So it's the end of the first month of the new Rotaract year, and what a busy one it has been!

Our first meeting was a speaker's night, with Gillian Pearce of Elthorne Hillingdon Rotary talking to us about her experience volunteering in the maternity ward at a hospital in Uganda. It was fascinating to hear of the different ways in which they have adapted to work with their meagre resources, and in many ways quite shocking to see the comparison with UK hospitals. Gillian gave examples of the problems faced, such as goats running through the wards and intermittent power supply at best, and said how one of the biggest problems was malaria. She is now looking into ways in which Rotary can help, and we look forward to seeing how we can get involved. 

This was quickly followed by Wallingford Rotaract's 16th birthday, a celebration of 16 years since they chartered. Jon Hoare spoke about the Rotaract Overseas Project Go Gambia, awards were given out, and memories relived through a slide show of photographs. This was followed by a toast to the next 16 years!

The main event for us in July is the Uxbridge Autoshow, where for the last umpteen years we have run the late entries stand, selling tickets to exhibitors who had not booked in. This year was the busiest ever, with almost 260 late entries to check in! We took advantage of the time off to wander around the show, seeing the displays of vintage cars, perusing the craft stands and of course, enjoying the delights of the icecream van.

On the social side, we've been bowling, route marched around the Great Park in order to make it back before the car park closed at dusk, enjoyed a picnic in Upton Court Park and seen Tim in action as a pike man in the Sealed Knot Civil War display at Shaw House in Newbury. When 100 men with large sticks are running straight at you, it suddenly seems very realistic!

Okay, so it's been a while since the blog was updated, but as you'll have seen from our calendar it's been a busy few months for Langley & Iver - sorry everyone!

We've had games nights, meals out, cinema trips, pool nights, theatre trips - you name it, we've done it these past 3 months! One of the highlights was "Adolf Hitler: My Part in his Downfall" at the Theatre Royal in Windsor, very very funny.

Keeping up with the fundraising, we've been to no less than 4 quizzes organised by other clubs, each raising a great amount for their chosen charities. In addition, one of our members took part in fire walking for Women's Aid - walking barefoot over red hot embers smouldering at over 1200°F!

And on the community side, some of us turned out to help the Sebastian's Action Trust & The Children's Trust with their Twilight Walk around Windsor, hosted by TV presenter Gail Porter on a rather chilly night in May!

All of this has helped bring the Rotaract year 2009-10 to a fantastic close. To celebrate the end of Tim's year as President, and to conduct the ceremonial handing on of the chain from Tim to Luc, we decided the best place to do this was the Rebellion Brewery at Marlow, taking full advantage of their open evening to sample the various brews on tap! As well as tasting the beer, we also got to hear about the history of beer making in the UK, and how they do things at Marlow. It was a great evening, and a fitting end to Tim's year in charge.

This Rotaract year has been a great one, and with plans already underway for the next one, we hope you will come along and join us at one of our next events - see you soon!

March began with a good old-fashioned games of skittles in the latest round of the Rotaract/Rotary Challenge cup. Despite a valiant effort, unfortunately L&I Rotaract were unable to retain the trophy for the 3rd year in a row, narrowly losing out to L&I Rotary. We look forward to taking it off them next year though! Amongst other socials were bowling [at which we fared marginally better than at skittles!], pancake party because you can never have too many pancakes, and a trip down an abandoned Bath Stone Mine - a new experience for Eleanor and one definitely to be repeated!

March also saw members of L&I turn out on a FREEZING cold night for the 2010 Moonraker challenge, an overnight orienteering event organised by our sponsoring Rotary club. A mix of participants and helpers, it was great to better our links with our Rotarians, even if it did mean standing around in a muddy field at 1am!

It was also World Rotaract Week, and members of L&I went along to Maidenhead's World Culture Party where we sampled food from a variety of countries and tried to learn Zulu - I don't think the official interpreters have anything to worry about!

Finally though, March is the month for the annual Rotary District Conference, this time held in Eastbourne. 2 members of L&I went along for a weekend of truly inspiring speakers, including one from Shelterbox [one of our chosen charities for the year] who described the work he'd been doing in Haiti following the earthquake. In amongst the speakers was a chance to catch up with the Bourne End Interactors, and our friends in Windsor St George. All in all, a great weekend and the sun even managed to shine [well, a little bit anyway!]

