Club Focus is a new series featuring Rotary clubs big, small, rural, and urban from around Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. The series celebrates the variety of people, projects, and activities from some of the Rotary, Rotaract, Interact and Rotakids clubs in Rotary International District 1040. Keighley Rotary, located in the greater Bradford area of West Yorkshire, […]
District Governor 2022-23 Malcolm Tagg reports: My wife Judith and I had the pleasure of attending the Rotary Great Britain & Ireland (RGBI) Champions Awards in Birmingham, which demonstrate the huge impact made by volunteers in making life easier or safer for the wider community at home and abroad. Bede Mullen of Hebden Bridge Rotary […]
Rotary's Disability Games in Hull continued their post COVID-19 recovery by again returning to Hymers College in Hull on St George's Day 23 April 2023. Howden Rotary kindly shared the following 2023 story: The 2023 event saw each competitor taking part in up to three of the following sports, weightlifting, shooting, swimming, new age kurling, […]
Nearly two years since their launch, Roundhay School Interact in Leeds is making a positive impact on students and local communities. The group gets together most Wednesdays at lunchtime to discuss and plan projects and events. During the course of the 2022-23 academic year, the students have stayed busy raising funds, volunteering their time and […]
23-year-old Jasmine Harrison of Thirsk, North Yorkshire, who is always pushing herself to the limit in the name of combatting climate change, has been recognised with a Rotary Young Citizen Award 2023. In 2021, Jasmine became the youngest woman to row solo across the Atlantic Ocean. Not content with just one world record, Jasmine […]
Over 100 swimmers of all ages took part in the recent North Lincolnshire Rotary Swimarathon, or Swimarathon 4 as it was dubbed by the organising committee of Rotarians from Brigg, Scunthorpe and Scunthorpe Pentagon. The swimmers raised in excess of £9,000 from their sponsors, and with all costs covered through the support of 8 local businesses […]
After a pandemic related enforced break during 2020 and 2021, we welcomed RYLA back this summer to Rotary in Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. The course itself followed the familiar experiential learning format and the candidates undertook a series of indoor and outdoor problem solving tasks in teams of eight or nine with a mentor – either […]