I was invited recently to attend the Shrewsbury indoor bowling club to receive a generous £500 donation from the members from recent fundraising

Another Midlands Air Ambulance talk carried out at Dudleston village Hall recently for their afternoon club

Santa to visit the Shrewsbury town centre light switch on

        SHREWSBURY SEVERN ROTARY CLUB

EXCITING NEW SANTA SLEIGH ON SHOW AT LIGHTS SWITCH-ON

Santa will have his exciting new sleigh on show for the opening of Shrewsbury’s town centre Christmas lights on November 19.

Although the sleigh made a full introduction during last year’s Christmas activities, it wasn’t quite ready in time to make its debut at the lights switch-on.

With some minor modifications and a ‘good clean-up’ after 10 months in storage, the sleigh is now in top condition to greet visitors to Pride Hill for the event on the 19^th of the month.

“We are looking forward to showing more people all the exciting features of the new sleigh when it appears for the first time on Pride Hill,” said Rotarian Johnathan Callwood, president of Shrewsbury Severn Rotary Club which has built and financed the investment.

“The new version has many more features than the old sleigh which had been a good servant for Santa, but had fallen behind the times. The latest model is environmentally friendly with a new battery system to power the lights and music.

“Now we have something really special to excite the audience at the lights switch-on.”

Santa and his sleigh will arrive on Pride Hill at 5.00 pm for a three-hour appearance that will take in the switch-on of the lights.

Following the event Santa and the sleigh will have a brief rest before embarking on an ambitious rota of daytime supermarket visits and evening street excursions starting on December 2 and finishing on December 23.

This will form Rotary’s major annual fundraising activity programme in support of local charities and other good causes.

Anyone interested in knowing more about Shrewsbury Severn Rotary Club can contact gdmw@hotmail.co.uk

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Rotary club of Shrewsbury Severn's first fundraiser.

  This event is the first fundraiser for the project at the Royal Hospital on top of the new ward block.

    We aim to provide a sky garden for patients and relatives to use and benefit.

     My recent talk at the RAFA(Shrewsbury) 

   I was invited to speak to the members of the RAFA on behalf of the Midlands Air Ambulance Charity, explaining to them how the charity operates and how it's funded.

   They were very generous and i enjoyed speaking to them 

  I volunteer for the Shrewsbury Food Hub, helping to redistribute food, to save it from waste 

Shrewsbury Food hub do an extraordinary job saving food from going to waste, and distributing it to community groups,schools and many worthy people.

The companies that donate their excess produce includes Many of the main supermarkets large and small food manufacturers 

Without their help of donations, and the many volunteers , the Shrewsbury food hub would not function 

http://www.shrewsburyfoodhub.org.uk/

After the orchard adventure, for our volunteers it was all hands on deck at the depot. Of course, Tammy and John had to work out what the fruit pickers do before diving into the serious task of sorting, packing, and prepping this fabulous fruit for redistribution. 🙌

With plums now joining the harvest, the big question is…
🍏 Apple pie?
🍐 Pear tart?
🍑 Plum crumble?

Mine's apple crumble (maybe adding a few plums).... What's yours?? 👇

#CommunityHarvest #FoodHub #GleaningSeason #FruitfulEfforts #LocalFood #ZeroWaste #PlumPerfect

Theres always smiling faces at the hub 

Some of the quality food they distribute 

A couple of the very keen volunteers that the hub has. 

I was recently honoured with a long Service award for the Midlands Air Ambulance

very surprised to receive this and along with some others

On the weekend of 31st May/1st June there will be an event in Abbey Foregate,Shrewsbury, to celebrate 80 years since VE Day ! 
  There will be many attractions, food stalls and vintage vehicles . Along with a concert on Sat 31st. The road will be closed at the side of the Abbey, so it will be very pedestrian friendly.

 Spring must be here

 Time to fire up the Ooni pizza oven for a test run 

Rotary club of Shrewsbury Shrewsbury Severn

A celebration of VE Day is being held at Shrewsbury Abbey on 31st May & 1st June

 On Sat 31st there will be a concert inside the Abbey 

 The road at the side of the Abbey will be closed and there will be many WW2 vehicles along there  on the Sunday (1st June) 

   Tickets are available on The Shrewsbury Abbeys website 

I was very honoured to be invited to the Midlands Air Ambulance Charity official unveiling of their H-145 Helicopter.

 What a great event and thank you to all the staff and crew who were there to talk to us about the new addition to the fleet. 

Shropshire Fire & Rescue 

Cheque donation from their Christmas fund raising carol service event . We were invited to receive their fund raising cheque this week at Shrewsbury fire station 

Santas New Sleigh 

 Look out for it along with Santa at Sainsbury's Shrewsbury on Wed Dec 18th between 12-6pm as we will be at Morrisons Shrewsbury 

  Please look out for the schedule to be posted on social media 

Rotary Club of Shrewsbury's Severn New Santa Sleigh 🛷 

Following cancellation of last year’s switch-on of Shrewsbury’s Christmas lights, a Rotary Santa is looking forward to the return on Wednesday.

Shrewsbury Severn Rotary’s Santa will be returning to the club’s familiar spot at the bottom of Pride Hill for a three-hour stint from 5.00 pm to 8.00 pm.

Santa is looking forward to meeting and greeting many enthusiastic youngsters during the three hours on what will be a first for Shrewsbury – a brand new ultra-modern sleigh.

The new design is different from any sleigh that has ever been designed and built before. And it will be visiting some of the famous streets and supermarkets in Shrewsbury throughout the Christmas period.

Said Shrewsbury Severn Rotary Club president David Morris: “We are hoping that the attraction of Santa and our brand new sleigh will attract many families to the switch-on during the three hours.

“We are hoping the event will help us raise several hundred pounds for local charities.”

Shooting today 11/11/24 with the new adaptation to the forend of my shot gun. Work carried out by Christian from Midlands Gun Services 

Rea Valley Young Farmers donated £1,500 to the Midlands Air Ambulance Charity  

 I was invited to receive a generous fundraising cheque from the Rea Vally Young Farmers recently. 
 They mainly raised the money from a sheep shearing event

 many thanks to them 

Rotary club of Shrewsbury Severn's recent tour of the Shrewsbury Flax mill .

  On Fri 13th October about a dozen of the Shrewsbury Severn Rotaty members visited the Shrewsbury Flax Mill and were treated to a tour of the Mill and Maltings, this was particularly enjoyable  because as a wheelchair user I had been unable to access the main building due to their brand new lifts being inoperable, following lengthy communication with English Heritage, they were fixed and we enjoyed the tour 

Oswestry Borders U3A talk 

Went to Shrewsbury town centre today

  Got a couple of reasonable B&W photos. Our town centre buildings are really quite nice ! 

At last , a company that is bucking the trend on wheelchair access 

The Warhammer shop in town has a ramp available upon request. Thank you and I applaud you 

Yesterday (2nd July) was my mums birthday. I took her to the British iron works Forge Cafe for afternoon tea! 
 Lovely presentation and great food. 
certainly recommend it to anyone 

Here is The latest update on the serious problem of an overgrown hedge on Ellesmere Road in Shrewsbury,causing many problems for pedestrians and wheelchair users like myself. The Shropshire Council have been notified many times about this,but still have not addressed the problem, either by issuing an enforcement notice on the land owner (it's a developer) or cutting it themselves and charging the landowner! 
 This is a serious matter and could potentially cause a serious collision