Past News

July 2023

Our New Rotary year started on 1 July and our President Suzan has penned a welcome to the year message

June 2023

After a few months being homeless due to hotel refurbishment, we are delighted to be meeting at our new location at Sutton Bowling Club, Bowling Way (off Dorset Road), Sutton SM2 6FF. We are also trialling different formats to our meetings. 

May 2023

Once again we were out in force for the Cheam Charter Fair - this year adding the sale of items made by our Friends group as well as a Splat the Rat game

February 2023

Our End Polio Now Croci are starting to bloom at the Cheam Memorial Garden .  These represent the painting of children's little finger in purple ink to signify that they have received the Polio virus.  

Rotary is supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates FOundation double matching our fundraising worldwide to End Polio See www.endpolio.org

2022 saw Polio found in water samples in the UK and we know that the only way to stop it is to eliminate it.  In recent years there have been just hadfulls of cases - although COVID saw a rise, as the vaccination teams were unable to do their work on polio whilst supporting COVID protections instead.

Quiz Night 

Our annual New Year Quiz in aid of Youth charities took place at Sutton Grammar school. Our popular quizmaster lead the evening which raised £1,300.

January 2023

We had fantastic news at our annual Xmas presentation evening - announcing that we were donating £15,100 to our nominated and partner charities.  This comes from all our Xmas activities including the Cheam Xmas evening,, shop collections, and our Santa's Sleigh.  Most of the charities attended and told everyone about what they were doing and how they were planning to use the donation(s).

Below We have also been out litter picking

December

Thanks to the National Lottery Community Fnd we were able to launch a sewing project and are now celebrating 10 months.  Click here for more 

Tree Planting for the Queen's Green Canopy Project

Also in December we planted a tree we sponsored for the Jubilee Copse joining Friends of Oaks Park for the Queen's Green Canopy Project.  It is a lovely cherry tree and we look forward to seeing it bloom in future years.  

November

We are always excited at this time of year as we get ready to announce the Santa's Sleigh Routes for the year Below is the outline start and finish points.  Only a few years ago that is all that was published but now we will publish maps,  daily routes (on Facebook) and an A-Z of roads.  On the night we will have a Santa Tracker so you can follow our progress.  Watch this space......

October

We have raised £1,650 and gave to Water Survival Box Ltd for the purchase of 11 Water Survival Boxes to be sent to Pakistan as part of Rotary’s relief effort.

September

We participated in the Eco Fair showcasing our environmental activities: promoting Young Environmentalist Competition and distributing Morsbags and Stop Food Waste Tips.

August

We have supported Ukrainian guests in Sutton with donations to the Sutton Council for the purchase of supermarket vouchers for the Ukrainian guests to help with the weekly Drop-In meetings (A total of £3,000)

For the Ukrainian Day celebrations we supported with £750 to help and fund educational needs. 

We are also supporting the Moshchun Project in Ukraine which will provide temporary housing to people whose house were destroyed by war, while their own homes are being repaired. (£500)

Our thanks go to Alison Rouse who joined our Just Giving Campaign for Ukraine and raised £475

We are also one of the supporters of the Moldova School Toilets Project and our contribution has been recognised.