Tottington & Bury West Rotary Club

Note there will be no face-to-face meetings until we get the All Clear from the Covid-19 pandemic crisis. Until then we have regular meetings on Zoom: please contact if you require details.

When we do, guests will be most welcome at any of the meetings/projects on 2nd, 3rd and 4th Wednesdays (meetings on 4th Wednesdays with speaker usually at Greenmount Golf Club, £15 for the meal):

Pat Wall is our President  in 2019-20

Paul Jarvis will be inducted as 2020-21 President at a Zoom meeting on Tuesday 30.6.20

When normal meetings resume we will have a Business meeting for Rotarians on the First Wednesday with other meetings/events/projects on the 2nd, 3rd and 4th weeks of the month open to all.

On 3rd weeks in the month we undertake various community projects, at present including helping out at Pets in Need (Mondays), St John's Garden/churchyard clearance and improvement (most Wednesday mornings if not wet); litter picks 3rd Wednesdays meeting lower end Kirklees Trail 2.30 pm at Brandlesholme Rd. traffic lights. Not if very wet!

Some of us are also helping at Tottington Centre with the voluntary library service to replace that relinquished by the local council in December 2017.

With much help from Tottington Primary School Year 5 we are continuing our project to develop Whitehead Gardens, Tottington . Eventually, we hope to have a pleasanter park to visit and to make it part of a Tottington History Trail. Having now secured pump funding, we will be asking Proffitts to manage extensive funding and progress this scheme. In the meantime we are asking local people for their ideas.

• 2020 Meetings and Events

Over the last year or so we have donated to, or hosted/assisted at, the following:

Christmas dinner/party for Carers, Kids Out for Young Carers, Stroke Awareness Day in the Mill Gate Centre, Mayor's Charity Appeal, Young Musician (for local secondary schools), It's Time4Change, Lancashire Fusiliers Band, Bury 10k Run, Disaster Aid, Meal Pack Rise aganst Hunger, Global Sight Solutions,Wheelchair Foundation, Rotary Youth Leadership Award, Bury Society for Blind and Partially Sighted, Rotary Foundation (including Polio Plus), provided transport to Rotary Disabled Sports, Churches Together Ramsbottom, Francis House and Derian House Children's Hospices, D-CaFF (Greenmount Village Community), Friends of Bury Music Centre, Parkinsons Bury Support Group, North West Air Ambulance, Aontacht Academy,Tottington Centre (for books), Brandlesholme Community Centre, Encore Choir, and MedEquip4Kids.

If you wish to attend a Rotary meeting, can offer your help with projects, or would like further information about joining Rotary please contact me

Pat(rick) Neininger

on: p.neininger@btinternet.com

or on

 07885 492 901