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Northleach and Fosse Lions Club<br />
The President-Elect Dave Murphy inducted two new<br />
members at the recent business meeting of the Club.<br />
Lion President Keith Messenger sponsored primrose and Tim Unwin<br />
from Northleach.<br />
Members approved a donation to ‘Help the Heroes’ charity and this<br />
will be presented to Christine Mills MBE, founder and Trustee of the<br />
Charity. Christine is the guest of honour at the Club’s Charter<br />
Anniversary Dinner.<br />
The winner of this month’s “100 Club” draw was Adam Gardner of<br />
Aldsworth.<br />
June Fundraising Events<br />
• The next car boot sale will be on the 14th June. These are held on<br />
the Countrywide forecourt in Bourton-on-the-Water on the second<br />
Sunday of each month.<br />
• Members will be serving teas/coffee and cakes at the Victoria Hall<br />
in Bourton on Tuesday 2nd and attending the Northleach Charter<br />
Fair on the 27th.<br />
The hand-over of the Presidency of the Club will take place at a meal<br />
in the Sherborne Arms Inn in Aldsworth in June.<br />
The Club holds its business meetings on the second Tuesday of<br />
each month at 8 pm. The June meeting will be held at the<br />
Wheatsheaf Inn in Northleach on 9th June.<br />
From July, the Club will hold its monthly business meetings in The<br />
Ox House in Northleach. All interested people are welcome to attend.<br />
For further information the Club website is<br />
northleachandfosselions.org.uk or telephone 0845 8339825<br />
<br />
The Rotary Club<br />
of the North Cotswolds<br />
Aid for Nepal following Earthquake<br />
A very big Thank You to Rotarian John Hackling and John Hackling<br />
(Transport) Ltd for waiving charges on his company's car park in Station<br />
Road, Bourton-on-the-Wate, and allowing North Cotswolds Rotary Club<br />
to collect from cars and buses parking there on Saturday 9th May, with<br />
all the takings (£1400, including donations from bus and car passengers)<br />
going towards longer term reconstruction projects in Nepal. On<br />
Saturday 2nd May club members and their families collected £1200 in<br />
Bourton, which went to ShelterBox and Aquabox for immediate disaster<br />
relief, and the previous week the club donated £2000 for emergency<br />
relief in Nepal. Also on 2nd May Rotarian Phil Randall collected for<br />
Nepal outside Budgens in Moreton in Marsh, raising £753 in four hours,<br />
and this will be added to the funds for reconstruction projects. Thus the<br />
total raised or donated so far comes to £5353, and we hope to contribute<br />
further towards reconstruction projects through Rotary in Nepal in the<br />
future. Many thanks to all who donated.<br />
Northleach and fosse lions club<br />
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TO GLOUCESTERSHIRE<br />
GARDEN OWNERS<br />
The National Gardens Scheme has been opening gardens to<br />
raise money for nursing and caring charities since 1927.<br />
Now some 3,800 gardens open<br />
annually for the Scheme – and we<br />
need every one of them and more<br />
so we can continue to make<br />
generous donations to charities<br />
such as Macmillan Cancer Support,<br />
Marie Curie Cancer Care and the<br />
Queen’s Nursing Institute.<br />
Pasture Farm, Upper Oddington<br />
So we’re always looking for new garden owners willing to take<br />
the plunge and open their gardens to the public. If you are, or<br />
would like to be, a member of the Gloucestershire Federation<br />
of Garden Societies, would you consider opening for the NGS?<br />
Whether your garden is large or small, traditional or modern,<br />
filled with cottage garden plants or whispering grasses, we’d<br />
love to hear from you – you don’t need to be daunted by the<br />
prospect! The Gloucestershire NGS county team is formed of<br />
volunteers who will be only too happy to advise and help you<br />
through the opening process.<br />
So don’t hide your horticultural light under<br />
a bushel! If you feel like giving it a go, get<br />
in touch with Vanessa Berridge on 01242<br />
609535 or vanessa.berridge@sky.com.<br />
We look forward to hearing from you and<br />
to visiting your gardens.<br />
Rotarians collecting for Nepal in front of a ShelterBox tent in Bourton.<br />
Know Your Blood Pressure<br />
North Cotswolds Rotary Club completed a very worthwhile day's service<br />
in our local community on Saturday 18th April. At the end of Know Your<br />
Blood Pressure Day in Bourton-on-the-Water a total of 115 people had<br />
their blood pressure taken, of which 18 were advised to see their GP<br />
within a month and several to see their GP immediately. In other words<br />
there were concerns about nearly 20% of those seen. The exercise was<br />
run in conjunction with the Stroke Association, and Rotary clubs up and<br />
down the country participated.<br />
To find out details of our club go to www.NorthCotswoldsRotary.org.uk<br />
or visit our club Facebook page.
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