Please donate to our Tree of Light and dedicate lights in memory of loved ones.
The Tree of Lights is located outside Morrisons who are kindly supporting the appeal and the names of all those remembered will be recorded on our web page and on boards around the tree and the donations will support Hope House Children's Hospice and Mary's Meals.
To make a donation, fill in a sponsorship form with details of the names or causes to be remembered.
Forms are available from:
Customer Services Desk, Morrison Supermarket, Maer Lane, Market Drayton TF9 3AL
Market Drayton Library,
Market Drayton Town Hall and
Onions & Davies Solicitors, 91 Cheshire Street, Market Drayton, TF9 3AF
Please put completed forms and donations in a sealed envelope marked clearly as Tree of Lights and post or hand it in to one of the places stocking forms.
We are very grateful to our sponsors Hales Sawmills who supply the tree, AJB Contracting&Landscapes who errect it and Morrisons who host it for their support.
All costs are met by Rotary members and sponsors so 100% of money collected by Rotary goes to the Charities.
The displays will be updated weekly from 16th November 2022.
Rotary Market Drayton provide practical support for local events like Ginger and Spice, The Festival of Lights and The Carnival. We are currently raising funds for The Buddy Bag Foundation, Hope House and Mencap along with other charities. We aim to be informed, to network with other organisations and to help our community. Rotary enco
Rotary Market Drayton provide practical support for local events like Ginger and Spice, The Festival of Lights and The Carnival. We are currently raising funds for The Buddy Bag Foundation, Hope House and Mencap along with other charities. We aim to be informed, to network with other organisations and to help our community. Rotary encourages high ethical standards and Rotarians abide by the Four Way Test:
Is it TRUE?
Is it FAIR to all concerned?
Will it BUILD GOODWILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS?
Is it BENEFICIAL to all concerned?
If you need help for a good cause, let us know.
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Rotary is also a social organisation - members socialise, network and have fun together. As the oldest service club in the world, Rotary club members represent a cross-section of the community. Including people with wide experience in business, the professions and political leaders. Rotary provides opportunities to build friendships locally and also make international connections.
We meet on the first Thursday and the third Tuesday of each month plus social and community support events. We have fun while supporting local charities.
The group meets for a Speaker Meeting on 1st Thursday of the month at Mencap and on the 3rd Tuesday of the month we have a business meeting in the Town Hall before visiting a local pub.
Guests are welcome at meetings.
We also meet for social, community and fundraising events
Outside the Town Hall
Rotary members will be assisting Father Christmas and will also be running a Tombola Stall to raise money for Hope House and Mary's Meals.
Outside the Town Hall
Town Hall
And afterwards socialising in a local pub.
Town Hall
MenCap Centre
Gin Tasting!
MenCap Centre
Contact the Club for details.
Town Hall
And afterwards socialising in a local pub.
Town Hall
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The results of the Market Drayton Treasure Trail have been drawn.
The winners were drawn by a member of Leek Rotary Club in front of all the Rotarians who attended the round of our District Quiz at Leek Golf Club, on the evening of the 7th November.
The winner of the Fortnum & Masons Hamper was Roxy Wright and the winner of the Rotary Hamper was Susan Beckwith.
Both winners have been invited to our next meeting on the 19th November at Market Drayton Town Hall to collect their prizes.
Market Drayton Rotary club meet at the Town Hall on the 3rd Tuesday of every month at 19:30.
Visitors are welcome to attend and we would definitely like to encourage more members to join the club.
The Treasure Trail was a fun and exciting way to explore Market Drayton, using detective skills to follow the clues, eliminate the red herrings and find the solution - while enjoying a fun day out for all the family!
Market Drayton Rotary are very proud to support the fabulous Ginger and Spice Festival with backstage assistance (putting up signs, etc) stewarding and we also have a stall which raises money for Rotary Charities.
Many thanks to everybody who visited the stall and bought tombola tickets or tickets for the Barrow of Booze and bought Treasure Hunt Booklet.
Ruby Hartshorn, Chair of Shropshire Safe Spaces, came to talk to our Speaker Meeting in August.
The Safe Place Scheme is a nationwide initiative originally established by Mencap in Worcestershire and brought to Shropshire in 2013. Supported by Shropshire Council, Telford & Wrekin Council and West Mercia Police, it provides a network of ‘short-term safe havens’ for people who may require additional support and assistance when they are out and about in the community by providing vulnerable individuals with a number of places that they know they can go to and immediately receive support and understanding about their issues. This includes people with learning disabilities or those who live with anxiety attacks or dementia.
Market Drayton currently has 20 businesses signed up as Safe Spaces under the scheme - there is room for more.
More information on Market Drayton - Safe Places Shropshire
Ella, winner of the local competition, also won at District Level and her certificate and prize was presented in Market Drayton Library.
Ella's painting proceeded to the National Competition and although she did not win, her entry will receive a Finalist Certificate.
Well done Ella!
A big thank you to everyone who has taken part in this competition - the first we have run as a club.
We look forward to expanding the competitions next year.
The theme for next year's Young Artist competition is
Wonderful Water.
A huge thank you to Hannah Moore from Mary's Meals who came to talk to the group in July.
Mary's Meals is a Scottish charity which works to provide children with a good meal to start the day in countries around the world.
Members were amazed to discover that - working with local farmers and community volunteers - they are able to provide a good breakfast for a child for only 10p per day - under £20 a year!
More information available on
Homepage | Mary's Meals UK (marysmeals.org.uk)
Or find them on Facebook.
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