Home | Club Snapshot | Community Service | International | Introduction | Officers | Programme | Site Map | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001 | 2000 | Inner Wheel
President Trevor Clapp 2002/03

The Rotary Club of
Cuckfield & Lindfield

President David Wilson 2003/04

Highlights from the

Year 2003 (continued)

On this page: Installation of David Wilson | MP's Club visit | Court Meadow Project | Exchange visit | District Conference
Collecting at Christmas | Christmas party | Presentation to Age Concern
On the previous page: Darts Marathon | Laval Ambroise Paré visit | International Convention | Novi Sad visit
District Bridge | President's Walk | GSE team .. and Charity golf

New President installed

David Wilson wins the jackpotIPP Trevor Clapp and partner

Immediate Past President Trevor Clapp congratulates David Wilson
on his installation as President at the Bent Arms Lindfield on 1 July 2003

The Immediate Past President takes to the dance floor with Hirocco in the Horsted Keynes Village Hall following the Ladies' Evening barbecue later in July. Hirocco was on a cultural visit from Tokyo, and was a guest of Peter Stevenson and Valerie

Back to top

Mid-Sussex MP visits two clubs

The MP and other top table guests

The MP for Mid-Sussex, the Hon Nicholas Soames, was guest of the Club at its joint meeting with the Rotary Club of Haywards Heath at the Haywards Heath Golf Club on 22 July.
(from left) Past President Ken Walker, President Alan Jenkins (Haywards Heath), Hon Nicholas Soames MP, and Acting President Ivan Grundon.

Mr Soames address both houses

Mr Soames
in full flow

Back to top

Court Meadow Project

     
 Digging out Do I go backwards or forwards here? 
   
 

During the spring and summer, members led by Brian Davey and Alan Hancock worked for several weeks extending the terraced play area at the Court Meadow School for Handicapped Children at Cuckfield. Pictured here is some of the work in progress. The Club also donated a substantial sum from its fund-raising activities for this and other projects at the school.

 
   The commemmorative plaque 
   
 The plaque is displayed The children get involved 
     
 

The official handover and the unveiling of the explanatory plaque by Jo Hedges, Head of the School, together with (left) colleague Mark Rawlings, and (right) President David Wilson, two of the children and chief project architect Brian Davey

 

Back to top

Exchange visit from Germany & District Conference

Auf Wiedersehen 

Karlstadt-Arnstein visit in September sunshine

(left) Pictured is most of the Karlstadt-Arnstein group visiting Cuckfield & Lindfield during the last sunny weekend in September, assembled here in the car park of the Bent Arms before setting off on the return journey home — more pictures soon

’Allo ’Allo! Can this really be at the District Conference?

(right) President David Wilson and assorted members of the cast of ’Allo ’Allo (who should all know better) in typical Cuckfield & Lindfield mode at the 2003 District 1250 Conference in Torquay. A riot by any other name?
Click here to enlarge, if you dare

 'Allo 'Allo!
Give us your money! 

’Tis the season of good cheer
... again

(left) Roger Sawyers and Richard Hands flanked by the incorrigible Daveys, Brian and John, cheer up an otherwise dull morning and open the Christmas collecting season for Rotary charities in Lindfield High Street

Back to top

Christmas Party at the Bent

Brian Davey in chargeHeavenly choir
The next Vice-President works out the marks out of ten
The President grits his teeth, or is he smiling?
The President-elect is warming to the show
The IPP spots the arrival of the lap dancers
Barry Read searches for the right words

Horsted Keynes Rotarians stole the show at the Christmas meeting of the Club at the Bent Arms in Lindfield on 16 December when lights normally hidden under bushels blossomed as never seen before

Alan Hancock in full flowColin Griffiths working something out
It's called squeezing the last drop, vice-presidential style

Back to top

President's Drinks 2003

The presentation ceremony is about to begin

President David Wilson entertained members and their wives to Christmas drinks at the splendid premises of Age Concern at Clair Hall, Haywards Heath, on 21 December

(left) Guests assemble for the presentation by the President of a cheque (right) to Charles Boughton-Leigh of Age Concern, providing funds for a new conservatory and patio area at the Age Concern premises

The President hands over the cheque
Carol Davey takes in every wordThe annual tie auction gets under way

The annual Christmas tie auction, conducted by John Davey,
who seems to have a never-ending supply of the things

Go back to the previous page for the first half of the year 2003, or forward to the first half of the year 2004

Home | Club Snapshot | Community Service | International | Introduction | Officers | Programme | Site Map | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001 | 2000 | Inner Wheel