Club Focus is a series featuring clubs from big, small, rural, and urban areas around Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. The series celebrates the variety of people, projects, and activities found amongst over 100 Rotary, Rotaract, Interact and RotaKids clubs throughout the area. Located south of the Humber, the market town of Brigg in North Lincolnshire is […]
The Rotary Youth Leadership Awards are definitely a win for the students. But the District wants to make RYLA more of a win: win for Rotary as a whole. Clubs go to great effort to recruit ,for RYLA, some of the finest young people in their age cohort. People who should be the Rotarians of […]
Birstall Luddites Rotary is one the latest club in the Rotary International District 1040 to try out one of Rotary’s several flexible membership related approaches - Friends of Rotary. “There are a lot of people who are willing to do their bit for charity or the local community as a one-off event but don't want […]
Thank you to Susan Rogers for sharing this Rotary story: I’ve been running the Young Writer competition for District for 5 years, and despite there being some excellent submissions, we unfortunately haven’t had any National placings … until this year, and we have two! Summer Jennings, sponsored by Skipton Craven came 3rd in the Junior group […]
Thank you to Halifax Rotary for sharing this wonderful story: The Rotary Club of Halifax were delighted to have their Honorary Member, Holly Lynch MP, officially ‘cut the ribbon’ on a gloriously clear and very warm sunny day. The construction of the viewing platform, along with gifting the ownership to Calderdale Council, was the Club’s […]
Shared by John Purvis, President Elect: For many years the Rotary Club of Denby Dale & District with the help of its Inner Wheel Club have, for KIDS OUT, taken a group of children from Castle Hill School in Huddersfield (a school for children with special needs) out for the day. Since I got involved […]
For the past ten years, the Yorkits project of Rotary York Ainsty has been making washable, reusable period kits for girls around the world to lessen the period poverty burden. The group has made an average of 300 kits each year (approximately 3,000 in total) since the project began. Kits have gone to twenty-five countries, […]