Completed meetings and events 2015-2016
Fri 24th June 2016 Rotary Club Lunch Meeting
We meet as usual for lunch at the New Kent Hotel. We are honoured that the Lord Mayor of Newcastle upon Tyne, Councillor Hazel Stephenson, has accepted our invitation to visit our Club and she will address us after lunch.. This will be a Guests Day.Sun 19th June 2016 President's Afternoon Tea Party
In place of the traditional Presidents Night to mark the end of his presdential year, Peter hosted a Sunday Afternoon tea-party at Horton Grange. read more...Fri 17th June 2016 Rotary Club Lunch Meeting
We meet as usual for lunch at the New Kent Hotel. Details of what happens after lunch are not yet available.Fri 10th June 2016 Visit to the Newcastle Reform Synagogue
At the invitation of Rotarian and Past District Governor, Tony Wortman, a visit has been arranged to the Reform Synagogue in Gosforth, including participation in a communit dinner. read more...
Fri 10th June 2016 Rotary Club Lunch Meeting
We meet as usual for lunch at the New Kent Hotel. After lunch we hope to have a talk by our member, David Houpt about the use of Social Media to promote our Club.Fri 3rd June 2016 Rotary Club Lunch Meeting
We meet for lunch as usual. Our after lunch speaker will be Paul Nash, who is a volunteer speaker with Prostate Cancer UK. read more...Fri 27th May 2016 Rotary Club Lunch Meeting
After lunch we will be holding our ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING read more...
Fri 20th May 2016 BBC
We will be hosting a live broadcast of BBC Radio 4's "Any Questions?" in the RGS Performing Arts Centre as part of our Centenary Year programme of events. read more...Fri 20th May 2016 Rotary Club Lunch Meeting
We meet as usual for lunch. Our after lunch speaker will be Chris Minnis, a trainee music therapist who works at The Sage, Gateshead. He will talk about using music as therapy. read more...
Fri 13th May 2016 Rotary Club Lunch Meeting
After Lunch, Len Buns willl bring us an update on Rotary's "Polio Plus" programmeFri 6th May 2016 Rotary Club Lunch Meeting
After lunch, President Peter Tracey will give a talk about the recent Club visit to PragueFri 29th April 2016 Rotary Club Lunch Meeting
We meet as usual for lunch at 12.45pm. After lunch we are looking forward to having as speaker, Steve Cave, who is the business partner of our immediate past president, Len Burns. Steve will be talking about "Negotiations". read more...Sat 23rd April 2016 St George's Day Celebration
We will have a traditional English dinner (probably roast beef and Yorkshire pudding) and an programme of entertainment including an English-themed quiz. Join us for a good time of fellowship and fun. read more...Fri 22nd April 2016 NO LUNCH MEETING TODAY
There will be no lunchtime meeting today as some of the Club are away on a visit to Prague. Instead we will meet on Satrday evening 23rd April for our St George's Day celebration.Fri 15th April 2016 Rotary Club Lunch Meeting
We meet as usual for lunch at 12.45pm. Our after lunch speaker will be Andrew Ball, who is Project Manager for the Dementia Action Alliance (DAA)Fri 8th April 2016 Rotary Club Lunch Meeting
We meet as usual for lunch at 12.45pm. Our after-lunch speaker is David Faulkener who will talk about the 800 years of the Newcastle mayoralty this year, with mini-biographies of a handful of the more interesting ones
Fri 1st April 2016 Rotary Club Lunch Meeting
We meet as usual for lunch at 12.45pm. Our after-lunch speaker will be Bill Dunlop who will give an illustarted talk of hie recent trip to America read more...Fri 25th March 2016 - Fri 19th February 2016 NO LUNCH MEETING TODAY
Today being Good Friday we will not be having our usual lunch meeting.Fri 18th March 2016 Rotary Club Lunch Meeting
We meet as usual for lunch. After lunch we will have a Club Forum - news and views about your Rotary ClubFri 11th March 2016 Rotary Club Lunch Meeting
After lunch Past President John Gillespie will give us a talk to mark the 75th anniversary of the Clydebank Blitz read more...Fri 4th March 2016 Wine Tasting Evening
