http://www.langley-iver-rotaract.org.uk en-gb langley-iver-rotaract.org.uk 2009-12-22T00:00:00Z langley-iver-rotaract.org.uk http://www.langley-iver-rotaract.org.uk/page4.htm#54895 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 Lucs amazing 5 strikes in a row Langley amp Iver were the winning team for the second time in a row The main event for LampI in November though was the District Short Film Competition the first we had organised. With simple rules of producing a film between 46 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 LampI have always loved a good film and the winner announced. With entries varying from a spoof of a wellknown antidrugs 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 ... 2009-12-5T00:00:00Z http://www.langley-iver-rotaract.org.uk/page4.htm#52398 October has been a busy one for LampI 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 Rotarys 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... 2009-11-1T00:00:00Z http://www.langley-iver-rotaract.org.uk/page4.htm#51201 The month started with a trip to the bowling alley in preparation for round 3 of the District Bowling Competition. Somehow I dont think the other clubs need to worry too much LampI 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 163100 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 2009-10-5T00:00:00Z http://www.langley-iver-rotaract.org.uk/page4.htm#48688 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 Maidenheads Senses quiz guessing what things were by smell taste and touch a great evening even if Eleanors 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. LampI won both the pub quiz must be all that practice and th... 2009-9-1T00:00:00Z http://www.langley-iver-rotaract.org.uk/page4.htm#46525 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 weve got up to in D1090. Awards were given out as well and Langley amp Iver got special mention for our fundraising efforts of the year raising over 1632000 for our chosen charities Taplow Traffic and PolioPlus. July also saw another of our major community events with the Uxbridge Autoshow. LampI 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 httpwww.shelterbox.orgindex.asp httpwww.crossroads.org.uk We have great plans for fundraisers for the year so heres to an eve... 2009-8-7T00:00:00Z http://www.langley-iver-rotaract.org.uk/page4.htm#44636 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 amp 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 amp Iver Rotary Clubs plus a few familiar faces from Rotaract. The winning team was aptly named More Cheese Gromit and the evening raised over 163400 bringing the total for the year to 1632000 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 ye... 2009-7-1T00:00:00Z http://www.langley-iver-rotaract.org.uk/page4.htm#43140 May saw the national Rotaract conference in 2009 held in Cardiff. With several members of Langley amp 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 hect... 2009-6-1T00:00:00Z http://www.langley-iver-rotaract.org.uk/page4.htm#41017 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 well 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 Readings 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 2009-5-4T00:00:00Z http://www.langley-iver-rotaract.org.uk/page4.htm#40240 March has been a busy month for Langley amp 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 deepfried Mars Bars from Scotland and chat up lines to use in Japan. This culminated in a game of pi241ata which ended abruptly when Tim decapitated the poor animal The following evening was Burnhams 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 amp Iver Rotarys annual Moonraker event an overnight orienteering challenge held in the Chilterns. LampI 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 Dist... 2009-4-1T00:00:00Z http://www.langley-iver-rotaract.org.uk/page4.htm#38360 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 BrookeTaylor 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 impro... 2009-2-28T00:00:00Z http://www.langley-iver-rotaract.org.uk/page4.htm#36216 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 wasnt Langley and Iver although I do think we should win something for most individual bowling technique Well definitely have to get in some practice before Round 2 in High Wycombe though. The month ended in style at Heathrow Rotarys Burns Night complete with piper haggis and ample amounts of whisky. Preparations are now very much underway for our Pirate Disco in February with parrots lost treasure and plenty of grog it should be a great evening hope to see you there 2009-1-31T00:00:00Z http://www.langley-iver-rotaract.org.uk/page4.htm#36215 Hes behind you Oh no he isnt 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 Childrens 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 its amazing what you can get with so little especially when Woolies is closing down 2008-12-31T00:00:00Z http://www.langley-iver-rotaract.org.uk/page4.htm#33250 November saw the annual RotaryRotaract 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 RotaryRotaract 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 weve been no lower than 3rd place Finally we presented the money raised last year to East Berkshire Womens Aid and Thames Hospicecare with each charity receiving 1631100. It is great to have achieved such an excellent result particularly as these are both local charities helping those in our own community. And were already halfway to raising th... 2008-11-30T00:00:00Z http://www.langley-iver-rotaract.org.uk/page4.htm#32977 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 snotubing in Bracknell involving throwing yourself down the side of a hill on a rubber ring. It was also Maidenheads 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 ... 2008-10-31T00:00:00Z http://www.langley-iver-rotaract.org.uk/page4.htm#30427 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 163130 was raised for this years 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 Marys Road Langley Hope to see you soon 2008-9-30T00:00:00Z http://www.langley-iver-rotaract.org.uk/page4.htm#30426 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 years 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 Snowys tractor Deben Rotaracts Ghostbusters party piece and of course the catering well half of the crew were Langley and Iver members Cant wait until next year when we can do it all again 2008-8-30T00:00:00Z http://www.langley-iver-rotaract.org.uk/page4.htm#30424 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 werent 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 2008-7-31T00:00:00Z http://www.langley-iver-rotaract.org.uk/page4.htm#26719 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 mixup 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 dayJune is also the end of the Rotaract year and Matts Presidency. We marked the occasion with dinner in Windsor preceded by a treasure hunt to find the restaurant which eventually and after many were 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 amp Ivers awards for First on the dance floor for Oops Upside Your Head and Person most... 2008-6-30T00:00:00Z http://www.langley-iver-rotaract.org.uk/page4.htm#25086 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. LampI 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 coordinator to Ali for next years RGBI conference. This is to be held in Cardiff and with several members of LampI Rotaract on the conference crew its bound to be a good one after such a great week in the English capital lets see what the Welsh one has to offer www.rgbi2009.org.uk May also saw LampI 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 ... 2008-5-31T00:00:00Z http://www.langley-iver-rotaract.org.uk/page4.htm#23874 This has been a month of community work for LampI 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 Matts for starters then on to Tias for mains and ending up at Martins 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 al... 2008-4-30T00:00:00Z http://www.langley-iver-rotaract.org.uk/page4.htm#23876 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 Worldever 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 163500 for our charities Thames Hospicecare and East Berkshire Womens Aid so all in all a very successful evening. Next we celebrated Rotaracts 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 2008-3-31T00:00:00Z http://www.langley-iver-rotaract.org.uk/page4.htm#23877 The month started off with a fantastic night at High Wycombes Burns Night where much haggis neeps and tatties was consumed then we all attempted the ceilidh dancing not a pretty sight Since then weve been busy with preparations for our own fundraiser the first of the year The best School Disco in the worldever to be held on 1st March so put on that old school tie and blazer and come and join us at Slough Grammar School Hopefully itll be as successful as last years 80s night and well raise lots of money for Thames Hospicecare and East Berkshire Womens Aid. In addition we have a new member Neil and are looking to the future with plans to expand and take over the world ok the easternmost reaches of the District. Several community projects are also in the pipeline so its all onwards and upwards for Langley amp Iver. 2008-2-29T00:00:00Z