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Rotary in Darwen - welcome! Please scroll/swipe down through this page to find out more about us, in addition to the pages linked in the menu, top-left. All future meeting cancelled.
Darwen Jubilee Tower Restoration Project
Raising £100,000.00 to fund the restoration of Darwen's iconic tower
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Blackburn with Darwen Brass Band Hymn & Marching competition
23 brass bands from across Lancashire and Yorkshire competing in an open competition on the new Darwen Market Square
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Books for Gambia
Darwen Rotary has been collecting books from local primary schools to be sent to The Gambia
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As part of the Nation's fight against Covid-19 all physical meetings have been cancelled for the foreseeable future.
A bit of history about Rotary in Darwen
The Rotary Club of Darwen formed in 1933 and brings together men and women to give service to our community and to enjoy good fellowship. We also raise funds to support local, national and international good causes.
The Club is active in all avenues of Rotary Service. Darwen Rotarians have played leading roles in establishing Darwen's Old People's Welfare Centre, the Abbeyfield Society and our Probus Club. The Club has a wide range of activities supporting local and international charities. The club recently undertook a project to build a Lego© model of Darwen tower to raise £25,000 for local good causes, charities and community groups. Currently we are raising £100,000 for the restoration of Darwen Tower. The club runs other fund raising activities and these are distributed annually to local charities and good causes.
Internationally the Club sponsors the education of a child in Sri
Lanka. In the last year we have organised the funding of Shelterboxes
and Aquaboxes, Scholl books to Gambia and have supported Mercy Ships.
In 1959 proceeds from a Home Trade Exhibition formed the basis of
the Rotary Club of Darwen Educational Fund. Subsequent legacies from
past Rotarians have helped this fund to grow and it assists young
persons and educational establishments in the Darwen Area. The Club is a
supporter of Life Education Lancashire and there work in local primary
and secondary schools. We have also established RotaKids groups in
primary schools in the town.
Members are also active in many other spheres of local life, fulfilling the Rotary motto 'Service above Self'.
If this were not enough, Rotarians meet regularly to enjoy an evening together.
Darwen Tower
The most easily recognised symbol of Darwen. It stands on the moors overlooking the town and was built in 1897/8 to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria's reign.
On 11th November 2010 the dome and top section of the tower were blown off during a night of very strong winds that caused much damage across the area. Local businesses volunteered their services in repairing the tower and it was hoped to finish the work by the end of March but we waited until May 2011 for English Heritage's blessing.
The replacement has been manufactured from stainless steel by apprentices at WEC engineering, a Darwen firm.
The new dome was lifted into place on Friday 13th January 2012 by helicopter. There is a spectacular video of this operation on UTube (although you may wish to fast forward the first 25 seconds).
To find out more click on the What We Do button at the top right of the web page
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Happening soon...
Meetings and events happening soon
Monday 6th April 18.30
Club AGM and Business
Club Annual General Meeting to elect team leaders and District voting delegates and to set the budget for 2020/2021
This business will now be conducted on-line.
Monday 6th April 20.00
Council after ordinary meeting
Monday 20th April 18.30
Social meeting
Meeting cancelled as a result of the Covid-19 restrictions
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RotaKids supporting their local community
Meetings & Venue
Where and when:
We meet on Mondays at 18:00 for 18:30
(No meetings on Bank Holidays. We meet twice a month. Please check future events section for details of dates etc. )
Dolly's Tea Room
386 Bolton Road
Darwen
BB3 2PS 01254 772033