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Scarborough Rotary Club Scoop Top Award
05th Nov 2008
A Scarborough Rotary group, who regularly hold events at The Royal Hotel Scarborough, has scooped a top award for its efforts in moving the contents of a disused hospital to help people in one of Europe’s poorest countries.
The Rotary Club of Scarborough Cavaliers was presented with the Rotary International Cooperation Award for its efforts in boosting the facilities of two Romanian hospitals.
Led by Scarborough Rotarians Sally Brown and then club president John Bradley, more than 60 people, spent a month stripping an old, disused York hospital of numerous essential items including the contents of an operating theatre, 50 beds and a variety of tables, chairs and catering equipment.
Auctioneer David Duggleby and Scarborough firm Raflatac then helped transport all the equipment to its destination.
Ken Robertshaw, immediate past district governor of Rotary International’s 1040 District which covers around 80 Rotary Clubs, told the Scarborough Evening News: “This is what Rotary is all about, helping others without hesitation and consideration of the difficulties.
“If someone wrote a play for tv about a hospital closing down and it ending up in another part of the world as a result of a bunch of ‘business types going to lunch’, the proposal would have been laughed out of the room – but that’s what you lot went and did!”
The project, which was carried out in co-operation with Rotarians in eastern Holland’s Aalten-Wisch, is the biggest and most ambitious project ever undertaken by the Rotary Club of Scarborough Cavaliers, who regularly hold events at this luxury Scarborough hotel, in its 30-year history.
