Kirkby Rotary Club has launched a Friends scheme to increase its links with the community.

Nine guests from its contacts attended a meeting at Coxmoor Golf Club to mark the start of the initiative.

Rotn Ron Walker welcomed Coun Glenys Maxwell, retiring chairman of Ashfield District Council, and her escort, David Reed; Trevor and Christine Hippsley, of Bluebell Wood Children’s Hospice, North Anston; John Tattersfield, district council community development officer; Mark Duffield, a member of the Kirkby sleep-out in aid of a homelessness charity in December; Samantha Bradbury and Elsie Wilkinson, head and office manager of Kingsway Primary School; and Sue Evans, Ashfield co-ordinator for the Royal British Legion.

Philip Hurt, president-elect of the Rotary club, and his wife, Rotarian Kate Hurt, gave a slide presentation about their participation in an immunisation project in India with Rotary International.

The club’s Know Your Blood Pressure Day, in association with the Stroke Association, takes place in Kirkby market place on June 4th.

The Rotary club organises fundraising events with support from the town’s schools, churches, youth groups, councillors and district council officers.
More information is at www.kirkbyrotary.org.uk

Pictured is Rotarian Kate Hurt administering the polio vaccine.