Lights, wetlands, action! Aireborough and Skipton Craven Rotary connect with arts, nature and volunteer organisations Central to Rotary in Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire are the relationships with local communities. To best serve our communities, Rotary clubs are looking to partnership working opportunities with other link-minded organisations. This month, we are looking at how Aireborough and […]
Making Mental Health and Wellbeing a Rotary Priority RI President Gordon McInally has proposed that Rotary makes mental health a priority, He argues that Rotarians and clubs are ideally placed to erase the stigma around caring about emotional wellbeing; raising awareness of mental health needs and working to improve access to mental health services. But […]
Watch this clever short reel, created by District Governor Nominee Anne Sutcliffe, for a summary of what Rotary in Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire have achieved so far. Working together Rotary is unstoppable. https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid02qf7EAAeZHsMbn5q6oxc266WTZwnQZkQMKBRYyRcBRvwR1X3RsF7FHEkavW1vyaAzl&id=100095390585388 Featured image thanks to Elena Mozhivlo @Unsplash
Author: Rebecca A Mendoza Twenty-three years and £1.2 million later, local Rotary and ShelterBox continue to rebuild lives after devastation On 8 September 2023, a 6.8 magnitude earthquake hit just south-west of Marrakesh, Morocco, causing violent tremors throughout the region. Just two days later, a storm in north-eastern Libya brought strong winds and severe rainfall. […]
Occupational therapist Rtn. Alicia Ridout of Aireborough Rotary (District 1040) is working on her Ph.D. dissertation looking at how occupational therapists can work with older people to use smart (AI) technology safely. The aim is to create new occupational therapy practice tools and to improve conversations about AI safety. She is conducting a survey and […]
"Please convey to all at your end our most sincere thanks and appreciation for your repeated generosity towards the poor in Sri Lanka." Shamil Parkes Kandy Rotary September 2023 Shamil goes on to say "...For all the very generous donations you have made, we have sent you completed project reports. There is no doubt at […]
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 […]