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Prior to his inauguration as President, Philip Southwell, as President elect was invited to represent the club at the reception given by the Mayor of Kenilworth to acknowledge the work done by all the voluntary organizations in the town. As a mark of recognition of the leading role represented by Rotary in the town, President Elect Philip was invited to give the formal thanks of all those present. |
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Kenilworth President Philip’s Plans for his year
Rotary International President John Kenny’s Message |
| On Monday June 29th, Rotarian Philip Southwell is inaugurated as President for the Rotary year (July) 2008–2009 by Immediate Past President Peter Roberts.
More photos here.
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Friday July 10th, President Philip awards T-shirts and medals to Jez and Ned who were to run the Two Castles Run on June 7th as part of the Warwickshire Police Team but were injured and unable to run. They contacted President Philip who arranged for a re-run from Warwick Castle to Kenilworth Castle with the official finishing line in place.
Another job well done as Rotary thanked the Warwickshire Police for all their support in making the Two Castles Run a great annual event for the town and the county.
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Past President Colin Wilding (right) reads an introduction as Rotarian Anna Poynter rejoins the club on Monday 13th July. |
President Philip introduces Ceren Kahveci from Turkey who is attending the Rotary Youth Leader Award in the next fortnight. More pictures here. |
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Jill Mills, the secretary of the Rotary Club of Warwick talks about the Red Balloon Learning Centres for children who exclude themselves from school after being bullied. She reported that a new Red Balloon Centre would be shortly set up in Hatton for children in the local area. See the video Jill presented here. |
Rotarian Dennis Dowdeswell stands to display his award of an honorary degree at the University of Loughborough. Congratulations Dennis!
See it happen here.
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Charles Hanson of BBC TV values antiques at the Rotary Club Meeting on August 10th, supported by Carol Jones, the Warwickshire representative of Hansons Auctioneers and Valuers. Photos and valuations are here.
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Warwick Rotarian, Rosemary Bidwell, speaks to the club on August 17th about the Cotton Tree Children’s Trust which she set up to rescue orphans in Sierra Leone. Rosemary sold her business to devote her whole time to supporting her children, starting with ten in 2007, with another eight in 2008.
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On Monday 7th September, Kenilworth (left) were victors in the District Quiz over Leamington Regency (right) by 24 points to 17. Quiz Master Don McConnell is always right. The first question which no-one could answer was: In what country is the volcano ‘Kick ’em Jenny’? The answer ATG (According To Google) is under the sea, 8 km north of Grenada. The correct answer ATM (According To McConnell) is ‘The West Indies’. OK Don. Anything you say!
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Phil Highley hits YouTube as he plays a 24 hour piano marathon from Monday 21st September at noon to raise funds for the Waverley Day Centre.... Photographs here.
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District Governor, Lorna Beedham speaks to the club about RI president John Kenney’s theme for the year and invites us to support Young Carers. Read Lorna's blog for the evening. |
The Kenilworth Club was delighted to learn that Justine Potts (centre), the club’s recommendation for the District Ambassadorial scholar award, was awarded the scholarship this evening. Also pictured President Philip, District Foundation Chairman Peter Ramage, Lorna’s proposer Peter Roberts, District Governor Lorna. |
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Kenilworth Rotary receives citations for meeting their targets for donations to Polio Plus and Rotary Foundation.
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| The Kenilworth Festival, promoted by the Rotary Club of Kenilworth, presents charity cheques to Waverley Day Centre, Newlands Care Home and local charity Inclusive Leisure Activities Programme (ILEAP).
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(Left to right) Roy Shearing (Co-Chair of the Kenilworth Festival), Anne Cross (Waverley Day Centre), Anna Williams (ILEAP), Peter Bazeley (ILEAP), Mike Lewis (Co-Chair of the Kenilworth Festival), Anna Read (Newlands Care Home), Jenny Partridge (Newlands Care Home) and in front Mr Horace Burrows (Waverley Day Centre)
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Kenilworth Rotary has supported Joe Homan for decades as he continues his pioneering work in India, with his Boys Town and Girls Town projects, keeping up with the latest needs. The AGM of the Joe Homan Trust is held in Kenilworth, with supporters coming from around the country. Roy Shearing reports.
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On Monday October 12th, the club held its meeting at The Clarendon Arms as part of an exercise to consider other venues for meetings. The club was addressed by Peter Moore on Landscape Photography. His photographic art can be viewed here.
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John Beaman addresses the club on Water Colour Painting on Monday 19th October. |
On Monday 26th October, Mike Cornwell spoke to the club about the progress of the Louise Willgrass Tsunami Fund set up in the memory of his daughter who died in the 2004 Tsunami. At the time, the Rotary Club of Kenilworth, collected £3,000 from the Kenilworth public, and donated the proceeds to the fund of the then Mayor of Kenilworth, Pauline Edwards. Pauline saw Nigel Willgrass and the Willgrass children on GMTV and decided immediately that she would donate £4,000 to the fund, which she presented to Mike and Jane Cornwell.
