Completed meetings and events 2024-2025

Tue 4th February 2025 Centre for Coastal Communities

Our speaker is Dr Emily Murray - Director & Reader, Centre for Coastal Communities, at the University of Essex. We will also have a tubs collection for Next Chapter

Tue 28th January 2025 A Corporate Member

Hira Miah, one of our Corporate Members is our speaker. He spoke briefly at out initial Corporate Members' meeting and what he has achieved and been involved with in his career is amazing

Tue 21st January 2025 Business Meeting

Hear reports of the activities of our teams, and the state of our finances

Tue 14th January 2025 Childhood brain tumours

Peter Jones will speak on the charity for which the London Welsh male voice choir will give a concert on 5 April 2025

Tue 7th January 2025 Meeting at Colchester Officers' Club

Our speaker is Rennie Chivers, the new Town Crier for Colchester. There will also be a tubs collection of foodstuffs for Beacon House (heling Colchester's homeless)

Tue 10th December 2024 Find out about the DS Group

Our speaker will be Allistair Hunter, Managing Director of the DS Group

Tue 3rd December 2024 Cheque Presentation

Alison Andreas from the Colchester Institute Foundation Trust will receive a donation and tell us a bit about the trust. There will be a tubs collection for Food Bank

Tue 26th November 2024 Ormiston Families

Our speaker is Gavin Lamb from the Ormiston Families, a trust for helping children and families in need

Tue 19th November 2024 November SGM

A special general meeting will be held to elect club officers and examine the accounts for the last Rotary year

Tue 5th November 2024 Business Meeting

We will hear reports from our president, and all our teams. We will also have the Good News Kittie, and collect foodstuffs and toiletries for Next Chapter (the women's refuge)

Tue 29th October 2024 No meeting this week

On the fifth Tuesday in October, Colchester RC will be on a Scatter Week: visiting other clubs in the district

Tue 22nd October 2024 St Helena School's Tick Tick Boom!

Dan Austin, Deputy Head will be bringing the lead singer from their upcoming production of 'Tick Tick Boom!' which we have helped to sponsor

Tue 15th October 2024 Speaker meeting

Our speaker this week is the Colchester Garrison Commander, Lt Col Ed Rankin

Tue 8th October 2024 Speaker meeting

Our guest speaker is Theresa Higgins of the Phoenix Swimming Club (ability, not disability

Tue 1st October 2024 District Governor visit

District Governor, Ann Moriaty, will share news from District and Rotary International. There will also be a collection of foodstuffs for Beacon House (working with the homeless of our city)

Tue 24th September 2024 We meet at Colchester Institute

This is a business meeting, with 100 Club and Good News Kittie

Tue 17th September 2024 We meet at Colchester Institute

After the summer away, we are back at the Institute this week; where we will welcome authors Kay Prestney and Becca Cherry as our guests

Tue 10th September 2024 Meeting at Colchester Rugby Club

Past District Governor David Willis is our speaker, looking back over his 2023/24 year

Tue 27th August 2024 No meeting this week

We do not meet on the Tuesday after a bank holiday Monday. The next meeting will be on September 3rd at Colchester Rugby club, when we have a tubs collection of foodstuffs for the Colchester Food bank

Tue 20th August 2024 Meeting at Colchester Rugby Club

An interesting meeting including an interview with a gold medal winner at the World Dance Festival in Prague; and insights into Lion Walk in Colchester city centre

Tue 6th August 2024 Meeting at Colchester Rugby Club

Speaker Meeting – Video of Eva Loeffler CBE Paralympian. The August Tubs collection is for Next Chapter (the city's women's refuge)

Tue 30th July 2024 No meeting this week

The Rotary Club of Colchester is not meeting on July 30th, because it is a fifth Tuesday

Tue 23rd July 2024 Meeting at Colchester Rugby Club

This will be a fellowship meeting

Tue 16th July 2024 Meeting at Colchester Rugby Club

Colchester Rotary club is exploring the concept of corporate membership, and already has people who are interested. We will be talking about this at the meeting

Tue 2nd July 2024 We meet at Colchester Rugby Club

There will be a food collection for Beacon House, helping the homeless in ColchesterWe will now meet at the Rugby Club until the Institute begins its new term in September.
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