Good Causes

Groups and individuals supported by Thurso Rotary Club over the years have been far too numerous to list let alone show pictorially.  However, here in this archive page a few pictures might give a flavour of the different causes that have benefited.

John Hook presents a cheque for £100 to Alexandra Ball for her participation on a Drama Course while John Owens gives £100 to representatives of the Light Factory Summer Activities Week for Children.

Andy Ford, Thurso High School PTA Chairman, and a group of pupils show President Bob Earnshaw and Community Committee Chairman Mike Potts around the new High School Mini-bus in acknowledgement of Thurso Rotary Club's donation to the Mini-bus fundraising effort.

Rotary Clubs across Britain and Ireland encouraged primary schools to raise money to support one of their projects – Shelterbox.  A Shelterbox provided a tent, sleeping bags and other basic survival equipment for a family of 10 people and were for despatch to disaster hit areas following earthquakes, floods, etc.  Each Shelterbox  costs £490.

Miller Academy pupils took part in this scheme and have raised £390, mainly by charging £1 for tasks they did at home.  This money went to the Shelterbox fund project to buy the necessary equipment and specifically to assist with the 'A Million in Africa ' project to accommodate a million people in Africa hit by the many disasters troubling that continent.

Pictured with MillerAcademy pupils representing each of the school's classes and Depute Head Teacher, Edith Mitchell, are members of Thurso Rotary Club who, as a club, have previously sponsored six Shelterboxes two of which found their way to aid the Pakistan earthquake.

Representatives of Thurso Rotary Club and Thurso Inner Wheel presented cheques to the Dunbar Hospital, Thurso to assist in the development of the Day Care Centre at the hospital. The total monies raised at a bag packing day in Somerfield's store, Thurso came to a magnificent total of £1165 with £665 being the Rotary contribution and £500 the donation from Thurso Inner Wheel.

 Left - Right: Murray Campbell, Rotary Vice President, Charge Nurse Barbara Millar, Trevor Williams, Rotary Secretary, Pat Lannon, Inner Wheel Secretary, Anne Manson, Inner Wheel Member, Staff NurseTina Suttar.