A Cheque For Brendon Care
At our lunchtime meeting today, our President Elect Michael Smailes presented a cheque to Phoebe Day, the fundraising manager of Brendoncare. In accepting the cheque for £300, she spoke about her grandfather who in her words was “A bit of a legend” in her family. He worked in special effects for the BBC and worked on tv programmes like ‘Dad’s Army’, ‘Doctor Who’ – he helped to build the Daleks and many others. But nowadays...
Read MoreVisitor From Surrey and Borders NHS Trust Dr Justin Wilson
At our lunch meeting last week, our guest speaker was Doctor Justin Wilson From Surrey and Borders NHS Trust. They are one of the leading providers of specialist mental health, drug and alcohol and learning disability services for people of all ages in southern England. Helping people to live their lives well, with high quality treatment, support and care focus on the specific health and social care needs of each person to improve their mental and physical wellbeing. Justin joined the trust...
Read MorePrince Charles, Bombs and Barrie Buttenshaw
We held an evening meeting last week and our special guest was Barrie Buttenshaw Barrie is the past President of The Rotary Club of Twickenham and travels to many Rotary clubs in the south. He gave us a very entertaining and informative presentation with lots of laughs along the way. As an Ammunition Technical Officer, a title that includes inspecting the Army’s ammunition, he was responsible for making safe all manner of explosives including devices left by organisations determined...
Read MoreAn American In Farnborough
We had a special guest visit us at lunch last Thursday. Mina Femino from the Littleton Rotary Club Massachusetts. She was a guest of Jim Thomson from the Bandey- Hefler Fellowship...
Read MoreDistrict Governor Visits Our Club
At this week’s members meeting at the Holiday Inn Farnborough we had a special visitor, the District Governor. FRANK WEST is the District Governor for our area and is a member of the Guildford Chantries Rotary Club. His club is one of three clubs that serve the Guildford area. In Frank’s speech he talked about his career as an engineer, before moving into sales (which dispels the idea that Rotary is full of doctors and solicitors, but more on that another time). He also talked about...
Read MoreA Visit From The District Governor
Today we were visited by our district governor Peter O’Keefe. Peter is a retired architect who lives in Guildford and is a member of the Guildford Rotary Club. Our district has doubled in size this year because of restructuring and district 1145 brings together 100 Rotary Clubs in 6 Greater London Boroughs, Surrey, East & West Sussex and neighbouring parts of Hampshire to develop fellowship and service opportunities. So Peter in his one year as district governor, has to try and...
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David Thompson To David's Family sadly I knew of the fami
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John Debenham Thank you to North Farnborough Natwest and all y
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John Batty Congratulations to all, a fantastic result. Brilli