Welcome to the website of the Rotary Club of Nailsea & Backwell
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STOP PRESS - Thank you to all those who contributed to the £780 raised by our street collections in Nailsea and Backwell on 7th August 2010 towards the DEC Pakistan Floods Appeal fund.
Welcome to the Internet Pages of The Rotary Club of Nailsea and Backwell, a member Club of Rotary International.
Our local area is centered on the rural communities of Nailsea and Backwell, set in the delightful North Somerset countryside to the West of Bristol, UK.
We are a friendly club with 48 members at present and are always on the look out for potential members, both male and female, who would like to put something back into our local community and the national / international scene. We also have an active social programme. Membership is by invitation and if you would like to know more about us and the work we do, with or without the view to possible membership, please contact our Club President John Glason or Club Secretary Alan Davies using the 'Contact Form' tab in the top horizontal navigation panel, selecting the person you wish to contact in the 'Subject' drop down menu box.
We meet on very nearly every Thursday evening at The Mizzymead Recreation Centre in the middle of Nailsea, which is a members club, so visitors do please need to contact us prior to the day of the meeting. Click on the postcode (shown in blue) just above the picture of our meeting venue in the top right panel on this page to see a streetmap of Nailsea - Mizzymead Recreation Centre is at the end of Mizzymead Rise on the right of the letter 'd' at the end of the street name. We meet at 6pm on the 4th Thursday in most months and at 7.30pm on most of the other Thursdays in each month.
The proceeds of several events, together with a contribution of £1,000 from The Rotary Club Of Portishead and anticipated grant funds from other Rotary charities has raised more than £14,000 towards The Mackunduchi Project to renovate and improve a hospital in Zanziba.
Request - If you have any paperback books or jigsaws that you would like to donate to us for our charity book sales, please send us a message by selecting the 'Contact form' tab at the top of this page and 'bookstall' in the subject tab drop down menu box.
Used laser toner and inkjet cartriges
We collect used laser printer toner cartridges and inkjet printer cartridges for onwards supply to Childrens Hospice South West to assist them with the considerable running costs of the service they provide at Charlton Farm, Wraxall. If you have any you would like to donate please get in touch with us by using the 'Contact Form' tab in the top horizontal navigation panel and selecting 'IT Contact' in the 'Subject' drop down menu box. Thank you for your support.
Some Future events (select the tab at the top of the page for a full list)
2 October 2010 - Bookstall outside Somerfields main entrance (will be Waitrose by then).
5 December 2010 - Salvation Army Concert at Nailsea Methodist Hall.
In the next 30 days..
02/09/2010 Club Weekly Meeting - Club night - Gloucester Floods by Club member Clive Hawkins.09/09/2010 Club Weekly Meeting - Business meeting.
16/09/2010 Club Weekly Meeting - Speaker meeting - The Matthew, Atlantic Trip by Mark Chislett.
19/09/2010 Run for The Future on Clifton Down, Bristol. Runners needed to participate in the event.
23/09/2010 Club Weekly Meeting - Ladies Night - Radio Bristol by Tim Pemberton.
30/09/2010 Club Weekly Meeting - Twilight meeting 6pm - followed by Club Council meeting.
02/10/2010 Charity Book Sale. From 8.30 am until mid-afternoon outside Somerfield main entrance in Nailsea High Street.
