It may have been chilly this winter, but Bradgate Rotary Club in Leicestershire ​made the most of the conditions.

More than 270 people turned up to take part in their Freeze Your Bits Off ​Bradgate Park Bra Walk to raise funds for Glenfield Breast Care Centre based at ​Glenfield Hospital.

Participants took part in a three-mile walk wearing their bras outside of their ​coats, with a prize awarded for the best embellished bra.

There has been increasing publicity for women to ensure they attend their ​regular mammogram check-ups, and the walk was aimed to raise awareness of ​breast cancer screening, and to raise funds.

Bradgate Rotary Club was motivated to support the cause after two Rotarians ​accessed services at the Glenfield Breast Care Centre, and reported that more ​help was needed. The club donated funds for a specialist chair involved in the ​screenings, and this latest fund-raiser is expected to have raised close to £7,000.

President Alan Rockey said: “My personal thanks go to each and everyone of you ​for being part of a memorable day.”

Rotary in Cumbria has been placed firmly in the public’s eye thanks to a partnership between Furness Rotary Club in Barrow and the town’s rugby club.

As part of a jointly-funded project with the rugby club, bright new post protectors have been put into position replete with the Rotary logo. Club President Brian Boyd joined fellow Rotarians Nigel Johnson and Frank Randell to see the new post protectors at the club’s Strawberry Ground.

It’s the latest in a series of community projects which Furness Rotary Club has been involved with. They presented £500 cheques to the Bay Hospitals’ Charity and St Mary’s Hospice from their December Santa Dash.

And they attended the commissioning of £500,000 project at Vision Support Barrow & District’s Ostley House Home to provide a stretcher lift. There, a plaque was unveiled in memory of Rotary club Part President, Alan Todd, who was a treasurer for many years of the Blind Society, which is now Vision Support Barrow & District.

Representatives from the four Folkestone and Hythe Rotary clubs (Folkestone, Channel, Hythe and Romney Marsh) were delighted to present a cheque for £900 to Mark Jones, Beacon school’s Facilities Manager, at the school’s Community Garden.

The garden was established earlier this year thanks to a previous donation of £2,000, made equally by the four Kent Rotary clubs, and has been a huge success.

Fruit, vegetables and flowers have been grown for the benefit of pupils and the local community.

The garden has also become a welcome place of visitation by a recently established care group for dementia sufferers which uses it for therapy.

The additional funds will enable the school to expand the garden and provide more beneficial uses.

Beacon School is an all-age school from three to 19-years-old offering pupils with complex needs, profound and severe learning difficulties and physical and sensory impairments a wide range of educational experiences.

It always seeks to involve parents and carers actively in the education of, and decision making for, their children both in and outside of school.

The local Rotary clubs will continue to work closely with the school in the interest of supporting pupils and their families.