Most of the colour has passed now in the Northwick Park Hospital Garden, but this month is the time to ensure that next spring our bulbs will return with the bright colours.

This week we had some fun making a small repair to one of the benches in our garden at Northwick Park Hospital. The repair brought many comments of appreciation.

Members of the Club were at the Tenth North London Disability Games on Sunday 15 October 2023, helping organise the Table Tennis tournament at the Aspire Centre in Stanmore. Some 50+ contestants took part on the day!

With Storm Babet coming, we had an intensive clean up in the Northwick Park Hospital Garden on Wednesday. Once the storm goes through, there is bound to be much more to do!

After the heavy rain from Storm Ciarán, there was a brief respite on Sunday 05 November 2023.  That provided the much needed opportunity for a small working party to visit the garden in Northwick Park Hospital and plant some purple crocus corms for the coming spring.

Leaves are down at Hospital Garden A visit to the Northwick Park Hospital Garden on Friday 24 November 2023 confirmed that most of the leaves from the trees are down now. We cleared the path - which was as covered with leaves as the grass area. Geraniums are stored away now!

For our meeting on Wednesday 29 November 2023, we moved from our normal venue to an Italian Restaurant in Hatch End so we could celebrate our 45th Anniversary. For this special occasion, we were joined by several District Officers and guests in Dona Theresa in Hatch End.

Club Makes Significant Donation to Local Charity At a time when good news is in short supply, the Rotary Club of Northwick Park make a significant donation to the Attention Deficity Hyperactivity Disorder & Autism Centre. The Deputy Lieutenant for Harrow was at the meeting.

We held our final meeting of the year 2023 at the Kenton Beefeater and had an excellent time as well as raising funds for the End Polio Now programme. We wish all our Communities a Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year!

Club Bids Sad Farewell to Amrit Mediratta On Friday 05 Jan 2024 members of the Club travelled to Breakspear Crematorium to bid a sad farewell to Amrit Mediratta. Amrit had had a distinguished career in architecture and politics, rising to rapporteur to the Council of Europe

Updating Progress to a Malaria Vaccine On Wednesday 17 January 2024 we had a visit from Anna Graysmith of Malaria No More UK who spoke on the progress being made to control malaria. Two club members had personal experience of malaria. The talk was well received.

On Thursday 25 January 2024, members of the club assembled in order to load a van with aid for the Revival Centre in Chernihiv in Northern Ukraine. Despite all the difficulties in Ukraine, the Centre is still operating and is in need of sanitary and medical items.

Second Hand Sponsorship - this was a new concept introduced to the members by Rotary Global Grant Scholar Robert Falconer. Robert has been researching the resettlement of refugees in Canada for many years and is currently studying/research as PhD at the LSE in London.

We Met on Valentine's Night The Club met on Valentine's Night and took several decisions including supporting two Global Grant Scholars next academic year, supporting an outgoing Youth Exchange student, and supporting Easter Eggs for the local women's refuge.

Friday 23 February is Rotary's Birthday. On that day we hope that the crocus corms that we planted back in October will be peeping through now, reminding us of Rotary's commitment to eradicate polio from the world. As you can see here, they are appearing in the hospital garden.

On Friday 26 April 2024, a team of gardeners from the Rotary Club of Northwick Park finished the late winter tidy-up and left the garden in Northwick Park Hospital ready to receive the 2024 summer bedding. Now if the weather would just oblige ...

On Wednesday 08 May 2024, we held Part 1 of our AGM, electing representatives for the coming Rotary Year starting on 01 July 2024. Our officers for 2024-2025 had already been elected. We also had some updates from the Service Chairs and discussed Honorary Members for next year.

Club Assembly 2024-25 took place on Wednesday 19 June 2024 at our usual meeting place - the Kenton Beefeater. A lot of change has been built into the programme for the coming year, with a new emphasis on projects rather than old style disciplines. It will be fun to do.

Garden looking good in Northwick Park Hospital. Our garden in Northwick Park Hospital was showing a good amount of colour on Friday 21 June 2024. It looks as if Summer has finally arrived on the longest day of the year! Our crew had a lot of tidying to do!!

Hospital Garden Update All the leaves are down now in the Rotary Garden at Northwick Park Hospital. We have been able to clear some of them, but there is still more work to do. We welcome the arrival of the new garden bench dedicated to the memory of a pharmacist.