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Rotary Club of Cirencester - welcome! Please scroll/swipe down through this page to find out more about us, in addition to the pages linked in the menu, top-left.
Join us in Rotary
Join us to make a difference and have fun doing it! **Listen to Peter Todd's Corinium Radio interview. See details below**
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Rotary equips preschool in Sierra Leone - Coronavirus update
Photo update of start and progress. Also listen to an enthusiastic interview with our Project Leader, Nurse Lynn Adlington + See Rotary Round-up bulletin's report
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Do you recall what we did this time last year?? RIAT 2019
19, 20 & 21 JULY Programme selling activities @ RIAT - A full set of photos from the final day, Sunday 21st July available via the link below.
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Not the Newsletter
... gives a photographic round-up of some Club events and other items of interest from October to December.
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The Thames Path Challenge: 184 miles walked in 16 days & £2,200 raised
ALAN RICE-SMITH has organised this fundraising appeal on behalf of ROTARY CLUB OF CIRENCESTER TRUST FUND. Donations eligible for Gift Aid. Over £2,500 raised!
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Cirencester Rotary Club and Corinium Radio
Listen to a recent interview with our President Mark Wilton, and past Rotary interviews and in particular, Alan Welsford about the History of the Club.
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CIRENCESTER ‘LOCKDOWN UNLOCKED’ CHARITY PHOTO COMPETITION
Cirencester Rotary Club is running a fun digital photo competition for charity, to showcase a wide variety of meaningful images captured throughout this extraordinary Covid-19 lockdown period.
Your ‘picture can paint a thousand words’ and this competition is open to three age groups: (1) under 11, (2) 12 – 18, (3) 19 – 109 years! Entries can be made online via this Cirencester Rotary Club Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/Cirencester-Rotary-Club-108689144196261/ where images will be uploaded (after admin approval). A suggested minimum donation of £5 via Facebook Fundraising, will be divided equally between this year’s two chosen local charities, The Big Yellow Bus Project (Registered Charity No. 1186515) and Cotswold Counselling (Registered Charity No. 1108979).
There will be cash prizes offered for each category, 10% of monies raised. Entries are accepted from now until August 31st 2020.
Please choose a photo that you have taken during Lockdown, save as a JPG file and send to Cirencester Rotary Club Lockdown Unlocked Photo Competition enter via the Facebook page giving the following information:
Name: ………………………………….…………..
Age (or category): …………………………….
Brief Description of Picture: ……………..
Entry donation: Y/N
Contact details from Facebook or Email entries will be used by Cirencester Rotary Club to notify winners.
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May 2020 - COVID-19 Rotarians Help The Local CommunityThe COVID-19 pandemic has meant that the members of Cirencester Rotary Club can no longer meet face to face. However thanks to modern technology they have continued to get together via Zoom, social media and telephone conversations.
As part of their response to the crisis they have decided to focus on what could be done to assist local groups who are having to deal with depleted funds during these challenging times.
To get started, the Club members have agreed to donate their regular payment for tea meetings to Cirencester Foodbank. In addition individual Rotarians have been asked, if they wish, to donate directly to the Foodbank some of the money that they would normally spend on the fortnightly Rotary Dinners.
As the Club cannot organise formal fund raising events they have also decided to use some of their Charitable Reserves to help the Sue Ryder Hospice and Longfield Hospice Care.
Club President Mark Wilton said “ We are part of one of the largest Community Service Organisations in the World and as such we respond to the difficulties and challenges faced by this pandemic crisis”
A spokeman for the Cirencester Foodbank said “ This is a very generous donation given the circumstances we find ourselves in.Since lockdown the bank had distributed more meals in one week than in the previous month.”
Cirencester Rotary Club Rotary is a local club for local people who want to make a difference.
Rotary's motto is "service above self" and that is the bond which ties together the members of the Club. Members give their time to a range of fundraising activities enabling Rotary to support charities in the local area and to help people abroad when disaster strikes.
The Cirencester club was founded in 1929 by people seeking to help others and each other; today it has the same ideals for all its members, both men and women. Members meet regularly (most Wednesday evenings) at the Royal Agricultural University.
Cirencester Rotary Club is part of Rotary International which has a worldwide membership of some1.2 million members; there is an international Charity, The Rotary Foundation which is rated as one of the top five not-for-profit organisations in the world and is heavily involved in the End Polio Now international campaign.
Please take the time to look at what we do and, hopefully, what we can do for you!Mark Wilton - Cirencester Rotary Club President 2020 - 2021.
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Date
Meeting
15.07.20
CLUB ZOOM MEETING 5pm
Gerry Watkins
Gerry will be talking to us about the
Big Yellow Bus project.
