Carlton Rotary Club

We are a part of Rotary International, which is the world’s largest service organisation.

The Club members include men and women from all walks of life.  The projects we get involved in are incredibly fulfilling, worthwhile and rewarding – and there’s plenty of fun involved too.  Our fundraising enables us to support many local organisations and accommodate requests from the local community.  Requests can be made via here: Contact us

Funds given in 2024:

• Donation of £150 to Operation SMILE- a global charity – to enable a child to have free cleft lip surgery
• Donation of £200 towards a holiday in Llandudno for some attendees of Age Concern Carlton
• Donation of £300 to sponsor a girl’s tailoring course at Sri Sai Vidyarthi High School in India
• Donation of £200 to St Paul’s Church for their Breakfast Club
• Donation of £200 to Rivendell Flying High Academy towards their Forest Garden
• Donation of a washing machine to a local family in need
• Donation of £500 for a wheelchair student to attend and perform at the Edinburgh Fringe
• Donation of £200 towards the essential organ repairs at All Hallows Church, Gedling
• Donation of £100 to Prostate Cancer UK following our talk by Stewart Robinson
• Donation of £120 to sponsor a child through the Knysna Education Trust in South Africa
• Donation of £1,400 to our own charity, The Rotary Foundation
• Donation to  the Commonwealth War Graves Commission      following their talk at a club meeting
• Donation of £300 to  Trent Dementia following their presentation on Zoom
• Donation to Support for Survivors for group therapy work
• Profits of £1,000 from our March Quiz night to Maggies Cancer Centre, Nottingham City Hospital
• Donation for purchase of 2 beds for a family supported by Phenomenal Futures
• Donation of £570 to 1st Gedling Scout Group for 3 tents and hot water dispensers.
• Donation of £250 to Mary’s Meals following the Zoom presentation from them in January.

Funds given in 2023:

• Christmas donations in December included food vouchers for local families for distribution by St George’s Centre, Phenomenal Futures, Age Concern and local schools.  Also donations to the Samaritans, Childline, the YMCA and Emmanuel House.
• Donation of £200 to Rotary Christmas Toy Box Appeal ‘Every Refuge, Every Child’ for children in local refuges.
• Donation of £200 to enable a group of local Young Carers to have a go-Karting experience at Team Sport Nottingham
• Donation of £150 following a very interesting talk from Base 51
• Donation of £250 to Phenomenal Futures
• Donation of £200 to Young Lives vs Cancer
• Donation of £200 to the Phoenix School towards Forest School training for a teacher
• Donation of £690 to Shelterbox in response to the earthquake in Morocco and the flood in Libya.
• Donation of £500 clothing to Emmanuel House in Nottingham
• Donation of £200 to St Paul’s Church for their Breakfast Club
• Donation of £200 to Age Concern Community Hub (Carlton) towards their activity group summer outing
• Donation of £200 towards a sensory room at the Manor Care Home
• Donation to Netherfield Lagoon step repairs
• Bleed cabinet for Netherfield Loco Centre
• Profits of £1,000 from our March Quiz night to Maggies Cancer Centre, Nottingham City Hospital
• £1,020 to The Rotary Foundation – Rotary’s own charity fund
• £250 to Operation Smile
• £100 to End Polio Now Rotary’s continued campaign to vaccinate world-wide to eradicate polio.  
• £100 towards a specialised wheelchair for a young aspiring doctor
• £250 to Improving Lives Nottingham – mental healthcare services
• Regular payments from our Rotary Foundation Grant to St George’s Centre, Netherfield and Hope Foodbank in Carlton
• £60 following a speaker evening to Red Rubber Ball Foundation

Funds given in 2022:

• Christmas donations included food vouchers to local families via four schools, WeRHere, Age Concern Carlton & St George’s Centre Netherfield.  Additional donations were sent to the Samaritans, Childline, Emmanuel House and the YMCA.
• Donation to The Ark Gedling of £500
• Donation of £250 to Aquabox for the Pakistan Appeal
• Donation to the National Trust to “plant 10 trees” following their talk
• £500 to the new Loco Centre  in Netherfield towards purchase of an Elfin kitchen
• £200 to WeRHere towards their bespoke counselling sessions
• £150 was given in support of NetherFest 2022
• £100 was given towards a District Appeal to finance a specialised wheelchair 
• £1,125 was donated by members to The Rotary Foundation this year – our own Rotary International charity which comes back into Clubs around the world by way of grants
• In May a group of Young Carers were treated to an afternoon at “Go Ape” at a cost of £272
• We donated £100 to the Samaritans in lieu of a fee for Paul Hopkins, the entertainer at our Birthday Party in May 
• We provided and fitted connections needed to link a large TV screen to games consoles at the Loco Centre in Netherfield for youth activities
• A donation of £250 was given towards a trip for a group of Adult Carers 
• In response to the Ukraine crisis, we donated two Shelterboxes @ £385
• We provided £50 worth of seeds for families in Albania to grow their own vegetables
• Our Quiz in March generated £400 for Maggie’s Cancer Support Centre at Nottingham City Hospital
• We donated to the British Heart Foundation at the request of one of our speakers in lieu of a fee
• We donated to Derbyshire charity, Aquabox to support their humanitarian remit of sending water filters to disaster areas around the world
• We helped a local young gymnast with her fees for entry into National Competitions
• £313 from the sale of our Christmas Cards was given to the Friends of Gedling Country Park at our meeting on 27 January.