Rotary Community Support Hub

Rotary

By Barry Hammond

Hythe Rotary continues to do what it can for the Community in these difficult times. Despite all the problems we are making plans for future events and, where we can, we use the power of the internet to keep in touch with our contacts and connections.

Currently we are working with the Community Support Hub, and together with The Hythe Festival Committee and the Scouts, we are coordinating a “Thank You “ for all Hub volunteers and their families. It will be no small task because so far the number exceeds at least 500 people who have devoted their time to help us.

The event will be held in daylight time and be family oriented. We hope it will give us all some space and time to celebrate getting the Corona virus under control, and of the consequences becoming manageable. We also hope, importantly, to reflect on the feelings and events some of us have personally experienced and shared during the whole

“Currently we are working with the Community Support Hub, and together with The Hythe Festival Committee and the Scouts, we are coordinating a “Thank You “ for all Hub volunteers and their families.”

process.

We do not know when this event can be held. Simply, it has to be when we can safely mingle. However we are doing the core planning now. We think the event should be free and are therefore looking at all fundraising opportunities. We anticipate that for such a good cause, many will, generously and

"Hythe Rotary working in the Community"

freely, offer their services or entertainment.

Also, our THYNK project starts again this month for the fresh student year at Brockhill Park Performing Arts College. We have all learned a lot since the project began and our capacity and range of subjects has been expanded. It is critical to create awareness of THYNK in the Community. Interestingly, the use of the internet to deliver sessions has given us a greater scope and the ability to build a library of sessions which can be available for us more widely.

This broader marketing approach will start shortly through Rotary Radio.

Finally, did you know that Rotary has been closely involved on an international scale to work to eradicate another virus, Polio? Our volunteers have travelled to hotspots throughout the world to deliver and administer the serum. Only Pakistan and Afghanistan remain to be cleared. To celebrate this, thousands of crocuses have been planted in Ladies Walk and Oaklands Park to acknowledge that millions of vulnerable children have been immunised. Watch the flowers bloom next spring and think of the achievement!

Also, did you know, on a local scale, that Hythe Rotary helped install an open-air teaching area in Brockhill Park for use by all local schools? We can turn our hand to many things. Can we help you? Contact Barry Hammond on 07931133282.