Joan appreciating Franks tree before being planted

Mum, you've missed a bit

The Trees were supplied by Nonsuch Rotary Club who organized the planting of them in recognition of all the help, work and fellowship Frank and Rob brought to the Club.

They will both be remembered for many years to come and remain in the hearts of all.

Dancing the evening away

Ticket prices will be unchanged this year at £15 in advance or £18 on the day.  The box office opens on 16 May at 20 Chartwell Place, Downs Road, Epsom KT18 5JH, telephone 01372 741028, email: marriottmj@aol.com . 

Where to buy your tickets and an order form can be downloaded here. BBbkfrm12+

That's the way to do it

Tickets will also be available from 16 May from the following retailers:
Cheam:                 Bon Bons, The Broadway
Epsom:                 The Canopy Restaurant, High Street
Epsom:                 Peachey’s News, next to Ashley Centre
Ewell:                    HoughtonWhite, Optometrists, 68 High Street
North Cheam     Dean Kirby’s Creative Flooring, 538-540 London Road
Stoneleigh:        Mantle & Partners, 77-79 Stoneleigh Broadway
Sutton:               Sutton Music, 35 St Nicholas Way
Worcester Park: Read N Rite, 104 Central Road

Money raised will be divided equally between the Friends of Nonsuch charity and Nonsuch Rotary Charitable Trust.  Nonsuch Rotary’s main charities will be St Raphael’s Hospice and Cancer Research UK

For all enquiries about the concert please email: nonsuchbigband@gmail.com.

What did he say

Seasoned Rotarian Quizmaster David Riley, ably supported by his wife Sara, set a wide variety of fascinating questions and ran the event like clockwork. The buzz of conversation interspersed with frequent laughter was evidence of a relaxed atmosphere hiding some keen competition from which Chris Hosking’s team from Atkins emerged as the winners. 

President Chris with the winning team

Halfway through the evening Nonsuch Rotarian Ian Hosking miraculously produced a wonderful three course meal.  Do people come for the quiz or the meal? The answer clearly is both!  

At the end President Chris Forkan thanked everyone for supporting the event and reminded them of Rotary’s forthcoming Big Band in Nonsuch Park on 13 July.

Who has the winning ticket

 A raffle contributed to the total of £850 raised for charity during the evening. Subsequently Quizmaster David donated £75 he had received for running another quiz and Nonsuch Rotary added a further £75 to produce a grand total of £1,000 which will be presented to DebRA, a charity researching into EB, a very unpleasant genetic condition causing open and painful wounds from the slightest rub to the skin.’

50% of the figure raised went to the teams who took part although some of them gave all they raised to Pudsey.  

 The gross amount raised for 2010 was £2446 of which 50% went to the teams.

 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 years old 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.

Cheque from Rosebery School for Girls being presented to President Chris and Chairman Colin

 left to right: Mrs. Margot Evans (Head of House), Millie Jones, Mrs. Sarah Mackintosh (Headteacher), Rowena Taylor, Chris Forkan, Charlotte Slatter, Colin Kennedy, Emma Thomas, Ann Day( Teacher)

All the information

BIZZ QUIZ 2012 Application Form

 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.

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.

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.