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Bideford raises £40,000 Kids Out Day
The Rotary Club of Bideford has managed to All 12 Rotary Clubs in West Cornwall, ie
raise nearly £40,000 for Little Bridge House, Penzance, Mounts Bay, Hayle, St Ives,
Children’s Hospice South West via the club’s first Redruth, Perranzabuloe, St Agnes and St
ever Rotary Foundation Global Grant. Piran, Truro, Truro Boscawen, Helston
Lizard, Helston and Cober Valley Helston
It all began in 2017 with a Barn Dance at John joined together for National Kids Out Day on June
and Sue Edwards’, and the £7,800 raised locally 12th.
was multiplied by five with contributions from
Bideford’s twin club in Uelzen, Germany, by South On that day, over 60,000 disadvantaged children
West District 1175, the corresponding German across the Country are given some sort of treat
District and finally by the Rotary Foundation by Rotary. So the Rotary Clubs of West Cornwall
Global Grant. get together to take 120 children and their carers
to Flambards Theme Park at Helston for a day
Rotary helped fund the building of Little Bridge out.
House, but the nurse on-call system and the door
entry system was now more than 25 years old. The children are pupils of Nancealverne School in
The CCTV and audio listening system also didn’t Penzance and The Curnow School in Redruth and
work and needed to be ripped out and replaced this is the 27th year that Flambards have
with modern, high-tech equipment. entertained us, with free admission and
subsidised food and drink vouchers.
Tracy Freame, Head of Care at Little Bridge .
House, explained the installation of the new
equipment at the club’s weekly meeting. Members from Rotary clubs in the Plymouth area
plus Saltash took 128 children to the Trethorne
Leisure Park in Cornwall. The above photograph
shows IPDG George Eamer riding Rosie!
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