Over recent years our activities have included .........

Fund raising events....

 The Bala Challenge (walking round Lake Bala for 20, 12 or 8 miles, next event May 8th 2010); Open Gardens; Trolley Dash, Duck Race, Balloon Race; Irish Night, Race Night; and Father Christmas. Marshalling and car parking duties at Triathlon and County Show
 

Local good causes supported include....

North Wales Air Ambulance, Hope House Children’s Hospice, Nightingale House Hospice, Macmillan Nurses, Hospice at Home, Andrew McCartney Trust Fund for Brain Tumour Research, Mountain Rescue, Eisteddfod Cultural Award, RYLA (Rotary’s Youth Leadership Training Scheme), Bala Disabled Club, Teulu’r Berwyn

Providing awards and prizes for local students......

  Annual Literary prizes, Ysgol Y Berwyn
· Bala Angling Club Junior Competition prizes
· Medical Student on elective placement abroad
· Gap Year student teaching abroad
· International Gymnastics competitors supported
· British White Water Rafting Team member supported

National charities and good causes supported include.....
·

  Cancer Research
· CLIC Sargent (Caring for Children with Cancer)
· Children in Need
· British Heart Foundation
· Guide Dogs for the Blind
· Arthritis Research Council
· The UK Flood Appeal (a national Rotary initiative)

International enterprises supported include.....

  Shelterbox & Aquabox (after tsunami, floods and earthquakes)
· Polio eradication programme (World Health Organisation, UNICEF and Rotary International)
· Mercy Ships
· Equipping a primary school in Uganda

SUMMARY

Over the past 5 years we have donated £38,900 of which £23,000 (60%) has benefitted local charities and good causes, reflecting the fact that the money has been provided by the residents of Bala & Penllyn.

In the same period
national charities have received £9,350 (25%) and international good causes received £6,550 (15%) in recognition of the fact that we are part of a global community most of which is worse off than we are in terms of health, wealth and education.

Acknowledgements.......

Bala & Penllyn Rotary Club gratefully acknowledges.......

The Bala Challenge is sponsored by John Lewis Partnership (Bala Lake Hotel)

and Energy Solutions (Magnox North, Trawsfynydd).

The Trolley Dash is supported by Ifor Williams Trailers (Corwen).