Welcome to the Edinburgh Rotary Club of Braids

Founded in 1972, The Edinburgh Rotary Club of Braids, has been working to benefit deserving causes within the south west of Edinburgh. Our thriving Rotary club draws members from many career backgrounds. This broad mix leads to interesting club meetings and allows us to achieve excellent results for our community and beyond.

Freshers Week Shelter Box Collection

In conjunction with Edinburgh Rotaract and the International Office at Edinburgh University, the Edinburgh Rotary Club of Braids was recently involved in a Shelter Box appeal. This took place on 2 days during Freshers Week at Edinburgh University. We erected a Shelter Box tent in Bristo Square, laid out the contents of a Shelter Box and displayed lots of photos and flyers showing the work of Shelter Box throughout the World. We also sold soft drinks and muffins, with the profits going to Shelter Box.

In addition to fund-raising for Shelter Box we also raised awareness of the vital work done by the Shelter Box organisation. This helped Edinburgh Rotaract to raise its profile with the student community - and this led to the identification of 55 potential new members for Rotaract

Line Dancing and International fun!

Around the World!
Friday June 11th Apex International Hotel. Grassmarket. Presented by The Rotary Ambassadorial Scholars of Edinburgh 7 for 7:30 pm. £25 ( £20 student) for 3 course dinner, dancing & all night live entertainment. An evening of international cuisine from Japan, Italy and USA, live musicians, country line dancing lessons, `Win a Day with a Scholar' auction, raffle prizes, and of course, Rotarian Goodwill! Benefitting Maggie's Cancer Caring Centres at Western General Hospital with support of Rotary Foundation Matching Grant Program.Around the world.pdf

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Make Dreams Real - Presidential Citation

The presidential citation has arrived for Braids "Outstanding efforts to reduce child mortality and Make Dreams Real for the world's children". See the document.

Young Golfer 2009

On Sunday the 31st May, in magnificent sunshine, twenty young golfers enjoyed a challenging competition in the Edinburgh Rotary Club of Braids, Young Golfer of the Year 2009 event. The standard of play was excellent and for the second year in a row, this first class event was staged with the excellent support and involvement of Mortonhall Golf Club.Our winners now go forward to take part in the District Final on 6th August at Grangemouth Golf Club. Good luck guys!

Headway Barge Trip

After a rather cloudy start to the morning the sun emerged to brighten our day and set the scene for a nice relaxing cruise along the Union Canal from Ratho Bridge outside Edinburgh to the Almond Aqueduct. As in previous years Braids Rotary club invited a group along from Headway. As you can see from the snapshots all in attendance had a really good time and expressed their appreciation for the kind consideration given to them from our club.

Community and Vocational Update

A busy period for Comm and Voc.  On Thursday 30 April, six intrepid 'researchers' from Braids RC undertook a vocational visit to the Glenkinchie Distillery and learned much about the processes of distilling and ageing of sprit and were able to sample a variety of products produced by Diageo the parent company.  Thanks are particularly due to Colin Mackay who conveyed the party in his people carrier and stayed 'dry' for the occasion and to our guide at Glenkinchie for an informative tour and exhibition.

To round off the Rotary year a further clothing delivery is being made to the City Mission and the Committee are analysing by postcode the uptake of the recently successful Blood Donor Campaign at Fairmilehead to inform our strategy for the next projected Donor Day, fixed provisionally for Wednesday 2 September.

Oxgangs Runners up in Primary School Quiz Final!

Oxgangs Primary won through to the District Final of the Primary School Quiz beating James Gillespies, St Mary's RC, Kings Meadow and Towerbank in the process. More importantly, all of the contestants were first class in their enthusiasm and enjoyment in taking part in the prestigious Zone Final at Portobello High School.

The great news is that in the zone final round the Oxgangs team beat off tough competition to finish 2nd place. The Rotary club of Braids would like to thank and congratulate the team on their success.

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World President D K LEE Visits Braids

The Rotary Club of Braids, Edinburgh hosted a Literary Lunch celebrating the life and works of Robert Louis Stevenson at their "Fringe" event for the RIBI Conference held in April. The event was attended by 77 members and guests of the Club including a special visit from RI President D K Lee, RIBI President Ian Thomson, DG 1020 Alasdair Seale, their wives and many other distinguished Rotarians. President Duncan Collinson presented D K Lee with a small selection of Malt whisky and his wife with an early edition print of A Child's Garden of Verse by RLS.

The event was a great success and featured excellent presentations by Alan Marchbank, a member of the Longniddry Rotary Club and Penny Fielding, Senior Lecturer at Edinburgh University as well as contributions by Braids members. Thanks are especially due to David Duff of Braids who was in charge of the organisation.

Ambassadorial Scholars Spin Wheels for Rotary

Four intrepid Ambassadorial Scholars from D. 9750 recently completed a sponsored cycle from Sydney to Canberra over 5 days, raising $4000 for the Australian Rotary Health Research Fund in the process.

Ian Clark (Scotland), Clayton Solomon (USA), Haley West (USA) and Felicitas Bachem (Germany) made the 360 K trip in October the hard way – via Macquarie Pass! Read more 

 Our Charities

Edinburgh Rotary Club of Braids supports many charities, both local, city wide and worldwide. Our affiliated charity that we regularly support each year in the local area is the Marie Curie Hospice