Whats the link with Rotary?
ShelterBox founder Tom Henderson was a member of the Rotary Club of Helston-Lizard and getting the club and Rotary behind the idea was an obvious choice. ShelterBox was subsequently adopted by the Rotary Club of Helston-Lizard as its millennium project and registered as a UK charity. The directors of The ShelterBox Trust are members of the Helston-Lizard club. ShelterBox is now enthusiastically supported by many Rotary clubs in the UK and Ireland – who help raise a large proportion of the charity’s income. Rotary clubs in the United States, Australia, Canada and Malaysia have also set up national branches of ShelterBox in their countries to fundraise on our behalf. Support organizations run by Rotary clubs are also in the process of being set up in a number of other countries, including Germany, Norway and New Zealand. The US ShelterBox organization is now its own 501(c)(3) organization. In the 2007-2008 financial year approximately 11% of ShelterBox income came from the USA, 16% from
