Newsletters and club e-mails
The club communicates with its members via a mailing list. We have created two separate mailing list for different purposes:
- The "Club List" - This mailing list is for general e-mails from the club's committee to all club members and people interested in receiving club news. If you are subscribed to this mailing list, you will receive invites to our weekly breakfasts, minutes of our meetings, our charity newsletter, news from Rotary District, and other general club information.
Anyone is welcome to subscribe to the Club List.
- The "Social List" - The aim of this list is to keep everyone updated of our social events and activities. The reason we have created the social list as a separate mailing list is because we have a number of friends and business contacts who are interested in joining in with our club's social events, but are not able to commit to our weekly breakfasts or don't want to receive other general club news.
If you would like to be kept up to date with our social news, please do subscribe to the Social List.
The idea is that club members will be signed up for both mailing lists, so that they can receive both club news as well as social news. Please contact our webmaster if you have any queries about the mailing lists or any problems with signing up.
One of our occasional mailings is a charity newsletter. Amy, our Charities Secretary, is always busy organising our club's charitable activities, and she occasionally puts together a newsletter to keep everyone informed. Below is an archive of our past charity newsletters.
Would you like to put some information in to the next newsletter? Are you doing a fun run and want people to sponsor you? Is your work holding a fundraising day? Have you got an event coming up where you need volunteers? If yes, please send your submissions to Amy, and she will do her best to include these items in the next newsletter.
Issue 2 - 5 September 2008
Papa Smurf runs the Bristol Downs Fun Run
RUN FOR THE FUTURE - 12 noon on Sunday 7th September 2008 on Bristol's Durdham Downs
Three members of Bristol Bridge Rotary Club - Kevin Parle, Alex Wallis, Matt Ashley are running 5K (3 miles) as part of the ‘Run For The Future’ Race on Bristol's Durdham Downs this Sunday.
Raising funds for prostate cancer patients (BUI Bristol Prostate Cancer Appeal - Registered Charity no 1025402). For more information please visit the Run for the Future website.
Bristol Bridge Rotary Club Runners: Kevin Parle, Alex Wallis, Matt Ashley.
We are going to take a few photos of our runners & members of the club cheering them on. So if you are available, please meet us outside The Black Bear at 11am.
Also, please let Amy know if you would like to sponsor our runners.
Charity sub-committee
Wednesday 10th September - Charity Committee 1st meeting
Date: Wednesday 10th Sept, 6pm
Where: 6pm - 7.30pm, The Watershed, Bristol Harbour
Interested? Anyone interested in joining the Bristol Bridge Rotary Club’s Charity Sub-Committee, please attend this meeting. We will be organising the Summer Fayre, an Autumn Quiz night, a Summer Ball and lots more fun fundraising events.Bristol Half-Marathon
Sunday 14 September 2008 - Bristol Half-Marathon
Four members of Bristol Bridge Rotary Club will be running the gruelling (13 miles) of the Bristol ½ Marathon - Chris Fox, Stuart McBride, Jonathon Beck & Simon Wells. Please come along and cheer them on!
Could we all possibly meet outside Theory Café (At-Bristol) for a photo before the race? Say 9am?
Also, please let Amy know if you would like to sponsor our runners.
Bucket Collection for Jessie May Trust
Tuesday 16th September - Bristol City Football Vs Birmingham bucket collection
Thank you to the ten people who volunteered to help with this collection. We are pleased to confirm that all collectors will be able to watch the football match. Gates open at 6.30pm and the game itself kick's off at 7.45pm.
Could all meet at 6.15pm at the Gate by the roundabout at the Winterstoke Road entrance? Kate from The Jessie May Trust will have buckets, T-shirts and passes ready for all collectors.
For more information please contact Amy, our Charities Secretary.
Bristol Bridge Rotary Club Summer Fayre
Saturday 20th September - Summer Fayre
Could everyone please collect their 4+ items for the Jumble sale? You can either. . . .
- Bring the items on the day to the Summer Fayre
- If you can not volunteer at the Summer Fayre, please contact Amy or Simon to arrange to have your items collected.
Please keep Simon informed if you are available to volunteer at the Summer Fayre - just a few hours would be a huge help.
