Members of the Rotary Club of Paddington
2008-2009

• We provide funds to Westminster Schools for a day out for deprived children between the ages of 8 and 12 to Paradise Wildlife Park
• Connections at St Martin’s (Lord Mayor of Westminster chosen charity, 2004/2005)                                                            
• Beauchamp Lodge Floating Classroom (continuing support for equipment)                                                                         
• City of Westminster Children with disabilities unit (siblings group)
• Hampden Gurney C of E School (equipment and material for the school library)                                                            
• Connaught Opera (Concerts at local hospitals)
• St Mary's Hospital Paddington (our local hospital and important to re-establish contact especially after the recent events and the role it played).
• We have been involved with Drug awareness projects in schools and have part funded a Rotary mobile unit for that purpose.
• We have also sponsored one of our Honorary members on an Around Britain cycling tour. 
• We donate annually about L500 for Christmas food hampers for the elderly (Help the Aged). 
• Westminster Volunteers Bureau Charities helped in the past;  involved with over the past five years.
• Portobello Trust.
• Awarding Paul Harris fellows to worthy recipients, both in our community and club.
• Rotary International Certificates of Professional Excellence
• All Stars Youth Club Harrow Road (boxing and gym equipment and vocational training funding).         

International Service Projects

• A sum of L1,000 was raised and sent to a Rotary club in Thailand for help with their own Tsunami relief and reconstruction project.                                          
• Jason’s chosen Club Rotaract Project (for help in local school building work East Africa).
• Aqua Boxes for Darfur, Sudan.       
• School AID for provision of paint for classrooms in Zimbabwe schools.
• We have a joint project under way with the Rotary clubs of Hasselt ( Belgium ) and Arusha. This project will refurbish a remote medical centre and supply it with equipment. The cost is around L5,000 to be raised by the clubs.
• Tanzania hospital project and Niger aid project