Rotary Club of Salcombe

The Rotary Santa’s Sleigh will be coming to Malborough and Salcombe on Tuesday December the 18th, the route will be published here and on the Salcombe Rotary Facebook page – Look forward to seeing you then!

It was our great pleasure to meet lots of the local children big and small last night on our way round Malborough and Salcombe, we collected lots of money in our collection boxes and that will be put together with the money collected tomorrow night (Thursday 21/12/2017) at the carol singing on Whitestrands car park in the middle of Salcombe where there will be complimentary mulled wine, hot chocolate and of course mince pies! We start at 6 pm, look forward to seeing you there!

Our headline acts return for another year – David “Fitz” Fitzgerald off the telly will be overseeing the auction and Liz Turner is providing not only all of the food but also one of the auction prizes! Steve Mammat from Actionwest will of course be making his very special Pimms for everyone on arrival and there will be the usual Jazz to accompany the Pimms! As of 25/7/2017 we still have just a few tickets left at £35 each- please send us a message on Salcombe Rotary Facebook page or email John at Cookee@me.com

The auction prizes include:

1. Voucher from Liz and Tim at the Victoria
2. Voucher from Liz Turner for chef services at a dinner party at home in the South Hams for up to 10 (Less ingredients)
3. F1 Memorabilia 
4. F1 Memorabilia 
5. F1 Memorabilia 
6. Crab painting on wood from Gallery worth £240
7. Dinner for 6 at The Church House Inn Rattery with a Magnum of Champagne
8. Spa Day for 2 at The Salcombe Harbour Hotel
9. Sunday Lunch for 4 at The Salcombe Harbour Hotel
10. PC service from Actionwest and a Certificate with free rides from the Kingsbridge and District Light Railway
11. Gastronomic Day for 2 at Soar mill Cove with Tattinger Champagne Flight, Cookery Course and Lunch on 2^nd of December or 24^th of February
12. “Ametsa Experience” at COMO The Halkin
13. One Night for 2 in a Halkin Room at this Chic London Hotel Welcome Drink followed by a Tasting Menu for 2 at Ametsa with instruction by Arzak (London residence of San Sebastian’s 3 Michelin Starred Restaurant). Full English Breakfast and a late 3pm check out.
14. A weekend Car Rental in a Jaguar F Type Sports car
15. 3 X Personal training Sessions with Jason Jackson
16. A Flight in a Vintage Aircraft from historic RAF Bolt Head
17. South Milton Arcade – Open Night for up to 12 guests. A private collection of approx. 24 “free” pinball/arcade machines with a case of chilled beers
18. £200 Voucher for any Plumbing Job by 4 Degrees Plumbing
19. 6 Bottles of Wine “Gerrard Bertrand Gris Rose” from Hallgarten Druit
20. Ice Cream from Langage Farm
21. Dinner for 2 and a Bottle of Champagne with an evening’s access to Home House, London’s most exclusive private members club
22. An accompanied test drive in the Ferrari of your choice – current range as well as an experience in the Maserati Levante S.
23. His and hers package from Will Bees                                                                                        
24. Sweatshirt from Jam Industries

Menu

• Platter of Prawns in marie rose sauce
• Garlic chicken
• Scotch eggs
• Vegetable, herb and cheese frittata
• Crusty cob bread with butter
• Local new potatoes salad
• Summer vine tomatoes and basil
• Couscous with roasted courgettes and squash
• Coleslaw
  And to Follow:
• Strawberries and clotted cream

Liz Turner is catering as last year.

This year Salcombe Crabfest are delighted to announce that the celebrity guest at this year’s Crabfest will be Matt Tebbutt!

Matt presents Food Unwrapped on Channel 4. Series eight of this award-winning food show is now in production.

Salcombe Rotary are happy to be able to support Kaleidoscope South Hams who doing amazing work in our area, pictured are Peter Betteridge and John Cooke presenting a cheque to the charity.

Representatives from Crabfest sponsors Favis of Salcombe and Coast and Country as well as John Sampson, Peter Ralph and Peter Betteridge from the Salcombe Rotary Club were all present to hand over a cheque for £3,800 to the Young Persons Centre in Salcombe.

This is from the funds raised at 2016 Salcombe Crabfest, look out for the dates for next years event!

Salcombe Rotary are proud to be part of both the Salcombe and Malborough projects to bring Air Ambulance night flights to our area via our match funding programme: Gazette article  ITV News Item

Salcombe Rotary Club have recently been able to help KM United buy a practice goal, this amazing club has over 180 children ranging from 6 to 16 years of age. All the best to the club for the coming season and thanks to Steve Dyos and Madge Bailey and the rest of the team for all of their hard work. www.kmunitedfc.net

*Update*

Thanks to the generosity of both the participants and donations of the most amazing auction items we hope to have raised aver £5,000 for the Town Regatta and the Swimming pool – final total to follow!

We have a couple of tables available for this years Fireworks picnic at Cliff House which will see us supporting the Town Regatta and the Swimming Pool which needs tiling.

The date for this years “Firework do” is August 4th and the price will be £35 per person (10 per table). Music is by the Salcombe Jazz Quartet and Becki Brine will be singing. There will be Pimms on arrival from 7pm and the bar will be open until midnight. David Fitzgerald “Fitz” will be doing the charity auction in aid of the Salcombe Swimming pool and the Town Regatta, the menu will be as follows: