The Rotary Club of the City of Wolverhampton looks forward to welcoming Rotarian Mohan Kumar who will be speaking to us on zoom from India at 6pm GMT on Tuesday, January 3rd 2023. His talk is entitled ‘Reaching The Unreached.’

Mohan is well known internationally for his work in providing over 24,000 prosthric hands to amputees, which resulted in recognition by Rotary International of as only one of 6  Champions of Health in the Rotary world. He holds numerous other awards. His full profile is avaiable by clicking HERE

 Anyone wishing to join us for this talk please message Past President Richard Green on +44 7891 035302 to receive the zoom link. Places will be limited, so first come first served!

Club President Sylvia Morgan with the Mayor, Councillor Sandra Samuels M.B.E and the Mayors Consort, Karl Samuels.

The Rotary Tree of Remembrance is up and running. Thanks to the tree committee ably led by Lorraine. The Mayor of Wolverhampton has been very supportive of our efforts to raise money for our charities . We were able along with some members of our club to begin the official opening on Saturday 19^th November at 1.00pm in the Wulfrun Centre. We will have the tree there until after Christmas giving people the opportunity to remember their relatives and friends in the Express and Star, the Wulfrun Centre and on our Clubs website page. Thankyou to everyone for their help and support.

President Sylvia.

Lest We Forget.

It was a very proud moment to be able to represent our club at the civic centre along with so many organisations . We have not been able to come together for so long . The City did our  services proud.

During the silence we were able to reflect on the lives lost and the devastation that war brings about.We shall keep on trying to help make the world a better place.

Rotary and Peace the World Over.

President Sylvia.

ce for us all .

President Sylvia.

Pine Green Academy in Wolverhampton is a Social Emotional Mental Health specialist school providing a varied Education for young people aged 7 to 16 with special needs.

Richard Green and Richard Horrell were pleased to visit the academy recently to hand over the first batch of 300 Books4Home and a gift of crocus corms for the school gardens in support of the Rotary EndPolio campaign. A number of projects are planned for the future, working with this specialist setting.

Special Educational Needs Co-ordinator Sarah Long tells us “The core of everything we do is our motto ‘ All Different, all Valued, all Equal.’ She added “we are delighted with the support we are receiving from the Rotary Club of The City of Wolverhampton and we look forward to an evergrowing relationship.”

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Photos show the books and crocus corms being handed over to the Head of School, Stuart Williams.

Richard Green.

Another great turnout by President Sylvia, the club members, the Bantock Users Group and children from Uplands and Merridale schools as the Rotary Club of The City of Wolverhampton  planted another 4000 crocus corms in Bantock Park in support of the Rotary EndPolio campaign. It was a great pleasure also to welcome along the Mayor of Wolverhampton, Councillor Sandra Samuels OBE. Her cheerful, enthusiastic support made the children  –  and us – very happy.

Over the years, we’ve now planted 50,000 purple crocus and we’ll keep going every autumn until the scourge of polio is eliminated form the world.

Foundation Committee chair Richard Green was highly amused when 2 passers by, seeing all the yellow tabards, asked “‘what are those convicts doing wth the Mayor and those children?” At least it gave him an easy opportunity to tell them all about this world changing campaign by Rotary International!

(Consent to photograph the children obtained.)

Our Christmas tree of remembrance this year kicked off at the Wolverhampton Grammar School (WGS) on Wednesday 18th October with senior school students putting 750 donor support letters in windowed envelopes. A big thank you to all the students and staff at WGS who gave up part of their lunch break to help support our project.

The tree will arrive in the Wulfrun Centre on Saturday 19th November and will be launched by the Mayor of Wolverhampton Sandra Samuels OBE at 1.00pm. The tree will remain there for 6 weeks.

Our thanks to WGSstaff for their help and for showing the students how they can make a difference to their local community. What a wonderful experience for Rotary working in the community together with young people who care.

The charities benefiting from the Tree of Remembrance this year are The MS Therapy Centre, The Haven, Compton Care and the Rotary Charitable Trust.

We give special recognition and thanks to our main sponsors this year who are Millers Jewellers, The Express and Star, Peter Posh Menswear, FBC Manby Bowdler (Solicitors), The James Beattie Charitable Trust, Treadsetters tyres of Halesfield,Sandford Carpets & Curtains of Wolverhamptonand the Wulfrun Centre.

Well done and thank you all.
President of the City of Wolverhampton Rotary Club
Sylvia Morgan.

District Governor Steve Antill with Club President Sylvia Morgan, Derek Morgan and Robin Tyler-Morris

On 15 th October 4 Rotarians- Richard Green, Robin Tyler Morris and Derek and I attended the first face to face conference in 3 yrs. It took place in Stone at Yarfield Conference centre. It was lovely to be back meeting old friends and whilst there were only 110 people attending it was good to see a good number of clubs represented. Lots of good speakers . Some new ideas around fundraising and ideas around working together. Most clubs experiencing the same problems as we do especially around members coming back after the Covid . Although our district has apparently increased membership by 5per cent. Food was ok but great value for money as the day was only £40 inclusive of food and tea coffee and cakes and biscuits included.

Next year they are planning a weekend  in Telford fancy dress apparently on the cards so watch this space. The VSE team gave their presentation which was very good  they had been in Denmark for two weeks the Denmark team will be doing a visit here during this Rotary year.  We shall probably organise a visit from our VSE team to the club early in the new year . We also did the mile walk for end polio before lunch raising over £700 which will be matched by district Then doubled by the Bill Gates trust. A day well spent. We enjoyed being able to share ideas and experiences with our Rotary friends .

And finally, Troy Allen from the Bloxwich Phoenix club promised PDG Frazer Dukes that he would dye his hair purple until the last case of polio was eradicated from the world. It’s still purple today with 23 cases reported in the world. He is keeping his promise. Let’s keep ours too so please come and help us plant our crocuses in Bantock park this Friday 10-30 am till 12pm. We need your help. Troy also won the Frazer Dukes award for his steadfast support of the Rotary Foundation .

President Sylvia Morgan.