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Plant life for Loughborough Beacon Rotarians
At Loughborough Beacon Rotary Club, engaging with other clubs, local businesses and other charity organisations is high on their list of priorities.
One of the Leicestershire club’s key projects each year is a plant sale which raises funds for projects. It has been running since the club began 40 years ago.
This year local pharmaceutical giant Kindeva sent ten willing helpers to pack over 300 orders. 3M did the job in 2023, each as part of their corporate social responsibility programme.
In preparation, suitable boxes are donated by our local market traders over the previous months, and stored in a redundant lorry trailer offered by a local HGV training company.
Plants were purchased in bulk from a nearby nursery and over two days orders were assembled in a barn loaned by a local farmer. Using tables borrowed from local village halls, members and friends assembled and packed the orders before they were delivered orders across the region.
“the project involves a lot of input from almost everyone in the club.”
This year, the culmination of the month-long project saw Rotarians and volunteer helpers assemble and distribute over 250 orders to the value of nearly £9,000.
After all costs, including the purchase of plants, the surplus amounted to more than £2,500 which was added to the club’s charitable funds.
Club member, Michael Charlesworth said that Loughborough Beacon Rotary Club has a history of reaching out to the Leicestershire community for help with fund-raising and charitable activities.
He said: “It is a very big commitment, but for some regular supporters this is something in their gardening year which they look forward to.
“The project involves a lot of input from most of the club, whether distributing leaflets, running the shop, collecting boxes, organising the distribution, being part of the hive of activity in the barn and, of course, out on the roads delivering the orders.
“It is certainly one focussed campaign in the club’s fund generation, which reminds us all that effective community engagement needs sleeves rolled up on occasions. It’s a lot of fun, and gives a lot of satisfaction.”
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