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TREMENDOUS ROTARY ROCKS CONCERT – TOTALLY BLONDIE – 7 JUNE 2025

A truly sensational Rotary Rocks charity fundraiser concert on Saturday 7 June 2025 at the Limelight Theatre in Aylesbury when the phenomenal Totally Blondie who first played for us in 2023, returned to entertain an enthusiastic and appreciative capacity audience.

A tremendous £867 was raised for The Florence Nightingale Hospice Charity. Many thanks to everyone who bought tickets and raffle tickets, to Totally Blondie, and to our partner charity The Queens Park Arts Centre who looked after everyone so well.

Thanks too for the raffle prizes provided by; Heritage & Sons Funeral Directors; Fergie’s Fitness; Queens Park Arts Centre; Totally Blondie; Tesco; Rogue Bowling; Rococo Lounge; Michael Anthony Estate Agents; Morrisons; and members and friends of the Rotary Club of Aylesbury Hundreds.

Watch out for our next Rotary Rocks gig – they are always a good evening out, and always raise funds for local charities. Next date is 1 May 2026 at The Limelight Theatre. Act to be announced soon.

Rotary Club of Aylesbury Hundreds Youth Events 2025

Students from across Aylesbury Vale took part in Rotary competitions this year.

Our Young Chef Winner went on to win the District Final, then the Cluster Final and came creditable Runner-Up in the National Final. Huge congratulations to her and thanks to her teachers at Sir Henry Floyd Grammar School for their support and to Chef Daniel Richardson and his team at Hartwell House for coaching her to such a magnificent standard. We are grateful to have been hosted by The Kingsbrook School for the second year.

Our Youth Speaks Winners from Aylesbury High School went into the District round, where they addressed the audience on Do Boarding Schools Do More Harm Than Good? at the
Intermediate Stage. Our Winners from St Michael’s Catholic School addressed This House Would Ban Internet Access For Under-11s at the Senior Stage District Final. Both teams gave
creditable presentations. We extend our thanks to Church of the Holy Spirit, Bedgrove, for hosting both the Local and District heats.

We ran our second Young Artist Competition this year. Our contestants had the option of their preferred medium for the subject of Wonderful Water and produced an inspirational range of work. Our judge Prof. Ian Brooks of Leeds University selected winners from St Michael’s Catholic School,
commending our artists for “excellent use of symbolism” and “a really nice depiction of the flood of water”. Congratulations to those artists. Our Junior winner’s picture of the flooded wineglass also won the District Competition at the junior stage. Brilliant work!

Our Technology Tournament, hosted for the first time by The Grange School, was in February. Students had to build a rocket launcher! The ingenuity on display was awesome. Rockets shot up into the sports hall from all manner of different designs.

We look forward to Rotary Year 2025/26 with the possibility of more schools entering more Youth
Competitions.

SHELTERBOX 25TH ANNIVERSARY
FRIARS SQUARE EXHIBITION – 31 MAY 2025

In 2000 the Rotary Club of Helston-Lizard set up a project to provide help to people in disaster areas by putting together boxes of items that families needed. The boxes contained tents, sleeping mats, cooking and eating equipment, water containers and filters, mosquito nets, solar lights, not food nor medicine, but items to help people cope. This was the start of the
ShelterBox. 24 boxes were initially made and distributed, within 4 years there were 26000 distributed. The project grew with the support of Rotary Clubs around the world and more than half of the funding comes from Rotary clubs. ShelterBox also now provides Repair Kits to help people rebuild, and there are warehouses set up in strategic locations to respond quickly to
needs. When Shelterbox and Rotary work together after a disaster, the combination of Shelterbox’s technical expertise and Rotary’s global connections, its clubs and members means that support can be provided as soon as it is needed.

See the video:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mafPm5Kdg1loe44yoTSkyxrArmZQqYoc/view?usp=drive_web

To celebrate the 25th anniversary and show the work of ShelterBox and Rotary to provide support and relief in disaster areas, the Rotary Club of Aylesbury Hundreds set up a stand in Aylesbury Friars Square on Saturday 31 May.

Our Support will continue each year.

CHILTERN HILLS RALLY – CLASSIC CAR EVENT 2025

The Chiltern Hills Rally 2025 was held in Weedon on Sunday
May 18th. Members from the Rotary Club of Aylesbury
Hundreds attended and provided support with judging the
entries and car parking management. A very enjoyable day.

Another example of your local Rotary Club and its members
helping to support their community.
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A WONDERFUL CLUB EVENING – 3 NEW MEMBERS At our Club Annual General Meeting this week 3 new members were inducted/welcomed into our Club, by our President.

They will bring new energy and new ideas to support our endeavours and to grow our objectives of service to our local, national and worldwide communities. If you would like to know more about Rotary and us: CONTACT US

Open to Businesses, Professional Practices, Government Entities,
Educational Institutions, and Not-For-Profit Organisations

Benefits

• Attracts positive PR being involved in Community service
• Elevates image as a supporter of charitable causes
• Opens networking opportunities combined with community
  service
• Strengthens commitment to CSR and STEM opportunities
• Creates avenues for employees to develop leadership and
  professional skills
• Provides opportunities to participate in Community Projects via the Rotary Club and Wider Projects via the Rotary Global Network

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