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About us

 

Club Meetings Suspended

Until further notice the Club will not meet face to face in view of the Covid-19 situation.

All meetings and scheduled events are now being held online and communication will be by phone or e-mail.

  Welcome to the Rotary Club of Tunbridge Wells 

Our Club is part of a worldwide organisation called Rotary International, with more than 1.2 million members in 33,000 clubs. Rotary club members are volunteers who work locally, regionally, and internationally to combat hunger, improve health and sanitation, provide education and job training, promote peace, and eradicate polio under the motto 'Service Above Self'.

Rotarians are men and women who take an active role in their communities while greatly enriching their personal and professional lives. A Rotary club contains a diverse group of people from the community that the club serves. As a member of a Rotary club, you have the opportunity to give something back, to give hope to those less fortunate and to make lives worthwhile and fulfilled.

Martin Atkinson
President


Club Meetings

Like most Rotary Clubs, we meet once a week. For further details about our meeting venue, Royal Wells Hotel:   However, currently we are meeting online until further notice.



 Robin Apps MBE

The Club is delighted to congratulate Robin Apps on the award of an MBE in the 2020 Queen’s Birthday Honours for services to the local community.

Robin first joined Rotary in Tonbridge in 1984 and Tunbridge Wells in 1995, where he has twice been President, having also been a member of Chatham (Treasurer and Vice President) and Ashford Rotary clubs in the interim.

He was a Founder Member of Kentish Vale Round Table in 1972 and has been Treasurer of Kentish Vale 41 Club since 1984.  

In the wider community, he was Finance Trustee (Treasurer) of the Canterbury Oast Trust from 1998 to 2015.  The Trust runs the Rare Breeds Centre at Woodchurch, near Ashford. 

He has been Treasurer of RNLI Pembury/Tonbridge Branch for over 20 years and Finance Director/Treasurer of Tonbridge Angels FC for some ten years - now a life Vice-President.  After Tonbridge Angels, he has been known to support Charlton, Arsenal and even Luton Town!

An accomplished keyboard player, he has been Organist at Pembury Church since 1983 - varying between full time and shared – and has helped out at some other local churches.  He has also been Church Warden at Pembury Church.

In his professional life, Robin was a senior manager with NatWest Bank.  He is married to Rosa and has 2 adult children.

     

 

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Meetings & Venue

Where and when:

We meet on Mondays at 1900
((5th with partners))
The Royal Wells Hotel, Mount Ephraim, Tunbridge Wells


TN4 8BL  01892 511188

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