More photos of the occasion, including the honoured guests, Mayor Richard Davies and his wife Erica, Pauline Edwards and her husband are here. |
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Kenilworth Rotary met at the Kenilworth Golf Club on November 2nd
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David Johnson speaks on the Gateway Foundation, a rehabilitation programme for ex-offenders based in Solihull
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| The Rotary Disabled Team Sports has been held in Coventry every year since 1983. It is now organized by the five Coventry clubs. Kenilworth Rotary has supported every year since the first event when they were one of three original clubs who gave support on the day. Kenilworth sponsors the Boccia event, shown here, with photographs taken by Roy Shearing. The prize for the Boccia Event was presented by Kenilworth President Philip Southwell. |
The 28th Rotary Disabled Sports - Boccia Event on Sunday 8th November
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Kenilworth Rotary celebrate with the rest of the town in Warwick Road on Friday 20th November as the Mayor and Mayoress switch on the town lights.
Here President Philip gives free soup to all comers, while the club collects money for Children in Need.
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Video here.
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| The Kenilworth Rotary Club Tree of Light in Talisman, in aid of Macmillan Cancer Support. |
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On Monday 23rd November, the meeting was held at the Holiday Inn. The speaker was President Elect, Graham Tall, speaking about tracing your ancestors using the internet and other resources. |
| President Phillip Southwell presenting a new wheelchair to Kenilworth citizen Paul Boswell in November 09. The monies were raised by Kenilworth Lions, Round Table and Rotary. |
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On November 30th, Kenilworth Quiz team manage to get all the Rotary questions right in the District Quiz and win against Hagley. Next round: Thursday January 7th at Southam 2000.
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The Christmas Tree Festival in the Parochial Hall in aid of The Parochial Hall Restoration Fund.
But what is missing? There are trees in the competition from the Lions, decorated with ducks, from Inner Wheel, from the Soroptomists, from the schools and various other organisations. The only Rotary Christmas Tree is in Talisman Square collecting donations for Myton Hospice. Don’t worry. Rotarians are not competing in the competition because they are fulfilling their role in supporting local activities as the highest level. The Rotary Club of Kenilworth is providing the prizes for the winners. See more pictures here.
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Kenny Bear is drumming up enthusiasm for the Kenilworth Festival in May 2010. Connect to him here.
You can see more of Kenny on Facebook. (You will need to sign in for an account.)
The Kenilworth Festival also has its own Facebook page here.
If you prefer to receive messages through Twitter, click here.
(In later years these links may not be available.)
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On Monday December 14th, Rotarian David Tall speaks to the club about ‘Flying up from Rio’, starting with the Carnaval in Rio then flying up to Manaus to visit the Amazon.
The talk is based on one of several trips to Rio for academic lectures. Most of the pictures in this talk come from a trip in 2002 which can be found here. |
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Barbara Sheppard is declared 'Citizen of the Year' at the Kenilworth Rotary Christmas meeting on December 21st. The Citation is here. |
Mayor Richard Davies presents Philip Highley the Kenilworth Town Council Award of Merit for exceptional service to the community
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The Christmas Meeting included Christmas messages from Jim Jenkinson of the YMCA, Geoff and Steph from the Leamington Christian Mission, the award of Citizen of the Year to Barbara Shepherd, with entertainment from ‘Gutted’ and Quattro ladies barbershop, and a special award from Mayor Richard Davies—the Kenilworth Town Council Award of Merit for exceptional service to the community—to Rotarian Philip Highley. More photos here.
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The Rotary Club of Kenilworth opened its first meeting of 2010 with a talk by David Howe on the Spouses of Prime Ministers. An insightful and excellent talk of the minutiae of living in 10 Downing Street as a supernumary supporting the Prime Minister without any formal role. Insightful vignettes of the goings on in no. 10 over the centuries with great stories about Mary Wilson and Harold’s gin, Violet Attlee driving Clem to Buckingham Palace and parking round the corner and, of course, tales about Dennis Thatcher. An interesting evening.
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| Founder member Tom Roberts passed away on Friday 8th of January. He was a much-loved member of the club and we honour him affectionately in his fiftieth year as a Rotarian.
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Susie Murray speaks to the club about her business ‘Purple Patch’ which specialises in raising funds for charities. In particular she emphasised that 10% of the charities receive 90% of the total given while the remaining 90% of the charities compete for the remaining 10%. The members listened intently, while some even took notes ...
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The earthquake in Port au Prince, Haiti, on Tuesday 12th January, received immediate response through the donation of £980 for two Shelter Boxes organized by Zig Layton-Henry, chairman of club International Committee. This will add to the world-wide action of Rotary to send shelter boxes from an organisation of 1.2 million members.
The club is mindful of the freely given donations to Rotary Charities by the people of Kenilworth and its environs. We can all work together within a world-wide organization to make a difference.
See a video and obtain more information about Shelter Box in Haiti.
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The Rotary Club of Kenilworth lost round three of the District Quiz to Southam 2000 by a margin of 30 points to 20. We were soundly beaten. In the first round we could not answer even one of the questions and lost every round except one. The fact that this one round involved questions on Rotary shows what useless geeks we are. Congratulations to Southam 2000.
