Sherborne Rotary Club Date of Charter 7th December 1936

FOR INFORMATION OR COMMUNICATION CONTACT  THE CLUB SECRETARY

TEL 01935812211

President Ben Woolley:

welcomes you to the Sherborne Rotary Club website.We hope that you will find the following pages interesting and informative. Please contact us should you need any further information or wish to attend one of our events. Our normal meeting place is The Sherborne Hotel, which is situated at the junction of the A352 and the A30 roads. We normally meet Tuesdays 6.00 for 6-30pm.
Our primary purpose is to serve the community often by raising funds for charity.

The Presidents office lasts one year.  The picture below left shows the handover on 29th June 2010,

from Past President Martyn Steer on the right, to the new president Ben Woolley.

 

 

FUND RAISING

 

Help for Heros

On July 3rd a fund raising Musical Evening and Hog Roast was held at The Sherborne School for Girls. The Ringwood Pipe band and singer Teressa De Roberto gave magnificent performances. It s estimated that to date, in excess of £1500 has been raised for Help for Hereos.

 

Haiti Earthquake Appeal

The inner wheel club of Sherborne and The Rotary Clubs of Sherborne and

 Castles club raised about £9000 for the Haiti Earthquake Appeal

by street collections and coffee and tea morning at the Cheap street

Methodist hall on Saturday 23rd January and other collection in local villages.

 

 

Voluntary Ambulance Donation

Our past president John House, jointly with John Scarth of Sherborne Castles Rotary Club, awarding a cheque to Mike Nurton for the use by The Voluntry Ambulance Service.The money was raised by the Historic Vehicle Event held every year in The Courts of the Sherborne School for Boys.

 

 

 

Fellowship Activities

We keep a variety in our fellowship activities and undertake some social meetings both at home and away away from our normal venue.   

 

 Would any club in District 1200 like to Chalenge Sherborne Rotary for a game of Boules?

The picture below shows us playing a frindly match at our normal venue at the Sherbone Hotel.

 

 

  The picture below centre shows some members with their wives in front of the magnificant Sherborne Castle after a guided tour and lunch at the Castle Cafe.

  

 

Next Historic Vehicle Rally Sunday,  29th August  2010. 

 

In the magnificent setting of The Courts at Sherborne School, Dorset

for entry form click HVR

 Enter Classic pre 1970 Cars and Commercial vehicles, Pedal cars and pre 1980 Motorcycles

 

The 2009 Historic Vehicle Rally is a brilliant event for raising funds  for charity. 

 The picture below shows a cheque for £2000 being presented to Julias House.

 

And another picture below shows a cheque for £1000 being presented to the

Sherborne Youth Club

 

  

The swimarathon 2009 held at the Oxley Sports centre, Sherborne School for Girls was hotly contestest and was won by Lewiston School by just one length over Bryanston School. 

The winners of this first-time event are shown below with some of the members from the Rotary Club of Sherborne. Over £1000 was raised by the sponsored teams and we expect to have more teams at the next Swimarathon in14th November 2010. 

  

 

Community Work.

2010 Youth Makes music

This is a regular event when local schools are all asked to present music to the public at the Digby hall.  profits go to charity.

 

2010 Youth Speaks

Rotary's 'Youth Speaks' is a National competition. Sherborne Rotary Club always organises the local senior round and the Castles club organises the junior event. This year's senior quarter final round was held on 4th November at the Gryphon School with teams from Sherborne School, Sherborne Girls School, Leweston and the Gryphon School.The picture shows our club  president Martyn Steer ( top left) . The winning school here is the Gryphon  and the captain is  proudly holding the cup. They went forward to the semi finals at Beaminster on 9th February where they just lost to the Park School Yeovil.

 

2010 Aubry Allan Award

Book prixes awarded to Hanah Morris and Sam Law for outstanding service to the community, by president Martyn Steer, RTn. Martin Hewitt( right) and Head and Deputy Head of Gryphon School

 

 

In the next 30 days..

07/09/2010  Club Weekly Meeting -  Talk By Garfield Hunter.  Acupunture & Chinese medicine
14/09/2010  Club Weekly Meeting -  Business.  
21/09/2010  Club Weekly Meeting -  A short walk.  Guide stroll to expand our artists appreciation of the country side Instead of usual evening meeting Start 10.15 am Venue to be advised.
21/09/2010  Walk and pub lunch.  Artistic awareness of local countryside. No evening meeting
28/09/2010  Club Weekly Meeting -  Talk by Chrissie Wathan-Neal.  Talk on the MacMillan Charity

Last Meeting

31/08/2010 Topic: Talk by R Cleverly
Swords, Military and Navy