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Rotary Club of

Godalming Woolsack

humanity in motion

President: Ian Bowell

RIBI Club 1770 - District 1250

Registered Charity Number 1079545

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and ireland

diary & events

Garden maintenance at Milford Hospital (Autumn & Spring)

Car Parking duties for Wintershall Autumn Fayre GRACE (October)

Helping The Lions Club with the Town Bonfire (November)

Collecting for British Legion Poppy Appeal (November)

Assisting Go Godalming Christmas Lights event (Dec)

Stewarding at Godalming Music Festival (March)

Organising Stroke Awareness Day (April)

Providing free Musical Allsorts event for over 60’s (April)

Loading containers for Gambia and Sierra Leone

Regular events

Dates in 2010 (Rev. 28.01.10)	Godalming Woolsack Meetings/Events (held at West Surrey Golf Club)
1st February (Mon)	Business Meeting
8th February (Mon)	Life Talk by Moses Koroma
15th February (Mon)	Michael Forrest - SAGA
22nd February (Mon)	Jack Salway – Sir William Henry Bragg, OM, Nobel Laureate, Chiddingfold’s world famous Scientist.
23rd February (Tues)	World Polio Day
1st March (Mon)	Membership Committee
8th March (Mon)	Danny Potter – Visit to European Games
15th March (Mon)	Chris Saint – Illustrated talk on father - RFC and test pilot
22nd March (Mon)	Canon Mervyn Roberts – Faith and the Media
24th March (Wed)	Club Council
29th March (Mon)	Partners Night
11th April (Sun)	PEPS
17th April (Sat)	Stroke Awareness Day

Meeting Format

Members meet on most Mondays, Bank Holidays excepted. When there is a fifth Monday in the month, the Club usually organises a special event to which partners are invited. We meet for a drink and a chat from 7:30pm onwards. Dinner is served at 8pm so that the meeting proper can start by 9pm to finish around 10pm.

We invite speakers on several evenings during the course of a year to supplement the regular cycle of Committee and Business meetings. Topics have ranged from the reform of the House of Lords to the Global Challenge Round the World Yacht Race.

We welcome speakers who want to share a particular interest, publicise a charity or who are seeking donations for a worthwhile cause.

Would you like further information?

Meeting Dates - To book in, contact Richard Gidlow.

diary & events

. . . and now a drop to drink!

You take us for granted." With these opening words, Nigel Hendley, gave us a most informative and entertaining talk about Water Aid, the charity that is well known for its work to bring clean water and sanitation to the world's poorest communities. Nigel pointed out how we in the developed world take the regular supply of clean water for granted. Globally, there are still nearly a billion people without access to clean water, though this number has declined significantly over the last 20 years. Rotary and Water Aid have a long standing relationship and Rotary has helped fund many Water Aid projects.

www.wateraid.org/uk/

Although the members of COGS are known for being bandits and pirates on the golf course, the ceremonial dress of hat and parrot (sick) date back to a past captain Jack. Immediate past president of Woolsack, Ian Coult, became Captain of the COGS, a society of golfing Rotarians from clubs in Surrey and Sussex, at the AGM in October this year.

Who’s the pretty boy then?

Club Pre-meeting gathering

Moses Koroma was inducted into the Woolsack Club on Monday 7th September. Moses is a lawyer and is already much involved in public service with the Crown Prosecution Service and work for charitable organisations. He introduced two colleagues from the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) to talk to us about their work - Laura Plant and Michael Spong. Laura is a former defence solicitor and now a Crown advocate with the CPS dealing with Crown Court cases of 1-4 days duration. Michael, of more senior years, joined the prosecution service in the 1984 and looks after the more serious and complex cases. Laura began with an outline of the CPS and its activities. The current Crown Prosecution Service was set up in 1986 to prosecute criminal cases investigated by the police in England and Wales. Crown Prosecutors are responsible for determining the charge in all but minor cases, advising the police during the early stages of an investigation, reviewing cases submitted by the police for prosecution, preparing cases for court and presenting those cases at court. In each case reviewed, the prosecutor will consider whether there is sufficient evidence and, if so, whether the public interest requires a prosecution. Although Crown Prosecutors work closely with the police, they are responsible to the Crown Prosecution Service, an independent governmental organisation. Latterly more prosecution work is being handled internally rather than by members of the Bar.

http://www.horizonchildren.org

Mind how you go!