News Items

Membership

New Members

Jan 29th 2020 we were fortunate to welcome two new members to our club; Kamal and Lorraine. President Elect Richard performed the simple ceremony and presented each with a new member welcome pack and badges.

30th January 2020

Community

Sams Workplace

Sam's Workplace offers a realistic work experience placement for people with a learning disability, together with independence and social skills. They run a small cafe and sweet shop, so there are plenty of opportunities for daily life and work skills, money skills, weight and measuring, catering, customer care and social interaction in a supported and friendly environment.

29th January 2020

Christmas Collections

Record Generosity

The Rotary Santa’s Sleigh made its annual pass over Blidworth and Ravenshead this year and once again proved to be a huge success. The number of children Santa sees seems to increase every year.

21st January 2020

Events

Joint Club Meeting

Three local clubs, our own Ravenshead and Blidworth, Worksop Shirebrook and District, and Sherwood Forest met on the 11th November 2019 for a joint meeting. It was a little more formal than we are used to due to the attendance of the 'DG', but we enjoyed the fellowship of the other clubs, and learned more about our District Governor, his past and his hopes for the rest of his year.

12th December 2019

Youth

Tributes paid to local teacher Phil Worsley

Joseph Whitaker technology teacher Phil Worsley passed away on November 6th 2019 having been diagnosed with advanced esophageal cancer in April 2019. Phil is remembered for his enthusiasm for technology and the formation of Joseph Whitaker Young Engineers after school group.

26th November 2019

Community

Lest We Forget

The club was pleased to support Remembrance Sunday events on 10th November. We presented wreaths at both Blidworth and Ravenshead.

24th November 2019

Social

Blown Away by Ingrid

On 23rd October 2019, the club paid a visit to Ingrid Pears studio at Thoresby. Ingrid Pears MBE is an internationally recognised glass artist. Ingrid creates each piece individually using the finest crystal glass.

24th November 2019

Youth

RYLA Success

In May 2019 the club, through its charity fund, was fortunate to enable two young people from the area to attend the Rotary Young Leadership Award (RYLA) camp at Buxton. At one of our meetings in September, Daisy visited the club to let us know how she and Josh went on at the event.

21st November 2019

Community

Men In Sheds

On 27th October, Peter and David from "Men in Sheds" came to talk to the club about the group, and its workshop at Blidworth. They were a little nervous not having presented before, but gave a good account.

1st November 2019

Youth

Ravenshead Youth Theatre Group

18th September, Ann Marie from the Ravenshead Youth Theatre Group came to talk to us about the activities of the group.

27th September 2019

Events

Handover evening

Wednesday the 14th of August was a busy evening for President John. Firstly he inducted Susie Parry Williams as a member of our Rotary Club and then he handed over the chain of office to Dr Usman Ali as our President for the year 2019-2020.

24th August 2019

Youth

Year 6 Writing #2

Number 2 of our writing competition. Three children set off to explore a near by forest. It was a bright, sunny day but the forest of pine trees looked rather dark and forbidding. They followed a sandy path into the forest and before long the path sloped steeply downwards.

14th August 2019