Page 17 - District Interactive Newsletter Feb 2017

Joining up for scouts Flagging up Southernhay
Barnstaple Rotary Club was represented by
Bryan Jones, and the Barnstaple Link club by Exeter Southernhay members have raised its
Eddie Dymond, at the opening of the new scouts’ public profile with the club’s new “feather flag”,
headquarters at Codden Hill, Bishop Tawton, back which was used to advertise their presence
in November, as a grant from the town’s Rotary outside St Stephen’s Church on the city’s High
Shop had helped to finance the building. Street, just before Christmas.

The opening ceremony was performed by group They were selling
chairman Edward Baker, supported by scout coffee, cakes and
leaders, scouts, guides, cubs and members of the crafts at their
public. seasonal bazaar.
More from Barnstaple Secretary Peter Spencer on According to a
peterspencer100@hotmail.com spokesman, club
or members
Barnstaple Link Secretary Malcolm Underwood, on “contributed cakes,
malcolmuwood@gmail.com and Alison and Andy
each had a stall
showcasing all their
own work”. “Sally
made Christmas
decorations and we
were all joined by
another charity
selling crafts of all
sorts,” the
spokesman added.

In all, the club raised more than £400 for good
causes.

Exeter Southernhay is a breakfast club. More
information on
www.exetersouthernhay.rotary1175.org