With her incredibly smart new cards in her old but still smart work case, off she went to Streatham to meet with the management team at Morrisons.
I am delighted to be able to tell you that Morrisons stepped right up to the plate.. yes indeedy.. they surely did! For the charming manager at their Streaham Common branch has agreed to donate whatever food is needed for the breakfasts after the three family mass on July 12th and their BBQ in August and then he put her together with his Community Champion.
Who was a charming young woman called Anya. Anya asked her what she wanted in the form of a financial donation, they discussed the needs of the Streatham Dementia Support Group. Then Anya said what she had available per month in her budget for Charity.
They agreed on a figure which is a great start! She is to issue an invoice for next month and then they will set up a standing order to the bank account of Rotary Club of Streatham Trust Fund. Registered Charity No: 1036425.
Yippee.. and other really great stuff was discussed about free placement of a banner for the group outside in their railings, items for the Raffle at the BBQ, collection tins with a Rotary member inside the store. They could not have been kinder nor more generous.
It was a HOT sticky day yesterday and so I was left at home, she could not have taken me in my small cage to the Morrison meeting, then there was a period of time when she called into other companies. I would have been grumpy BEYOND belief at the end of even an hour and she was out on the road for three hours even before she joined up with the group at 2.00 past midday!
But everyone asked her "where's GeeGee.. where's dat bird?" Oh, I was sorely miseed, I am pleased to tell you!
But there is much work to be done and now she is pulling out her old work related address books. When you have worked for people like: Laksmi Mittal, Leslie and Abigail Wexner, Garfield Weston, Pierre Winkler, The Duke of Westminster and other families who are known to be very philanthropic, you have a fast inside track to requesting financial support for an extremely worthwhile cause.
Bill and Melinda Gates joined their Foundation up with Rotary International as they knew that Rotary was TRULY international and capable of doing the work needed to tackle and irridicate Polio. We are nearly there folks, there are a few pockets left in the world where this dreadful disease lingers on but as long as everyone stays alert, we can and will do it.
However, she was horrified to hear recently that the government of Pakistan has recently closed down ALL the activities of Save the Children Charity within Pakistan. There are no non-Pakistani workers based in this country working for this Charity who do wonderful, life saving work throughout the world but they, the locals, have been accused of anti-Pakistani proceedures. Very sad and strange.
A close friend asked her recently why she was so committed and passionate about Rotary and why she had joined the Rotary Club of Streatham instead of a local (to her) branch like Chelsea or Kensington.. it didn't take her a nanosecond to give her her response.. which was.
"My grandmother suffered from Dementia for the last few years of her life and I contracted Polio at the age of six.. I sat in on a Streatham Rotary Club meeting and listened to them talking about a local Dementia group which they had recently set up, by this time I knew about Rotary's work with the Gates Foundation against Polio, I then joined them the following Friday at the Streatham Dementia Support Group and knew that this was the Rotary Club that I wished to be a member of".
Simples..
GeeGee Parrot.
June 27th, 2015.
I am delighted to be able to tell you that Morrisons stepped right up to the plate.. yes indeedy.. they surely did! For the charming manager at their Streaham Common branch has agreed to donate whatever food is needed for the breakfasts after the three family mass on July 12th and their BBQ in August and then he put her together with his Community Champion.
Who was a charming young woman called Anya. Anya asked her what she wanted in the form of a financial donation, they discussed the needs of the Streatham Dementia Support Group. Then Anya said what she had available per month in her budget for Charity.
They agreed on a figure which is a great start! She is to issue an invoice for next month and then they will set up a standing order to the bank account of Rotary Club of Streatham Trust Fund. Registered Charity No: 1036425.
Yippee.. and other really great stuff was discussed about free placement of a banner for the group outside in their railings, items for the Raffle at the BBQ, collection tins with a Rotary member inside the store. They could not have been kinder nor more generous.
It was a HOT sticky day yesterday and so I was left at home, she could not have taken me in my small cage to the Morrison meeting, then there was a period of time when she called into other companies. I would have been grumpy BEYOND belief at the end of even an hour and she was out on the road for three hours even before she joined up with the group at 2.00 past midday!
But everyone asked her "where's GeeGee.. where's dat bird?" Oh, I was sorely miseed, I am pleased to tell you!
But there is much work to be done and now she is pulling out her old work related address books. When you have worked for people like: Laksmi Mittal, Leslie and Abigail Wexner, Garfield Weston, Pierre Winkler, The Duke of Westminster and other families who are known to be very philanthropic, you have a fast inside track to requesting financial support for an extremely worthwhile cause.
Bill and Melinda Gates joined their Foundation up with Rotary International as they knew that Rotary was TRULY international and capable of doing the work needed to tackle and irridicate Polio. We are nearly there folks, there are a few pockets left in the world where this dreadful disease lingers on but as long as everyone stays alert, we can and will do it.
However, she was horrified to hear recently that the government of Pakistan has recently closed down ALL the activities of Save the Children Charity within Pakistan. There are no non-Pakistani workers based in this country working for this Charity who do wonderful, life saving work throughout the world but they, the locals, have been accused of anti-Pakistani proceedures. Very sad and strange.
A close friend asked her recently why she was so committed and passionate about Rotary and why she had joined the Rotary Club of Streatham instead of a local (to her) branch like Chelsea or Kensington.. it didn't take her a nanosecond to give her her response.. which was.
"My grandmother suffered from Dementia for the last few years of her life and I contracted Polio at the age of six.. I sat in on a Streatham Rotary Club meeting and listened to them talking about a local Dementia group which they had recently set up, by this time I knew about Rotary's work with the Gates Foundation against Polio, I then joined them the following Friday at the Streatham Dementia Support Group and knew that this was the Rotary Club that I wished to be a member of".
Simples..
GeeGee Parrot.
June 27th, 2015.
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