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FORTHCOMING EVENTS The Walk or Ride! 2016
Sponsor a stamp Exmouth & District, which has just celebrated
its 90th anniversary, is promoting its 14th annual
Tiverton Rotary Club is asking other clubs in the Walk or Ride event on Sunday May 1 at Bicton
peninsular to sponsor one or more professionally- College, East Budleigh. This family fun charity
made stamps for this year’s Dartmouth letterbox event has raised a staggering £60,000 since its
trail. The sponsorship cost per stamp is £10 with inception (as purely a walk) in 2003. Cyclists first
the support of the sponsoring club acknowledged took part in 2008.
by the name on the clue sheet next to the clue for
that stamp. The walk, which can be five, eight or 12 miles,
and the 14-mile cycle ride, helped raise nearly
The previous two trails have raised nearly £2,000 £5,000 last year alone. John Thorogood,
for a cancer immunotherapy charity at the President-Elect, said: “This year, we are looking
University of Surrey. This year’s walk is three to to make this event bigger and better, by getting
four miles above Belstone, near Okehampton even more people to take part and raise money
where 18 different stamps/boxes will be sited for charities and good causes”.
from end-March to end-October – so you can do
the walk whenever you like. Sets of clues cost Contact : walk@exmouthrotaryclub.co.uk
£2.50 each from Ivan and Sue Godfrey, from
whom sponsorship details are also available. That special moment
Closing date for sponsorship indications is Mar 14. This video comes from a talk by John Germ,
who is next year’s President of Rotary
Contact Sue and Ivan at
sueivan@godfreyi.freeserve.co.uk International (2016-17), in which he describes
or 01884 257127 that special moment that brought home to him
what Rotary was all about
Video:
https://youtu.be/KQwGoaoBoTk
