Swimathon 2012

Our Swimathon this year will be held on the 3 November at Epsom College starting at 1330. Epsom College

BIZZ QUIZZ 2012

All the information

BIZZ QUIZ 2012 Application Form

Big Band in the Park 2012

This event will be held this year in the grounds of Nonsuch Park Mansion Gardens on the 13 July 2012 with the Jay Craig Orchestra playing.

Christmas Charity Donations given out

At our first meeting of 2012 on the 4^th January we entertained and distributed £1500 to each of the charities we supported in our Christmas collections. They all had representatives there and they were thanked for taking part in our collections and each given a cheque before telling us what their charity wanted to achieve and how they accomplished it. The rest of the money raised will be distributed throughout the year to other deserving causes.

 Back Row – left John Parker (DebRA), right Laurie Wills (TREES)

Front Row – left David Banks (Sutton Foodbank), centre President Chris Forkan, right Rosemary Attridge (CRY)

Nonsuch Rotary laundered Christmas Collection cash !

 News Flash – As a result of hundreds of coins being contaminated by a sticky jam tart, Sue King had to wash them before they were accepted by the local bank. This is just one of many incidents that members and wives of the Club had to deal with during an action packed Christmas Collection last December.

 To start with……… we couldn’t! A puncture on the lorry before we even commenced the first evening round prevented us from collecting. However, we were assisted by three young men who not only showed us how to release the spare wheel but went on to change the wheel themselves. They refused any payment asking us to add it to the charity collection.

 During the second week we suffered a power failure when an electric cable was severed. Cometh the moment, cometh the man. Diego “call me sparky” Alves jumped up and in a moment repaired the break using a liberal amount of parcel tape. A huge cheer rang out from the Elves when the music and lights came back on.

 We were very fortunate to have enormous support from our better halves with at least nine wives coming out on many occasions. The weather was much better than the disasters of last year but nevertheless some of us were soaked on a couple of nights. A sprinkling of snow at Tescos could not prevent Santas and Elves bringing joy and surprise to hundreds of small children. As usual the greatest pleasure we receive is seeing the faces of the children, parents and grandparents, when they see Santa on his sleigh and hear the Christmas carols. One such parent even said that her Christmas did not start until our sleigh had been round.

 One amusing story out of many recalls little Johnny opening the door to one Elf. “I’ll go and get my Mum” he said. Twenty seconds later he returned and explained “My Mum says she is out!!”

Once again, many, many thanks to all members, wives, friends and charity supporters for your support. The total raised was in excess of £9,000 which is a tribute to everyone’s hard work.

Christmas Collection Results 2011

For twenty-five years those living in Cheam, North Cheam, Stoneleigh, Sutton and Worcester Park have warmed to the sound of Christmas music as Nonsuch Rotary Club’s sleigh with Father Christmas riding on it makes its way through their streets raising money for local charities.  Their generosity when we knock on the door or outside Sainsbury’s North Cheam and Tesco Extra Cheam Park is always guaranteed as is the pleasure of the collectors on seeing the excited faces of young and old alike or on hearing, “When are you coming to my road”?

And what would you like for Christmas?

This time you all gave over £9000 for the benefit of Nonsuch Rotary Club’s local charities which included CRY (Cardiac Risk in the Young), DebRA ( to help people with a genetic skin blistering condition), Sutton Foodbank and TREES (providing social activities for local people with profound learning difficulties).  On behalf of these charities we say ‘Thank You’ to one and all.

Our sincere thanks go too to Kendall Cars Ltd, for providing transport for our sleigh, and Sainsbury’s North Cheam and Tesco Extra Cheam Park, for allowing us to collect at their respective supermarkets.

£175,000!  That’s roughly how much you’ve given at Christmas since Nonsuch Rotary began collecting 25 years ago!  See you all next year. 

                                                            This is our sleigh with Father Christmas on board.

For more information, pictures and future events such as the “Big Band in the Park” keep looking at this site.

Youth Speaks Round 1

“On Tuesday 22 November 2011, 8 teams from 4 local senior schools competed in the 1^st round of the Rotary Youth speaks competition.

The eventual winners were (from L to R) Ade Adebanjo, Elizabeth O’Connor and Louis Montebello  from Carshalton Sports College, seen here with the Nonsuch president Chris Forkan.  The team will go on to the District semi finals early next year.  The event was organised by the Nonsuch Rotary Club and hosted by Wilsons school.”

 This competition is to give children of all ages experience of talking to the public and is organised by RIBI (Rotary International in Britain and Ireland).

RIBI is set up into districts of which Sutton belongs to district 1140. Youth Speaks has been running for over 12 years in Sutton. The Rotary Club of Sutton Nonsuch has been the principal organiser for the past 6 years. There were 8 Sutton schools teams taking part in this year’s senior competition for 17 year olds and under.

An intermediate competition for under 14s will be held in January. Winners will go on to District Semi Final.

Christmas Collections 2011

We will be starting our Christmas Collections this year on December 5.  The Charities we are collecting for this year are:

Sutton Foodbank and other Rotary Charities.

