Community Service Committee
The aim of the Community Service Committee is to give assistance to local organisations or individuals with a need; this may be in the form of financial assistance or physical help. Recently the Club has helped in the purchase of a wheel chair for a disabled teenager and painted the visitors room at Canterbury prison.
The Community Service Committee aided the Parkinson Disease Society to get some of their members into the air in a glider, sent young people on Young leaders courses and assisted a number of other deserving causes.
The Club assisted with the cost of letting members of the Canterbury branch of the
Parkinson Disease Society sample gliding with members of Kent Gliding Club
at Challock. Our chairman welcomes one of the members back to earth.
We have provided play equipment for a women’s refuge, helped on a day out at Howletts Wild Animal Park for children with learning difficulties.
Play equipment was needed by Canterbury Women's Refuge and the Club
was able to pay for this. Some of our members decided to test it for themselves!
But we don't just provide money to local organisations or individuals in need. The Club has barbecue equipment and a coconut shy which it is happy to lend charitable or voluntary organisations for their own fund-raising
All requests for help are looked at sympathetically by the committee, which meets once a month.
John Hill
Chairman