We held an enjoyable evening at the New Kent Hotel when Majestic Wines hosted a Wine Tasting Evening with the theme "Old World; New World". read more...Wed 2nd March 2016 Rotary Club Evening Meeting
We meet at 6pm at the Jesmond Cricket Club. At 6.30pm Ian Knight will speak to us about a how a project in Sri Lanka has helped children following the Tsunami of 2004. His talk will be followed by a meal at 7pm. read more...Fri 26th February 2016 Rotary Club Lunch Meeting
After lunch our seaker will be Caroline Roach, who is the Youth Manager at the Scotswood Natural Community GardenFri 19th February 2016 Rotary Club Lunch Meeting
After lunch, Past President Peter Masterman will give a "Banner Talk". - his talk will be entitled, ""˜ The Best days of my Life?"™ and will be about his schooldays.Fri 12th February 2016 Rotary Club Lunch Meeting
We will meet as usual for lunch. After lunch Janet Faye will speak to us about a fundraising opportunity available through the leading UK Insurance Company, Aviva. read more...Fri 5th February 2016 Rotary Club Lunch Meeting
Due to the cancellation of this week's evening meeting we will meet at the New Kent Hotel for lunch at the usual time. Our President, Peter Tracey, will be the after lunch speaker read more...Fri 29th January 2016 Rotary Club Lunch Meeting
WE meet as usual for lunch. After lunch Ved Venayak will give a talk on his home town of Chandigarh.Sat 23rd January 2016 Burns Night Supper - Longbenton with Killingworth Rotary Club
We are invited to join in a Burns Night Supper & Ceilidh arranged by the Rotary Club of Longbenton with Killingworth at St Bartholomew"™s Church Hall, Benton. read more...Fri 22nd January 2016 Rotary Club Lunch Meeting
WE meet as usual for lunch. Our after lunch speaker will be Eric Fletcher who will show a short film and speak about the Ocean Youth Trust North. read more...Fri 15th January 2016 Rotary Club Lunch Meeting
WE meet as usual for lunch. After lunch Rtn Janet Fay will give a presentation on the Aviva Broker Community Fund. This fund offers support and funding to inspirational local projects in the community through a social media based voting system. read more...
Fri 8th January 2016 Rotary Club Lunch Meeting
WE meet as usual for lunch. After lunch Rtn Peter Firth will give a pictorial review of our centenary year so far using pictures from the Club website. read more...
Fri 18th December 2015 Christmas Lunch
This was Christmas Lunch. The proceedings commenced with an appropriate Christmas message given by Rev Dr Pauline Pearson of St. George's Church, Jesmond and continued with food, fellowship and presentations. read more...
Thu 10th December 2015 Rotary Club Lunch Meeting (Note change of day)
Our after lunch speakers will be Tony Wortman and Alan Reid. We meet as usual for lunch but please note the. change of day. read more...
Mon 7th December 2015 - Fri 11th December 2015 Christmas Street Collections
For many years we have held a charity collection in the Newcastle central shopping area in the weeks leading up to Christmas. In recent years this has been in Eldon Square. Many charities have benefited thanks to the generosity of the people of the City. read more...Wed 2nd December 2015 Rotary Club Evening Meeting
We were supposed to meet at the Jesmond Cricket Club at 6.pm. but this meeting was cancelled at short notice due to the temporary closure of the venue, which was found to be in need of urgent repairs.Sun 29th November 2015 Diwali Night (Cancelled)
Unfortunately the Diwali Night ,which was to have been held on 29th November, has had to be cancelled. We apologise for any inconvenienceFri 27th November 2015 Rotary Club Lunch Meeting
We will meet as usual for lunch. After lunch we will hold the Club's SPECIAL GENERAL MEETING read more...Fri 20th November 2015 Rotary Club Lunch Meeting
Our after-lunch speaker will be Freda Thomson, Newcastle City Guide. The title of her talk will be "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly"Fri 13th November 2015 Rotary Club Lunch Meeting
We will meet as usual for lunch. Our speaker after lunch will be David Garret, who is the executive director of the Phoenix Theatre in Blyth read more...
