Completed meetings and events 2020-2021

Tue 29th June 2021 No Meeting - Handover postponed due to Euro 2021

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Sun 27th June 2021 Summer BBQ

Our traditional Summer BBQ at the Oxleys. More details to follow

Tue 22nd June 2021 Quiz provided by David Grant

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Tue 15th June 2021 Club Boules Competition @ Ring-o-Bells, Nailsea

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Tue 8th June 2021 Club Assembly & Business Meeting

Bernd Langheim our ADG will be attending read more...

Tue 1st June 2021 No Meeting - Bank Holiday

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Tue 25th May 2021 Speakers: Jo Hook / Mike Osborne - TEMWA

Jo Hook ( Temwa) will be addressing the club and Clifton Foundation committee on the latest position with the Global Grant which both our clubs are supporting.
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Tue 18th May 2021 Speaker: Rebecca Wingate on Modern Slavery

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Tue 11th May 2021 Business Meeting

Our monthly Business meeting read more...

Tue 4th May 2021 No Meeting - Bank Holiday

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Tue 27th April 2021 Informal Social Evening

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Tue 20th April 2021 Quiz provided by Brian Oxley

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Tue 13th April 2021 AGM and Business Meeting

Our formal Annual Meeting to report on last years progress read more...

Tue 6th April 2021 Informal Social Evening

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Tue 30th March 2021 Informal social meeting via Zoom

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Tue 23rd March 2021 Zoom Meeting: Speaker - Linda Clark "Rotary's work with the Carers Trust"

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Tue 16th March 2021 Zoom Meeting: Speaker: Steve Cartwright - Rotary GB & Ireland lead on "Kids Out"

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Tue 9th March 2021 Business Meeting

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Tue 2nd March 2021 Speaker: Lynda Bowen "My work in Tanzania"

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Tue 23rd February 2021 Informal social meeting via Zoom

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Tue 16th February 2021 Speaker: Jessica Burden - British Red Cross Society

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Tue 9th February 2021 Business Meeting

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Tue 2nd February 2021 Speaker: Stephen Newton - My Dull life as a Petroleum Geologist

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Tue 26th January 2021 Informal social meeting via Zoom

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Tue 19th January 2021 Speaker: Vicki Cornwell, British Heart Foundation

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Tue 12th January 2021 Business Meeting

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Tue 5th January 2021 First meeting of 2021 - Colin Firth - District Governor

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Tue 22nd December 2020 No Meeting

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Tue 15th December 2020 On-line Christmas Social

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Tue 8th December 2020 SGM & Business Meeting

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Tue 1st December 2020 Speaker: Nadine Carr - 'Cakey Dreams'

A lighthearted look at the cake we all love to eat. How did it start and when did it become a sponge with icing on top? read more...

Tue 24th November 2020 Social Get Together via Zoom

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Tue 17th November 2020 Speaker: Gill Wright - 'Why we don't sleep and what we can do to ensure we sleep deeply and soundly and wake refreshed'

Gill, a Mindset Specialist for over 11 years, will cover every aspect from the foods we eat to our environment and our overactive mindset that prevents us from sleeping. You will come away with lifestyle and nutritional recommendations
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Tue 10th November 2020 Business Meeting

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Tue 3rd November 2020 Quiz - Britain at War

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Tue 27th October 2020 Informal Zoom meeting / chat

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Mon 26th October 2020 Meal at the Poachers

Derek Dowdell is organising a meal for up to 6 people at the Poachers Inn, Portishead - contact him if interested read more...

Sat 24th October 2020 - Sun 25th October 2020 Adopt a crocus for World Polio Day

To celebrate World Polio day on October 24th the two Rotary clubs in Portishead have joined forces to plant 4000 crocus bulbs in October on Portishead Lake Grounds read more...

Tue 20th October 2020 Speaker: Prof. Jean Golding - 'The trials and tribulations and triumphs of starting Children of the Nineties'

Jean Golding OBE, FMedSci, is a British epidemiologist, and founder of the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children aka "Children of the Nineties". She is Emeritus Professor of Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology at the University of Bristol read more...

Tue 13th October 2020 Business Meeting

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Sun 11th October 2020 Circular Walk from Portbury Church

Please contact Shonaugh Evans for details

Tue 6th October 2020 Speaker: Nigel Turner - A Vulcan raid on the Falklands

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Tue 29th September 2020 Speaker: Amy Perrin - The Marmalade Trust

The Marmalade Trust is an organisation devoted to combating loneliness and which combines a social action approach with giving more traditional help to people who are facing loneliness. read more...

Wed 23rd September 2020 Meal at Ghandi Indian restaurant, 57 High Street, Portishead

Derek has booked the Ghandi Indian restaurant, at 57 High for 6 people. It’s their banquet evening so the fixed menu is £15pp. Anyone is welcome to join him read more...

Tue 22nd September 2020 Speaker: Mike Storr - Master of Mirth - of Carlton (Nottingham) Rotary Club

will give us a whimsical history of music hall. He aims that we should enter into the spirit of the entertainment. Partners and friends, but not barking dogs or loud televisions, are especially welcome! Unusually we are asked not to mute our microphones. read more...

Sun 20th September 2020 A walk around Ashton Hill Plantation

Meet 10.30 at the top of Belmont Hill where Flax Bourton Road and Weston Road converge. There is a car park on the left hand side but if full it is possible to park on the road. read more...

Tue 15th September 2020 Business & Council Meeting

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Tue 8th September 2020 Speaker: David Bowring - speaking about the National Trust

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Tue 1st September 2020 Bank Holiday Week - No Meeting

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Tue 25th August 2020 DVD: “Bristol – the Way we were”.

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Tue 18th August 2020 Business & Council Meeting

meeting via Zoom read more...

Tue 11th August 2020 Planned picnic outdoors at Lake Grounds

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Tue 4th August 2020 Speaker: Sarah Pritchard - "Be more Ben"

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Tue 28th July 2020 Speaker: Caroline Lowsley-Williams from Chavenage

meeting via Zoom; Chavenage is the 16th Century House which is often used for filming historical dramas. Sadly it is closed at present because of difficulties with social distancing, but members commented that Caroline would have plenty of stories! read more...

Tue 21st July 2020 Speaker: Rosie Banning - Dogs for Good

meeting via Zoom: Dogs for Good supplies support for dogs with a range of problems. read more...

Tue 14th July 2020 Business & Council Meeting

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Tue 7th July 2020 Speaker: Joanna Hook - Developments at TEMWA

Joanna was instrumental in starting TEMWA,which provides community projects in Malawi. There are significant developments in Malawi, not least the election of a new President and coronavirus read more...
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