Welcome to the website of the Rotary Club of Rugby
Our Club was founded in 1922 and on July 22nd of that year the club was affiliated to Rotary 
International in Britain & Ireland. 
The Rotary Club of Rugby was the 85th member of RIBI and met fortnightly for lunch. We are active in a wide range of service projects, both local and international, but also believe in enjoying ourselves through a varied fellowship programme of social and fund raising events. Find out more about us from our monthly bulletin -Touchline.
Rugby, the Home of Rugby Football, is located on the North East side of Warwickshire in the heart of England. If you would like to join us for lunch please contact us
Our President hopes that you enjoy your visit to our site. A short biography about Rob Brock President 2011 to 2012 can be found by following the link under his name. Simply click on the name. If you want to know more about our club please contact us through the Join Rotary icon.
The next meeting will be on Friday 18th May 2012
at St Andrews Rugby Club
This is our permanent meeting venue St Andrews Rugby Club on Ashlawn Road, Rugby. CV22 5ET.
Sport for the disabled
On Bank Holiday Sunday - 6th May - over 250 diabled athletes came to Rugby to take part in a yearly sports event. The Rotary clubs of Rugby along with Rotaract provided the people power for the events. It was a mervelous event with some extremely sound and practiced organisation. It never ceases to amaze me how determined the athletes are to succeed and enjoy themselves in a range of sports & games
| Roller ball | Archery |
| Alley skittles | Wheel chair Boccia |
| Mini crossbow | New age kurling |
| Mini golf | Swimming |
| Bowling for the pig | Bowls |
During the day Rotary district governor - Brian Kimberley - visited and joined in the fun.
Well done to Iris Bingham & Mark Furber + team.
Music Concerts
The 3 Rugby Rotary Clubs - Rugby Dunsmore, Rugby Saturday Breakfast & Rugby Rotary - all join together for our New Generations Committee. Together we have started a Music Bursary Scheme for the children of Rugby (Under 18s), which is run in conjunction with Warwickshire County Music Service. details of the scheme and who can apply are to be found by following the link below.
Part of our activities for the children of Rugby that we organise in conjunction are a series of concerts. This year the first 2 are being held on Monday March 26th, and Tuesday 27th both at 6-30pm in the Temple Speech Rooms. The Monday concert features some Primary School Choirs and the Tuesday Concert features some 'County Music Groups. Both will be extremely enjoyable and both will support the Music Bursary. If you want to come along and support then you'd be most welcome to pay on the door. The concerts last about an hour to an hour and a half.
Click on the image below to download the file.
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| Details of County Music Service activities bursary | Details of County Music Group bursary |
| Application form for County Music service Activities Bursary | Application form for County Music Groups Bursary |
| Bursary - a scale of contributions for the above activities |
Youth
Youth Speaks
The senior team from the Rugby Youth Speaks competition won the District 106 final and are now in the Regional final on March 24th at Stafford University. We wish them well.
The internediate team were runners up - well done to them.
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| Senior Team Winners | Intermediate runners up |
Young Chief
The winner of the Rugby Young Chief competition - Katlin Watson - also won the District 1060 competition and is now in the Regional final on March 17th in Monmouth. Well done Katlin and we wish you luck in the Regional final.
Young Musician
The winner of the Rugby Young Musician competition - James Heathcote - went on to winf the District 1060 competition. Sadly he was not able to repeat this at the Regional final, but well done James.
That means Rugby Rotary Clubs had 3 District 1060 winners at the same time. It's atribute to the talent that our young people have and lengths Rotarians will go to shine the spotlight on this talent.
Rotary District Quiz
| Round 2 | 9th January 2012 | Stratford | We won 25 - 12 |
| Round 3 | 24th January 2012 | Warwick Avon | We won 27 - 16 |
| Quarter Final | 12th March 2012 | Southam 2000 | We won 29 - 24 |
We fight on under the excellent managership of John Vickers. we are now in the Semi finals to be held on 4th April at the Park Inn West, Birmingham Road, West Bromwich B70 6RS, Jnct.1 on M5
Olympic site visit
On leapyear day a group of over 40 Rotarians, wives and friends set off at 7-15am for a visit to the Olympic Park in Stratford - London - Shakespere was not a runner.
Will it all be ready? Our guide, Sonia, enthusiastically told us it would all be ready. She added that the venues were complete, it's just the bits in between that aren't. The site was a hive of activity & security. Were the fences to keep the pole-vaulters in or spectators and others out? The logistics of getting the thousands and thousands of people in and out each day left us feeling crushed, breathless & frustrated. We did however feel a lot of pride that so much had already been achieved.
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| Our guide, Sonia | Guide talk |
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| Do you think it'll all be ready? | We don't know but we'll pose for a photo & hide the building site. |
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| Work still to be done | This is how it all used to look before the Olympic park |
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| Anish Kapoor sculpture nearing completion | Top brass visiting |
In the next 30 days..
Friday 1st June - Club Weekly Meeting - Lunch meeting - 12-30pm Speaker??.Tuesday 5th June - Club Weekly Meeting - Club Service meeting - 6-00pm Raglan Arms.
Thursday 7th June - Club Weekly Meeting - New Generations meeting - 7-30pm - ALL 3 Rotary Clubs in Rugby.
Friday 15th June - Club Weekly Meeting - Lunch meeting - 12-30pm Speaker??.
