The Kite Festival is an annual event organised by the Rotary Club of Exmouth primarily to raise funds for worthwhile charitable causes.
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Charities 2011
Here is an overview of the five main charities that we supported in 2011. Charities 2011
The total raised and distributed by Rotary this year to worthy charitable causes was £12,318. and the participating charities also raised a further £1.772 towards their funds.
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Charitable Funding Already Raised
To date The Festival has enabled Rotary to help contribute around £56,544 to worthy charities.
Charities and Local Organisations which have benefited from the Exmouth Kite Festival since 2007, are:-
- Children’s Hospice SW - www.chsw.org.uk
- Shelterbox – www.shelterbox.org
- Dream-a-way – www.dream-a-way.co.uk
- FORCE – www.forcecancercharity.co.uk
- Devon Air Ambulance Trust-www.daat.co.uk
- Devon Widlife Trust – www.devonwildlifetrust.org
- Water Aid -
- St John Ambulance – www.sja.org.uk
- RNLI (Exmouth) - www.rnli.org.uk
- RSPB (EXE Group) – www.rspb.org.uk
- Help our Wounded – www.facebook.com/HelpOurWounded
- Exmouth Round Table
- Exmouth Visitor’s Centre – www.exmouthvisitorscentre.co.uk
- Exmouth Inner Wheel
- Rotary Foundation Trust – www.rotary.org
- Adventure Trust for Girls
- 3rd Exmouth Scouts
- Chicks – www.chicks.org.uk
- Exmouth Explorer Scouts
Your support was much appreciated by these organisations and we look forward to partnering local charities again at the 2012 Festival.
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