Dictionaries 4 Life
We raised was 2,000 euros at our District Conference in Lille and put this money towards the Dictionary 4 Life project, aimed at donating a copy of the Usborne Illustrated Dictonary to all Year 5 pupils in the Borough of Spelthorne.

There are three other Rotary Clubs in the Borough – Staines, Shepperton & Ashford – and we all agreed to help in the project with the result that we were able to purchase 1,104 dictionaries, enough for every year 5 pupil .

An official launch by the Mayor was held in the Council Offices. Following this, members from the 4 clubs visited the 20 schools in the Borough and presented the dictionaries to each of the year children.

We had invaluable help from Gail Murphy of Spelthorne Schools Together, from Cllr Robin Sider, and from Caroline Marden of the local Education Office.
The 4 clubs came together again in 2009 to carry out a similar project. Sterling work by Ross Emmerton of the Ashford Club secured majority funding from Spelthorne’s Surrey County Councillors which enabled us to donate the Usborne dictionary to all Year 5 pupils in the Borough again this year.. Dictionaries are now in the process of being delivered to schools for presentation to pupils in September and October 2009