Cllr Williams, has chosen Vale & Fosseway Responders as the Mayors Charity for the Civic Year. Cllr Williams said “The Vale and Fosseway First Responders deliver a valuable resource to Bingham and the surrounding villages, supporting the East Midlands Ambulance Service. I look forward to raising funds and awareness of the work and support that they deliver to our community”

The Vale & Fosseway First Responders serve the Vale of Belvoir and surrounding villages as highly trained volunteers responding to life threatening 999 emergency calls in their spare time in conjunction with East Midlands Ambulance Service. Their aim is to reach a potential life threatening emergency in the first vital minutes while the ambulance crew travel to the scene.

Vale First Responders have been in existence since April 2005 and attend over 600 emergency calls every year. They are made up entirely of volunteers, they are a team of qualified, experienced and active responders. As a registered charity they have a Board of Trustees made up of both Responders and Non-Responders bringing an appropriate balance to their internal governance.

To learn more about Vale & Fosseway Responders, please visit: www.valeresponders.com or Facebook – Vale & Fosseway Responders. Or contact them at

Vale & Fosseway Responders Registered Charity no. 1115596

The Rotary Club of the Vale of Belvoir was formed in 1990 and has maintained membership of around 35 men and women since then.

Our meetings usually include a stimulating speaker, an outside visit or an inter-club challenge such as ten pin bowling, golf, boules or our “Frog Race” etc.

Rotary is very much about having fun whilst carrying out fund raising for local, national and international projects. Our service projects in the local community include running a monthly “Memory Café” for dementia sufferers, organising litter collections, supplying “Dictionaries for Life” to children, promoting an Art & Photographic competition for local Junior schools and, of course, our Santa Float touring local areas at Christmas. In addition, we have a “Community Fund” established to provide help and support to local community groups, schools and individuals.

The Club welcomes contact from visitors interested in learning more about Rotary and from people seeking support in the community. Many new Community organisations have emerged as a response to the difficult circumstances prevailing in society created not only by the pandemic but, more recently, by the war in Ukraine. As a Club we have done our best to support these organisations when our help has been sought as well as developing our own initiatives within the Community. In the coming year we hope to expand the support we give locally, particularly by facilitating a “Community Forum” bringing many of these fledging organisations together. We will also be introducing “Friends of Rotary” for people who would like to assist in our activities but who do not necessarily wish to become Rotarians.

The Rotary Club of the Vale of Belvoir            

registered charity number 1046617

Serving the communities of Bingham, Radcliffe on Trent, Cotgrave and villages in the Vale

Find us at: www.valeofbelvoirrotary.org.uk or on Facebook

John Stockwood, Bingham Mayor for 2019/20 is pleased to support the Bingham Penguins Swimming Club as his charity for the civic year.

Active for over 30 years, Bingham Penguins Swimming Club is a club for people with disabilities, their families and carers. Sessions are held on Sundays at Rushcliffe Arena and provide a safe environment for people to swim and gain confidence in the water.

The club is a charity, run entirely by volunteers and funded exclusively by donations. All of the club’s coaches, poolside helpers and volunteers are trained to provide a safe and secure environment for swimmers with disabilities

The Mayor will be organising fundraising activities during the year to support the Penguins and hopes everyone can join in supporting this worthy cause.

Jane Costello, the new Mayor of Bingham Town Council, has chosen Women’s Aid Integrated Services as her charity for the year.  This is great news for the charity’s Indigo Project which specifically supports women in Bingham and surrounding areas. Val Lunn, CEO of the charity said: “We’re so excited that we can work together for the year, raise awareness of our work and the fact that no-one living with domestic abuse should suffer in silence”.

Jane Costello said: “The work of WAIS is vital to help women in abusive relationships, they may not be able to talk to friends or family but they can speak to someone in confidence on the helpline (0808 800 0340).  I also admire the pet fostering scheme as it cannot be easy to leave home and leave a pet behind that will be vulnerable to abuse!”

If you would also like to support the charity then please visit their website at www.wais.org.uk.