On 16 July 2026, three Burntwood Rotary Club members travelled to Sheffield with our President, Rob Witcomb, to present a cheque for £2,000 to the Pulmonary Hypertension Association UK (PHA UK).
Each year the club lets our President choose a charity for a donation. For Rob’s year as President, that charity is PHA UK, which supports people living with pulmonary hypertension (PH), a rare and serious lung condition, along with their families and carers.
Why Rob chose PHA UK
I have been President of Burntwood Rotary Club since June 2025. This year the club gave me the choice of a charity for a donation of £2,000.
It was a really easy choice for me. I chose a charity that is very close to my heart for personal reasons. In 2018 I lost my wife, and the mother of our boys, to Pulmonary Hypertension. She was a beautiful, kind, loving wife, daughter and mother who was given the awful diagnosis of PH. PHA UK supported Jo and us as a family.
Myself and three of my fellow Rotarians made the journey to Sheffield to take the £2,000 donation and hand it over to PHA UK. It was greatly received, and I know it will go towards helping others diagnosed with this terrible illness.
Rob Witcomb, President, Burntwood Rotary Club
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