Overview

In 1981 an Outreach Society was started at Bishops by Chaplain Henry Kirk and Hugh Fynn, and this became an Interact Club the following year, linking it to the Claremont Rotary Club.
The Bishops Interact Club is linked to Rotary International, and our parent club is Rotary Claremont. We are a club dedicated to social and community service and seek to uphold the ideals and goals of the Rotary organisation.

We want to engage with society, so for example, over many years, the Bishops Interact Club has been involved in outreach projects to Koeberg Primary, a school in Maitland that serves an extremely marginalised community. Many of the students are the sons and daughters of refugees, of the unemployed and those just struggling to make ends meet.

Outreach

Over many years, Bishops Interact Club has been involved with Koeberg Primary. This initially stemmed from a project initiated by Claremont Rotary in conjunction with the Stanley Grundy Chess Foundation... For many years students from Koeberg Primary came through to Bishops on Thursday afternoons for chess coaching.

There have been many other points of contact between Bishops and Koeberg Primary over time... we now have an extensive outline of requirements from Koeberg...

Outreach Projects to Koeberg Primary No. 1.

In response to a very generous offer from Rotary Claremont... we propose a two-part project.

1.1 Development of Recycling at Koeberg in Partnership with Bishops.

Firstly, an area Ms. Majiet drew our attention to was the need to promote and develop recycling at Koeberg (starting with tins and plastic)...

• Cooperation in the managing of the recycling projects at our respective schools
• Sharing contact for the collection of recycled material
• Bishops boys to visit Koeberg to promote recycling and environmental awareness
• Joint workshops on school-wide and community recycling campaigns
• Expansion to include glass, paper, and cardboard

Past Activities

The Annual “Fun Frenzy” event on the Frank Reid with our sponsoring Rotary Club, Claremont Rotary...

One of our main events was the annual One-to-One fun day for the mentally handicapped...

We continue to assist the St. Thomas’ Church Fikelela AIDS project... Members pack parcels of food and necessities for families in Gugulethu.

We have supplied a portable library to Koeberg Primary School in Maitland... and continue collecting books and materials to develop their school library/media centre.