Strathaven Rotary delighted to splash the charity cash
Every year the Rotary Club of Strathaven disburses all of the money that it has raised during the previous year to support local, national and international charities.
Most of this money comes by way of the club’s annual sports dinner.
But significant sums are raised in other ways, too, not least by the annual international concert that involves all the local schools.
Since December of 2015, more than £9000 has been given out.
This includes the latest tranche – a package proposed by the club’s immediate past president Joyce Waddell – that has seen £6000 going to charities or groups based in Scotland.
The beneficiaries of this round of giving include Scottish-based charities Prostate Cancer Scotland and the Men’s Sheds Association.
Local groups include: Strathaven Dynamos FC, the Strathaven Rainbow Club, the Strathaven Scout and Guide Centre, Adam’s Community Trust, the 1st Strathaven Boys’ Brigade, Chapelton Girls’ Brigade, the Strathaven Ranger group, Strathaven Rugby Club, Blantyre Soccer Academy, Avon Netball Club and the Broadlees Junior Golf Academy.
Most of these local groups have been regular beneficiaries, but this year the club made a special effort to support the Westgate Sports Trust development at Strathaven Rugby Club’s ground, whereby the local football and rugby clubs have come together to fund and construct high quality new pitches within the rugby club’s ground at Westgate.
Strathaven Rotary’s members felt that this was an admirable development for the town, on a par with the club’s own much earlier achievement of successfully campaigning and fundraising for the town to have its own swimming pool.
Strathaven Rotary has therefore managed to contribute no less than £2000 to this excellent cause.