Already allocated £1000 from budget that may be added to.

 The East Sutherland Rotary Club has wholeheartedly adopted John Kenny’s vision for the year ahead including the “Thanks for Life” spreading the word effort.

Over the last month and for the next 3 months the Club will take the message to every major gathering in the Sutherland and Easter Ross area--the County Shows, the Tain Highland Games, the Dornoch Highland Games, the Helmsdale Highland Games the various Gala Weeks and much more including having booked space at the major supermarkets in both counties and the "Harrods in the Mountains"/ The Falls of Shinn Visitor Centre and shop. At all of these venues a display with banners and posters will proclaim the good work that the club and Rotary World wide is doing --especially Polio Eradication and Water Aid.

A special Lottery Draw has been organised with over £7,000 worth of prizes including holidays in London, Belfast, Orkney, Pitlochry , Brora and Inverness and lots more from fine malts and sides of smoked salmon to days on golf courses or salmon rivers and trout lochs with the aim of raising a lot of money. The profits will be split between Polio and The Elgin Clubs Nepal Water Aid Scheme Hopefully up to £10,000 between now and East Sutherland’s 21st Birthday in March 2010.

The Club has arranged to give every Rotarian attending the conference the chance to win a prize as the tickets will be on sale at Aviemore in September
The Club has the local community very much on their side and the Northern Times is regularly updating the Sutherland population on progress.

The “Future of Rotary is in Our Hands” and the East Sutherland Rotary Club intend that it is a bright future.
 

 Shop front promotion in February with some fund-raising. Dinner event planned for April.
 

  Holding a Silent Auction in March.
 

  Shop front promotion in February with some fund-raising.
 

  Planning to use stalls in the high street to promote and fund raise.
 

 The Polio Awareness Dinner did not come off through lack of support. However, instead, 6 Rotarians have agreed to grow goatee beards and are getting them dyed purple for the whole of the TfL week. In the process they are raising sponsorship for this and is going well.

They have two local shop window displays planned with collection buckets in-shop. Also, in Caithness Horizons, a new purpose built heritage facility, they have agreed the Club can set up presentations on a loop and show these in the cafe area along with posters and other information on Polio and Rotary. The Club will also be showing the two DVDs in a separate room with published screening times through out the day. Collecting buckets will once again be available for general public donations. The facility is well used by both locals and visitors.

The Club have 7 primary schools in the local area and the high school. They are planning going along to each school and give a presentation explaining what Polio is and what Rotary's involvement has been and continues to be. They have produced an advance note for the school newsletters based on the information sheet (attached) and will present each school with a certificate of thanks on completion. The Interact Club are going to be doing the same at the high school and we're looking to get them to support us at the primary school events.
The Club will be producing some A4 and A5 copies of the Polio comic for each school so that they can read further at their own leisure.
On Tuesday 23rd the Club are holding their successful Primary School Quiz (again with all 7 schools taking part) and this will give us another opportunity direct with parents to demonstrate what Rotary is all about.

They have the local paper lined up to do a feature the week before, including getting the goatees dyed, and we hope this will have a very positive effect on the week's activities.
 

 Planning to use stalls in the high street to promote and fund raise.

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