Our Local Community Projects

We are committed to serving and working with the local community, in and around Marlow. We are often able to respond quickly to requests for help and either physical or financial support or both as can be seen from the case studies below.

We welcome appeals for help from anyone with a genuine and worthy local need or charitable cause that we may be able to help or support. We are a relatively new club and our ability to respond is subject to our available resources. However we will always try to assist and advise.

The fight to eliminate Polio.
​ Crocus Bulb planting in Marlow

Marlow Bridge Rotary club  members turned up in force to plant 10,000 'Ruby Giant' purple crocus bulbs, 300 daffodil and tulip bulbs as well as 50 flowering shrubs at Riley Park in the heart of Marlow. Purple crocuses are symbolic of Rotarys campaign to eradicate polio and the colour represents the dye used to mark the finger of an immunised child.  Over 30 years, the number of polio-endemic countries has dropped from 125 to just 2, thanks to Rotary.

Helping Anne Salinas recover from Guillain-Barre syndrome

Marlow Bridge Rotary Club raised funds to buy a special MOTOmed Viva 2 exercise trainer (Cost £7,000) for Anne Salinas, a local Marlow mother of three, suddenly paralysed with Guillain-Barre syndrome in 2015 losing the ability to move, swallow, talk and even breathe unaided. After 3 years of immobility, she was well enough to return home with 24hr nursing care, but needed the machine and a special standing frame purchased by MBRC, to recover some of her mobility. 

'Making Marlow Dementia Friendly'
​An MBRC project

Our aims are to create a greater awareness and knowledge of Dementia in Marlow by holding Dementia awareness events, training and building support from individuals, organisations and businesses in Marlow. We are also delighted to have the full support of Steve Baker MP and no less than four councils.

 The Marlow Santa Fun Run. MBRC help support this every year

We are proud to be an essential part of the organisation of this years Santa Fun Run being held in Marlow on Sunday December 2nd starting at 09:30.  2,500 runners will hopefully raise around £40,000 for The Marlow Opportunity Playgroup and Rennie Grove Hospice. We will be helping the planning, marshalling and packing up Santa suits. Some of us might also be running! 

Naomi Riches - rowing the Thames to raise money for In-vision

Associate member of our club: Naomi Riches MBE (Paralympic Gold Medalist) set a new Guinness World Record as the fastest woman to row down the River Thames in a single scull: 165 miles from Lechlade to Gravesend. We are proud to have supported her and helped her raise money for IN-VISION to fight Nystagmus. 

We helped clear footpaths around
​The Spade Oak Nature Reserve

In January 2018, The Marlow Bridge Rotary Club, helped to tidy up part of the overgrown footpath which surrounds the nature reserve lake. We were assisted by The Chiltern Rangers who supplied equipment and technical advice. Work involved cutting back hedges and trees and repairing paths. It was great fun and very satisfying to realise how much we achieved.