Registered charity No. 1025302

The money raised by Rotary from this event will go to a variety of causes that local Rotarians decide to support. The Rotary Club has a trust fund into which all monies collected for charity are paid.

The members, currently numbering forty men and women, will allocate the money to various causes. Every decision has to be ratified by the club members as a whole.

It has already been decided that half the proceeds from the DRAGON BOAT RACE will be given to the Herefordshire COUNTY AIR AMBULANCE .

As an indication of other organisation to receive support, the following list shows recipients since the last Duck Race. The amount given varies from quite small amounts to donations in thousands of pounds.

Age Concern
Cameroon Project
Child Line
Child Protection Trust
Children at No 1
Christian Outreach
Christmas Hampers
Close House Project
Desia Eye Hospital India
Equite Uganda
H&W Army cadets
Hereford Aspire
Hereford First Responders
Hereford Life Group
Hereford Mock Trials
Hereford Open Door
Hereford Sea Cadets

Herefordshire Festival of Music, Dance and Drama
Hinton Community Group
Hope Scott House
Marches Family Network
Motorcycle Blood Service
Namibia Nursery School Project
Noahs Ark Trust
Polio eradication in India
RNC
Rotary Youth Leadership Award Scheme
Shelter Box
Stroke Association
Talking Newspaper for the blind
Tanga in Touch
Wheelchair Foundation
Womens Aid

Note: Teams entering the Dragon Boat race have several sponsoring frameworks,viz

All sponsorship to the Rotary Trust Fund, as above
50% as above, with the other half to there own registered charity
For crews entered by Registered charities, all the proceeds of sponsorship may go directly to that cause.

More details about Rotary can be found at
www.ribi.org

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