Foundation

Foundation is Rotary's very own Charity. It sponsors many projects - Ambassadorial Scholars, bringing students from abroad to study in the UK, sending professional young people from the UK to sample their particular profession in another country - The Group Study Exchange, and other projects.

Contact details:

Peter Conwell
t: 01422 245 432
e: jconwell@talk21.com

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Club Service

The Club Service committee, in Bradford West chaired by the President-Elect, looks after all the internal matters of the club: recruitment, the club diary, organising official functions such as the Charter Evening and President's Evening.

Contact details:

Vic Cornwell
t: 01274 607 714
e: avc@viccornwell42.wanadoo.co.uk

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Community

The Community committee works to support individuals, schools and other organisations within our local area. Our regular projects include ‘Kids Out’, taking special needs children for a day of fun and laughter to a major theme park, where they join with others from around the Yorkshire Rotary district. We sponsor a sports day at another special needs school and treat the elderly housebound to an evening at the theatre. Other regular events include a Christmas toy collection, participating in the stroke awareness/blood pressure testing day and arranging a Christmas carol service/concert. Other individual events and projects are arranged as and when necessary.

Contact details:

Bob Griffiths
t: 01274 820 719
e: robert.griffiths4@blueyonder.co.uk

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Vocational

“To identify and fulfill the needs of the Rotary Club’s community, utilising, to the full, the skills, talents and vocations of the Club’s membership. To prioritise the ideal of service within the community, acknowledging that, as a provider of funding, Rotary is merely one of many, but as a provider of service, it is without peer. To recognise the worthiness of all useful occupations and to uphold the Declaration of Rotarians in Business and Professions.”

In Bradford West, we have particular commitments to:

Bradford Heartstart - in conjunction with the British Heart Foundation, this encourages and guides people into receiving training in Emergency Life Support and particularly including training in resuscitation.

Drug Prevention Initiative - we work with Bradford Schools and the local Police to provide assessors and advisors for good practice in drugs education.

Contact details:

Brian Marshall
t: 01274 602 159
e: bemar1946@sky.com

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International

The object of the international committee is to foster goodwill and understanding in an international environment.Over the last few years the committee of the Bradford West Rotary Club has endeavored to cover a range of projects which have involved a hands on approach as well as good fellowship and fun. We have been involved in Sri Lanka with a village building project using Monica Alfred, our peace studies scholar from Sri lanka as a link.At the same time we have assisted a deaf school in Tanzania and sponsored two secondary school children in the same town of Musoma. Our principal efforts on fundraising have focused on the Convoy to Ukraine, a locally organised annual event to take much needed items to Eastern Europe,and a special emphasis on Children and Water.To this end we have supported Hope and Homes,Wateraid, Jaipur limb project and plan international.

Contact details:

Peter Bondarenko
t: 01274 774 974
e: peter_bondarenko@yahoo.co.uk

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Environment

Contact details:

John Marshall
t: 01274 834 823

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Youth Opportunities

Activities include: liaison with five large secondary schools in the area, including an annual award for Service to the Community and the promotion of Rotary Youth competitions such as a Technology Tournament, a Young Chef competition ­culminating in a national fmal, and a Young Photographer competition. The Club also funds an annual Rotary Youth Leadership Award scholarship (RYLA) in which a young person is sent on a five day residential course to develop leadership qualities.

Contact details:

John Brook
t: 01274 487 691

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