3 days to go. Great to see another sign up today from the Rotary Club of East London in D9320 South Africa, becoming the 6th district around the world with 5 or more participant clubs - so wonderful to see such great partnerships at District level.
I had the most wonderful day, over at our local ASDA superstores helping out with a collection and prize draw / tombola with fellow Rotarians and members of the British Polio Fellowship. Extraordinary warmth and generosity from the people of our town , meant that my arms were well and truly aching with the weight of gold coins after 4 hours working there. So another terrific boost to our local End Polio Now collection targets, and wonderful to stand along Polio survivors and meet the wonderful Jane Louth in person who had spent a full year gathering donations for the tombola prizes.
Just a couple of quick updates with communications plans for the day
In case you haven't seen in the email I sent out to those taking part over the weekend. We have set up a phone line (+44) 7583018832 to which anyone in the UK or even overeseas who haven't got social media / email access on the day can text or ring us with updates.
We have also set up a skype account - user name rotaryglobalswim -using our email address rotaryglobalswimarathon@gmail.com - and have made provisional arrangements to try and link up with Mareeba and Townsville Rotary events in Queensland on the day - feel free to get in touch to see if we can skype to your club events
On the day itself, Chris Whitaker, partner of Fran Williamson our UK Paralympic ambassador who will be both be joining us in Grantham, has kindly agreed to step into my Rotary Global Swimarathon twitter and facebook shoes and monitor our rotaryglobalswimarathon@gmail.com account , to keep everyone informed as details come in from round the world,
We heard yesterday that Rikki Lim from the Rotary Club of Zamboanga City Phillipines is planning to set up a live streaming link from their event - we will happily share that with you all, and please let us know if you are planning anything similar
All in all its getting very exciting now!!
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