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 […]
Harry Murray. who has died aged 88, was a much-loved father, grandfather and great grandfather. A respected member of Gracious Street Methodist Church, Harrogate Male Voice Choir and Knaresborough Rotary Club, Harry’s life was one of service to the community he loved. Always ready with a joke and a witty remark, his dry sense of […]
Rotarian Makhan Dhesi, a member of the Rotary Club of Birstall Luddites, has recently returned from his latest trip to the Punjab region of India. Armed with a donation from the Birstall Luddites, Makhan headed for the Junior Dhesian Kahna School, Jullundar, Punjab where he presented a cheque to fund a new water cooling system […]
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 […]
In September 2020, Northallerton Rotary formed their first Publicity Committee. Their goal was to coordinate better and presence in local media and on the club’s website, Facebook and Instagram. What they didn’t realise at the time is that the club, and the actions of the Publicity Committee, would play a role in keeping local independent […]
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 […]