RRCP Awards 2025
2026 has started with some new requests for RRCP grants....
CAVERSHAM DISTRICT GUIDES - £1000
Caversham District Guides are fundraising to enable guides to attend WINGS 2026. WINGS is an International Guide and Scout Jamboree which takes place in Windsor Great Park in Berkshire. The event promises to take Guides outside of their comfort zone with a whole week of outdoor living, adventurous activities, new skills to learn and different cultures to experience, with participants coming from across the world. The participant cost for the event is £425/guide (though this is closer to £500 with transport and extras factored in). We will ask the guides or their Leader to speak to us with feedback, after the Jamboree event.
WYFOLD RIDING FOR THE DISABLED - £1000
Diane Lee and Tom O’Meara gave a lunchtime presentation to us at our meeting on 21st October. Wyfold Riding for the Disabled Association (RDA) is an independent local charity based at Wyfold Court, near Stoke Row and Peppard. Their mission is to offer therapeutic riding, carriage driving and ground-based pony interaction to children and adults with physical and intellectual disabilities’. Each week, they support around 75 people through the dedicated work of over 80 volunteers. They were seeking support for their ongoing operational costs and some upcoming capital projects. The £1000 award is subject to it being used for capital expenditure and not running expenses. To this end, they have identified refurbishment of The Wyfold Room building, currently estimated at £55.3k.
SPIRE 2 WITLEY - £1000
Nina Bailey and Charlie Clare gave a lunchtime presentation to us at our meeting on the 18th November. They were requesting an unspecified sum to purchase experiences for a silent auction. The auction is part of a wider fundraising activity to purchase two minibuses, enabling continued use by the 10 schools in Whitley. These minibuses provided enrichment opportunities for the children taking them to sporting fixtures, tutoring sessions. day trips and swimming lessons. The award of £1000 is subject to it going towards the capital cost of a minibus and not to experiences for the silent auction.
In 2025 the Rotary Club Community Project of the Rotary Club of Reading made the following financial awards to local charities and organisations totalling an amazing £20,600!
Amount Name of institution
£6,600 Rotary Club of Reading Benevolent Fund
£1,000 ABC to Read
£1,000 Activity Club for Children
£1,000 Adventure Dolphin
£1,000 Building for the Future
£1,000 Citizens Advice
£1,000 Dee Caf Community Cafe
£1,000 Faith Christian Group
£1,000 Greenways
£1,000 Greyfriars Church
£1,000 Mustard Tree Foundation
£1,000 Parents and Children Together
£1,000 Reading Civic Society
£1,000 Reading Refugee Support
£500 3rd Reading Boys Brigade
£500 Hope Counselling Service