Welcome to Skipton Rotary Club. Please scroll down through this page to find out more about us. To view other pages please use the headings above.

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Youth Opportunities

Youth Opportunities

Skipton Rotary endeavours to create opportunities for young people through activities that build character & confidence along with new skills in the process.
Read all about Rotary Youth Competitions and Leadership Awards via the links

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World Polio Day: Thursday 24th October 2024

World Polio Day: Thursday 24th October 2024

Rotary International is working to complete the promise it made to the world - we will rid the world of Polio.

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Community Grants

Community Grants

How to apply for help for your local Club, charity or organisation. For Youth grants see under What We Do - Youth Opportunities.

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Want to help your community?

Want to help your community?

Volunteers welcome to help Rotarians in their tasks about town. Helpers at Fund Raising events, such as Car Park on a Saturday; stewarding at our Dragon Boat Races; occasional Can Shakes etc.
We call you Friends of Rotary.

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Share Skipton

Share Skipton

Share Skipton is a Library of Things located at 48 Newmarket Street in Skipton. A Library of Things is like a normal library but, instead of books, we lend items like leaf blowers, tents, drills, disco balls and more.

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Welcome from President Judy Hazlehurst

Welcome from President Judy Hazlehurst

Our President for the Rotary year 2024/5 is Judy Hazlehurst.

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About us


Skipton Rotary Club

For nearly one hundred years Rotary in Skipton has been involved in local, national and international community projects, volunteering and fundraising while at the same time having fun and socialising as a group. Like most Rotary Clubs, we meet once a week. For further details about our meeting venue, when we meet and how to find us, please see the information in the side panel.  You can also follow us @skiptonrotary on Facebook, Instagram, X and even perhaps Linkedin.

Fun & Friendship

Skipton Rotary is a friendly club where we have as much fun as possible working together to make a positive difference to people’s lives within the community. We hope that the lives of the volunteers who join us will be enriched as they take part in a range of fundraising, formal and informal social events, visits and even foreign travel, forming friendships, by volunteering their expertise and often discovering new talents and interests.

Fundraising & Volunteering

We undertake a variety of fundraising events including weekend and bank holiday car parking at Skipton Building Society, quizzes, concerts, bicycle recycling auction, Dragon Boat racing, Christmas Market stalls, as well as many annual fundraisers.

Get Involved

Our members volunteer their time and skills to plan fundraising and social events while enjoying each other’s company and friendship. There are several ways you can help us to ensure everything runs smoothly and to make the most of opportunities to raise money for the various charities we support.

Join Skipton Rotary

If you enjoy helping others, connecting with Rotary will give you the chance to do something positive and worthwhile. Rotary has over 35,000 clubs with 1.2 million members worldwide. As a Rotarian, while travelling at home and abroad for work or leisure, you can join a local meeting and engage with Rotarians the world over. Interested and want to find out more? You are very welcome to join one of our meetings. Please contact using the form below or via our membership page.

Help us to be the kind of group you are looking for and get to know a friendly bunch of volunteers helping the community.

Come to a Meeting

If you would like to come along and see what we do you are welcome to join one of our regular meetings without having to join Rotary first. Just let us know you are interested and we will do the rest.

Become a Member and join Skipton Rotary

When you have been to one or two of our meetings you may well decide you would like to join Rotary in Skipton and become a full member of Skipton Rotary Club. This means you can attend all our meetings and be fully involved with all our club’s activities. You will experience the friendship and enthusiasm of all our members while at the same time making a positive contribution to the local, national and international community.

If you enjoy helping others, connecting with Rotary will give you the chance to do something positive and worthwhile. Rotary has over 35,000 clubs with 1.2 million members worldwide. As a Rotarian, while travelling at home and abroad for work or leisure, you can join a local meeting and engage with Rotarians the world over. Interested and want to find out more? You are very welcome to join one of our meetings. Please contact using the form below or via our membership page.

Become a 'Friend of Rotary'

If you feel now is not the right time to become a full member but would like to be kept informed of what we are doing, we will add you to our mailing list. We hope you can be involved in club events and keep up to date with everything we do.  Help us to be the kind of group you are looking for and get to know a friendly bunch of volunteers helping the community.

Sometimes we need an extra pair of hands when running our various events. If you can help, please get in touch. You could be asked to do anything from stewarding an event, help run our weekly charity car park in town, helping to erect a marquee to planting crocus bulbs to promote the campaign for polio eradication. Whatever you can do we would like to hear from you!

Rotary International Club No 18956, District 1040.
The Rotary Club of Skipton Trust Fund, Registered Charity No 502427

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Charity Car Park - Open Saturdays 10am to 6pm

Sat, Mar 23rd 2024 10:00 am - 6:00 pm Sat, Oct 26th 2024

Charity Car Park - Open Saturdays 10am to 6pm

Our charity car park will re-open on Saturday 23rd March until late October, also available for Special Event days. Use BD23 1AP in your Sat Nav. Card payments welcome.

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Weekly meeting

Wed, Oct 16th 2024 5:30 pm

Weekly meeting

Lydia and Bea talk about their trip to Thailand

Business Meeting and SGM

Wed, Oct 23rd 2024 5:30 pm

Business Meeting and SGM

Special General Meeting to elect next year's Presidential team.

Rotary Peace Seminar

Sat, Oct 26th 2024 9:00 am

Rotary Peace Seminar

The Bill Huntley Memorial Peace Seminar 2024. Venue Bradford.

Weekly meeting

Wed, Oct 30th 2024 5:30 pm

Weekly meeting

Emma Howarth tells us about her Uganda trip

Weekly meeting

Wed, Nov 6th 2024 5:30 pm

Weekly meeting

Richard Thackrah - Remembrance Day & War Memorials in the digital age.

Meetings & Venue

Where and when:

We meet on Wednesdays at 17.30 for 18.00

(5th Wed's are usually elsewhere with partners. See Events calendar. Please mail all apologies and details of guests to - apologiesandguests@skiptonrotary.org This address will contact both Secretary and Attendance Officer. ) Tempest Arms
Elslack Lane
Elslack
Skipton
BD23 3AY  01282-842450
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Rotary News

Be part of a global network of volunteers, trying to make the world a better place. Please also see the 'links & news' page for information from the local district and live feeds from Rotary International and Rotary International in GB&I.

Rotary serving communities through supporting foodbanks

Diversity is part of Rotary’s core values