Rotary club members across Nantwich and Crewe are celebrating after Africa region was declared wild polio-free.
Local rotary clubs have played a role in the major global public health achievement, after years of fundraising and campaigning.
The Weaver Wander annual event in and around Nantwich will go ahead on September 12, say organisers Rotary Club of Crewe and Nantwich Weaver.
Members of Crewe and Nantwich Weaver Rotary have produced an e-booklet describing their experiences of working in or being helped by NHS during the pandemic.
The idea was started by Pat Harborth, a Friend of Rotary, and she gathered friends and family to contribute to the e-booklet.
Crewe & Nantwich Weaver Rotary Club has launched a photographic competition to raise money for local charities impacted by Covid 19.
The Rotary Club of Crewe and Nantwich Weaver have launched a competition to award the town’s best purple crocus grower!
The club distributed purple crocus corms across the borough to highlight “Purple for Polio” initiative raising awareness of how polio disease has almost been eradicated.
The Rotary Club of Nantwich has raised more than £700 to help keep the North West Air Ambulance flying its life-saving missions.
The donation of £775 will fund an hour and a half of North West Air Ambulance flying time, rescuing critically injured patients who would not survive without the service.
Big-hearted volunteers have stepped in where others fear to tread – by cleaning up two Nantwich grot-spots.
These hardy folk from Civic Society and Rotary Club teamed up to clean up the outside of an “eyesore” empty shop unit, formerly a pharmacy, on High Street.
Members of five Rotary Clubs in Crewe and Nantwich teamed up to support victims of the Beechmere care home blaze in Crewe.
They volunteered to help residents in managing huge donations of food, clothing, toiletries and equipment and in providing Sunday lunches in collaboration with Hopes and Beams.
Thirty children from Nantwich Primary Academy spent two days and a night at the Wingate Centre in Wrenbury, thanks to a Rotary club donation.
The youngsters aged between six and eight enjoyed the experience after receiving support of the Rotary Club of Nantwich.
The Rotary Club of Wych-Malbank Nantwich has donated funds raised to seven local causes totalling thousands of pounds.
The club, set up a year ago, formed its own charities “Dream Team” to decide would benefit from any monies raised by the club.
The winners of the Nantwich Rotary Art & Handwriting competition have picked up their prizes from local MP Laura Smith.
The young winners gathered at Nantwich Museum for the 11th Rotary Club of Nantwich Primary Schools Art and Handwriting Competition.
By Jonathan White
The 10th annual Weaver Wander pulled in the crowds to Nantwich as organisers celebrated a decade of fund-raising journeys.
The charity classic & sports car rally – started in the town and saw more than 150 cars and motorcycles assembled for viewing from 8am at Nantwich Football Club car park.
Richmond Village Nantwich teamed up with one of the country’s newest Rotary Clubs for a “Who’s wine is it anyway” night and raised £1,800 for Nantwich Foodbank.
Wyche-Malbank Nantwich Rotary Club was formed in the summer, after being founded by two members of staff from the retirement village, Lynne Griffin and Nicola Jackson.
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