Here’s a summary of some of the most recent club programme action work carried out by the clubs in Midland Chase Region. If you’d like to be part of our club programme action work or to be put in touch with any of our Clubs, please contact us.
Bilston & District
- Providing Covid-19 support for vulnerable women & their families: Changing Lives & Di’s Kitchen
- Empowering children with special needs – provision of a mud kitchen & personalised fiddle quilts
- Educating and empowering a student in Panama to complete her studies as a medical professional
- Encouraging the removal of plastic from members’ daily use as part of ongoing Planet projects
- Helping eliminate violence against women
Cannock & District
- Rotary Books4Homes – providing gifts of books for children who don’t have them at home
- Environmental projects e.g. meat & fish free days, reduction of packaging and litter picking
- Good Homes – Childrens’ Clothes
- Strolling for St Giles Hospice
- Support for a local food bank and for Staffordshire Women’s Aid and The Pathway Project
Lichfield & District
- Women’s safety projects including Healthy Relationships training
- Community Gardening Projects and Litter Picking across our district
- Providing sanitary protection and Days For Girls Packs in UK and internationally
- Dresses, school bags and other items for various international charities
- Orange Day Cafes
Stafford
- Toilet Twinning – achieved Toilet Twin Status for Stafford with Certificate presented to the Mayor of Stafford in March 2023
- Support for HMP Drake Hall in the Visitor Centre (3 days/week); provision of materials & wool for craft sessions; provision of Distraction Packs for mentally distressed prisoners; support for the Angel Tree – Christmas gifts for children of prisoners
- Microfinancing account via Lend with Care set up and actively investing/reinvesting in projects benefitting women & girls
- Orange the World – target to raise awareness on 25th of each month
- 400+ good quality bras collected to send to Uganda (ongoing)
- Support for CRADLE – items for gift bags
Sutton Coldfield
- Working with the Purple Community Fund in the Philipines : Various projects including Fundraising and making face masks
- Cancer Support Coffee Morning
- Support for local food bank
- Support for local Domestic Violence Unit
Tamworth
- Socially-distanced tea party to raise money for Club charities
- Donation to Tamworth Self Isolate Support Group for food
- Helping Handbags an ongoing project and also donating toiletries to The Tamworth Hygiene Bank
- Collection of good quality bras for Smalls for All
- Collection and delivery of used teabags for a South African craft project
Wolverhampton
- Covid-19: Sewing scrub bags and shoe bags for NHS staff and knitting bereavement hearts
The Wrekin
- Covid-19: Knitting bereavement hearts
- Covid-19: Virtual Balloon Race Fundraiser
- Covid-19: Supporting women who are suffering from or at risk of domestic violence – using social media and local radio & TV to signpost victims to services and creating a Phone a Friend Scheme