Wed, 11th Sep 2019 – Club Meeting

Jenny Reid will be speaking to the Rotary Club of Knights Pendragon on the CSI organisation known as, Adventures for Love, which consists of a group of ladies who love an adventure, some fun and a glass of wine but also raising money for good causes while having fun. Jenny is the owner of iFacts - a pioneer of methodologies used to ensure executives and employees are secure in their environment and companies have honest, ethical, loyal and productive employees and is also the Technical Dire...
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Wed, 14th Aug 2019 – NO CLUB MEETING

Due to the club raid on Kyalami Rotary Club on the evening of 15th August 2019, there will be no club meeting on Wednesday evening 14th August 2019 at the club’s Belgravia Bowling Club venue.
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Wed, 7th Aug 2019 – Board and Club Meetings

17h30 - 18h30 Board Meeting 18h30 - 19h30 Club Meeting - Project Directors reports to the club. Guests are welcome. The R100 cost (payable to the treasurer) includes a meal. Please advise Ray Hewson (by email to “Info”) of guests/apologies by 10am on the Monday preceding the meeting for catering purposes.
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Wed, 24th July 2019 – Club Meeting

Speakers:  Jim and Zen Rankin speak about their travels in a presentation on “Bergen to Kirkenes and Back (and the Northern Lights)” Guests are welcome. The R100 cost (payable to the treasurer) includes a meal. Please advise Ray Hewson (by email at info@rotaryknightspendragon.org.za) of guests/apologies by 10am on the Monday preceding the meeting for catering purposes.
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Christmas-in-July for the GFH elderly ladies

The Rotary Club of Knights Pendragon recently provided a Christmas-in-July lunch for the ladies resident at the Gerald Fitzpatrick House for elderly ladies of limited means. This annual treat includes a hearty lunch of turkey, roast potatoes and vegetables with gravy, finished off with fruit cake, ice cream and custard. After the meal, the ladies are treated to a sing-a-long with Eileen on the microphone and Mervin on the piano. The repertoire consists of a long line of golden oldies to which t...
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Stephanie Dawson-Cosser talks about how Gratitude Changes Everything

On Wednesday, 24th April 2019 at 18h30, Stephanie will speak to the Rotary Club of Knights Pendragon club meeting. With some 30 years experience of helping people in the workplaces and their personal lives successfully understand and manage change, Stephanie has worked with businesses, schools and community leaders from diverse backgrounds on implementing processes to create collaborative, engaged teams.  Her client list includes leading corporates such as IBM, Barclays Africa, Netsur...
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More Blankets, Beanies, Toys and Books for Pediatric Burns Unit

The kindness and consideration of a group of ladies who tirelessly knit blankets, beanies and soft toys to ease the struggle of young burns victims in their recovery and in overcoming their trauma, is heartwarming. These Friends of the Rotary Club of Knights Pendragon quietly get on with filling the continuous demand for replacement blankets, beanies and soft toys in the Chris Hani Baragwanath Pediatric Burns Intensive Care Unit. Often coming from poor households, and at times without p...
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Yoke van Dam speaks about “The subtle art of making conversation and getting your point across”

10th April 2019. Rotary Club of Knights Pendragon - Club Meeting Yoke is an International Facilitator, Professional Speaker and Distinguished Toastmaster who runs Y-Connect, a business that empowers people through training, coaching and facilitation to helps them identify the attitudes, behaviours and skills they want to modify and improve on. Through these interventions Y-Connect assist in increasing staff engagement, productivity, retention and client satisfaction and aiding business profi...
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LEGO Education Kit Donations

A generous donation of LEGO kits provided by the MRC (Mikroskil Robotic Centre) LEGO Educational programme has facilitated the Rotary Club of Knights Pendragon's onward donations to a large number of children at primary school level. The LEGO kit donations support a Rotary International key focus of promoting basic education and literacy by enabling learning to take place through construction rather than instruction, not only stimulating and encouraging learning, but accelerating the con...
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Wheels for the disabled

Mandla with his new wheelchair. Seen here with Molly. The Rotary Club of Knights Pendragon, in conjunction with the Rotary Club of Northcliff's Wheelchair project, have been distributing wheelchairs to disabled persons for more than 20 years. Mandla, our most recent wheelchair recipient is located in Orange Farm. The Northcliff Rotary wheelchair project is one of the most successful and long-running initiatives in the club. It began in 1993 and is still going strong. The idea for the proj...
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