The Rotary Club of Scarborough’s annual Christmas Collection has managed to raise £7000 for local good causes despite the COVID restrictions.
For the first time in over 70 years, the Club wasn’t able to ask Santa to help raise funds as part of it's annual Christmas Collection this year. The COVID restrictions in place in December meant the club couldn't run it's normal Santa Sleigh service.
The Club did still provided a Christmas tree at its usual site at the ‘top’ of the Scarborough town centre and it used a combination of innovative fund raising methods which included a ‘Just Giving’ page in combination with its Club Members raising money through actions and donations.
Fourteen Scarborough based organisations will now each receive an allocation. These include,
- local food banks ,
- school breakfast clubs,
- Scarborough YMCA,
- Scarborough Boys Brigade,
- Scarborough Parkinson Society,
- Scarborough Survivors,
- Scarborough Sea Cadets,
- Scarborough Amicable Society,
- Scarborough ‘Side by side’,
- Scarborough and Ryedale Young Carers,
- Scarborough Alzheimer’s Society
- St.Catherine’s Hospice.
Roger Cannon, The President of The Club said
“In view of the huge difficulties Covid has caused this year we set ourselves, what we thought was ,an ambitious target of £2500.We are absolutely thrilled that, with the public’s generosity and our Member’s working together, we absolutely ‘smashed’ that target.
This will enable us to help and make a real difference to those local organisations that so desperately need money to keep them going in this unprecedented time. A massive ‘Thank you’ to everyone who contributed”
The Rotary Club of Scarborough was established in 1921 and so will soon be celebrating its Centenary Year.


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