GSE Visitors

These visitors are part of Rotary International’s Group Study Exchange, a flagship program of The Rotary Foundation intended to extend the goodwill and sharing of knowledge and experiences of young people to achieve the goals of the Foundation worldwide. They have been in the UK for three weeks and been hosted by other Rotary Clubs all of which had extensive programmes for them

The four, Mss Kim Bush & Larissa Chadwick, together with Steve Hefferman & Nicholas Duell , were selected and sponsored by Rotary Clubs in Australia, District 9710, which includes Canberra itself & the Capital Territory, and the South Eastern corner of New South Wales. They were led by Tony Rolfe, President of the Rotary Club of Queanbeyan, who works for the Federal government  in Canberra. All of them have been lodged with local Club Rotarian families.

 At the end of their week, on Friday last, Club members were hosts to a farewell Rally for the GSE Team, who were returning to Australia the following Day. