Following the devastating typhoon in the Philippines, groups across Wiltshire are ready to help.
The Rotary Club of Melksham has pledged £1,000 to the Disaster Emergency Committee (DEC) fund by allocating a month’s profit from the Art House Café, in the Market Place. A donation point has been set up in the café and members will be collecting at the town’s Christmas lights switch-on next Saturday.
Bradford on Avon Rotary Club will also donate money to purchase ‘survival boxes’, which contain tents, toothpaste, water purification and other emergency items.
President Peter Wragg said: “Our fundraising is ongoing and we will allocate some of that fund to the project. The reason I became a Rotarian is because of the humanitarian work it does.”
Services will also take place in west Wiltshire, with Canon Liam O’Driscoll hosting a service and collection at St John the Baptist Church, Trowbridge, at 10.30am on Sunday for the typhoon victims.
He said: “There will be a collection going around at the service and all the money raised will go to the poor, distressed and hungry people in the Philippines.”
Iain and Fatimah Murray, ordained ministers for the Church of the Living God at The Laverton, in Westbury, will hold a service from 10.30am to 12.30pm on Sunday, with an offering bucket for donations.
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