Woking Rotaract | Woking Rotaract Club donates Ł300 to the Jigsaw School

PRESS RELEASE: Woking Rotaract Club donates Ł300 to the Jigsaw School

The Rotaract Club of Woking is a social club which also helps the local community and raises money for Charity. The club recently donated Ł300 to the Jigsaw School, a local independent day school for children with autistic spectrum disorders.

Rotaract club members visited the schools facilities, where Kate Grant - the Executive Head of the Jigsaw school - spoke at length about the forming of the school 5 years ago and its steady growth to now providing a primary education for 28 children operating on two sites in Mytchett and Guildford.

Emma Hawkins - the Director of Education - explained the fundamentals of their CABAS technique (Comprehensive Application of Behaviour Analysis to schooling), and how it provides a continuous assessment of not only each child's own progress but also that of the teacher.

The Jigsaw CABAS school is the first of three local charities to receive a donation of Ł300 from funds raised by Woking Rotaract. Shown in the photo are members of Woking Rotaract presenting the cheque to Kate and Emma.

Rotaract is a club open to anyone between the ages of 18-30 who want to make new friends, participate in a variety of activities and sports events, and try to raise money for charity along the way.

Notes: Woking Rotaract

Rotaract was formed in 1968 by Rotary in the USA and has now spread worldwide. There are approximately 173,000 members in over 7,500 clubs in over 100 countries. Britain has around 500 clubs. Woking Rotaract was chartered in 1978. We currently meet every 2nd and 4th Monday of each month in the Wheatsheaf Hotel, Horsell.

The organisation is based on small clubs which can vary in size from 10-50 members, and which regularly participate in events with other clubs in the surrounding Rotaract District. The club is open to anyone between the ages of 18-30 who want to make new friends, participate in a variety of activities, sports, community and fund-raising events.

Woking Rotaract has donated over Ł4,000 to various local charities in the past four years.

Further information, including a list of previous donations, can be found on the website www.woking-rotaract.org.uk, or from info@woking-rotaract.org.uk

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