What a wonderful talk from Natalie Levin on 2 September 2020. It was gratifying to hear how against all the odds the Youth Adventure Trust has still been meeting the needs of young vulnerable young people in our area. Because of the covid-19 pandemic, adventure trips, the mainstay of the charity, had to be put […]
Junab gave a riveting talk on Wednesday morning about his involvement with the Bangladesh Female Academy. He started with a few facts about the country to put the school into context. The population is about 200 million and between 55-60% are female. Sheikh Hasina, Bangladesh’s first highly placed woman politician in Bangladesh has been the […]
I joined the Rotary Club of Swindon Old Town in 1994, sponsored by Rtn Martin Vandervelde. My career then was a senior logistics manager with BT, having moved to Swindon in 1976, as part of a dispersal exercise of the Civil Service from London (sounds familiar?). Working for BT took me all around the UK, […]
With Captain Tom Moore and Hannah Ingram-Moore Captain Tom Moore inspired a nation in the darkest depths of COVID-19 by walking 100 laps of his garden and raising £32 million for NHS Charities Together. Here, Captain Tom and daughter Hannah, talk about his fund-raising efforts which earned the affection of a country and a knighthood. […]