Supporting the Environment
The Club proudly supports Rotary International's 7th Area of Focus Supporting the Environment. This is a new focus area for the Club introduced in 2021/22.
There are 3 avenues for service:
encompass a monthly Eco Tip - the Environment Committee shares monthly environmental ‘tips’ to improve Members’ knowledge of what they can do to decrease their environmental impact and help us all make a small difference.- volunteer for service gardening projects in the community
- and by simply walking 'plant trees'!
The Club was delighted to again provide gardening help for Alpha Housing at their Lowry Court accommodation 24 October 2025. President Heather was joined by Club members Hon. Treasurer Tim Browne, Past Presidents Marnette Lyons and Alan Rundle and Chris Warnock on a beautiful autumn day. Using an array of new tools, they made a huge difference to the very overgrown bed. They also enjoyed chatting to the residents who were very appreciative of what they were doing and had a few gardening requests of their own!During... 
A fine result...! 
For a first outreach project the Club was delighted to help Alpha Housing with their gardening project at their Carrs Court accommodation, Sandy Row and on Friday 19 January 2024 a joint team from the Club and Cleaver Fulton Rankin braved the cold to help there. 
Sadly it wasn't possible to do any planting as snow was still on the ground! 
However, they were able to clear areas ready for planting in the spring and, as the residents had asked for raised beds to grow vegetables and herbs, some of the team helped their ground staff by making raised the beds while others filled them with soil - a rather back breaking activity...
The Club actively supports the Treekly walking App which, by rewarding a daily walking habit of 5000+ steps with the planting of a tree, turns footsteps into forests by native mangrove tree planting by Eden Reforestation Projects in Noth Madagascar. To date the Club has planted the very commendable 10,777 trees! This is important because:
- Mangroves are a 'supertree', locking away CO2 in their root systems for decades to come, every tree planted helps rebalance the Earth's atmosphere and combat climate change
- the tree planting programmes help enrich communities, lifting vulnerable people out of poverty and provides fairly paid, sustainable work
- hundreds of species depend on mangroves for their habitat, deforestation has displaced these species and reduced biodiversity, but these mangrove forests can restore vital habitats