Roll on April...

The month started on a high by welcoming a new club to the District - congratulations to Bourne End & Cookham on their official chartering! Members of L&I, along with other clubs, went along to their charter night to meet the new club and introduce them to socialising Rotaract style!

The main event for L&I for February though was our annual fancy dress disco. This year the theme was the jungle, and Burnham Resource Centre was transformed for the evening into a lush rainforest, complete with parrots, elephants and snakes! As you can see from this photograph, our President Tim got into the theme of the evening, appearing as the King of the Jungle himself! It was a great evening of music, dancing and dressing up, and almost £200 was raised for our charities so thank you very much to those people that came.

With that in mind, we have therefore been able to raise enough for a Shelterbox, and with the tragedy in Haiti it couldn't come at a better time. L&I are very proud to be able to support this fantastic charity, and already more than 8000 Shelterboxes have been sent out to Port au Prince, bringing shelter to 80,000 people who have lost their homes. For more information on this charity, visit www.shelterbox.org

Well, unfortunately the snow put paid to a lot of the community projects we had planned for December, with the Rotary collections, fun runs and OAP Christmas parties all sadly having to be called off. One did manage to take place, and we were very happy to run the refreshments for the Crossroads Carol Concert, especially since they are one of our chosen charities for the year.

However, that didn't prevent L&I from getting in to the Christmas spirit, going to see not one but two pantomimes! The first was A Christmas Carol, starring our very own Neil as Tiny Tim, and taking place at the beginning of December and the second in January was Alice in Wonderland, with costumes by our good friends at Windsor St George. With plenty of "He's behind you!" and booing of baddies, it was a great start and end to the festive season.

Celebrating continued with the District Christmas social in Reading, and the club Christmas "Pudding Party" which essentially consisted of gorging ourselves on delicious desserts - yum!

January was really a month for District events, kicking off with West Berkshire's Blind Auction, getting rid of unwanted Christmas presents and all in the name of charity. A fantastic sum was raised for Shelterbox and we hope to raise a similar amount with our Jungle Disco next month. The month ended with High Wycombe's Burns Night, a celebration of all things Scottish with the obligatory haggis and dodging ceilidh dancing.

November began with the return of the District Bowling Competition, and with representatives from nearly every club there was some tough competition. However, thanks to Luc's amazing 5 strikes in a row Langley & Iver were the winning team for the second time in a row!

The main event for L&I in November though, was the District Short Film Competition, the first we had organised. With simple rules of producing a film between 4-6 minutes long on a subject of your choice, a number of entries from both Rotary and Rotaract clubs were submitted. These were then screened in a special viewing, judged by a panel of expert judges [well, members of L&I have always loved a good film!], and the winner announced. With entries varying from a spoof of a well-known anti-drugs campaign to footage of the Maasai Mara it was a very difficult decision to make, but in the end the worthy receivers of the trophy were Burnham Rotaract with their take on the Blair Witch Project! Congratulations to every club or individual who submitted a film as it was a very close run thing, and we hope that you’ve all got your thinking caps on for next year’s masterpieces!

The month ended with Maidenhead's Charter Night, helping them to celebrate 30 years of Maidenhead Rotaract with a Bond themed evening.

With Christmas looming ever closer, it looks like December could be another busy one for L&I, but that's exactly how we like it!

October has been a busy one for L&I, with a good mix of events, including our first international jaunt for a few years!

On a social side, we started the month at Heathrow Airport Rotary's quiz, where our knowledge of the airport sadly let us down but we did make up for it on the underground tube station round! This was followed by our long weekend away in Berlin, which was bitterly cold but an amazing city. I think we covered most of the sights in the four days we were there, and it was particularly poignant being in the city 20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall. We took the opportunity to visit several of the sights - Checkpoint Charlie, surviving bits of the wall, and the Jewish Museum, which was a great insight into the history of the Jewish people and their relationship with Germany. To lighten things up a bit, we found an absolutely amazing chocolate shop - we all left with much lighter wallets! We also managed to fit in a trip to the zoo, the Pergamon museum, the Reichstag and after hour's hunting, eventually managed to track down waffles in Spandau - as you can see Matt looks particularly pleased! The month ended with High Wycombe Rotaract's Harrowing Halloween, where Tim won best male costume for his mad chef ensemble.

