Seaford in Bloom

Each year we support Seaford in Bloom, to enable them to decorate the town with flowers.


Seaford Head Community College

In the recent past we have continued to support Seaford Head Community College with funding for their Performing Arts bid. This was for replacement and additional modern sound and lighting technical equipment. In addition we have made available money to provide prizes for students who have achieved in the fields of Maths, English, French and Community Service.


Reading at Seaford Head Community College

The Club is now in the second year of assisting with reading practice for the new intake at SHCC. The adult helpers are Rotarians and wives of Rotarians and the group has been meeting with their tutees on Friday mornings during term time. This is now being increased to Mondays and Fridays to accommodate those for whom Friday was a difficult day. The scheme has been considered a success by both the School and the adult helpers. At the end of the last academic year the Club presented the regular pupil attendees with an Illustrated Dictionary. There are now 25 adults taking part in the scheme.


Rotary Youth Leader Award

The Club supported two candidates for this year’s Rotary Youth Leader Award course which was held at Woodrow High House, Amersham, Buckinghamshire in the Easter holidays. The two participants gave a talk to the Club on their return and it was evident to all that they had not only enjoyed the course but had gained substantially from it in confidence and leadership skills. The Club is hoping to be able to sponsor two Candidates again for the 2010 Course.


Safety in Action

The Safety in Action scheme in our area is run jointly by Sussex Police and Lewes District Council. It involves children from Primary Schools in the LDC area coming attending the course for a morning or afternoon during a week in the Summer Term. This year’s course was held at Newhaven Fort. The children learn about the various dangers that they may encounter in everyday life from the threat of electrocution from entering electricity substations and flying kites near power lines to safely crossing roads and railways and being wary of strangers becoming too friendly. The Club supports this very worthwhile project with helpers at each session who do anything from filling ‘goody bags’ to timekeeping for the events and financially by sponsoring one of the prizes gained by the winning schools. We look forward to being involved again in the 2010 event.


Annecy Primary School - Greenpower Goblin

The Greenpower Goblin is an electric kit car designed specifically to offer primary school pupils a chance to become involved in a simple engineering project. The kit provided makes up a tubular chassis with four wheels and simple steering gear, disc brakes, a motor and two batteries. The pupils have to design and make the bodywork The standard set up will produce a top speed of 15 mph and there are races organised for unmodified cars.

Once made and run the whole car can be taken to pieces and used again with children from the following year group who will be able to design their own bodywork. Spares are available so the project can be run repeatedly.

Seaford Rotary Club helped towards the original cost for a car for Annecy Roman Catholic Primary School in Seaford. The Club has since bought a set of tools for the car as these do not come with the kit.

Some members of the Club have seen the car and the children working on it and have been delighted with the enthusiasm that the project is creating. The Club looks forward to seeing the car race in March.


Shelter Box

Because Rotary is a world-wide organisation, we are in an ideal position to get help to disaster areas when the need arises. One way in which we help is by supplying Shelter boxes, which provide basic equipment for people who have lost their homes. This includes a large tent, cooking equipment, basic provisions.


Christmas Sleigh

Every weekday evening in December (up to the 23rd), we visit the streets of Seaford with Father Christmas and his sleigh, giving sweets to children and collecting money for our charities. We also have the sleigh in Broad Street each Saturday morning in December, and on Christmas Eve. This annual event, very popular within the town, has been running for over 50 years.


It's a Knockout

In 2010 the two Clubs in Seaford will, for the third year running, present“ It’s a Knockout” at the Seaford Fun day in July. The games which are based on the original TV show are staged by the Graham Fisher’s International organisation. Twelve teams each with 10 members will compete against each other for fun and the event raises money for charity. Last year the proceeds went to Chestnut Tree House and the Polio Plus campaign. It is a fun event as can be seen from the picture of the Town Mayor for 2009/10 taking part to raise money for her charities.


Christmas Draw at Morrison’s

For the past 15 years during October Seaford Rotary Club have been running their Christmas Fund Raising Draw by selling raffle tickets in Morrison’s (formerly Safeway) to raise money for community causes. Rotary members sell ticket to local shoppers in store where they can stop and view ‘Rotary’s Community Activity Board’ where fundraising details and photographs of events and supported charities are colourfully displayed.

Car Parking!

Seaford Triathlon and Half Marathon are prestigious sporting events for the town which take place in September and March. This attracts hundreds of people to the Martello end of the seafront. Seaford Rotary Club in conjunction with Seaford Town Council undertakes to organise and manage the car parking facilities for participants and spectators for the weekend. Monies raises from the car parking fees go to support local charities under the auspices of Seaford Rotary Club. We also carry out Car Parking duties for other functions.


Exchange Project

This project has been in existence for two years and is based at Crouch Gardens in Seaford. Anyone in the community can join to learn basic gardening skills. They have about 150 members from various backgrounds including wheelchair users, SeeAbility members and children that have been excluded from school.

Having fun!

We believe that we can achieve the best results by having good fellowship within our Club, which we mainly achieve by having fun! We get together to go to shows, and we organise trips out to places of interest (recently we've been to Highgrove and Dickens World). Each year we get away for a few days with our partners to relax and enjoy one another's company (last year we went to Cheltenham, this year we're going on a mini-cruise). And we have an annual President's Night in the Spring, which usually takes the form of a Dinner Dance at a local Hotel.