22.07.20
CLUB ZOOM MEETING 5pm
Stephen Segar talk
Stephen will talk about his past business life and his involvement with Westonbirt Arboretum
29.07.20
CLUB ZOOM MEETING 5pm
Zoe Wolton
Zoe will be talking to us about her charity Cotswold Counselling
05.08.20
ZOOM
12.08.20
CLUB ZOOM MEETING 5pm
Martin Kingston
Is the Law an Ass
19.08.20
ZOOM
26.08.20
CLUB ZOOM MEETING 5pm
Jan Mosiewcz.
Sibling War Heroes 1939-45
His family is of Polish origin and he will talk of two very different but heroic journeys in the Second World War, His nominated charity would be UNICEF
02.09.20
ZOOM
09.09.20
ZOOM
16.09.20
CLUB ZOOM MEETING 5pm
Murry Jacobs
Virtual Zoom tour of the Must-Sees of Cambridge, He is a Cambridge Green Badge Guide and he will be taking us round all of the major sights and with lots of historical information.
23.09.20
ZOOM
30.09.20
ZOOM
07.10.20
CLUB ZOOM MEETING 5pm
Jeremy Prescott
About the Sinking of the British Troop Ship ‘SS Laconia’ in 1942 off the west coast of Africa by a German U Boat and the recue of some of the survivors.
14.10.20
ZOOM
21.10.20
ZOOM
28.10.20
ZOOM
04.11.20
ZOOM
11.11.20
CLUB ZOOM MEETING 5pm
Paul Barnett.
His talk is entitled “Route on the Riviera-Exercise Tiger-The Slapton Sands Disaster”
Its about tragic events of the night of April 28th1944, an exercise in preparation for the D Day landings that went very wrong.
18.11.20
ZOOM
25.11.20
ZOOM
02.12.20
ZOOM
09.12.20
ZOOM
16.12.20
ZOOM
23.12.20
ZOOM
30.12.20
ZOOM
DATE
MEETING & VENUE
STEWARD
GRACE
SPEAKER
06.01.21
Tea meeting Plough 6.15
13.01.21
Guest Night RAU KRR 7.30pm
20.01.21
Business Meeting. RAU. Lecture Theatre 6.15pm,
27.01.21
Members Dinner RAU. 7.30pm
Date
Meeting
15.07.20
CLUB ZOOM MEETING 5pm
Gerry Watkins
Gerry will be talking to us about the
Big Yellow Bus project.
22.07.20
CLUB ZOOM MEETING 5pm
Stephen Segar talk
Stephen will talk about his past business life and his involvement with Westonbirt Arboretum
29.07.20
CLUB ZOOM MEETING 5pm
Zoe Wolton
Zoe will be talking to us about her charity Cotswold Counselling
05.08.20
ZOOM
12.08.20
CLUB ZOOM MEETING 5pm
Martin Kingston
Is the Law an Ass
19.08.20
ZOOM
26.08.20
CLUB ZOOM MEETING 5pm
Jan Mosiewcz.
Sibling War Heroes 1939-45
His family is of Polish origin and he will talk of two very different but heroic journeys in the Second World War, His nominated charity would be UNICEF
02.09.20
ZOOM
09.09.20
ZOOM
16.09.20
CLUB ZOOM MEETING 5pm
Murry Jacobs
Virtual Zoom tour of the Must-Sees of Cambridge, He is a Cambridge Green Badge Guide and he will be taking us round all of the major sights and with lots of historical information.
23.09.20
ZOOM
30.09.20
ZOOM
07.10.20
CLUB ZOOM MEETING 5pm
Jeremy Prescott
About the Sinking of the British Troop Ship ‘SS Laconia’ in 1942 off the west coast of Africa by a German U Boat and the recue of some of the survivors.
14.10.20
ZOOM
21.10.20
ZOOM
28.10.20
ZOOM
04.11.20
ZOOM
11.11.20
CLUB ZOOM MEETING 5pm
Paul Barnett.
His talk is entitled “Route on the Riviera-Exercise Tiger-The Slapton Sands Disaster”
Its about tragic events of the night of April 28th1944, an exercise in preparation for the D Day landings that went very wrong.
18.11.20
ZOOM
25.11.20
ZOOM
02.12.20
ZOOM
09.12.20
ZOOM
16.12.20
ZOOM
23.12.20
ZOOM
30.12.20
ZOOM
DATE
MEETING & VENUE
STEWARD
GRACE
SPEAKER
06.01.21
Tea meeting Plough 6.15
13.01.21
Guest Night RAU KRR 7.30pm
20.01.21
Business Meeting. RAU. Lecture Theatre 6.15pm,
27.01.21
Members Dinner RAU. 7.30pm
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Where and when:
(1st and 3rd Wednesdays - 6.15pm Tea and Business Meeting, these meetings last about an hour. 2nd Wednesday - 7.30pm Members and Guests evening with meal and Speaker. 4th Wednesday - 7.30pm Members Dinner with Speaker.)
Royal Agricultural University, Stroud Road, Cirencester, GL76JS 01285 652531
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