Regular Meeting with invited Speaker, Selwyn Williams, at Highlands End
Tue, Nov 7th 2017 at 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Chronicling Dorset Shipwrecks
Since his first dive at age 15, Selwyn has been fascinated by the shipwrecks scattered in the waters around Weymouth and Portland,, always a graveyard for ships in the treacherous currents and depths. He has chronicled over 300 ships sunk off Chesil Beach, some dating to before 1700. With modern sonar equipment, he is part of the local project scanning the seabed for more wrecks and other sunken objects. His book Treasure of the Golden Grape, tells of the dark days of Weymouth in the 16th. century, when piracy and wrecking were common.
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Our members get involved in many and varied ways to support local causes, and other good causes too. Click on this picture to see some specific activities...and scroll down to see some other examples of our activities.
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Rotary International operates in most countries of the world in many different projects. Some are long term projects and many are in response to man made and natural catastrophes.
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We provide the opportunity for young people to take part in two Rotary Youth initiatives; Youth Speaks and RYLA (Rotary Youth Leadership Award). As well as that we support youth groups and activities in and around Bridport including individuals.
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Our Business Partners are key to our fundraising success. In appreciation of what they do we are keen to givie them publicity so that people are made awre of their generosity. Please contact us if you would like to become one one of our Business Partners
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The money we raise goes to charities and other needy causes. It comes from:- Selling pots of Hyacinths bulbs at Christmas Donations from our Business Partners Musical Events Other One-off Events Our Spinning Wheel Street collections for disasters;
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Our Christmas dinner, President's evening, social evenings with guest speaker and the occasional skittles evening are some of the fun things we enjoy.
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Serving the Community for almost 80 years, our Club was founded in 1947 with the Charter dated 13th August 1947. Our mother Club was the Weymouth Rotary Club with whom we developed a close relationship and we have two daughter Clubs, Lyme Regis and Brit V
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