On a community side, Eleanor took part in Thames HospiceCare's Sunrise Walk, beginning at the ungodly hour of 5am on a Sunday morning, and L&I also helped out at Windsor St George's Gala Opera evening, again raising money for Thames HospiceCare.

With lots of events planned in the run up to Christmas, it should be an interesting couple of months ahead!

The month started with a trip to the bowling alley in preparation for round 3 of the District Bowling Competition. Somehow I don't think the other clubs need to worry too much! L&I kept up the social round with the weekly pub quiz, games nights, and cinema trips.

September was mostly a month of community action though - starting with Iver Carnival which took place midway throught the month. At this, we helped Rotary with their "guess the name of the teddy" competition. In addition, we took a stand at the Eton Action Community Fair for the first time, taking along a Shelterbox to raise awareness of this fantastic charity and also raising over £100 with our treasure map game. It was a really good day with hundreds of people attending, and is definitely one to do again next year.

In amongst all this, we also managed to squeeze in a camping trip to Arundel with West Berkshire Rotaract - a weekend of castles, steam engines, BBQs and the sourest sweets known to mankind!

August sees the beginning of the Rotaract year, and what a beginning we have had! It started when Eleanor, our past President, was surprised with a posh picnic as a thank you for her work last year and as the official club handover to Tim, our new President. This was quickly followed by a walk at Virginia Water with a delicious pub lunch to make up for all that exercise! We attended Maidenhead's Senses quiz, guessing what things were by smell, taste and touch - a great evening even if Eleanor's tongue was almost burnt off by the hot pepper sauce!

We have also been busy planning our activities for this year, which will include a short film festival and our usual themed disco in February.

But of course, the highlight of any August is the Banbury Camping Rally. Held over the bank holiday, the theme this year was "Around the world in almost 80 hours" and saw us celebrate Mardi Gras, an Hawaiian Luau and a laid back Australian evening and barbie. L&I won both the pub quiz (must be all that practice!) and the treasure hunt, so all in all a successful weekend!

July marks the start of the new Rotaract year and we celebrated in style with a Best of British themed District Handover. It was a great evening looking back over the past year and reliving all the things we've got up to in D1090. Awards were given out as well, and Langley & Iver got special mention for our fundraising efforts of the year, raising over £2000 for our chosen charities Taplow Traffic and PolioPlus.

July also saw another of our major community events with the Uxbridge Autoshow. L&I again manned the late entries and despite the weather there was a steady flow of entrants in classic and some not so classic cars!

As well as District Handover, we also had club handover, and Eleanor passed on the baton of Presidency to Tim. We have selected 2 new charities to support, Crossroads (Slough) and Shelterbox. For more information on each, their websites are:

http://www.shelterbox.org/index.asp

http://www.crossroads.org.uk/

We have great plans for fundraisers for the year, so here's to an even better year for L&I!

June was a busy month for Langley and Iver, starting off with the Welcome Home Rally for the Group Study Exchange. Attended by clubs across the district, it was a chance to hear how the exchange had gone and the experiences of the team. The highlights were definitely the day spent with the First Nations canoeing and taking part in a sweatlodge ceremony, and the rodeo.

This was quickly followed by the final fundraising event for the year. A cheese & wine with quiz evening held in the dungeons of Windsor Castle, it was a sold out event attended by both Windsor St George and Langley & Iver Rotary Clubs, plus a few familiar faces from Rotaract. The winning team was aptly named More Cheese Gromit, and the evening raised over £400, bringing the total for the year to £2000, a fantastic achievement.

This achievement was followed by receiving a Presidential Citation, an award given out by Rotary International to clubs who have shown outstanding work in achieving the goals of Rotary for that year. L&I was awarded it for our work raising money for PolioPlus, our involvement with GSE and our work on the district project at Thames Valley Adventure Playground.

Following swift on the heels of this was BRUM09, the 100th Rotary International Conference held in Birmingham - a whirlwind of workshops, social events, meeting Rotaracters from across the world, an amazing opening ceremony and speakers including Ban ki Moon, Secretary General of the UN.

Finally, the month ended cooking hundreds of burgers at the Windsor Midsummer Fayre with L&I Rotary to raise money for Great Ormond Street. Despite being slightly smoked out, it was a great day with a lot of money raised for charity.

All in all, a fantastic end to a fantastic year for Langley & Iver Rotaract!

