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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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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Welcome from President Nicky Shoesmith

Welcome from President Nicky Shoesmith

Our President for the Rotary year 2023/4 is Nicky Shoesmith

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Eco Day 2024

Eco Day 2024

Help save the planet and have a great day out with the family. Saturday 27th April.

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Mary's Meals

Mary's Meals

Mary's Meals is a global charity that serves life-changing school meals to some of the world’s poorest children to help towards their education.
Donations direct to Mary's Meals always welcome.

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Sand Dams - Build project at Kwainyoe, Kenya.

Sand Dams - Build project at Kwainyoe, Kenya.

Our District, together with D1010, D1145 and D1190 raised funds to enable a new dam and agricultural development to be built in the Dry Lands of Kenya with the support of African Sand Dam Foundation and Sand Dams Worldwide.

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About us


Skipton Rotary Club

For nearly one hundred years we have 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.

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 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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Rotary Young Artist & Photographer Exhibition

Fri, Feb 23rd 2024 11:00 am - 4:00 pm Sat, Mar 30th 2024

Rotary Young Artist & Photographer Exhibition

Celebrate the creativity of young people in the Craven district. Venue is Craven Arts House, 55 Otley Street, Skipton. The exhibition is open Wed - Saturday 11am to 4pm at Craven Arts House between Friday 23rd February and Saturday 30th March.

Charter Night

Wed, Mar 20th 2024 7:00 pm

Charter Night

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On behalf of President Nicky, you are cordially invited to attend our 94th Charter Dinner. The event is being held at the Coniston Hotel on 20th March, 7.00pm for 7.30pm. The dinner is open to guests and partners. The cost is £26 per person.

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Weekly meeting

Wed, Mar 27th 2024 5:45 pm

Weekly meeting

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Dr. Brian Fisher - The Health Service

AGM & Business Meeting

Wed, Apr 3rd 2024 5:45 pm

AGM & Business Meeting

Elect your new Council.

Wed, Apr 10th 2024 4:45 pm

Weekly meeting

Zoe Sharpe - speaking about Financial Crime and Scams.

Weekly meeting

Wed, Apr 17th 2024 5:45 pm

Weekly meeting

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Gary Fielding from North Yorks. Council - Re-organization!

Meetings & Venue

Where and when:

We meet on Wednesdays at 17.30 for 18.00

(The refurbishment of the Tempest Arms is now completed and we returned there June 2023. 5th Wed's are usually elsewhere with partners. Please mail all apologies and guests to - apologiesandguests@skiptonrotary.org ) 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.

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