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On January 25th, Alan Rogers speaks to the club about Advanced Driving. |
| On Monday February 1st, our club was visited by members of our daughter club, Southam:
Mike Gaffney, Gwenda Gaffney, John Bevan, Jean Foster, Peter Jackson.
Good fellowship was enjoyed by all.
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President Philip introduces Roma Armstrong who speaks of her life’s work with local guides and brownies on February 15th. |
| Rosie Lee speaks to the club on February 22nd about MenCap and thanks the club for support in her fundraising bicycle ride from Moscow to St Petersburg. |
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On Saturday February 27th Kenilworth Rotary had its street collection to End Polio Now!
Rotary International is raising $200,000,000 dollars to complete the eradication of polio in the whole world. When we began our task in 1985 there were 315,000 cases world-wide a year. Now there are around a thousand. But there are still four countries (Nigeria, India, Pakistan, Afghanistan) with several hundred million population where polio is an on-going problem.
See a video of the situation or view recent occurrences of polio in the weekly update.
If you wish to contribute locally, you may send a cheque made out to 'The Rotary Club of Kenilworth - End Polio Now' to The Treasurer, Rotary Club of Kenilworth, 11 Rose Croft, Kenilworth CV8 1AF.
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| President Philip collecting for End Polio Now! The club raised £600 in donations from the people in Kenilworth. |
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President Philip is in attendance as the Rotary Club of Kenilworth Defibrillator is placed in Abbey End. |
| Amy Hewitt, a Sussex University student, spoke to the club on March 15th about the Milele project which she and friends had organised to support children in Uganda. Seen here with the Speaker’s host for the evening, Brian Bridges.
Amy and her fellow students visited Uganda and returned with the intention of taking practical action to support a small group of children.
The work of the Milele Charity can be seen here.
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Lucia Clifford, who supported the club for several years in her capacity as reporter for the Kenilworth Weekly News spoke on March 22nd about her career in the media, as reporter, traffic announcer for local radio, and now as a freelance writer. |
Rotarians Paul Seward and Colin Sallis collect for Water Aid supported by Kenny Bear from the Kenilworth Festival. (Saturday 27th March.) |
Kenilworth Town Mayor Richard Davies and Mayoress Erica support WaterAid.
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Jeremy Walker
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Neringa Karanaviciute and Kristina Zibaliene
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On Monday 12th March the club was honoured with a presentation by Jeremy Walker and Richard Page about Edward's Trust which offers support to children and families during serious illness and bereavement, together with a visit from Neringa Karanaviciute and Kristina Zibaliene from the Rotaract Club of Klaipeda, Lithuania. More photos here.
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Kenilworth Rotary plays its part providing marshalls on duty from 9 am.... |
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On Monday April 26th, the club was entertained spectaclularly by commercial artist Jeff Tristram with his wide range of paintings, commercial art, cartoons and novels. A great evening indeed! See more here. |
| Sue Harrison spoke about her experiences as a marathon runner on Monday May 10th. Sue, who is a member of the Leamington Cycling and Athletic Club has achieved the qualifying standard for the European Championships this year but fell behind the main group in the recent London Marathon and is likely to miss selection. |
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Kenilworth Rotary supports other local and national causes. Here, on the same day, President Elect Graham Tall supports Leamington Spa Regency President Rachel Hinton as her club collects for Myton Hospice at Leamington Sainsburys and in the afternoon attends the final of Youth Speaks in Stratford. In the photo District Governor Lorna Beedham addresses the large audience travelling with teams from all over the UK and Ireland. One of the finalists was the team from Kenilworth School. |
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The Kenilworth Festival was a huge success throughout its run from Saturday May 8th - Sunday May 16th. Photographs here. |
| On Monday May 17th, the Rotary Club of Kenilworth celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Inaugural Meeting of the formation of the Interim Rotary Club of Kenilworth. A presentation celebrating the history of the club was given by Rotarian Arnold Bolton.
The meeting doubled as the President's Night, attended by the District Governor Lorna Beedham and the Town Mayor Richard Davies.
Richard surprised the club by presenting them with the Town's Award of Merit for service to the community.
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The 28th Two Castles Run began at 9am on Sunday June 6th and ended in Kenilworth Castle. Results and photographs are here. |
Over two thousand photos were taken by Sally Evans Photography. Click here and type in your running number to find your photographs! |
| President Philip signs to approve the formation of the University of Warwick Rotaract Club under the auspices of the Rotary Club of Kenilworth, in the presence of Charlotte Rheams, District 1060 Rotaract Officer. |
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Selling T-shirts with proceeds to Shelter Box at the Lion’s Fair in Abbey Fields on Saturday 12th June. More photos here. |
| On Monday June 21st, Zoë Rose, Chair of the Maya Childcare Trust spoke about the charity which supports a children’s day care centre in Guatamala. |
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President Philip reads his report for his Rotary Year before handing on to President Graham Tall on Monday June 28th. |
