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Local charity helps save lives and educate slums kids in India
Wednesday 10th September 2025
Our speaker today was the founder of the Do Slumthing charity, Simon Rye, who gave a moving and inspiring account of the poverty thousands of young children in India are living in. He showed how with how with relatively little money the charity is helping them to survive and educating them sufficiently to enable them to rise above their lives in the slums of India.
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Petanke, play this game in Bristol
Wednesday 20th August 2025
Inroduced by Filton Petanke club's newest member, Rotarian Richard Brown ,one of their longest serving members Barry Crouch introduced us to the fascinating development of this hugely popular game based loosely on the games of bowls in the UK and boules in Europe.
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Riding for disadvantaged and disabled people in Bristol
Wednesday 30th July 2025
We were delighted to welcome back Gill Edwards of the Avon Centre, near Henlease, who has been a volunteer since it's inception.
She told us that for more than forty years, the Avon RDA (Riding for the Disabled Association) Group has provided therapeutic riding for children and adults with a wide range of disabilities and impairments, visible and invisible. We aim to improve lives by focussing on the health and wellbeing benefits of bringing people and horses together.
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Clifton Rotary Club outperformed in the District skittles semi -final
Friday 20th June 2025
Outperformed but not embarressed!
Although we lost the match we can be proud of our performance tonight and in the rest of the tournament. I hope that you have enjoyed the journey to the semi finals. Next year, who knows?
The teams got together for a group photo illustrating the friendly get together we enjoyed and we wish them every succes in the final.
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Clifton awards lifeguard for dedicated service.
Wednesday 18th June 2025
Jonathan Chambers, seen with President Jeffrey, being presented with the Rotary Community Service Award generously agreed to be a lifeguard at our annual Charity Swimarathon every year for over ten years. On more than one occasion this necessitated him acting as lifeguard for the entire event immediately prior to beginning his shift with the Fire Service. On other occasions, he changed his shift pattern to enable him to attend the event.