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School in a Bag

School in a Bag

Delivering School Bags to disadvantaged children around the world.

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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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Rotary in Skipton Great Santa Fun Run 2026

Rotary in Skipton Great Santa Fun Run 2026

Come and join us at this great annual event.
Sunday 29th November 2026 at 11.00am.

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Want to help your community?  Become a 'Friend of Rotary'.

Want to help your community? Become a 'Friend of Rotary'.

Be involved in your local Rotary Club and be kept informed of what's happening - ideal for anyone wanting to support what Rotary does from time to time but without regular commitment or any expense.

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End Polio Now

End Polio Now

Help bring about the end of Polio.
World Polio Day is 24th October.

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Youth Travel Personal Development Grants

Youth Travel Personal Development Grants

The Rotary 'Youth Grant' scheme helps young people with expenses towards their Travel Project adventures

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About us

WELCOME TO SKIPTON ROTARY

Skipton Rotary - RI District 1040

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 and Instagram.

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, the Skipton Rotary Great Santa Fun Run, Christmas Market stalls, as well as many other fundraising events.

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.

You can learn all about Rotary's own charity - The Rotary Foundation - administerd and funded by Rotarians to support Rotary's efforts throughout the world.  This works all over the world funding disaster recovery plans, community development projects, youth schemes, End Polio Now and Rotary Peace Scholars.

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 then 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' or a Corporate Member

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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Car Parking in Skipton

Sat, Apr 4th 2026 10:00 am - 6:00 pm Sat, Oct 31st 2026

Car Parking in Skipton

Saturday parking for cars at £3.50 per day. Venue the Skipton Building Society car park. Open to 30th October. The Car Park is just off the Bailey use postcode BD23 1AT. Open 10.00 to 18.00.

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Weekly meeting

Wed, Jun 10th 2026 5:30 pm

Weekly meeting

David Newall - Skipton Rotary poker-faced members night.

RI Convention 2026

Sat, Jun 13th 2026 11:00 pm - 11:00 pm Sun, Jun 14th 2026

RI Convention 2026

The big gathering of the Rotary year. Taipei for 2026. Fun, fellowship and kimchi with rice cakes.

Weekly meeting

Wed, Jun 17th 2026 5:30 pm

Weekly meeting

Justine Swinscoe telling us about Huntington's Disease.

Team Meeting evening

Wed, Jun 24th 2026 5:30 pm

Team Meeting evening

News from all Teams about their current and future activities.

Weekly meeting

Wed, Jun 24th 2026 5:30 pm

Weekly meeting

This meeting will take place at Broughton Sanctuary/Utopia with our host for the evening Roger Tempest.

District Handover

Sun, Jun 28th 2026 11:45 am

District Handover

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Venue: The Bridge Hotel & Spa, Walshford LS22 5HS Time: 12 noon to 16.00'ish
All Outgoing and Incoming Presidents, the District Team, PDG's, Inner Wheel representatives plus all partners. are invited to celebrate 2025/2026 and the new year of 2026/27.

Presidential Handover

Wed, Jul 1st 2026 5:30 pm

Presidential Handover

Out with the old and in with the new! Our President for 2026-27, Ian Carling, will be installed. Venue The Tempest.
And the new RI President pictured, Olayinka Hakeem Babalola, a member of the Rotary Club of Trans Amadi - Port Harcourt, Nigeria, begin

Meetings & Venue

Where and when:

We meet on Wednesdays at 17.30 for 18.00

(5th Wed's are usually elsewhere with partners. See 'Meetings & Events' calendar above. 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
W3W:  ///distracts.swim.mops

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