Working Together for Others
We raise up to £20,000 each year for charities and other causes.
Our members also give their time and skills to community service projects.
Below are some of the people and organisations we have supported in recent years:
Duchess of Kent House
Yorkshire Flood victims
Battle Primary School
Riverview Care Home
Brainwave
MacMillan Cancer Care
Arthritis Matters
Brit India Trust
League of Friends of Royal Berks Hospital
Alexander Devine Childrens Cancer Trust
Berkshire Community Foundation
Whitley Park Infants School
Down’s Syndrome International Swimming Organisation (DSISO), GB
Rebecca Ellis Sponsorship
A P Parker Sponsorship
Institute of Cancer Research
British Legion, Berkshire Welfare Fund
Rotary Youth Leadership Awards (RYLA)
Reading Cygnets
Knysna School (South Africa)
Royal Berks Hospital Buggy Fund
Crossroads
Nyumbani Village, Kenya, for children orphaned by Aids
Farm Africa
Help for Heroes
Thames Valley and Chilterns Air Ambulance
Sulham & Ufton Nervet School
Shelterbox
Thrive
Microloans for Malawi
Reading Single Homeless Project
10% of all we collect goes to Rotary International Foundation. This fund is supported by Rotary Clubs world-wide and one of its major projects for the past 20 years has been the elimination of polio throughout the world, which should be achieved within the next three to five years. Recently the Bill Gates Foundation gave £50 million towards this programme, which the Rotary Foundation is committed to matching.