We are a young member of a worldwide service organisation with many different facets. When the combined talents and energy of Rotary's 1.2 million members are channelled in one direction its impact can be immense. For example, Rotary International set out in 1985 to eradicate polio. Since then Rotarians worldwide have worked with the WHO (World Health Organisation), UNICEF and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the world is now close to becoming polio-free. Equally important is the fellowship each Rotarian obtains from regular club meetings, and friendships borne through Rotary are often worldwide and long lasting.

The Woodstock club has raised over £160,000 for many causes since it formed in 1985. It has provided Shelter Boxes for various disasters throughout the world and in 2005-6 helped build and equip a pottery and metal-working workshop in Zambia to teach orphans the skills to make fuel-efficient stoves, a need all too evident in the copper-belt region. Closer to home the club has helped well over 100 local organizations from Action Research to Yarnton Boy's Football Club through its annual fund raising programme which includes the Rotary Blenheim 10 and the Father Christmas Sleigh. Every year it joins forces with other Rotary Clubs in Oxford to organise Youth Speaks and Kids Out and in June each year the club lets its hair down by taking part in the Woodstock Carnival.

We meet at the Kings Head, Woodstock, on Monday evenings for a varied programme of speakers (mostly entertaining!), fun and fellowship. We have men and women members from all sorts of backgrounds and our geographical region covers many villages around Kidlington and Woodstock.

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In the next 30 days..

30/01/2012  Club Weekly Meeting -   Web site update and members questions.  ~ Questions to David before the night. ~Steward Peter Luff
06/02/2012  Club Weekly Meeting -   Special General Meeting.   ~ Steward Patrick Lunney
13/02/2012  Club Weekly Meeting -   .   ~ Steward Sue Hawker
20/02/2012  Club Weekly Meeting -   Speaker TBA.  
20/02/2012  Club Weekly Meeting -   Quiz Night by Bob Taylor.  ~ Steward Jim McGee
27/02/2012  Club Weekly Meeting -   "A future for the Past" by Carol Anderson.   Steward

Last Meeting

23/01/2012 Topic: Social Evening
~ Steward Mike Holgate