Good Causes | sgf2015

Rotary of Southampton

Fundraising

In the past 10 years we have distributed over £250,000 to community and international charities. Recent projects include

Community

New adventure playground at Vermont School in Southampton.
Rock Challenge: anti-drug performing arts competition for schools: support 7 schools annually
Each year taking children with special needs to a Kids Out Day at Paultons Park.
Volunteering at Woodlands School to help children with numeracy and literacy
Renovation of classroom and provision of furniture at Vermont School
Providing holidays every year at Naish Farm Holiday Park for parents and children in poor circumstances
Supporting and volunteering at Invisible Walls parenting project at Winchester prison
Rotary Youth Leadership Awards: weekend course for 16/17 year old students to encourage leadership
Annual theatre trip for elderly people to Southampton Operatic Society production at Nuffield Theatre

International

Funded new toilets and washing facilities at two village schools in the Philippines
Every Christmas send 100’s of shoe boxes filled with presents and gifts to disadvantaged children in Eastern Europe and Africa
Helping support VSO volunteers at schools in Gambia and Kenya
Helping educate children in India.
Providing ShelterBoxes for those who have lost all in natural disasters
Supporting volunteers to work in third world countries
Providing 18 Braille machines for the blind in Kenya
Jaipur Limb Project: Helping people who live in third world countries who have lost limbs
Helped towards the building of a sand dam in Africa to provide clean water for local villages
Assisted a school in Southern Sudan with school furniture and help with accommodation for volunteer doctors
Helped Philippines Community Fund purchase a new bus

Donations to charities

Local

International