Horsham Rotary Club chooses its new Charity of the Year

The Rotary Club of Horsham has chosen Action Medical Research as its Charity of the Year 2020 to 2021.
Carouline Gould, president of the Horsham Rotary Club SUS-200308-145527001Carouline Gould, president of the Horsham Rotary Club SUS-200308-145527001
Carouline Gould, president of the Horsham Rotary Club SUS-200308-145527001

Incoming Horsham Rotary president Caroline Gould called selecting the children’s charity a ‘natural choice’.

She said: “It was important to me to pick a Horsham-based charity.

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“Staff from Action have enthusiastically supported and taken part in Horsham Rotary events such as our annual pancake race in the Carfax. But our organisations connect on many other levels as well.”

Caroline, who has a long background in clinical research management, has family connections to Action Medical Research.

Her father, David Gould, was chairman of the charity’s local fundraising group in the 1980s.

Another link between Rotary and Action Medical Research includes current Horsham Rotary member and former President, Andrew Farquhar,who worked with Action’s founder Duncan Guthrie and was finance director at the charity from 1972 to 1994.

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Under normal times, Horsham Rotary members would collect donations for their Charity of the Year during their community events but, with due to effects from the pandemic, things will be a little different this year.

Nonetheless, Caroline has high hopes for the partnership. She said: “My vision is that Horsham Rotary will be able to help Action in a number of practical ways, from marshalling at events to marketing.”

Rotary’s global charitable mission is to eradicate polio which has seen a 99 per cent reduction in cases over the last 30 years. Action was founded in 1952 with the aim of protecting children from polio.

Today, the charity is the leading UK charity funding vital research to help defeat the diseases that devastate the lives of sick and disabled babies, children and young people.

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Ruth Dean, Action Medical Research community fundraiser, said: “We are delighted to have the support of Horsham Rotary as their locally-based Charity of the Year.

“We share a deep commitment to child health, and we are looking forward to working closely together from this summer through to July 2021.”

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