Raising Funds for local & International charities

This GlobalGiving project is one of the various ways we raise money for our Benevolent Fund, from which we are able to support deserving local, national and international charities.

Helped by the generosity of you, our GlobalGiving supporters, since our report last November we have made the following donations:

• £100 to Essex & Herts Air Ambulance, a charity we support on a regular basis.
• £387.50 to Orbis, an international charity providing state-of-the-art eyecare, plus training to local ophthalmic practitioners, in countries where this expertise would not otherwise be available, by means of an adapted airliner complete with an operating theatre and lecture hall. We support Orbis each year by means of a sponsored blindfolded walk by the President.
• £100 to Lennox Children’s Cancer Fund, a local charity we support annually, which provides practical, financial and emotional support to the families of children living with cancer.
• £2,241.73 to End Polio Now, Rotary’s campaign to rid the world of Polio. This money was largely raised through our GlobalGiving Christmas Quiz microproject and you can read our separate report on that microproject here
• £600 to Mary’s meals, an international charity which provides daily meals to schoolchildren in some of the poorest parts of the world. This money was raised through our weekly wine raffle and our donation was matched 100% by the UK government.
• £200 towards the travel costs of a local Girl Guide who has been selected to attend the World Jamboree to be held in South Korea next year.
• £554 to fund completion of the 10^th well delivered by our Borewells Project in Kenya.

In addition to the above, the Ukraine crisis has clearly demanded a response and we have drawn on some of our reserves to supplement the following donations:

• £500 to Billericay Mayflower Rotary towards the cost of an additional lorry being driven to the orphanage they support in Moldova to help with the additional demands placed on the orphanage by refugees from Ukraine
• £500 to Médecins Sans Frontières, to support the work they are doing in Ukraine.
• £750 to the Association of Ukrainians in Great Britain, towards support for Ukrainian refugees arriving in the UK.

 Thank you for continuing to support this project.

This GlobalGiving project is one of the various ways we raise money for our Benevolent Fund, from which we are able to support deserving local, national and international charities.

Helped by the generosity of you, our GlobalGiving supporters, in the first four months of the Rotary year we have been able to make the following donations:

• £300 to Little Havens Children's Hospice, a local charity that we support on an annual basis, which provides overnight respite breaks, emergency stays and end of life care for children with cancer.
• £500 to Broomfield Hospital Renal Unit, supporting a Rotary project to install a new type of dialysis machine.
• £250 to Barrow Farm, a member of the Riding for the Disabled Association, and a local charity we support annually which provides horse riding and carriage driving facilities for children and adults with special needs and disabilities.
• £200 to the RAF Benevolent Fund, following a talk given at one of our meetings by Commander Mike Sugden on his experiences flying Tornados on active service.
• £200 to Lennox Children's Cancer Fund, another local charity we support annually, which provides practical, financial and emotional support to the families of children living with cancer.
• £200 to Mary's Meals, an international charity which provides daily meals to schoolchildren in some of the poorest parts of the world, to support their response to the earthquake in Haiti.
• £100 to Hope & Homes for Children, an international charity we support annually, which works alongside governments and civil society organisations in over 30 countries to dismantle orphanage-based care systems.
• £200 to Basildon Hospital Radio, our contribution to a joint project by the Rotary Clubs in Billericay and Basildon to provide a new mixing desk for the radio studio.

Thank you for continuing to support this project.