 

                                       

 

On Monday December 5 Route 1, we shall start at Woodlands Avenue, Worcester Park visiting the following roads: Kinross Ave., Ardrossan Gds., Alsom Ave., Cunliffe Rd., Vale Rd., Fairford Gds., Inveresk Gds., Elmstead Gds.

Unfortunately the above route had to be cancelled due to one of the reindeer being lame. Happily two young men who lived close by helped to ease the reindeer’s lameness to be able to get him back to the stables. This route will now be on the 19 December.

On Tuesday December 6 Route 2, we start at Sparrow Farm Road, North Cheam visiting the following roads: Killester Gds., Tudor Ave., Braemar Rd., Balmoral Rd.,  Hampton Rd., Windsor Rd., Moreton Rd.,  Balmoral Rd., Donnington Rd., Lynwood Drive, Stoneleigh Ave., Rosedale Rd., Richlands Ave.,  Woodstone Ave., Sparrow Farm Rd., Bridgewood Rd., Sandringham Rd., St. Clair Drive.

The Rotary Club of Sutton Nonsuch would like to apologise to the families who live in Tudor Avenue and St. Claire Drive and thank them for their support. Unfortunately another club had been collecting on a previous day who should not have been collecting in those roads. We have to get police permission to collect in all our routes which we had obtained.

On Thursday December 8 Route 6, we start at Langley Avenue, North Cheam visiting the following roads:  Andrews Close, Cotswold Way, Langley Ave., Dorchester Rd., Buckland Way, Delcombe Ave., Merrilands Rd., Buckland Way, Dorchester Rd., Boscombe Rd., Conrad Drive, Charminster Rd., Boscombe Rd., Clarkes Ave.

On Monday December 12 Route 5, we start at Palmer Avenue. North Cheam visiting the following roads: Wickham Ave., Wordsworth Drive, Hemingford Rd., D`Arcy Rd., Church Hill Rd., Hilbert Rd., Wrayfield Rd., Hayes Cres., Priory Cres., Priory Ave., Priory Rd., Newbolt Ave.

On Tuesday December 13 Route 4, we start at Esher Avenue. North Cheam visiting the following roads: Marlow Drive, Staines Ave., Egham Cres., Caversham Ave., Gander Green Lane, Warner Ave.  Hamilton Ave., Gander Green Lane, Henley Ave., Chertsey Drive, Walton Ave., Windsor Ave., Kew Cres., Kingston Ave., Molesey Drive, St. Margaret`s Ave., Windsor Ave., Brocks Drive, Molesey Drive, Henley Ave.

On Thursday December 15 Route 3, we start at Green Lane, Worcester Park visiting the following roads: Pembury Ave., Caverleigh Way, Pembury Ave., Green Lane, Longfellow Rd., Browning Ave., St. Philips Ave., Brinkley Rd., Washington Rd., Caldbeck Ave., Longfellow Rd.

We shall be at Sainsbury’s, North Cheam on December 9, 10, and 11 during the day.

We shall be at Tesco’s, Sutton By-Pass on December 16, 17, and 18 during the day.

Pudsey at Nonsuch Swimathon 2011

Pudsey Bear visited the 2011 Nonsuch Rotary Club Swimathon which took place on the 5 November and joined in the fun. The event went very quickly and we are now waiting for the Sponsorship money to be collected and counted.    

President Chris with Pudsey

 

President Chris with Rosebery School Ladies

    

Chairman Colin with Nonsuch School Ladies

At lease 50% of the collection will go to ‘Children in Need’ from Nonsuch Rotary, the other half goes to those who took part to use as they wish. 

It was a very busy day with more teams than usual taking part. There were 123 swimmers, including our President Chris Forkan, from the age of 10 up to over 70 in 42 teams. They swam 3596 lengths which is 87.4 Kilometres or 53.8 miles. Each swimmer swam an average of 29.24 lengths which is an excellent average. 

Some of those who took part: 

Breast Strokers – Conservators Club – Feltham 4 + 1 – Nonsuch High School for Girls – Monday Club – Over Fifties –  Rosebery High School for Girls and last but not least Cheam Guides. 

Pudsey taking a well earned rest

Next years Swimathon will be held on the 3 November 2012.

Induction of our President for 2011/12

Past President Mick installing President Chris

 Chris, a founder member of the Club 25 years ago, has embarked on leading the whole Club in what he confidently expects will be another highly successful year in succession to Mick Martin.  “We pride ourselves on being extremely active in local and community initiatives and having a great time while doing so”. 

 Non-Rotarians don’t know what they are missing and I urge them to find out by visiting us at Club on a Wednesday evening where they will receive a very warm welcome.

 Chris, who began his career as a history teacher, has a wide range of interests including, in recent years, acting as volunteer organiser and guide for his own very popular trips to battlefields in Europe.  He is absolutely clear that his year as leader of Nonsuch Rotary Club will be free of any battle fields! 

The Members enjoying the occasion

More information and photos on the home page under the heading ‘Borough Commander’s commendation’ .

Swimathon November 5 2011 at Epsom College

Forms are available for download via the links below or contact Colin Kennedy for further information on 01737 243509 or email nonsuchswim@aol.

 Download documentation for Swimathon 2011 here:

Application Form

Sponsorship Form

Disclaimer Form and How to get there

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