About our Club
Meetings: These are held on alternate Thursdays in the Scores Hotel, The Scores, St. Andrews at 7.00pm. One meeting is always a Business Meeting. The second meeting may be a Speaker Evening or a Development Meeting or Programme Action workshops. Speaker Evenings start at 6.30pm and include a meal.
Membership: Our members live or work in St. Andrews, North Fife, Cupar and the Howe of Fife, and the East Neuk.
Programme Action: Current and Recent Projects include:
Story Boards and Sensory Sacks
Tools for Africa
One of the SI borders to Rymonth House Residential Home
Plan International (supporting a boy in Egypt)
Rymonth Garden Project in St. Andrews (maintenance of small garden belonging to residential home for disab led adults)
Recycling of Inkjet Cartridges, mobile phones, used postage stamps, and spectacles
Sounds of North East Fife (produces taped extracts from local newspapers, for the visually impaired, in NE Fife)
Support is also given to Stratheden Hospital and East Fife Women’s Aid
Friendship Links: The club has links with the following clubs:
Missoula, Montana, and Port Townsend & East Jefferson County, both U.S.A. Londonderry, Staffordshire Moorlands and Bangalore
Social and Fundraising:
Fundraising events include the Annual Coffee Morning, usually held in April, and the Quiz Night, usually held in February. Other fundraising events, held in the past few years have included a sponsored parachute jump by one intrepid club member, Ladies Day, and a Charity Lunch, Music concerts held in the Byre Theatre, Art Auctions and hosting an evening with the Pampered Chef & other local specialist food retailers. Events, held at the homes of members have included a Fun Day, Candlelite parties, a Spring Tea and a Summer Barbecue. One member, Anne Rutherford, completed a 58-mile long sponsored cycle ride in April 2009 to raise funds for Project Sierra, the SI Quadrennial project that ended in July 2011.
Regular Social Events are the Annual Christmas lunch and a Summer Outing, as well as an International Evening, held in January, when visitors from overseas are often invited to attend.
The retired members of the club and former members, who are unable to attend evening meetings meet once a month, for morning coffee.
Each year, the President usually selects a charity to be the main beneficiary of the club’s fundraising efforts. Club members then choose several smaller charities to support. Charities which are supported may be local, national, or international.
The main project for 2009 – 2011 was working to support and help the Inclusiveness Team, who work with students at Elmwood College. Cupar with special educational needs. The main charity for 2012 was MND Scotland, that supports people suffering from motor neurone disease, and in 2013 the club will be raising for funds for the Special Needs Unit at the Canongate Primary School in St. Andrews plus three other local charities.
Interested in joining us? Please contact:
VONEF, Volunteer House, 69-73 Crossgate, Cupar, Fife, KY15 5AS
Phone: 01334 654080
Fax: 01334 653598 or
Guests are welcome at Speaker meetings and social events.