THE Rotary Club of Ilkley Wharfedale will hold their annual collection of items for recycling on Saturday, October 1 from 10am to 3pm in the town's main carpark.

Items requested include bicycles, workshop tools, sewing machines, mobility aids, spectacles, school backpacks and old trainers. The club is supported by the Margaret Carey Foundation which collects bicycles, wheelchairs and walking aids and has them refurbished mainly in prisons (to help prisoners attain a skill and thereby reduce re-offending). They are then donated to people in need in the UK and overseas. Tools For Africa give new life to unwanted tools and assembles them into kits for carpenters, builders, automotive repairs and dressmakers and distributes them through WorkAid to African countries so people can start small businesses and support their communities. The Biansan charity collect trainers for men, women and children largely for the recent influx of refugees from Afghanistan and Ukraine, many of whom have arrived with just the clothes they stand up in. Also collected are school backpacks for refugees and families who struggle to be able to pay for them in these times of ever rising costs.