Community

Jun 042015
 
Hive Hope Food Bank Gets Our Support

Deborah and Jeff Keys with a band of willing helpers open up the Hive Food Bank every  Wednesdays and Thursdays to help local residents  who cannot quite make ends meet. On Thursday 4th June 2015 the Hive Food Bank celebrated its 1st birthday and  Deborah and Jeff Keys welcomed the President of the Rotary Club 

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Mar 162015
 
Help for BreatheEasy Gravesham

Recently the Club presented BreatheEasy Gravesham with a cheque for £200. Acknowledging this, its Treasurer said “On behalf of the BreatheEasy Gravesham group I would like to say a very grateful and sincere thank you, to all of the Rotarians for thinking of us and nominating the BreatheEasy Gravesham groupfor another gift so soon after

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Mar 072015
 
Marie Curie Cancer Care Daffodil Day

Shoppers in Gravesend last Saturday  7th March generously supported the Marie Curie Cancer Care  Daffodil Day collection. Rotary Club members were out in force in the town centre selling daffodil badges for the charity and raised over £350. Founded in 1948 to nurse cancer patients in their own homes Marie Curie Cancer Care,  now has hospices and research

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Feb 062015
 
Rotary Centenary at Camer Park

Just before Christmas, the three local Rotary clubs of Gravesend, Gravesend & Meopham and Northfleet with Ebbsfleet celebrated the centenary of Rotary International of Britain & Ireland. The presidents of the three clubs meet in Camer Park and (with the help of Gravesham Council staff) planted a young tree to commemorate the event. Now some

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Dec 032014
 
Money for Charities

Donations were made to several charities at the Age Concern Day Centre in Gravesend on 3rd December. The cheques were presented by the Mayor of Gravesham Cllr John Caller. The other man with a chain round his neck, but a brighter jacket, is club president John Baker.  The money came from the Club’s annual sponsored

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