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Aquabox
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Emergency Aid boxes that can be converted to a water filter. Clean water being one of the most urgent requirements in many disasters such as earthquakes and particularly floods
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Bedford House
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A residential special care home serving Harrow and Brent
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British Heart Foundation
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Pioneering research, vital prevention activity and ensuring quality care and support for everyone living with heart disease.
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Diabetes UK
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The largest organisation in the UK working for people with diabetes, funding research, campaigning and helping people live with the condition.
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Eye Camp
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An Eye Camp is an event in a developing country where people come from miles around to a camp of eye specialists who will perform many cataract operations and other procedures in areas where such health care is limited.
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GLNW Scouts
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Scouting in North West Greater London
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Grangewood School
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Grangewood School is a co-educational day school for primary age children with severe learning difficulties. They cater for children from 3 years to 11 years of age and are situated close to Pinner
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KSDP
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Educational assistance provided by a charity operating in Thailand for the dispossessed Karenni people driven out of Burma by their military government. The charity is run by a prior member of the club.
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KidsOut
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An annual day out for special needs children. Founded by the Moores family of Littlewoods fame in collaboration with Rotary. Pinner funds are used locally to take the Grangewood children (above) for a day at Thorpe Park each year.
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Leonard Summer Prize
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Prize for a technology tournament promoting enterprise, collaboration and achievement in local young people. Leonard, the founder, was a member of this club. Example activity - creation of a load bearing bridge across a gap using only paper straws.
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Nower Hill School Prizes
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Sponsorship of the Eastman prize for community service and the Crumless Awards for Excellence in Music (one for Performance and one for Composition).
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Nyambani
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African home for children ostracised because they or their parents have HIV. (Donation made via the Rotary Club of Uxbridge)
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PAC
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Pinner Association of Churches
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Pinner House
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Sheltered accommodation for the elderly. Our donation is for the use of a meeting room for our Council Meetings for which no charge is made and is to the Amenity Fund, which the Manager can call upon from time to time is to provide items not normally funded by the Management Committee
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Polio Plus
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Many still live under the threat of polio, which is why Rotary and its global partners are committed to reaching every child with the vaccine and ending this disease worldwide. The charity was started by Rotary and now has the backing of influential partners such as the United Nations and the Gates Foundation. Thus far Rotary has raised over $500m and the disease now only remains in 7 countries.
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Rotary Foundation
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The mission of The Rotary Foundation is to enable Rotarians to advance world understanding, goodwill, and peace through the improvement of health, the support of education, and the alleviation of poverty.
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Sense International
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Sense International helps deafblind people in the developing world to communicate, connect, interact and flourish.
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ShelterBox
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Primary disaster relief boxes containing a ten person tent and enough ancillary equipment for survival for up to six months
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St Lukes Hospice
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Hospice care is based on the simple idea that a dying patient is a living person, with unique physical, emotional, social and spiritual needs. St Luke's exists to support those needs as well as the needs of their families and carers.
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Smile Train
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Cleft palettes are a major problem in developing countries where there are millions of children who are suffering with unrepaired clefts. Most cannot eat or speak properly, aren’t allowed to attend school or hold a job, and face very difficult lives filled with shame and isolation, pain and heartache.
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Water Aid
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WaterAid is an international charity. Their mission is to overcome poverty by enabling the world's poorest people to gain access to safe water, sanitation and hygiene education.
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