to to help with their mental health and well
Karen Goodwin - Ravenshead Ready Call
being.
Also attending our meeting on this occasion was Karen Goodwin and Molly Bell of Ravenshead Ready Call. Originally formed
by Molly Bell over 25 years ago, they have been offering support to Ravenshead's community by helping with transportation to
doctors and other care appointments, delivering prescriptions, doing shopping and other assistance when and where needed.
Karen and Gilly told us about how these two great organisations help each other and work together. Initially, Ravenshead
Ready Call had given assistance and advice based on it's many years of experience to the team at Blidworth on the Move, and
now whenever a Ready Call need to help out someone who needs to use their wheel chair, they can call on the availability of
Blidworth's specially equipped vehicle.
Both are pictured receiving a cheque for £250 from Rotarian Mick Lee and President Richard Lord.

Rotary Support for our Community Schools – over £1500 this year!
Next month, we will be giving you details on how our Rotary is providing real and valued support to our local Schools.
Each year we aim to provide ongoing support to our local schools. This year we currently have plans which will donate over
£1500 between our five linked Primary schools. This has been made possible from the contributions you made during our
recent Santa's appearances around both communities.
So, again - a big Thank You to you all

PS. Look out for explosions of purple crocuses near you.
They signify the purple marker used for all immunised children against Polio through the
programme funded by Rotary Globally across 122 countries.

Get to know us, come to one of our Speaker Evenings at Oakmere Golf Club

Our upcoming programme includes:
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These evenings are open to anyone who wishes to come along and our featured speaker on the 16 March may be of particular
interest – if it is, then just contact us as indicated below, you and your partner would be most welcome.
16 March 2022 - talk by Mr Ben Sherwood, Consultant Urologist, about the new Nottingham Prostate Centre at the Park
Hospital
27 April 2022 - Speaker from the Nottinghamshire Hospice about their work and future plans
We remain active within our Community so if you would like to find out how you can contribute, or join us for one of our
speaker evenings, just contact us through our website or via our friendly secretary Trevor on 01623 792662. We are also on
Facebook – why not take a look and Like us. Oakmere Golf Club is our usual venue for meetings Visit our website,
https://www.rbrotary.org.uk/ to see our calendar for all meetings, and more information about joining Rotary and how you can
help. You would be made very welcome.
Richard Lord President of Ravenshead and Blidworth Rotary