Spread Hope at Christmas
This year Ludlow Rotary’s Tree of Light is supporting Hope House Children’s Hospice. There are several reasons why this is a significant choice.
Jean and her late husband Harry Peachey have had long associations with Ludlow and charitable works. Among her many commitments Jean was an energetic member of Ludlow Rotary Club’s Inner Wheel. She was President in its fiftieth year. Harry and Jean were both awarded Paul Harris Fellowships by the club, its highest accolade.
Jean and Harry supported many charities but Hope House has a special significance for the Peachey family. Jean explained that Hope House Children’s Hospice was named after her great-niece, Hope Peachey, who died aged eight months. Hope House, Oswestry opened in May 1995 and since then many hundreds of terminally ill children and their families have been cared for there and in a second hospice, Ty Gobaith in North Wales.
Jean is now a resident in Hendra House, a family-run care home in Ludlow. Its owner/manager Vince Burmingham is a Ludlovian, and he, his staff and residents have supported the Tree of Light over the years.
The connections continue. Ludlow Rotary Club have over many years supported a minibus which collects elderly Ludlow residents and takes them to day centres and on day trips. Rotarians are among the rota of drivers and helpers. Hendra House residents have often benefitted.
If you would like to make a dedication the forms are available at Nock Deighton, Hope Hospice Shop and St Laurence’s in Ludlow, or online at www.ludlowrotartyclub.org.uk. If you prefer to donate online go to the Ludlow Tree of Light at BT My Donate
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Clee Hill Community Academy is the first primary school local to Ludlow to join with Ludlow Rotary Club to establish a Rotakids club.
On being vacinated the little finger of each child is dipped in permanent purple ink and as a result purple has become associated with the End Polio Now project and the purple crocus has also been adopted as symbol of support for the efforts to erradicate this dreadful disease. All donations received for bulbs will be sent via Rotary Foundation to support the continued thrust to eradicate polio worldwide. Rotary worldwide will raise $50 million per year over the next three years, with every dollar to be matched with two additional dollars from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.