Save your stamps for RNIB This festive season, collect stamps for RNIB and make a difference to blind and partially sighted people. If you receive cards and letters through the post, could you save the stamps to send to us? We will recycle them into much-needed funds for our services.
Be a stamp collector for a good cause:Step 1: Get pre-paid collection envelopes or boxes for your stamps by completing the request form, or by calling our Helpline on 0303 123 9999 option 4. Step 2: Start collecting stamps as they come through your post box or at your work. Stamps don’t need to be thoroughly sorted, but it helps if you can separate them into British and foreign stamps (Channel Islands and Isle of Man count as foreign). Make sure you leave a centimetre of envelope or packaging around each stamp. This is just a recommendation and stamps that have been trimmed less or more will still be accepted.
Rotary Gryffe Valley Bridge of Weir success in COP 26 Climate Change Art competition An entry from Bridge of Weir Primary school was selected from more than 10,000 entries to be displayed at the COP 26 conference! In the run up to COP 26, six of our local primary schools participated in a competition to produce posters encouraging action on climate change. Our club competition was the first stage in a UK wide event, organised by Helensburgh Garelochside Rotary. Our two selected posters feature in a display of posters from the West of Scotland at Glasgow Airport and one by Alexander from Bridge of Weir Primary was selected to be amongst the top twenty-two in the UK! All thirty of the Gryffe Valley posters can be seen using the link below. Congratulations to all the schools and pupils, and particularly Alexander. https://youtu.be/HgrIqeFzepk
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Step 3: Pack up your envelope or box, and pop it in the post using our pre-paid address labels.
Regular meal meetings commenced from 27th October in the Fox and Hounds. We are enjoying being together again in very pleasant surroundings.
How stamps make a difference
Speaker Meetings
By collecting stamps you’re helping to break down the barriers that stop people with sight loss living life to the full. We accept all stamps: new or used, first or second class, foreign, first day covers, presentation packs or albums. Stamps are sold by weight and we raise £20 per kilogramme of stamps, so it’s a brilliant way to raise money.
Our series of eminent speakers on Climate Change leading up the COP 26 Conference continued.
Get everyone involved
On 3rd November, our speakers on the same theme were Lucia Fawsset, Karen Gilmore and Anna Lopez - climate change activists from Devon who were attending the COP 26.
Saving stamps is an easy way to support us at home, work, or in your local community. You can request a handy little collection box for your office reception, school or local community centre. We’ve put together a Q and A and some posters so you can get your friends, family and work colleagues involved too:
Over a series of six talks arranged by Les King, we have learned about how climate change is accelerating as the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere increases year by year.
On November 17th, James Maclaren spoke about his diverse life and career and, on November 24th, Karen Anderson spoke about Waste Recycling in Renfrewshire.
Old and foreign currency
Corporate Membership
You can also support RNIB by donating disused or foreign money.
We welcome new corporate members. This offers opportunities to network with members and support our work. Contact us through our web or Facebook page or email gryffevalleyrotary@gmail.com
If you have any surplus foreign currency from overseas trips, or any unusable old British currency hiding at the back of the drawer, we’d love to receive it!
Walk for Health The club has started work on a project to encourage walking locally in the knowledge that walking is good for both physical and mental health. We would like to make contact with all local walking clubs in our area with a view to promoting them through the project.
Annual Burns Supper The decision has been made (regulations permitting) to hold our Burns Supper on Saturday 22nd January 2022. Please email gryffevalleyrotary@ gmail.com to book.
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