May is stroke awareness month Every five minutes in the UK someone has a stroke and more than 40% of these could be prevented if high blood pressure was controlled. It’s the highest risk factor for stroke.
Working with our NHS partners members of the Club today joined Rotarians from other City Clubs in Wolverhampton's Wulfrun Centre to help to tackle this statistic by promoting a Know Your Blood Pressure event and encouraging shoppers to take a range of simple tests including blood pressure, blood sugar and body fat tests to help establish if they were at risk of Stroke.
The event was a great success with over 500 people tested and in a further 10 venues across the greater Black Country area over 1250 people were checked. Over the 9 years the event has been taking place 13 thousand people have now been tested helping to save lives and to reduce the burden of this disease on the NHS.
Our thanks go to the management of the Wulfrun Centre for their help in staging the event and to the many NHS volunteers who gave of their time to administer the tests.
Saturday, 26 May 2012
Thursday, 10 May 2012
Golf Day 2012
It's always good to raise money to support our local charities but there can't be many better ways to do that than by spending a day on the golf course in the company of friends.
28 teams of two competed in this years Tettenhall Rotary Golf Day taking part in a Stableford ‘better ball’ competition.
The day was hosted by South Staffs Golf Club - a Club well known to many of our members and which may help to explain the eventual success of winning Club member Don Crofts his partner, Nick Weaver. The ‘longest drive’ prize went to Martin Wooding and Ian Guest was ‘nearest the pin’ on the 6th Hole.
In all the event raised £2,400 for Compton Hospice and we're grateful to all of our sponsors and to everyone who participated in and supported a wonderful days sport.
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