L-R Rotary District Governor Ken Wagstaffe, Past District Governor Richard Green,Mayor Councillor Claire Darke, and Alice Bennett.

I represented the club at the presentation of a trophy and cheque on behalf of Rotary in Wolverhampton to 18 year old saxophonist Alice Bennett who has been selected by the Wolverhampton Schools Music Service as the Young Musician of the Year.

The presentation, which normally takes place at the pre tour concert of the Youth Orchestra, was held in the bandstand at West Park in the presence of the Mayor Councillor Claire Darke, and the District Governor, Ken Wagstaffe – attending his first engagement of the new Rotary year.

Alice has just left Wolverhampton High School for Girls and hopes to pursue a career as a professional musician. In addition to playing the saxophone, she is an accomplished violinist and is the leader of the Youth Orchestra. She hopes to do a gap year carrying out voluntary work overseas before going to music college. She is currently doing voluntary work with our District Alumni Association on the Books4Home project.

PDG Richard Green

On behalf of Wolves Play Café I would like to say a huge thank you to the James Beattie Charitable Trust and The Rotary Club of City of Wolverhampton for your generous donation of £557.20 for the Play at Home Activity Packs Project.

The funds have enabled us to carefully develop and resource 20 Play At Home Packs which will be distributed by working with Low Hill Nursery School. They will support families with young children in the area by providing quality resources, books and activities to support playing and development of little ones at home at this challenging time. The funding also has provided the opportunity for the organisation to be able to reproduce the packs in the future to further support families and enable investment in Wolves Play Café’s accessible play opportunities across the city.

We have shared the project via social media and will be posting a short blog about the project including photos and testimonials on our website as well.
Thank you again for your contribution to supporting young children and caregivers in our city.
Kind regards,

Lisa Stallard
Co-Founder and Chair

Lisa Stallard, Co-Founder

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News from the Foundation/International Committee.

At the end of the Rotary year, we had a small sum left in our budget spending allocation. The committee decided to add to our investments in the Lend With Care scheme, managed on our behalf by Richard Walton. This provides small sums on a revolving

loan basis for people in Third World Countries to set up and run their own minor businesses.

Currently we have 112 loans in action, with no bad debts. This has enabled us to help 313 individual or groups of entrepeneurs, leading to the support of 1077 family members and the creation of 188 jobs.

A typical recipient amongst several in the latest set of loans is 57 year old Blanca Oliva Chamba, shown in the photogra

ph who lives in Loja, Southern Ecuador. She was taught farming by her father and now grows lettuce, cabbage, coriander, onions, lemons and parsnip, earning her living by selling the produce locally. She has already repaid one loan in full and wishes to expand her business.

Richard Green

For more information, please see

www.wolverhamptonyoungcitizen.org.uk.

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  • facebook.com/wolverhamptontoday
  • youtube.com/wolverhamptontoday

Nursing staff at The Gem Centre, Wolverhampton modelling the new visors provided by The Rotary Club of Wolverhampton. Happy to help the pride of Britain 🇬🇧

Rotary Supporting Front Line Heroes in the fight against Covid 19.

Photo taken with Hayey Powell at The Haven office, not one the refuges.

Thanks to a project co-ordinated by David Marklew of the Cannock Rotary club, Rotarians across District 1210 have, to date, purchased, donated, and delivered 12,000 visors for use by NHS and Care Home staff, and volunteers in refuges throughout Staffordshire, Shropshire and The West Midlands.

The visors are being made for us, at cost, by Kazoo Print Solutions.

in Cannock,and all 5 clubs have supported the project, with visors going to New Cross and Penn Hospitals, numerous Care Homes, the Good Shepherd Ministry for the Homeless and The Haven Refuge for the vicitms of domestic violence, as they cope with a huge upsirge in new cases.

More visors are on the way.

PDg Richard Green