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RIBI Assembly 2012 – Audience with the Presidents

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The 2012 RIBI Assembly will include ‘An Audience with the Presidents’, on the afternoon of Saturday 31st March 2012, a fabulous opportunity for club Rotarians to get ‘up close and personal’ with  incoming RI President Sakuji Tanaka and incoming RIBI President John Minhinick.

RIBI Rotarians will have the unique opportunity to attend this free event where you can meet, listen to and share your views face-to-face with both the 2012/13 RI President Sakuji Tanaka and 2012/13 RIBI President John Minhinick, as well as a panel of other RI and RIBI Leaders and excellent speakers.

This event is open to incoming Club Presidents and their fellow club Rotarians, so why not make a day of it and fill a car to attend the event. There is NO registration fee. You can register for the event now byclicking here. For those unable to attend the event, there will be a live webcast on the day.

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New Members Evening – York Gate – Thu 9 February

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New members and those who joined in the last couple of years but have not previously attended are invited to a New Members Meeting at our District Headquarters in 6 York Gate, NW1 4QG, on Thursday 9 February at 6.30 for 7pm.  The meeting will commence with a buffet supper, after which there will be a short talk about the world of Rotary.  New members may be accompanied by another member of their club.  There is no charge but we do need to know numbers by 5 February at the latest.

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New Members Meeting – 9 Feb

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New members and those who joined in the last couple of years but have not previously attended are invited to a New Members Meeting at our District Headquarters in 6 York Gate, NW1 4QG, on Thursday 9 February at 6.30 for 7pm.  The meeting will commence with a buffet supper, after which there will be a short talk about the world of Rotary.  New members may be accompanied by another member of their club.  There is no charge but we do need to know numbers by 5 February at the latest.

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New Year’s Day Walkers Wanted

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Rotary in London is joining with the London Borough of Harrow to take part in the London New Year’s Day Parade.

It is one of the world’s great street spectaculars with up to 10,000 performers from across continents, hundreds of thousands of spectators on the streets – and a live television audience of tens of millions.

London’s New Year’s Day Parade 2012, is the FIRST OFFICIAL EVENT in a year of celebrations to mark Her Majesty QUEEN ELIZABETH II’s DIAMOND JUBILEE. London’s New Year’s Day Parade 2012 is also the FIRST OFFICIAL EVENT in London’s 2012 OLYMPIC YEAR.

The theme of the Harrow/Rotary in London tableau is Going for Gold, with the borough featuring groups of young people with an Olympic theme and Rotary will be collecting money for End Polio Now. All proceeds from the street side collection will be divided equally between the Mayor of  Harrow’s charities and End Polio Now.

An open top Routemaster bus will be the centrepiece of the tableau and we are looking for up to 25 Rotarians to walk alongside the bus, waving to the crowd and some collecting as we walk.

The Parade starts at 11.45am on Piccadilly at the junction with Berkeley Street outside the Ritz Hotel and finishes around 3pm at Parliament Street.

If you would like to take part, please email Jeremy Jessel and joining instructions will be sent to you, remember we can only take 25 Rotary walkers, so please reply quickly.

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ROTARY YOUNG CITIZEN AWARD WINNER AMPUTEE LYDIA CROSS AT CENOTAPH REMEMBRANCE DAY PARADE

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ROTARY YOUNG CITIZEN AWARD WINNER LYDIA CROSS TAKES PART IN REMEMBRANCE DAY PARADE AT CENOTAPH IN LONDON
SUNDAY, 13TH NOVEMBER, 2011

Rotary Young Citizen Award winner ten-year-old amputee Lydia Cross, who has raised more than £60,000 for the Royal British Legion and Help for Heroes, was honoured by Rotary in London who invited her to join them in their Rotary section of the Remembrance Day Parade in London on Sunday, 13th November, 2011.

 

Ten-year-old Lydia Cross, who had both her legs amputated at the age of two because of meningitis, has raised tens of thousands of pounds (with sponsored swim and runs, etc.) to help wounded servicemen, who’ve lost limbs in Afghanistan and Iraq –  she says she wanted to help them because they have “leggies like her”.  She has also organised for prosthetic limbs to be made for two former Royal marines who lost their limbs serving in Afghanistan.  In recognition, she received a Rotary Young Citizen Award (featured on BBC News) in 2010 after being nominated for the Award by her local Rotary Club in Braunton, Devon.  See  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8618717.stm.

Lydia has raised around £20,000 for Help for Heroes and has become the only child Patron.  She has taken part in a DVD to be shown in schools for HELP FOR HEROES.  Lydia had to have the bones trimmed in her legs about four weeks ago and had been forced back into using a wheelchair but she proudly wore a new pair of prosthetic legs made especially for her with poppies painted on them two days before Remembrance Sunday.   She wasdetermined to walk on them as she went past The Cenotaph in Whitehall and took the Royal Salute from Prince Charles.  Her former marine father Tony Cross pushed her wheelchair behind her.

