Past Events › Club Lunchtime Meeting

John Miles from the Leatherhead Rotary Club is a Trustee of Global Sight Solutions, which was previously known as The Guildford Rotary Eye Project which is an RIBI approved avoidable blindness programme.   The purpose of this is to provide free eye care, such as cataract operations, to those in India, Africa and elsewhere who are sadly too poor to be able to access such things for themselves. He will be giving a talk on the work of his charity.

Since last speaking to the club, David Phillips, a local accountant, has completed his 5ooth Marathon, and in the process has raised over £125,000 for the Brain & Spine Foundation. But having reached his target he just can't stop, and in still participating most weekends, although he confesses that many of them are now half-marathons and run at a lot slower pace! He will talk about his experiences and his favoured charity. Host - Richard Ashley

Past District Governor, Gary Dancer, is visiting the club

This will be the Monthly Business Meeting

Today will be the Scholars Lunch, the occasion when senior representatives from local schools, together with teachers, visit the club for an exchange of ideas  on the work of Rotary in the community and to hear from them how more can be done to help them in their objectives in preparing for life after leaving school. The meeting is organised by the club's Youth Committee.

The club monthly Business Meeting will be preceded by the Annual Special General Meeting

The speaker today will be Dr. John Clegg, a Consultant at Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust. With Polio very much in our minds following World Polio Eradication Day in October, Dr. Clegg will talk about George Thomas Smith-Clarke, a British engineer who devised the Smith-Clarke Baby cabinet respirator which was made here in Warwick by the Cape Engineering Co. Ltd., between 1956 and 1970 and was a type of iron lung. First developed to treat gas inhalation victims, iron lungs…

One of the high spots of the year is the club's Civic Lunch, to which the Chairman of Warwick District Council and the Mayor of Warwick, together with the Town Clerk of Warwick, are invited. Each leader will give a short outline of their year in office to date and of their plans for the rest of their civic year, and then they will answer questions put to them by members.