May saw the national Rotaract conference in 2009, held in Cardiff. With several members of Langley & Iver on the organising committee, it was a great weekend held in a 4 star hotel in the centre of the city. Kicking off with the opening ceremony on Friday, there followed 3 days of guest speakers from Go Gambia, Barnados (Cymru) and Aardman Animations to name but a few, along with a treasure hunt, fancy dress disco and spectacular Gala Dinner. It certainly was a weekend to remember!

Club President Eleanor spent the month in British Columbia on the Group Study Exchange, staying in Rotarians' homes and experiencing the real Canada, as well as spending time seeing how her profession worked out there. The highlight was definitely the day spent with the First Nations, canoeing, learning traditional songs and taking part in a sweatlodge ceremony.

The club also visited the Hell Fire Caves in West Wycombe, picniced in The Brocas, continued our efforts in the pub quiz, and went to the cinema, so another hectic month! 

April saw the 2nd round of the District Bowling Challenge, with participants from clubs across the district. It was a hard fought match, but Langley and Iver came out on top! Now we just need to do as well in round 3 and we'll be the champions!

This was quickly followed by the GSE farewell dinner. Club President Eleanor will be spending a month in British Columbia on a vocational exchange program run by Rotary, experiencing the culture and life of Canada and seeing how her profession works in another country. Anyone wishing to follow their antics should go to www.gse1090.travellerspoint.com

Finally in April we had Caversham and Reading's Rotaract Round Reading pub crawl with quiz. It was a great evening with 10 pubs being visited in total, indulging in a bit of karaoke and then dancing the night away to great tunes such as Gina G and Dirty Dancing!

March has been a busy month for Langley & Iver, starting off with World Rotaract Week. In honour of this, Maidenhead held a World Culture Party, bringing the food, music and pastimes of various countries around the world, including deep-fried Mars Bars from Scotland and chat up lines to use in Japan. This culminated in a game of piñata, which ended abruptly when Tim decapitated the poor animal!

The following evening was Burnham’s Beetle Drive and the atmosphere was very intense as everyone prayed that they would roll the number needed to complete their beetle. It is amazing how competitive people get at drawing beetles!

In the middle of the month was Langley & Iver Rotary’s annual Moonraker event, an overnight orienteering challenge held in the Chilterns. L&I Rotaract entered a team, and also assisted in manning the posts. The evening was a huge success with 40 teams competing against each other, and a huge amount of money raised for charity.

Finally the month ended with the District Conference in Torquay. It was a great weekend spent in glorious sunshine, with talks on a wide variety of topics, including overcoming malaria-induced deafness in children, fighting the French with the Mary Rose, issues with modern policing and Canine Partners, a program providing dogs to assist the physically-handicapped. The weekend also included a treasure hunt around Torquay and an all-you-can-eat Mexican buffet!

February has been another busy month for Langley and Iver, starting with a cinema trip to see Valkyrie. This was quickly followed by a Rotary quiz hosted by Tim Brooke-Taylor of The Goodies, which we did not do so well at – coming 22 out of 30, although we did beat the other Rotaract team! Then, taking advantage of the dry weather, we went for a leisurely Sunday stroll along Jubilee River followed by a huge lunch at The Pineapple sampling several of its wonderful array of sandwiches.

Bond fever hit town with Casino Rotaract, the conference fundraiser. People from across the district dressed in their finest glad rags for a night of poker, roulette and blackjack, and Neil almost won the grand prize, narrowly missing out in the final hand.

One of our members flew out to Africa for the Rotaract Overseas Project, going out with other Rotaractors from across the country to help build wells and a surgery in a remote village in the Gambia. They spent two weeks living and working with the locals to improve their facilities, and left with an enormous sense of achievement and many great stories of their experiences.

Finally the month ended on a high with the club’s main fundraiser of the year “The Best Pirate Disco in the World...ever!” The hall was a sea of parrots, jolly rogers and eye patches and the walls resounded with cries of “Arrgh me hearties!” It was a great night, with table quizzes and a disco, and everyone who came taking advantage of the opportunity to dress up as a salty seadog or saucy wench.  And most importantly, a brilliant £350 was raised for our charities.

Let’s see if March can top all that!