After a brief discussion, we think it would be nice if a few people wanted to dress in fancy dress for the Summer Fayre. The theme is . . . . . . ‘Old people’. This means lots of -
For the girls: Big gold clip-on earrings, scarfs around the head, tweed jackets, knee length skirts or longer, loads of make up, thick glasses, cardigans etc . . . . . .
For the boys: Tweed jackets, badly fitting non matching corduroy trousers, cardigans, large socks pulled right up your legs with sandals, thick glasses, farmers caps etc . . .
External Fundraising Evening
Thursday 16th October - Call My Wine Bluff
Amy is organising a fundraising event for At Bristol called Call My Wine Bluff. Bristol Bridge Rotary Club is taking a table - there are a few spaces left, so please let us know if you would like to attend. For further information please contact our Social Secretary.
Charity Quiz Night
November - Charity Quiz Night
Date: Thursday 6th November 2008
Venue: TBC
Please come along to the Charity Sub-Committee meeting if you would like to help organise this event.
Volunteers needed!
7 November 2008 - Fireworks on the Downs
Clifton Rotary Club have asked if we will help with marshalling at the fireworks display on the Downs on 7 Nov. Please contact our JVP if you want to help out.
Summer Ball
Our main summer fundraising event
Date: Saturday 4th July 2009
Venue: At-Bristol, Rosalind Franklin Room and Terrace.
Please come along to the Charity Sub-Committee meeting if you would like to help organise this event.
Issue 1 - 22 August 2008
Charity sub-committee
Wednesday 10th September - Charity Committee 1st meeting
Date: Wednesday 10th Sept, 6pm
Where: 6pm - 7.30pm, The Watershed, Bristol Harbour
Interested? Anyone interested in joining the Bristol Bridge Rotary Club’s Charity Sub-Committee, please attend this meeting. We will be organising the Summer Fayre, an Autumn Quiz night, a Summer Ball and lots more fun fundraising events.URGENT - Volunteers needed for fundraising
16th September - Bristol City Football v Birmingham bucket collection
Date: Tuesday 16th Sept 08, 6.30pm - 9pm
Meeting Point: Outside the Ashton Gate Entrance at 6pm.
After: Everyone is welcome to come to Amy's for drinks after the collection.
Interested in collecting? Anyone else interested in collecting please contact Amy before Wednesday 27th Aug.
Deadline: Please let Amy know if you can volunteer by Wednesday 27th Aug.
Summer Fayre
Saturday 20th September - at Anchor Square
We are currently looking for people to buy stalls - jewellery sellers, artists, crafts, cards, candles, bric-a-brac, retro, music, etc. If you are interested in taking a stall, or know anyone who is, please download and complete a booking form and return it to our charities secretary.
We are also looking for any businesses that will donate gifts to our raffle / tombola - teddies, bric-a-brac, jewellery, candles, attraction tickets, body stuff, hampers etc. Please hand out this letter applying for support to any business that you feel might donate an item.
We would like all Bristol Bridge Rotary members to donate at least 4 items to our jumble sale. Please either:
- bring your items with you to the summer fayre on Sat 20th September; or
- if you can not attend the summer fayre - please give your item to Amy or Simon, or take to Amy’s house - contact Amy for directions.
In addition, please let our able charities assistant, Simon, know when you will be available to help on Saturday 20th Sept. We are expecting everyone to lend a hand at the fayre. There are loads of different jobs and just a few hours help would be fantastic!
In particular, we need: Face Painters, Cake makers, stall sellers, BBQ stall volunteers, jumble sale stall volunteers, cake sale stall volunteers, balloon sellers, collection bucket collectors etc...
For further information please contact Amy.
External Fundraising Evening
Thursday 16th October - Call My Wine Bluff
Amy is organising a fundraising event for At Bristol, called Call My Wine Bluff. Check out this page for further information about this event.
Charity Quiz Night
November - Charity Quiz Night
Date: Thursday 6th November 2008
Venue: TBC
Please come along to the Charity Sub-Committee meeting if you would like to help organise this event.
Summer Ball
Our main summer fundraising event
Date: Saturday 4th July 2009
Venue: At-Bristol, Rosalind Franklin Room and Terrace.
Please come along to the Charity Sub-Committee meeting if you would like to help organise this event.