The Rotary Club of Northampton West was founded in 1969 and for over 40 years has continued to be a source of enjoyment to its members and service to the local community.

We currently have 50 members with a wide mix of social and vocational interests.

Members largely come from senior level professional and management backgrounds in private and public organisations.

We welcome both men and women as members of the club. They use their professional and organisational skills to help people of all ages with local community projects and charities in Northampton and help with international Rotary projects such as world wide eradication of polio.

We meet every Friday for lunch in Northampton. We enjoy a meal and share lively good humoured conversation. We often have a guest speaker and occasionally we hold debates and discussions. Sometimes our Friday meetings are devoted to planning and preparing for our community support and fund raising projects.

In addition to our weekly meeting we hold many social events and fundraising activities, as well as helping the local community. We work together with the other four Rotary clubs in Northampton and with the Inner Wheel club of Northampton West. We have a number of Friends of Rotary who support our work.

The club welcomes new members who support our service ethos of Service above Self.

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To see:  Committees for the coming year (2012-2013) go to members only pages. 

Its Litter picking good 

Guides from the St Benedict’s troop joined forces with Rotarians from the Northampton West Rotary club as the club’s New Generations and Community teams organised a litter pick in the West Hunsbury area of Northampton. In just one hour eight bags of rubbish were collected and the area was left looking smart and clean.

 

As can be seen from the picture the guides enjoyed themselves and perhaps set an example to some adults as the majority of the rubbish was old cigarette packets, drinks cans and drinks bottles, not sweet papers dropped by children. Thanks must also go to Kevin Wheelan from the Borough council waste management services contractor for supplying the equipment used for the litter pick. RW.

Youth Speaks Regional finals 2012   

  

Teams  from Rotary districts 1040, 1070, 1220 and 1270 from as far afield as Whitby, Gainsborough, Northampton , Bedford and Ashby de la Zouch were welcomed on a warm and sunny spring day by  Scarborough college for the Intermediate and senior regional finals of the Rotary Youth speaks competition.  The six teams in the Intermediate competition and six teams in the Senior competition had already won through three previous rounds to get to Scarborough and the high quality of the talks on the day reflected this.

 

Northampton West club were represented by the team from Northampton High School , Shefali Kotecha, Fiona Percival and Nina-Nevart Minassian and were supported by their coach Miss Cadwallader , form teacher, parents and Rotarians from the Northampton West club. The previous day the girls had been supporting Rotary by stewarding at the Rotary Young Musician competition also held at the Scarborough College.

In the senior competition it was a close fought thing but only one team could go through to the next round and the decision of the judges was that Bourne Grammar school whose subject was "The death of the book" were the team to go through to the National finals in Wrexham.

The Intermediate competition winners were Sir Thomas Wharton Community college  from Doncaster whose subject was " Is your place a better place with, or without music" .  We wish both teams well in the national finals.

RW. 

 

Rotary Young Writer competition

 

Pupils from primary schools around Northampton and surrounding villages were once again invited to enter the Young writer’s competition coordinated by the Northampton West Rotary club.

The theme this year was Olympic Dreams and Olympic Spirit.  Despite a shorter time allowed to get entries in, pupils from Delapre Primary, St Luke’s C of E Primary, Queen Eleanor Primary, Brixworth Primary and Boughton Primary schools worked in their spare time to produce poems or pieces of prose.

Our two independent Inner Wheel judges, Jeanne Buxton and Terry Arnold had a hard time deciding on the winners and runners up from the 96 entrants but first and highly commended awards were given at each school in the form of books with name plates which also detailed the role of Rotary in Society.

Two days after the awards one head teacher fed back that one of the boys who had won a book in her school had hardly taken his head out of this book since receiving it, it had gripped his imagination so much.

RW

 

Photo –President Tom Green with Young writers at Delapre Primary School 

In the next 30 days..

Friday 25th May -   Club Weekly Meeting -   Speaker.  
Friday 1st June -   Club Weekly Meeting -   Speaker.  
Friday 8th June -   Club Weekly Meeting -   Business Meeting.  
Tuesday 12th June -   Golf Match.  We shall be playing our annual golf match against the Rotary Club of Ipswich at John O'Gaunt Golf Club, Sandy. Keith Archbold is club organiser. There will be a morning round of golf followed by a luncheon. Spectators are welcome.
Wednesday 13th June -   KIDS OUT.  We shall be particpating in the District organised event when clubs from the District arrange for children and young adults with special needs to join in a day of fun and enjoyment at Wicksteed Park. Club organiser Robin Green.
Friday 15th June -   Club Weekly Meeting -   Club Assembly .  At this meeting Michael Hill, club president for the Rotary year 2012/13 will be introducing his plans for his year of office.

Last Meeting

18/05/2012 Topic: Speaker
A local representative form The Stroke Association will be addressing us about stroke awareness.