January has seen a slow easing back into Rotaract life after Christmas, all leading up to Round 1 of the District Bowling Challenge. 33 members of District from 7 different clubs descended on Maidenhead Tenpin to see which club had the most bowling talent – sadly it wasn’t Langley and Iver although I do think we should win something for most individual bowling technique! We’ll definitely have to get in some practice before Round 2 in High Wycombe though.

“He’s behind you!” “Oh no he isn’t!”, December began with a good old fashioned trip to the pantomime to see one of members Neil performing in Cinderella. It was a great evening, and I for one particularly enjoyed the Ugly Sisters’ merciless flirting with Matt, Martin and Luc!

The rest of December was also spent building up to Christmas, helping Rotary with their annual collections around Iver and Langley, Maidenhead Rotaract with refreshments at a Carol Concert in aid of the Alexander Devine Children’s Cancer Trust, and Burnham Rotaract with their OAP Christmas Party.

Finally, there was the Club Christmas meal, wonderfully hosted by Martin, and the 50p secret Santa was a huge success – it’s amazing what you can get with so little (especially when Woolies is closing down!)

November saw the annual Rotary/Rotaract Challenge, which this year was skittles. The rival sides met at the Greyhound in Eton Wick for the battle, which saw Rotary win the prize for the highest score but Rotaract retain the coveted Gauntlet Cup for the 3rd year in a row!

In addition, we helped Maidenhead Rotaract in their Rotary/Rotaract skittles challenge, although that result is still hotly contested! Wallingford Rotaract held their Human Board Games evening, which saw guests becoming amongst other things human hungry hippos – a very inelegant sight! Also on the social side, the First Time Buyers have continued their winning ways in the pub quiz – so far we’ve been no lower than 3rd place!

Finally, we presented the money raised last year to East Berkshire Women’s Aid and Thames Hospicecare, with each charity receiving £1100. It is great to have achieved such an excellent result, particularly as these are both local charities helping those in our own community. And we’re already halfway to raising the same amount for this year!

October started out with some very very hard work – planting an area of grass at Thames Valley Adventure Playground. The ground was rock hard, requiring pick axes to be used before we could even get the spades in! Several blisters and sore shoulders later, they now have a nice flat area to be used as a croquet lawn once the grass has grown. This was followed by helping with the Maidenhead Boundary Walk, based on the custom of "Beating the Bounds". Despite the torrential rain the event was a huge success with many braving the weather in aid of their chosen charities, and at least we had some shelter, unlike poor Adam and Lisa from Maidenhead Rotaract!

Social events took place throughout the district, starting off with sno-tubing in Bracknell involving throwing yourself down the side of a hill on a rubber ring. It was also Maidenhead’s Horsey Hopper evening, which saw members of Rotaract racing against each other on space hoppers dressed as horses – who comes up with these ideas! The evening raised a large amount of money for charity, and was great fun. Several of us went to Virginia Water for a brisk stroll around the lake, followed by a leisurely lunch down the pub, and finally, we ended the month with High Wycombe’s Halloween Party – complete with witches, devils and even death himself!

November will see the annual Rotary/Rotaract challenge – will we retain the trophy for the 3rd year in a row? Watch this space!

September saw the annual SADSAD games [Slough and District Sports Association for the Disabled] and once again Rotaract was helping our Rotary club with the Petanque event, a sort of boules played in France. This year was particularly busy, despite the weather, and the contest was fierce – the competitive natures of the teams definitely came out!

We also held our second fundraiser of the year, this time a pub quiz. The event was well supported with teams from 5 different Rotary clubs as well as fellow Rotaracters and £130 was raised for this year’s charities, Taplow Traffic Charity Trust and Polio Plus. Plans are already underway for our next event, so watch this space!

Our hectic social calendar was maintained with trips to the theatre and cinema, and the resurrection of our prize winning pub quiz team, the First Time Buyers. Why not join us on Mondays at the Red Lion, St Mary’s Road, Langley? Hope to see you soon!

August sees the highlight of the Rotaract Year – Banbury Camping Rally! Held over the bank holiday weekend, Banbury sees Rotaracters from all over the country coming together for a weekend of fun, frolics and fancy dress. It is also a chance to meet new people, see old friends, and build up relationships with other Rotaract clubs, so is a great occasion. The theme this year was Retro Rally, with Friday night the 70s, Saturday 80s and Sunday the best of the 90s. Highlights of this year’s Banbury include the valiant efforts of Edinburgh Rotaract to move a full, 10 foot paddling pool from one end of the field to the other using a series of rollers, ground sheets and Snowy’s tractor, Deben Rotaract’s Ghostbusters party piece and of course the catering [well, half of the crew were Langley and Iver members!] Can’t wait until next year when we can do it all again!

