Charities
Team Bath AC
We are a charity and our purpose is to help our local community of Bath enjoy athletics…whether that be getting into running, track or field, achieving a personal best, representing the country or simply keeping a healthy mind and body.
From 7 years upwards…whatever your age, ability or goal, you will have access to excellent coaching, advice and world class facilities, plus the camaraderie and support of your team mates.
Based at the prestigious University of Bath Sports Training Village, you can choose from Track & Field, Road & Trail Running, Endurance & Cross Country. There’s an indoor and outdoor track as well as a throws and jumps hall, for quality training all year round.
Club nights are Tuesdays and Thursdays: 6-8pm. So come and join us, and see what you could achieve.
Add website https://teambathac.org/ and Instagram sites https://www.instagram.com/teambathac/
Rotary Club of Bathavon
Each year the Rotary Club of Bathavon raises funds for one local charity in particular. In 2024 it is Dorothy House, the hospice for the Bath region. Funds are raised through events such as speaker dinners, the Mayor’s annual art show, supermarket collections, joint ventures with the Rotary Club of Bath, and (importantly) the Bath Hilly Half.
Apart from fundraising, members assist with various aspects of the Bath Foodbank operation; they decorate at the Peggy Dodd Centre in Combe Down; listen to Year 4 students read at St. Michael’s Junior School in Twerton; pack boxes for the Rotary enterprise, Water Survival Boxes, which is based in Midsomer Norton and provides lifesaving items needed in the aftermath of natural and man-made disasters; etc.
On the international front: for some years the club has been supporting a training programme for teachers of English in the deprived tea plantation communities of Sri Lanka; its members participate in weekly conversations with these teachers online; it sponsors four students through their secondary education at the West African Academy of Science and Technology in The Gambia, and one female student through her secondary school in Kenya. It is twinned with Rotary clubs in Tours (France) and Mannheim (Germany) with which it engages in jointly funded projects around the world on a rolling basis.
To find out more about the Rotary Club of Bathavon, click on https://www.rotary-ribi.org/clubs/homepage.php?ClubID=1194), or contact Michael Wood, club secretary, at secretary@bathavon.rotary1200.org
