03/07/2026
OPEN LETTER TO RESIDENTS OF EAST GRINSTEAD AND SURROUNDING VILLAGES
For the past 18 months Meridian Rotary has been fundraising by holding events and collections for the Charity Cut out Cancer, which has enabled Hi tech surgical equipment to be purchased by the Royal Surrey Hospital in Guildford for use in the new Cancer and Innovations Wing. Due to the fantastic generosity of our community, we have raised close to our target of £25,000, this has been boosted by a large grant by Rotary International which added about £120,000 to the fund and as you can imagine the surgeons are thrilled and are using the amazing equipment already. Over the past year, speaking to local residents it became apparent, just how many people in East Grinstead have been treated at Guildford using the surgical robots. The operation time and recovery time are much reduced, allowing many more patients to be treated.
Rotary is one of the world’s largest and most successful humanitarian service organisations with 35,000 clubs in 200 countries. They make a difference globally and locally through humanitarian and community projects. They pride themselves on collaboration, with club members and the community working together to address challenges and the issues that matter.
Meridian Rotary would now like to have a new charitable project to raise money for over the next year. Our volunteers and “Friends of Rotary” give their time for free and love to put on community fundraising events with minimum overheads so that the maximum raised can go to the project. We are inviting submissions for a project/cause which would bring benefit to people in East Grinstead and surrounding villages. We would prefer to be able to purchase an item or fund a project so that we have a financial target to aim for.
Please submit ideas by 1st August for review.
Please email a costed project to [email protected]
