Last chance to get your tickets for a Charity Burns Night Celebration, organised by Guildford Chantries Rotary Club in aid of Cherry Trees and other Rotary charities. Taking place on Saturday 21 January at the Park Barn Day Centre in Guildford, come along for some traditional fare, poetry and a lively Ceilidh with Caller, starting at 6.30pm.
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Come along to our free ‘Carols for all the family’ event in Guildford High Street on Friday 16 December.
The Guildford Vox Community Choir will be leading the singing from 6.30pm outside the Guildhall, with song sheets provided so everyone can join in!
The event is aimed at raising awareness of the work carried out in our community by Guildford Action, who are celebrating their 30th anniversary.
For further information on the carol singing, please contact Martin Grant on 01483 303830.
Volunteers from Guildford Chantries Rotary Club joined in to support the Royal Surrey Appeal for the Royal Surrey County Hospital in their first ever Fright Night 2011.
Around 200 people signed up to either walk 2km or run 6km through the Chantries Woods in Guildford, in spooky fancy dress and after dark, to raise funds for the Hospital’s Appeal.
A team from Chantries Rotary Club helped out acting as marshalls along the nighttime forest route with torches, glow sticks, water and encouragement to help the participants on their way. The event was a great success for the Appeal and we are pleased to have been able to help.
Members from Guildford Chantries and their Partners were volunteering recently at the famous Goodwood Revival meeting. A social start to the day, found us eating baked potatoes and drinking coffee in heavy drizzle! Conversation swung around the impending fly-past of 10 Spitfires and where the best vantage point might be.
A couple of hours later and with many photos taken, it was time to turn to the main purpose of our visit – raising money for the Richard Burns Foundation. We stood at the main exit encouraging the departing visitors to contribute to a very worthy cause! During our shift, we enjoyed glorious sunshine and a shower or two, but we came away with the feel good factor warming the inner person. Next year, why not join us? You too might get to meet Laurel and Hardy!!
An enthusiastic band of Chantries golfers gathered at Rokers golf course on a recent Thursday evening with pleasant weather after a morning of heavy rain, which threatened to scupper the event.
The varying skills of the competitors enabled a division into two teams under the captaincy of President David and Past President Martin for a competition appropriately dubbed ‘The Presidents Scramble’.
The absence of television cameras or on-course commentators prevents an authentic report of the finer points of this hard fought nine-hole battle. Tales of incredible skill and remarkable shots were many and varied in a round that resulting in a very close finish.
After several ‘count backs’, rewriting the rules and adjustments by an impartial adjudicator, the result gave Past President Martin’s team the win by one hole.
The evening was rounded off with a light meal and liquid refreshment in the Rokers clubhouse.
