As its highly successful silver jubilee year draws to a close, the Rotary Club of Kinver is set for another cracking year in 2011/12.

Rtn Neil Brazier, who takes over as President on July 1, told the recent Club Assembly that his team has been working hard to come up with a programme that would cater for the club members, the community and the Rotary organisation as a whole worldwide where the eradication of polio remained the chief objective.

Fellowship events will include a Dudley canal trip, Italian evening, a weekend in Nice, whisky tasting, and shooting, while communityrelated activities will once again embrace Blackpool holidays and New Year party for seniors, participation in the Country Faye and Enville Fete, the 10K run and the proposed refurbishment and repair of the toposcope on Kinver Edge.

Funds will again be raised from the annual Children in Need Quiz, a harvest auction, a casino night and that essential part of Christmas in Kinver, Wollaston and Enville - the club’s sleigh.

Links with local schools will be maintained and enhanced with support for visits by the Life Education caravan, provision of dictionaries to primary school leavers, and interschool skills competitions while the International Committee will be identifying world-wide Rotary projects that need financial support from events such as a musical evening and a garden party in aid of children suffering as a result of the Chernobyl disaster.

Rtn John Tyler, who attended the meeting on behalf of the District Governor commended the club on its plans, commenting: “Rotary is strong and thriving in Kinver – the programme is one of the best I have heard.”