Wed 4th November 2015 Rotary Club Evening Meeting
This is the third of our evening meetings at the Jesmond Cricket Club. There is no lunchtime meeting on Friday 6th November. Our guest speaker for the evening is Rotarian Colin Watson, international service committee chair of Blyth Rotary Club read more...Fri 30th October 2015 Rotary Club Lunch Meeting
Our after-lunch speaker will be Shona Alexander, who will talk about developments at the Citizens' Advice BureauFri 23rd October 2015 Rotary Club Lunch Meeting
We meet as usual for lunch. We welcome David Faulkner as our after lunch speaker. David is a former leader of Newcastle City Council where he is currently a LibDem councillor. He will be speaking about changes in Newcastle. This is an open Guests Day
Fri 16th October 2015 Rotary Club Lunch Meeting
We will met usual for lunch. After Lunch, our President, Peter Tracey spoke briefly about the Rotary Campaign for the eradication of Polio. We also had three visitors: Rochelle Groh, Chris Kelly and Elewichi Okiki. read more...Wed 7th October 2015 Rotary Club Evening Meeting
This will be the second of our evening meetings which will be held on the first Wednesday in each month and will take the place of the evening meeting the following Friday. The meetings will be held in the Jesmond Cricket Club in Osborne Terrace. read more...Fri 2nd October 2015 Rotary Club Lunch Meeting
We met as usual for lunch and felowship. After lunch our member and past President, John Gillespie addressed the Club and brought news of his recent award of the Legion d'Honneur medal.
Sat 26th September 2015 Centenary Dinner and Birthday Party
We celebrated the 100th anniversary of the formation of our Club with a dinner at the Marriott Gosforth Park Hotel. read more...Fri 25th September 2015 NO LUNCH MEETING TODAY
We will not be holding out normal weekly meeting today in view of the fact thayt out centenary dinner party will be held tomorrow evening.
Fri 18th September 2015 Rotary Club Lunch Meeting
Our after-lunch speaker today will be Keith Newman who will talk about The Life and photography of Gladstone Adamsread more...
Fri 11th September 2015 Rotary Club Lunch Meeting
We will meet for lunch as usual at the New Kent Hotel.Glynn Evans, who is to be the main speaker at our Centenary Birthday Party, will be joining us and we will also be wecoming Surendra Patel into our Club as a new member.
The Projects Committee will
Wed 9th September 2015 Charity Collection
We were privileged to be allowed to hold a charity collection at a private viewing evening at Anderson & Garland's saleroom before their Autumn Fine Art Auction. The proceeds of the collection will be added to the amount we are raising for CHUF read more...Fri 28th August 2015 - Rotary Club Lunch Meeting
Our after-lunch speaker will either be Jacqui Molyneux, or one of her team, who will talk about Rotary FoundationFri 21st August 2015 Rotary Club Lunch Meeting
After lunch, Stephen Bell will give a "Banner Talk about the Rotary Club of Napier West, New ZealandFri 14th August 2015 Rotary Club Lunch Meeting
We have no after lunch speaker today. After lunch we will either have a Club Forum or simply enjoy fellowship, whichever the President decides.
Fri 7th August 2015 - Rotary Club Lunch Meeting
Our after-lunch speaker today will be our President, Peter Tracey, PHF, who will give a talk entited "The Parachutists" read more...
Fri 31st July 2015 Rotary Club Lunch Meeting
We will meet for lunch as usiual at the New Kent Hotel. District Governor Terry Long will be making his official visit to us and will address the Club after lunchFri 24th July 2015 Rotary Club Lunch Meeting
Our after lunch speaker today will be Rosemary Haywood, who will talk about the work of "Bridge 2 Aid", a Rotary sponsored charity providing urgent dental treatment in rural Tanzania. read more...Fri 17th July 2015 Rotary Club Lunch Meeting
We will meet for lunch as usiual at the New Kent Hotel. As yet we have no details of any after lunch speaker but details will be announced as available and will be posted on the Club website.
Thu 16th July 2015 Charity Golf Day
The Calvert Trust held their annual Charity Golf Day at the Ponteland Golf Club on 16th July 2015. The Rotary Club agreed to support this as part of our Centenary Celebrations. read more...Fri 10th July 2015 Rotary Club Lunch Meeting
We will meet for lunch as usiual at the New Kent Hotel. As yet we have no details of any after lunch speaker but details will be announced as available and will be posted on the Club website.
Sat 4th July 2015 Centenary Year Concert
A Grand Concert spanning nations and generations will be held at the Sage, Gateshead to celebrate the centenary year of our Club. It will feature three outstanding choirs. Surplus proceeds will be used to support our main centenary year charity - CHUF. read more...Fri 3rd July 2015 Rotary Club Lunch Meeting
We will meet for lunch as usual at the New Kent Hotel. This being the first day of the new Rotary Year, outgoing president Len will hand over his chain of office to incoming president, Peter Tracey. This is the start of our Centennial Year!