BRATTLEBORO, VT – The Christmas trees are coming! The Christmas trees are coming!
On Saturday, November 30, the 484th annual Brattleboro Rotary Club Christmas Tree Fundraiser officially begins.
Since 1965, the Brattleboro Rotary Club has sold Christmas trees as a fundraiser for local student scholarships, and this year is no different!
Vermont-grown trees of all shapes and sizes will be sold daily in front of Brattleboro Bowl on Putney Road from 11am to 6pm. Sales will begin the Saturday after Thanksgiving and continue until the trees are gone.
The Brattleboro Rotary Club, founded in 1950, is an active community service club of 80+ members who engage in community and human service projects both locally and internationally.
The Brattleboro Rotary Club’s Gateway Foundation was established in 1986 to create a local fund to support scholarships awarded annually to Brattleboro area students pursuing college.
The Gateway Foundation, a nonprofit, tax-exempt organization, is funded by annual Rotary fundraising projects and generous contributions from Rotarians and other community members.
Applications are accepted each May from graduating seniors at the following local high schools: Brattleboro Union, Hinsdale, Leland and Gray, and the Austine School. Criteria for the awards are academic achievement, financial need, and community service, all of which are weighed evenly.
Proceeds from the Christmas Tree Sale support the club’s annual student scholarship awards of $2-3,000 each. To date, the club has awarded close to $500,000 in scholarships!
For more info about Brattleboro Rotary Club or Gateway Foundation, visit brattlebororotaryclub.org.
In rotation
We try to get trees from all the various fundraising groups in town, and the Rotary trees are often in the yearly, er, rotation.
Good trees and a good group with a good cause.