Meeting Report 14th June 2022

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Meeting Report 14th June 2022

The Rotary Club of Reading
Published by Alan H in News · 23 June 2022
Dear Fellow Rotarians,

16 of our members joined in the Zoom meeting on 14th June and we were pleased to welcome a possible new Associate Member, Michael Ogunseye, and, joining us from Stockholm, Mr. Frake, a member of the Rotary Club of Kankaria in India whose son is a next-door neighbour to Tony Cowling and who, through Tony, has presented us with a pennant from his Club celebrating its 50th anniversary.

Our speaker was Sarah Hacker of PACT, an Adoption Charity and family support provider. We hope eventually to provide a recording of her talk on our Club website. Sarah has sent the following message to us since her talk:-

"Thank you so much for hosting me at your meeting on Tuesday.  I really appreciated being given the opportunity to tell you a bit more about the work we do at PACT.  If you would like any more information please do not hesitate to ask and it would be great is you were able to share the invitation to our garden party: https://www.pactcharity.org/support-us/garden-party/

Frank Parkinson reported that Graham Broadhurst was making steady progress, but that his recovery was bound to take some time.

President Simon reported the sad news of the resignations of two of our members, Simon Soname and Dudley Ives, but was pleased to say that both gentlemen were willing to become Associate Members of the Club, so they can still join us in fundraising and social events when they are able. He also told us that Club Council on 13th June had agreed that any profits from our Centenary celebration (including the raffle) woulkd be divided three ways between Shelterboxes, Water Aid and our Club funds. Members present agreed the motion from Club Council that we make a grant of £500 to go to Step by Step, an organisation working with homeless yoiung people about which we heard a talk back in March.

Simon also reminded us of the Golf Day at Theale on 12th September, noting that teams and sponsorship and prizes for the tombola would all be very welcome.

It was agreed that the Secretary should send round an email to see who would still like to attend lunch at Pepe Sale on 5th July, as this now clashed with the Memorial Service for Ian Hammond which has been arranged for 2.0. p.m. that afternoon. The Secretary has since sent out that email and has just sent out another asking who would be available on 28th June if we decided to meet at Pepe Sale then instead of on 5th July.

Bob Castelijn reminded us of the Club walk planned for 13th July. Please contact Bob if you are interested in going on this.

Chris Nicholls announced that there would be at least 130 people sharing in our Centenary celebration on June 22nd. The Hall will be open from 6.30 p,.m., and the neal will start at 7.30 p.m.

Janet Poland mentioned that she was in negotiation with Simon Jones, an auctioneer, for him to attend our evening meeting on 320th August and wondered if members would like this to take a format similar to "Antiques Road Show" where people bring along items they would like valued and assessed. Those present seemed very happy with this idea.

Our next Zoom meeting will be on Tuesday July 12th at 11.45 a.m. for 12 noon and would be hosted by our new Secretary, Bob Castelijn.

Best wishes,
Alan Haine



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