Bakewell Mayor presents cheque to Repair Café & Medway Centre
At Rotary Bakewell Repair Café on Saturday 30th November Bakewell Mayor, Helen Garvey came along to see the activity and to present a special award to be shared between the Medway Centre and the Repair Café.
Another successful and convivial repair café with a very positive buzz – a steady stream of customers and nearly 30 items attended to, most fixable – but no bikes this time!
The next café will be at the Methodist Church, Bakewell on Saturday 31st January 2025.
Rotary Bakewell Meeting Update
At our SGM (Special General Meeting) on 4th December we elected club officers for 2025/26 with John Hopkins as President and 2026/27 with Tom Marshall taking up the role. David Goodlad and Peter Huxtable remain as Treasurer and Secretary respectively.
The examined accounts for 2023/24 (year ending June) were approved. During the year the club charity account raised some £10,000 and disbursed monies to many local schools and organisations as well as Air Ambulance, Ashgate Hospice, Rob Burrows MND appeal, EMICS and CRY (Cardiac Risk in the Young).
We were joined at the meeting and for lunch by EMICS who were Ann Esders’ nominated charity last year – and for who we have raised nearly £3K for.
Our guest speaker at the evening meeting on 27th November was BBC radio sports reporter Peter Slater who entertained us very well and most informatively with his A-Z anecdotes around the sports personalities he’s met over the last 45 years - and some honeymoon memories of the Rutland Hotel in 1978!
Club Member Evelyn-Rita Hickin gave us a further presentation on her work with the Landmark Trust on Lundy island, North Devon at the lunchtime meeting on 20th November. On this occasion she was searching for non-native species and sifting through seaweed!
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