Santa is in Tettenhall

The Tettenhall Round Table Sleigh will be touring Tettenhall with Santa this evening - the sleigh will start from Upper Green at 4.30 visiting Hinkes Road, Davenport Road, Mancroft Road, Regis Road, Limes Road, Cornwall Road and Woodcote Road during the evening.

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Santa is in Codsall

Santa is at The Midcounties Co-operative Food store in Wood Road Codsall today with the Rotary Club of Tettenhall Sleigh.

The choir of St Nicholas' Church, Codsall will be making an appearance with Santa at 11:00am so why not pop along and join them in singing some Carols.

Santa is in Bushbury

You can follow the Rotary Club of Tettenhall Santa Sleigh on its visit to Bushbury in Wolverhampton this evening using the Sleigh Tracker https://glympse.com/08R7-T3GB?utm_source=here-invite&utm_medium=email&utm_content=url-invite-main-wide&utm_campaign=invite

Santa is Visiting Fordhouses

The Rotary Club of Tettenhall Santa Sleigh is visiting Fordhouses this evening.

The Sleigh route will be Marsh Lane, St Anne’s Road, Marsh Lane, Winchester Road, Sandon Road, Patshull Avenue, Harrowby Road, Winchester Road, Marsh Lane.

We'll publish a link to the Sleigh Tracker at 5:00pm

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Santa is Visiting Old Fallings in Wolverhampton

The Rotary Club of Tettenhall Santa Sleigh is visiting Old Fallings in Wolverhampton this evening.

Santa's Sleigh route will visit Showell Circus, Annan Avenue, Dickinson Avenue, Old Fallings Crescent, Fourth Avenue, Humphreys Road, Hawksford Crescent, Fifth Avenue, Goodyear Avenue, Thorne Avenue, Showell Circus.

We'll be posting a link to a live Sleigh Tracker on this site at around 5:00 this evening so that you can follow the Sleigh on it route.

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Santa is visiting the Scotlands

The Rotary Club of Tettenhall Santa Sleigh visits the Scotlands in Wolverhampton this evening.

The Sleigh will start out on it's route at 5:15 and will visit parts of Tennyson Road, Keats Road, Pope Road, Dickens Road, Masefield Road, Ruskin Road, Carlyle Road, Pope Road and Westcroft Avenue.

We'll be positing a link to a live Sleigh Tracker as the Sleigh moves off so that you can see where to find it on the route.

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Tettenhall Remembers

The Tettenhall Remembers Tree of Light is the perfect way for you to remember a loved one, to wish someone good luck for the New Year, to celebrate a special achievement or just to send a message out to wish everyone a Merry Christmas.

Your messages will be prominently displayed on the video display screen in the main window of Peter James Estate Agents on Upper Green until the end of December.

100% of your Donations & Gift Aid will be donated to Acorns Children's Hospice to help local children with life limiting illness live as well as they can for as long as they can, giving them chance to spend treasured time with their loved ones this Christmas.

Simply follow the link to DONATE and complete the form – don’t forget to tell us what message that you’d like displayed.

We ask that you make a minimum donation of £5 for each message - please don’t forget to Gift Aid your donation to add 25p to every pound.

Thanks for helping

Santa is visiting Low Hill

Our Santa Sleigh will in the Low Hill area of Wolverhampton this evening visiting Leacroft Avenue, Whitgreave Avenue, Neve Avenue, Perry Avenue, Neve Avenue, Leacroft Avenue, Hill Crest Avenue, Low Hill Crescent, Walker Avenue, Wingfoot Avenue, Goodyear Avenue, Thorne Avenue, Showell Circus.

We'll be posting a link to our live Santa Sleigh Tracker at 5:00 so that you can follow the Sleigh on its route.

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Santa Visits Claregate

Tonight sees the first of our 2019 Sleigh Routes as our Santa Sleigh visits Claregate in Wolverhampton.

The Sleigh route will visit Aldersley Avenue, Pendeford Avenue, Claregate Island, Blackburn Avenue, Burland Avenue, Lynton Avenue, Blackburn Avenue, Derby Avenue, Crossland Crescent, Aldersley Road, Green Lane, Blakely Rise, Blakeley Avenue, Green Lane finishing at the Pilot Pub.

We'll be publishing a link to our live Sleigh tracker as soon as we start on the route so that you can see where the Sleigh will be.

Please share with friends and family in the area.

