Pictures from Events taken throughout 2025

February
2000 Food Deliveries

We have now delivered the final 80 of the 2,000 frozen microwaveable meals for this year. This delivery was to Share Wokingham at Norrey's Church. The photos show Rotarians Graham and Scott with Claire Revie and Carolyn Wildman from SHARE holding up the total food delivery of the current programme. Over the past 3 years we have delivered 7000 meals. Many of our members helped with deliveries to food share organisations in the local area (see the additional photos).

January
Winnersh Primary RotaKids

At a meeting of the Winnersh Primary RotaKids Club, Candice Botha from the Cowshed spoke to the 26 children present and explained what the charity does and how they obtain funding.  She showed some hand sown bags containing children's clothes, toys, and games.  The Rotakids are now planning a fund-raising event to support the Cowshed. In the photo the children's teacher Carrie-Ann Emslie (left) with Candice next to her and Rotarians Alan Howe and John Ellis who support the club. 

Christmas success

Leading  up  to  Christmas  we  raised  over  £5,250  with  our  friends  from  the  Inner  Wheel  Club  of  Reading  Maiden  Erlegh.  Our  thanks  go  to  Garden Centres  at Winnersh,  Hare  Hatch  Sheeplands  and  Henry  Street  for  their  support  and  for  allowing  us  to  operate  Santa  grottos  and  do  can  shaking  collections.  A  big  thank  also  to  everyone  who  supported  usand  donated. We'll use  the  money  we  raised  to  fund  our  ongoing  commitment  to  supporting  local  initiatives.

Food Deliveries

This week we delivered the first 400 of 2000 frozen nutritious meals to local Food Share Charities funded bythe Art and Craft Fair that we ran in October 2024. The photo shows (left to right) Claire Levie, founder and organiser of SHARE Wokingham, Carolyn Wildman of Woodley SHARE and Rotarian Mike Phillips, who with colleague Pat Holloway delivered 90 packaged meals today to the SHARE charity operating from Norreys Church in Wokingham.

Donation to Acorns Nursery

We have donated £900 to Acorns Nursery to provide and install an outdoor shed to store playgroundequipment. Acorns Nursery is a charitable, organization based in Calcot offering a "home from home" nursery environment for up to 24 children, aged 2-5, during term time. The photo shows Graham Bloomfield, our Community Service Leader, with Fiona Oyekan, Manager of Acorns Nursery. If you would like to help with similar community projects please call Chris on 07966 1113Z2 or email him at clmf@aol.com.