East Kilbride Rotary Club
On the 13th of November East Kilbride Rotarians were indeed privileged to have as their guest speaker David Mason who has been long associated with Rangers Football Club, David gave an excellent but light hearted talk plus picture presentation on the foundation days of the Rangers Football Club and at the same time incorporated into his talk what conditions were like in the city of Glasgow in those days. Past President Revd David Taylor gave the Vote of thanks on behalf of his fellow Rotarians picture shows David mason with President Ray Porrelli
East Kilbride Fair Trade Group
This group were formed in 2005 and theirrepresentative Kirsten Robb
came to speak to the Club on the 20th of November, she explained
how there is a collection of local people from different walks of life who
share a common commitment to the ethos of Fair trade and how East
Kilbride is now a Fair trade town, plus explaining the objectives of the
Fair trade organisation to raise the awareness of unfair trade. To become
a Fair trade town there has to be at least one outlet for free trade per
10,000 of the population of that town.
It was a very open meeting with plenty of questions from those present.
What did come through was that it was not just farmers etc in the under
developed countries that were needing help but farmers etc in our own
country who were not getting a fair deal from the larger Supermarkets
and that Fair trade were also taking this problem on board, It is hoped
that in the years that lie ahead East Kilbride will increase the number of
fair trade outlets within the town.Vote of thanks was given byRotarian
Ian Craig
Poppy Scotland
On the 27th November 2009 Representative Roslyn Scoular came along to the club to highlight the new format that was taking place within Scotland in attempting to raise the general publics awareness to Poppy Scotland and the organisations objectives.
In addition informing members that all monies raised in Scotland would be spent in Scotland, even to the extent that the Scottish poppy was different to those poppies supplied in England. They are attempting to bring Poppy Scotland to the fore in that they are not a once a year charity but that they are active 365 days a year.Questions from members were forth coming and I am sure a few seeds planted in Roslyn's mind with regard to the actual poppy emblem that represents the poppy fields of Flanders!!!!!
Vote of thanks on behalf of the Club was given by past President Andrew Ferguson.
