Walsall Saddlers Rotary Support Scouting4FUNds and 6th Walsall Scouts

"The time has come", the Walrus said, "To talk of many things: of shoes and ships and sealing wax, of cabbages and kings" (Alice in Wonderland).  The time has also come to tell you just how lucky we are to have the amazing support of Walsall Saddlers Rotary.

Who and what are Rotary?  An international organisation of ordinary men and women doing extraordinary things in their community - locally and globally.  They have a motto - Service Above Self.  In this materialistic, self-centred society, these seem like alien concepts.  Whether the concerns are blindness prevention or the treatment of polio, water and sanitation issues or microcredit. Rotarians the world over work towards a common goal of "service" for those communities.  Rotary is, and always has been, an organisation based on its clubs.  Where and how each club (and each Rotarian) chooses to serve is, ultimately, the decision of each one alone.  The International President of Rotary, Kalyan Bannerjee, said "Open your eyes to the challenges in our world and use the strength you have through Rotary to find ways to overcome them.  Every one of us has so much potential, and can acheive so much, when we Reach Within to Embrace Humanity". 
 
Last night, Sue Barker (of Freedom Group Forever) and I were again invited by Paul Daniels to the Beverley Hotel to make after dinner speeches.  A month ago, Paul invited us to talk to the 41 Club (the name given to people when they become too old to serve with Round Table) and £100 was raised for 6th Walsall Scouts.  This money, along with another £100 donated by the Willenhall Christian Fellowship and my £50 speakers` fee from that event, also went towards the printing costs of the poetry book on the theme of the 2012 Olympics.  Paul, as an ex-scout with 6th Walsall, had kindly written the preface to the book with the Mayor of Walsall writing the foreword.
 
Since that date Sue has become proud Nana to baby Ethan and Paul has officially become President of Walsall Saddlers Rotary.  Sue and I were asked to talk to Rotary about the benefits of Forever Living's health food products and supplements and the Scouting4FUNds project and how Freedom Group/Forever Living had assisted me in my training schedule: I plan to cycle 120 miles over the South Downs in 2 days with just one lung!
 
Sue is donating all of her profits from her sales to Scouting4FUNds, which is enormously generous of Sue!  Paul wasted no time in buying some of her top-selling products because he had spent an hour in his garden on Sunday and could no longer touch his toes.
 
Paul had also called in to see the scouts before attending the Beverley Hotel and the poetry books he brought along were all sold and the sponsorship forms for the 120 mile bike ride were distributed.  A further £75 was raised for our speakers` fee (mine and Sues) which we chose to donate to 6th Walsall Scouts.  Again, this is enormously generous of Sue because she had travelled all the way from Shrewsbury, where she lives, and would not get back home until late.  Thank you, Sue!
 
And thank you Paul and all of the Rotarians with Walsall Saddlers Rotary.