Lydia started off the COMMANDO 999 CHALLENGE in her racing wheelchair on Saturday, 5th November, when her father and 3 other Police Officers who are all Ex Royal Marines started off a walk/march from Exeter en route to London – with teams planning to reach there ahead of the Remembrance Day Parade on Sunday, 13th November. 

Lydia and her sister Millie were awarded honouree Green Berets for their Bravery by the Royal Marine Commandos at RMB Chivenor in 2005.

Lydia has been awarded a Gold Blue Peter Badge and a Rotary Young Citizens Award for her Forces Fundraising.
Both Lydia and Millie help the Royal British Legion with Awareness.

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ROTARY YOUNG CITIZEN AWARD WINNER LYDIA CROSS TO TAKE PART IN REMEMBRANCE DAY PARADE AT CENOTAPH IN LONDON

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Ten-year-old Lydia Cross, who had both her legs amputated at the age of two because of meningitis, has raised tens of thousands of pounds (with sponsored swim and runs, etc.) to help wounded servicemen, who’ve lost limbs in Afghanistan and Iraq – she says she wanted to help them because they have “leggies like her”.  In recognition, she received a Rotary Young Citizen Award (featured on BBC News) in 2010 after being nominated for the Award by her local Rotary Club in Braunton, Devon. See  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8618717.stm
Lydia has raised around £20,000 for Help for Heroes and has become the only child Patron.  She has taken part in a DVD to be shown in schools for HELP FOR HEROES.
Lydia started off the COMMANDO 999 CHALLENGE in her racing wheelchair (pictured below) last Saturday, when her father and 3 other Police Officers who are all Ex Royal Marines started off a walk/march from Exeter en route to London – with teams planning to reach the capital ahead of the Remembrance Day Parade on Sunday, 13th November.  
Lydia had to do this in her wheel chair because she had to have the bones trimmed in her legs 3 weeks ago and was unable to wear her prosthetic legs.

As a Rotary Young Citizen Award winner who has done so much to help wounded servicemen and raised so much money for the Royal British Legion and Help for Heroes, Rotary in London is honouring Lydia by inviting her to join them in their Rotary section of the Remembrance Day Parade in London on Sunday, 13th November, 2011 - and Lydia will go past The Cenotaph in Whitehall – hopefully wearing her new prosthetic legs or in her wheelchair pushed by her former marine father Tony Cross and wearing her Green Beret for Bravery presented to her by the Royal Marine Commandos.

Lydia and her sister Millie were awarded honouree Green Berets for their Bravery by the Royal Marine Commandos at RMB Chivenor in 2005.
So, that, and that their friends Mark Ormrod, Ben McBean and Matt Kingston were Royal Marines is why she is keen to help. She’s organised Prosthetic Limbs to be made for Ben Mc Bean and Matt Kingston, who are amputee ex Royal Marines.
Both Lydia and Millie help the Royal British Legion with Awareness.


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District Carol Service

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Download District Carol Service Leaflet 2011

District Governor Trevor and Christine look forward to welcoming as many people as possible to this year’s Carol Service, which will be at St Marylebone Parish Church (opposite York Gate).  The Service will start at 7.00pm (prompt), any Rotarian or Inner Wheel member willing to be in the choir should contact Rtn Norman Brooker .Gifts for children in The London Hospital and Richard House Hospice will be accepted during the service.  These should be clearly marked with either “BOY” or “GIRL” and the appropriate age.  Mulled wine and mince pies will be available afterwards at York Gate.

Please confirm your attendance, Rotary Club and number of people to Rtn Lucille Parker by e-mail as numbers for catering will be appreciated

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District Carol Service 2011

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District Governor Trevor and Christine look forward to welcoming as many people as possible to this year’s Carol Service, which will be at St Marylebone Parish Church (opposite York Gate).  The Service will start at 7.00pm (prompt), any Rotarian or Inner Wheel member willing to be in the choir should contact Rtn Norman Brooker

Gifts for children in The London Hospital and Richard House Hospice will be accepted during the service.  These should be clearly marked with either “BOY” or “GIRL” and the appropriate age.  Mulled wine and mince pies will be available afterwards at York Gate.

Please confirm your attendance, Rotary Club and number of people to Rtn Lucille Parker by e-mail as numbers for catering will be appreciated

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CENOTAPH CEREMONY SUNDAY 13 NOVEMBER 2011

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I am delighted to advise Rotarians that we have been again successful in obtaining some participant tickets for the annual Remembrance Ceremony. A small Rotary contingent has taken part over the last 7 years as a part of the Civilian Contingent. The event is a most moving experience and requires participants to be able to assemble inWhitehall at 9.30am for the ceremony and March Past concluding at about noon. The salute in Horse Guards Parade is taken by a member of the Royal Family. Dress is formal civilian clothes. Participation is by ticket available fromPDG Colin Bryant on a first come basis. If numbers permit friends of Rotarians are welcome to participate. Please email me now - tickets will be available at District Conference from PDG Colin Bryant.  Putney President Tony Chase will be leading the event as I shall be in Vietnam.

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