Completed meetings and events 2019-2020

Thu 25th June 2020 Bradford District Telephone Befriending Service

The Council, NHS and Voluntary sector have collaborated to form a Telephone Befriending Service

Thu 18th June 2020 Rotary Peace Fellowship

Talk by Nabila a Palestinian living in Gaza.

Thu 20th February 2020 Bradford Community Soup

Join us at the Storehouse, Caledonia Street, Bradford BD4 7BQ. Listen to local organisations and enjoy soup and good company.

Thu 16th January 2020 Round Britain by Rail

Speaker Phil Godfrey

Thu 5th December 2019 Rotary Peace Scholar

Speaker Nabila

Thu 5th December 2019 Nightstop

Rotarian Darren who is the Chair of Bradford Nightstop explained about the work the charity does for young people.    They provide emergency overnight accommodation for homeless 16 to 25 year olds in the homes of volunteers.

Thu 28th November 2019 Joanne aka Lucienne aka Pollie

Speaker Joanne Crowther

Thu 21st November 2019 Bradford Community Soup

Join us at the Storehouse, Caledonia Street, Bradford BD4 7BQ. Listen to local organisations and enjoy soup and good company.

Thu 14th November 2019 Discovering Me! The power of expression

Speaker Nabeela Ahmed

Thu 7th November 2019 Africa

Speaker Roger Barton

Thu 31st October 2019 Bradford Live

Lee Craven of Bradford Live and an update on the restoration of the Odeon.

Thu 31st October 2019 Bradford Live

We were delighted to have Rotarian Lee Craven talk to us about Bradford Live and the new life been given to the old Odeon cinema.

Thu 24th October 2019 NO BREAKFAST MEETING

No breakfast meeting today we are holding our 26th Charter this evening at the Midland Hotel

Thu 17th October 2019 Local Novelist

Speaker Stephen Place

Fri 11th October 2019 - Sun 13th October 2019 Rotary Conference

Our biggest ever turnout this year at the Rotary Conference in Scarborough.  There was an interesting and very poignant programme which really brought home the vast need there is in the world and the necessity for Rotary to continue to do their bit. 
If you are like me you never know what to do with your laptops, tablets and phones when they are no longer needed.  Now I know, an organisation called Solidaritech based in Bradford is there to make really good use of the items you no longer want and make

Thu 10th October 2019 Speaker Ben McKenna

Recycle your laptops, tablets and phones, If you are like me you never know what to do with your laptops, tablets and phones when they are no longer needed.  Solidaritech based in Bradford will make really good use of the them by helping Refugees.
Phil Cavalier-Lumley came to talk to us about Bradford Speaks, a speaking club aiming to become part of Toastmasters International, the world’s largest public speaking club network. 

Thu 3rd October 2019 Toastmasters - where leaders are made

Phil Cavalier-Lumley came to talk to us about Bradford Speaks, a speaking club aiming to become part of Toastmasters International, the world’s largest public speaking club network.  Phil explained how people from quite varied backgrounds feel the need to

Thu 26th September 2019 Helping tomorrows inventors find creative solutions to climate change

Building a Creative Nation, speaker Sarah Mumford

Tue 24th September 2019 26th Charter

26th Charter at the Midland Hotel

Thu 12th September 2019 Forget Me Not Children's Hospice

Alison Parker from the Hospice and Ann came to tell us about the work of the Hospice which is in Huddersfield but serves the whole of West Yorkshire.

Thu 5th September 2019 RYLA 2019

Our RYLA participant Charlie Platts came to tell us all about his adventures at Hebden Hey as part of the training programme for the Rotary Youth Leadership Award.

Thu 15th August 2019 Think Blue Green for Sustainable Urban Infrastructure

We enjoyed a thought provoking talk by Rotarian Professor Crina Oltean-Dumbrava who is the Chair of Sustainable Built Environment, Faculty of Engineering & Informatics, University of Bradford

Thu 25th July 2019 This place we call home

Darren has been exploring the different ways the City of Bradford and Rotary are rising to the task of tackling our environmental challenges

Thu 18th July 2019 Paul Breeze Award

Estella applied for some funding from our Paul Breeze Award.
This morning we had a return visit from Jacqui Drake, it was a year since she last spoke at our breakfast meeting and to have the pleasure of hearing her speak to us again was more than wonderful. Jacqui is a lady on a mission, she is living with cancer a

Thu 11th July 2019 Jacqui's Million

Jacqui's Million, the main charity for this year's President
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