July saw the second of our main community events, with Uxbridge Autoshow. Organised by Uxbridge Rotary Club, and this year celebrating its 25th anniversary, the Autoshow is a mix of trade stands, vintage and classic car shows and fairground attractions, and once again we were manning the late entries. The day saw a succession of classic cars [and some that weren’t necessarily classics, just old!] passing by, and a large amount of money raised for Rotary charities, so once again a huge success.

We also finally managed to have a picnic in Black Park, only a year later than originally planned!

June is the month for Heathrow Family Day, one of our annual community events. Organised by Heathrow Rotary and held at the airport, the day consists of stalls and displays by various parts of the airport staff such as the Fire Brigade and Customs, music, miniature railway, petting zoo and of course, the coach trips around the airport. Despite the mix-up with dates, we were able to do our usual manning of the entrance tables and selling tickets for the coach tours – not even George W. Bush could stop us despite arriving in Air Force One that day!

June is also the end of the Rotaract year, and Matt’s Presidency. We marked the occasion with dinner in Windsor, preceded by a treasure hunt to find the restaurant, which eventually, and after many “we’re lost” phone calls, everyone did!  The end of the year was also celebrated by the District with a glamorous awards ceremony, and I have to say I am particularly proud of Langley & Iver’s awards for “First on the dance floor for Oops Upside Your Head”, and “Person most wanted to see you safe home!"

We’re now looking forward to the New Year, and have begun thinking of all the events we can hold to hopefully have more socials, do more community events and raise even more money than last year! We’ll keep you posted!

This May, the World was not enough… for Rotaract! The annual European Rotaract Conference was this year held in London, with a James Bond theme. L&I Rotaract would like to extend huge congratulations to Lisa and her team for a fantastic week of conference sessions, sight seeing, and partying, culminating in the Gala Dinner on the Saturday night, complete with Aston Martin. It was at the RGBI conference session that Lisa handed over the job of conference co-ordinator to Ali, for next year’s RGBI conference. This is to be held in Cardiff, and with several members of L&I Rotaract on the conference crew it’s bound to be a good one – after such a great week in the English capital, let’s see what the Welsh one has to offer! www.rgbi2009.org.uk

May also saw L&I Rotary throw down the gauntlet, and we were challenged to a game of lawn bowls. It was a blazing hot day when the two sides met to see whether we were up to the task. Everyone agreed that bowls is a lot harder than it looks, but somehow we still managed to win so it’s round one to Rotaract! Now we just need to think of something suitable to challenge you back – we’ll let you know soon!

This has been a month of community work for L&I, starting with decorating at Iver Heath Infant School and Nursery. Although many areas of the school were in need of some attention, it had been decided that we would start with the nursery. All materials were provided by the school, we just had to turn up and apply the paint to the walls! We left it looking much better than it had been, and are due to go back and apply the second coat in the summer. A second local school in need of help was Iver Village School, and a couple of hours were spent weeding, clearing litter, and tidying up their playground and field ready for the start of the new term.

To keep up with our hectic social calendar, we had another of our now famous safari suppers, beginning at Matt’s for starters, then on to Tia’s for mains and ending up at Martin’s for desserts. The evening was as always a huge success and we are now planning the next one!

Finally, our new look website has been launched (a huge thank you to Kathryn for all her hard work on it!). We hope you like it!

This has been a busy month for Langley and Iver Rotaract, starting off with our first fundraiser of the year, “The Best School Disco In the World…ever!” More than 60 people turned out to Slough Grammar School, with everyone in uniform and really getting into the spirit of things! To test our brains, there were pop quizzes on History and Geography, followed by a disco. We raised over £500 for our charities, Thames Hospicecare and East Berkshire Women’s Aid, so all in all a very successful evening.

Next we celebrated Rotaract’s 40th birthday and World Rotaract Week by attending a different event every night for the week – from speakers to cinema, from bowling to Sunday lunch. And to round off the month, we continued the celebrations by enjoying breakfast on a raft!

We have no plans to slow down next month, and have 3 community events lined up including decorating at a local infant school, as well as theatre trips and another ever popular safari supper – hope to see you there!