Contact us by email … lamplightersrotary@gmail.com

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Rotary Membership

Rotary Membership

You could join us and be part of this very active club where fun and fellowship is enjoyed alongside our diverse range of service and fund raising activities.
We were a social network long before Facebook !

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Swimathon 2025

Swimathon 2025

This is an easy and fun way of raising funds for your charity or good cause. The format is changed this year to enable you to retain 90% of your sponsorship money so why not dive in ?

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Lendwithcare , helping others to help themselves.

Lendwithcare , helping others to help themselves.

Lendwithcare is one of our ongoing international activities and brings together entrepreneurs in developing countries and people with the power to help them . The club has made more loans recently bringing the total number to over 460.

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Book Giveaway at Schools

Book Giveaway at Schools

Over the past few years we have organised several Book giveaways for primary schools.

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Fundraising for N W Air Ambulance

Fundraising for N W Air Ambulance

One of the charities we support is N W Air Ambulance. They recently talked to the club and we made a donation of £500.
On Saturday 7th September Lamplighter Amy abseiled down Liverpool Cathedral and raised a further £700 .

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     Heatons Open Gardens 2025

Heatons Open Gardens 2025

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About us

We are a very active and friendly Rotary Club and are always keen to welcome new members. If you would like to know more about us you can contact us using the email address below and we can hopefully answer any questions or arrange to meet . 

lamplightersrotary@gmail.com

 

HELPING COMMUNITIES

 

We are approached by helpers/carers and charities who need funds or a helping hand, as we are known as willing member of our local community.  

Additionally we offer both practical and financial help of our own accord

Examples of groups that we have recently assisted are:

Schools, musical groups, scouts,  food banks, people needing disability aids, references from social services, families who have just had a set-back.

In fact we seek to assist anyone or group that is in difficulty

As Rotary is a worldwide organisation we make donations wherever they are needed; floods, storms, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, famines, among others.

 

WE ENJOY OURSELVES

 

At club level we organise events of all types that keep us cheerful, while we are arranging the kind of assistance described above.  For example, musical events, fish ’n chip evenings, quizzes, meals out, visits to interesting places, occasionally weekends away, even abroad.

We arrange walks for the able, dinners for all, B-B-Qs.  We generally organise at least one social event per month.  For the less mobile garden parties, visits to the theatre.  And many more.

We meet weekly for a very reasonably priced dinner and to discuss our business.   We invite speakers to talk about what they or their organisations do.  Weekly meetings are not compulsory but members are encouraged to attend so as to keep up with club developments.

 

WE RAISE FUNDS

 

Many of our ways of helping communities require money so we have to raise funds.
Over the past ten years we have raised well over £100,000 for charity.
We have an annual swimathon and a very popular Open Gardens event . We organise supermarket collections in addition to towing Santa and his sleigh around the streets at Christmas and rest at busy pedestrian points where families and children can chat to Santa.

 

ILLNESS

 

If any member is ill we visit them and keep in touch, send flowers and cards.

 

SOCIAL MEDIA

 

We maintain social media accounts and run a website so that the public and our members can see what we are doing and planning.

Some of the charities we have supported are listed below

Local Foodbanks , Loaves & Fishes , Handy Ladies , Signpost Young Carers , Cherry Tree Project , St Annes Hospice , Ukraine appeal , Turkey Syria Earthquake fund , Westmoreland Primary School , Kidneys for life , Walthew House , End Polio Now , ABC Childrens Charity , Positive Arts , Disaster Aid , Read Easy , Cataract Operations in India  , St Josephs Primary School , Annie's Orphans , Francis House , Alex Hulme Foundation , Pure Insight , Rotary Foundation , Fresh.

 

Links to our social media pages below Facebook, Instagram and bluesky

   

Please click below if you would like to donate to our charity fund


 

Happening soon...

Council Meeting on Zoom

Mon, Jan 27th 2025 7:30 pm

Council Meeting on Zoom

Council Members meet on Zoom

Committee Reports

Wed, Jan 29th 2025 7:30 pm

Committee Reports

Committee chairs report to club.
Meal is Sausage & Mash with onion gravy followed by Sticky toffee pud.

Chinese New Year Manchester

Sun, Feb 2nd 2025 12:00 pm

Chinese New Year Manchester

Times and details to be notified.
Viewing the Dragon parade in the city centre followed by Chinese meal in a city centre restaurant.

Speaker Meeting - Yui Chikamori

Wed, Feb 5th 2025 7:30 pm

Speaker Meeting - Yui Chikamori

Yui is a Rotary Global scholar and will be speaking to us about her experiences.
Partners and friends very welcome as this is a speaker meeting.

Social or Alternative

Wed, Feb 12th 2025 7:30 pm

Social or Alternative

Details to follow

Committee Meetings

Wed, Feb 19th 2025 7:30 pm

Committee Meetings

Committees meet after meal

Meetings & Venue

Where and when:

We meet on Wednesdays at 19:00 for 19:30

(No meeting on the 5th Wednesday in the month.) Stockport Golf Club
Offerton Road
Offerton
Stockport
SK2 5HL
W3W:  ///corner.motel.bleak

Rotary News

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Rotary serving communities through supporting foodbanks

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