Welcome to Ray Drake who chats about the wonderful work of the Rotary Club and the vehicle rally at Stokes Bay.
hi everybody welcome to raw clowns radio and guess what i've managed to rope somebody in to talk to me on this rather wonderful sunday morning at royal clarence marina and his name is ray drake and he's been designated as spokesperson to talk to um well me basically all about the rotary club in gosport good morning ray well good morning how are you this fine day i'm a little bit tired i came back from wales last night um we had a family holiday a week of um all the uh grandchildren running around and things like that marvelous old um house it was a it was a mano valley um recording studio so people like oasis used to go there and um recall some of their records oh that's amazing how exciting that's very exciting well yes it was a it's um you know there's loads of um um discs around the place with um hundred thousand three hundred thousand um freddie mercury uh even the stones were there but i'm not saying i think they recalled it there but they must have had something to be there to leave a a signed photograph for the place unfortunately you'd probably heard of most of the artists which is always a good thing isn't it well yes but most of them as you might say my era yes

um now funny you should mention that because i've been um now let me tell you how i've come across the rotary club i i'm doing a a trip tomorrow to stokes bay to look at cars because i'm a bit of a car fanatic actually and so i'm going to this rally that you're organizing tomorrow at stokes bay and then i i you know i don't normally look at things i don't you know we don't do we sort of we don't look at the sponsorship or the little details about who's organizing things but then i thought well who is organizing this and i saw the rotary club and then i've i was brought up in gosport i've been away for a while but i came back and um i'm i've always known about the gospel rosary club but i've never known what you do and i thought well maybe it's about time that i found out so consequently i've been doing a bit of research and it turns out oh what was that that was my chair squeaking oh i thought it was some animal i've got a cat around no no i i've got one of those old um captain chairs by my desk and um it managed to squeak more and more each year i think it's trying to emulate me or something yes squeaky bones um so yes i i'm actually quite curious now about what it is that the rotary club does and i had no idea you actually did quite you're a charity basically aren't you and you're doing an awful lot in an awful lot of um departments as it were you're helping quite a few different groups so can you give me a bit of a rundown yeah of course um well the the rotary um is known as rotary international we started um oh about 120 years ago out in chicago when um a chap called paul harris and a few others got together thinking that they should have some forum um to um look at business ethics and um to see what they could do for um improving the life of those that were not so well advantageous them um it spread out there's now about 1.2 million um rotarians around the world so it's it's a worldwide organization um so yes sorry to interrupt but the the gosport branch is that um in support of gosport people yes it is uh each area has um so in the portsmouth area for example there are um 11 or 12 clubs um and they focus on their own particular area so um if we go with gospel it it started over a hundred years ago now um and was one of the first in the portsmouth air force of the south sea started and then we're like their daughter club um and then the pharam club was started near our daughter club um and so it's been going a long time and and um how is your membership structure do people have to um well i know you have to sort of express an interest because i saw that on your site but are they vetted you know do you do you look for people...