The Rotary Club of Severn Vale and the Stroke Association are again working in partnership to help combat high blood pressure, the single biggest risk factor for stroke.

One day of free blood pressure testing will be held on Saturday 17th April at Blooms Garden Centre, Haresfield between 10am- 4pm.

The Know Your Blood Pressure campaign has been extremely successful in the past, with record numbers of people getting their blood pressure tested. This year, we hope to encourage more than 30,000 people throughout the UK to take advantage of this free health check.

Each year an estimated 150,000 people across the UK will have a stroke. It is one of the top three causes of death and the leading cause of severe disability in the UK. High blood pressure is the most important causal risk factor for stroke, causing about 50 per cent of ischemic strokes. There are often no symptoms of high blood pressure, so these tests are vitally important.

The Rotary Club of Severn Vale along with neighbouring Rotary Clubs, is actively seeking to develop and widen opportunities for young people in the local community; to encourage and help them to develop new skills and experiences that will benefit them through later life.

Following on from the very successful Junior Youth Speaks competitions run in conjunction with primary schools in Thornbury and Chipping Camden; and with the interest and involvement of primary/junior schools in our area, we propose to run a Junior Youth Speaks Competition for Year 5/6 pupils, in 2010 with the ‘internal’ school heats starting in mid June 2010, and an inter-school Grand Final, organised and funded by Rotary, in early July 2010.  Local school contacts have now been identified.

An member who fancies joining Mike Farmer and Andy Jarrett at the Torquay District Conference on Sat March 20th where the key note speaker is Quinton Letts who, as well as being a Daily Mail columnist, has written two best selling books, please let Andy know asap.

£600 cheque was presented to St Johns Ambulance in November £300 given to Frampton Youth Football Club. £300 given to Gloucs prostate cancer group.

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