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Attention all bakers—professional, beginner, fakers, and everyone in between! We need your help to raise money for The Good Companions Club

Whether it’s baked or bought, please bring some treats in to support our bake sale.

When: Tuesday, 17 June 2025

The Good Companions Club has been a Rotary Club of Jersey project since 1948. It serves as a social center for people seeking friendship and activities to keep both body and mind active, a hot meal is served every day with a sweet to follow. Their mission each week, they help over 200 islanders enjoy their lives. Their aim is to ensure that no one who is alone feels lonely. They cater to everyone over the age of 55 across the island. They offer door-to-door minibus collection and drop off. Every day is different at the club. They host speakers on various topics of interest, show up-to-date and classic movies on our big screen, and offer seated sports like badminton, pool, darts, and bowling. The economic climate in the past two years has seen some streams of funding deplete, and the costs of running the centre and minibus fleet escalate, putting a real strain on this amazing charity financially. We refuse to scale down our vital operation and impact on our elderly members, so we have really upped our in-club self-help efforts. We have opened a charity shop, hosted in-house bingos and car boot sales—anything the team can do to bring in extra funds, they do.

But I want to ask any company, group, or individual members that have been helped by us, or if you just want to help this incredible charity, please get in touch and help us to plan for the next 40 years!

Any donation is welcome and thank you for reading this.

In collaboration with the Mauritius Wildlife Foundation, our Mauritius Trust Team took part in a Positive Impact initiative at the breath-taking Mondrain Reserve on Saturday 26 April 2025.

The activity focused on the conservation of our island’s unique ecosystem through the planting of endemic trees—species that are found nowhere else in the world.

With great enthusiasm and teamwork, the team successfully planted 69 young trees, each one a small but impactful contribution toward restoring the Island's native biodiversity..

The activity was not only rewarding but also a great opportunity to reconnect with nature. After the planting session, the team enjoyed a short hike through the reserve, guided by passionate members of the MWF who generously shared their knowledge about the endemic and indigenous plant species thriving in the forest.

It was a day filled with learning, laughter, and a shared sense of purpose. A big thank you to Everyone who made this meaningful experience so memorable!

Sign -Up's are now open! Please use this campaign to kindly arrange payment of your GBP10 registration fee donation (or more) 😊💙 For details on how to Register of the Challenge Runner app and Track your Steps, please refer to SBO Communication's email dated 1st May 2025. The challenge begins in 15 days! Thank you all!

On Friday 30th May at 10am, a bake sale will take place in the IOM Presentation Area kitchen in support of World MS Day and the Island’s MS Society.

Whether you bake, buy your own, or contribute by purchasing/donating, it will all be greatly appreciated! The annual running cost of the MS Society is £30,000, and your donations will help go towards things like grant provision, helping members to buy specialist equipment, home modifications to enable MS patients to continue living in their own home, holding drop-in meetings with health professionals, and funding specially adapted exercise classes.

There are over 175 people living with MS in the Isle of Man. MS is the single most common disabling neurological condition affecting young adults and is currently incurable.