FREE Prostate Cancer Screening

We're pleased to be joining 3 Hammers Golf Club, Lloyds Bank Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton Prostate Cancer Support Group and Lancaster Jaguar Land Rover Wolverhampton in offering men over the age of 45 the opportunity to take a FREE prostate cancer test.

A simple 3 minute blood test could save the life of your husband, brother, father, son, friend... Let them know/forward/share to tell them to get along to the 3 Hammers Golf Complex on Old Stafford Road in Coven, Wolverhampton, WV10 7PP this Friday 14th June 2019 between 5.30pm - 8.30pm - there's no need to book - you don't even need to be a golfer - but please arrive and register as early as you can.

Please be a life saver and share details of this FREE event with friends and family.

It's Time to Nominate Wolverhampton's Young Citizen

Know a young person who has gone the extra mile - whose personal courage, achievement or contribution to the community should be recognised and celebrated?

Then it's time to nominate them for a Wolverhampton Young Citizen of the Year Award?



Nominations can be made by family members, friends, teachers, youth leaders and other professionals, employers or anyone who has recognised the achievements of the young person.

The award will be made to a young person who is over the age of 13 on 1 January 2019 and under the age of 19 on 31 August 2019, who is living, studying or working within Wolverhampton City boundaries.

Collect a nomination form the Waitrose & Partners store on Penn Road in Wolverhampton or complete it online at http://wolverhamptonyoungcitizen.org.uk/

The closing date for nominations is the 31 May 2019.

Wolves supporters raise over £63,000 for good causes

Wolverhampton Wanderers FC have been supporting the work of Tettenhall Rotary Club for 25 years now - allowing members of the Club and the charities that we work with to collect around the Molineux Stadium in each of those 25 years.

Former Wolves vice-president and England cricketer Rachael Heyhoe Flint was instrumental in establishing the pre-match collections and to recognise her contribution the annual collection days is now known as Rachael's Day.

Over the years Wolves supporters have donated £63,038 to the good causes that we work with - the latest collection raising £2,823 for Power Pleas which with gift aid will rise to over £3,500.

We're tremendously grateful to Wolves and to all of the Club's supporters who continue to help us help others.

Support for KIngswood Trust

The generous support which you have given to our Santa Sleigh this year has meant that the Club can continue to help local charities such as the Kingswood Trust.

For nearly 100 years the Kingswood site has given children from Wolverhampton and the surrounding areas the opportunity to enjoy the benefits of learning with nature. Originally established in 1923 as a holiday camp for poor children the site was acquired by the education authority after World War II to become an open air school for delicate children – many suffering from breathing problems and poor nourishment. With the improvement in the health of children in the early 1970’s the site’s focus shifted and it become an environmental residential centre for schools to learn in the great outdoors. Now an independent charity Kingswood Trust continues to provide outdoor education activities connecting children and the community to the natural world.


You can help the continuing work of Kingswood Trust by donating here - https://discover-kingswood.org.uk/outdoor-education/

Support for Acorns Hospice

Since it was established in 1988, Acorns Children's Hospice has provided care for life limited and life threatened babies, children and young people and their families, across the Midlands.

The hospices are purpose built with ten specially decorated bedrooms designed to cater for children and young people from birth to 18 years of age. They are designed to be a home-from-home environment to help children enjoy their stay and make the most of every day

The charity is currently helping over 200 children and over 280 families across the Black Country but relies on the community to fund the majority of its activities.

Thanks to your generous support for the Tettenhall Rotary Santa Sleigh we've been able to make a donation to help the ongoing work of the Hospice.

You can help the Hospice by making further donations here -  https://www.acorns.org.uk/donate/

Support for Compton Care

Thanks to the generosity of the thousands of people who came along to see Santa on our Club Sleigh this Christmas we are able to continue supporting deserving local charities such as Compton Care.

It costs nearly £8 million every year for Compton Care​ to provide its services to patients free of charge.  With government funding only providing one third of this, the organisation relies heavily on fundraising to maintain its level and quality of care.

Thanks to your support over Christmas we've been able to make a donation to help Compton Care with these costs so that it can continue to offer an outstanding level of service to both patients and visitors.

Follow the link to make as donation to support their continuing work - https://www.comptoncare.org.uk/support-us/donate/

On Parade With The Army Cadets

The Perton Detachment of the Army Cadets has become an integral part of our Christmas Santa Sleigh activities.

Each year the Detachment Cadets, their Officers and Adult Instructors devote hundreds of hours to helping the Club take its Santa Sleigh to visit children in neighbourhoods around the City - bringing a little bit of Christmas magic with it.

