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Welcome to new DG Richard Vergette!

A BIG #Rotary District 1220 welcome to new DG Richard Vergette from Epworth and Isle of Axholme Rotary!

Welcome also to everyone across the district stepping into their new roles, and to those continuing their roles from last year!

An exciting year ahead – we all look forward to working together to build onwards and upwards!

What exciting projects do you have planned during Richard’s year? Let us know here by connecting with us on social media and posting a comment or your event link! Find your favourite way to connect with us here on LinkTree.

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Thank you, Martyn Bye – Super Double DG!

Let’s take a moment to acknowledge the stellar effort put forward by our retiring DOUBLE DG, Martyn Bye from Carlton Rotary who this evening passes on the DG baton to Richard Vergette after two whole years of steering the #Rotary District 1220 ship!

Do you have a special memory from Martyn’s time as DG? Did you work with him on a #charity project? Please mention it in the comments below! Post a photo or video!

Martyn – your selfless and forward-thinking projects are greatly valued and shall leave their mark on 1220! Thank you to Martyn and Susan Bye for all your dedication and hard work. Enjoy your rest!

And a special mention, too, for all those who have come to the end of their role as president, secretary, AG, and many other important contributions to the Rotary Wheel! A BIG Thank you! We look forward to working with everyone in 2023-2024.

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DGE gets ready for End Polio Now Ride

Richard Vergette End Polio Now ride May 2023

Our next DG, Richard Vergette, from Isle of Axholme Rotary, is currently preparing to cycle from Lands End to John O’Groats. May 14th is the day! He intends to complete his journey on May 27th. Richard is raising money in aid of End Polio Now – part of the Rotary Foundation. Thanks to the work of the Rotary Foundation together with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Polio has been eliminated in all but two countries – Afghanistan and Pakistan. Many of you know that Richard’s father was a Polio survivor from the pandemic of 1947 and he will be cycling in his honour.

Contribute to Richard’s epic ride by supporting his cause easily online with Just Giving.

Thank you!

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Doncaster Winners announced for the Great Green Read

Doncaster student wins Great Green Read writing competition

Doncaster winners announced in local environment-themed writing competition as part of the city’s Great Green Read. 

Last autumn, children, families and schools across Doncaster were called on to read, write and take action around important environmental issues during the Great Green Read. 

Over 400 people entered the competition, capturing their ideas on how to improve the world we live in via letters, essays, leaflets and posters. They were judged by Doncaster Stories, the local campaign from the National Literacy Trust, and members of the Rotary Club.

The overall winner was 10 year old Selena Simelevic, from Saltersgate Junior School. She has won £750 towards developing her school’s outdoor Eco Zone, along with a large bundle of books for her to keep. 

Selena wrote a persuasive essay about the balance between humans and nature, and the importance of living in harmony with the world around us. Her entry asked important questions such as: How can we protect the environment in our daily life? What happens if we don’t protect the environment?

Running from September to December, the Great Green Read, explored eco-projects, creative writing challenges and author events including with award-winning sisters Amy and Ella Meek who founded the charity Kids Against Plastic and authored the book Be Climate Clever. Participants learned how to write persuasively about the environment and how to use their literacy skills to become change-makers in the local community.

Phil Sheppard, Doncaster Stories Hub Manager, said, “We hope that by taking part in the Great Green Read our local young people have learned how they can use their reading, writing, speaking and listening skills to persuade others and change the world around them. There were so many inspiring entries and it’s clear to see that Doncaster is full of young people who want to make a difference.”

Phillip Wilbourn, Rotary District Environmental Lead, said, “This inspirational project has yielded a valuable insight into how young people at an early age are already worried about the world in which we live. Society would do well to listen to their concerns. Selena’s entry had a message for all of us: In the next few decades, we need to do something unprecedented to achieve a sustainable existence on earth. But how do we do it?”

The Great Green Read runners up were: 

  • Daisy Parkin, from St Joseph’s Catholic Primary School, who designed an A3 newsletter featuring important facts about the population, plastics, and how we pollute the planet
  • Ethan Jackson, from Bentley High Street Primary School, who wrote a letter to Ed Miliband, MP for Doncaster North and Shadow Secretary of State for Climate Change and Net Zero.
  • Sofia Barker, from Tickhill Estfeld Primary School, who asked in a letter to all major supermarkets, to reduce the amount of items in plastic packaging they sell
  • Jacob Hughes, from St Joseph’s Catholic Primary School wrote a persuasive letter from “Bluey” in the style of “The Day the Crayons Quit”

On Monday 20 March, Doncaster Stories and the Rotary Club of Doncaster St Leger will be presenting Selena and the rest of the runners up for the Great Green Read with their certificates at a special ceremony hosted at the Mansion House.

Doncaster Stories is a local campaign led by the National Literacy Trust, to help improve literacy levels across Doncaster. The campaign works with community organisations to promote reading for enjoyment amongst local children and young adults. 

If you would like to find out more about the campaign, please visit www.doncasterstories.org, or to get involved and volunteer, email doncasterstories@literacytrust.org.uk.

Read about this story also on the National Literacy Trust’s website.

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New 1220 District Governor Keep ROTARY ‘Staying Alert’

Doctor Jill Bethell MBE takes over as District 1220 Governor in July. The retired doctor will lead the team ensuring Rotary has fresh vigour to be ‘alert’ to the needs of communities throughout the East Midland and South Yorkshire.  

During and beyond the covid-19 pandemic, 67 local Rotary groups have continued to support by uniting and take action in our communities and beyond. A regional foodbank supply scheme is now in operation and a number of grants have been made to schools, individuals and organisations making PPE for hospitals and care centres. Rotary International have given $20million to support foodbanks worldwide.

President of Rotary International 20-21 during her training in San Diego USA earlier this year prior to the Covid-19 pandemic

Retired Dronfield GP Jill said, “Many lessons have and are being learned during this pandemic. As COVID-19 changes the way we live so it changes how Rotary operates and what we do. Let’s all turn our challenges into stepping stones to success in different ways than we’ve previously enjoyed.”

Jill, a Londoner by birth, trained in Sheffield and has spent many years in Dronfield and is privileged to be very much part of the Community. Jill, with others, started the Welcome Club on Tuesdays in memory of her father who had multiple sclerosis; the Cardio Club for those with heart problems – often Jills’ Friday evening surgeries were busy with men from 50-70 years,  who had had heart attacks, needing to “touchbase” and check out their concerns. Dronfield’s keen, vibrant St John Ambulance Unit invited Jill to be President; Dronfield Guides to be their Ambassador and a Church Warden for 5 years. Jill and husband Tony were both very honoured to receive MBEs at the same time in 2011, for Services to the Community of Dronfield.

Jill will lead Rotary as it develops through Covid-19 with greater use of technology such as video conference meetings and Rotary E clubs where members do much work online.

Jill said, “Rotary needs to keep alert to present very difficult and different circumstances. We need to modernise and move on in the 21st century with younger members enabling Rotary to help address community needs both during and after this pandemic.”

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Community Save a Life Campaign

WIN A DEFIBRILLATOR FOR YOUR COMMUNITY !!

All Clubs:

Please let DG Cheryle know by Feb 14th how many of your Club Members have done the Free Online Life Saving Skills Course.

The Club with the highest Percentage of Club Members completed will win a Defibrillator for their Community.

The Course is Free and only takes about 40 Mins to complete. You can even do it in Stages of 10 Mins.

Just go onto the following Website www.virtual-college.co.uk/prepared.

Together we can “Be the Inspiration” to Save Lives.

Tell you Families, Friends, Schools and Community Groups and encourage them to do the Course.

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