This evening members of the Club visited the Detachment at the ACF Centre at Tettenhall College to pass on our thanks and to leave them with a donation to help with their activities in the coming year.

With nearly 40,000 cadets the Army Cadet Force offers young people the chance to take part in exciting and challenging activities such as fieldcraft, adventurous training, first aid, music, sports and shooting as well as the opportunity to travel and make life long friendships.

Cadets have the opportunity to achieve the Army Proficiency Certificate teaching leadership skills, discipline and self-confidence to help equip them for life. The Cadet Force also offers the opportunity to gain valuable qualifications such as the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award, BTEC First Diploma in Public Services or Music or the ILM Certificate in Team Leading.

It's a great time for the cadets and a great preparation for life - you can find out how to join or volunteer with the Army Cadet Force on their website - https://armycadets.com/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIo4Pi3Nny4AIVzJztCh3z_wfXEAAYASAAEgJFZvD_BwE

Wolverhampton Young Citizen of the Year Awards 2019

Do you know someone who has gone the extra mile to help others?  If so, why not nominate them for the 2019 Young Citizen Awards? We are looking for young people who live, work, or go to school in Wolverhampton who are over the age of 13 on 1st January and under the age of 19 on 31st. August whose personal commitment  to others, their school, voluntary organisations, a charity or voluntary groups or whose contribution to the community, deserve to be recognised and celebrated.

The awards are sponsored by the Rotary Clubs of Bilston, Wednesfield, Tettenhall, Wolverhampton and Wolverhampton St. Georges in partnership with Wolverhampton City Council, The Express and Star, Waitrose, Wolverhampton Wanderers FC and the Way Youth Zone.

Nominations are invited following the launched on 1st March 2019 and the closing date will be 31st May.  Family members, teachers, employers or anyone who has recognised the achievement of a young person can nominate them on line at www.wolverhamptonyoungcitizen.co.uk or by post on forms which can be downloaded from the website or collected from the Customer Service Desk at Waitrose Wolverhampton now.

The awards ceremony will be held in the Mayoral Suite, Wolverhampton City Council on 4th July 2019.

Lending With Care - A Small Investment Goes a Long Way

Its nearly three years since we started working with Lend With Care  - a micro-finance organisation that brings together entrepreneurs in developing countries with people who have the power to help them.

With loans totalling just short of £3,000 to date we've made 53 loans, helped 231 entrepreneurs, 593 of their family members and helped businesses to create 87 new jobs - a little can go a long way

We've been helping people like Mrs Bui Thi Phoung in Vietnam.

Mrs Phoung's family is reliant on the income from their small holding on which they grow vegetables and corn and raise pigs and buffaloes for sale to local merchants

The family lives in impoverished conditions but the loan which we assisted with under the Lend With Care scheme helped Mrs Phuong to invest in seedlings and fertiliser to expand their vegetable plantation and to increase the family's income

The loan to Mrs Phuong has been fully repaid meaning that we can now put that money to work again helping other entrepreneurs.

A Record Christmas

2018 was a great Christmas for the Tettenhall Rotary Club Santa Sleigh with visits to Claregate, Low Hill, Old Fallings, Fordhouses, The Scotlands, Bushbury, ASDA in Wolverhampton, Sainsburys at St Marks, Morrisons in Pendeford and the Midcounties Co-operative in Codsall.

Santa and his Sleigh also helped with the switching on of the Christmas Lights in Wolverhampton City centre, Tettenhall, Bantock Park and Bilbrook, as well as visiting local schools, the Wolves Dribblers and the Young Wolves.

Not only did we have the opportunity to take our Sleigh to visit more children than in any previous year but with your support we raised a record £11,760 to allow us to help more good causes in the coming year.

Thank you for your wonderful support - we're already making plans with Santa to make 2019 even better.

Gordon Banks OBE

We're remembering England World Cup legend Gordon Banks as his funeral takes place today.

Gordon was good enough to support a number of the Club's fundraising events and in 2016 joined us for a dinner at Molineux celebrating the 50th Anniversary of that great World Cup win in 1966 and which raised funds in aid of former Wolverhampton Wanderers FC keeper Bert Williams' Alzheimer's Appeal and other Rotary charities.

The event was one of Gordon's first public appearances after revealing that he was once again fighting renal cancer and the way in which he continued to support others whilst fighting the disease was a mark of the character of the man.

https://www.expressandstar.com/entertainment/2016/02/12/england-legend-gordon-banks-to-speak-at-molineux-in-charity-fundraiser/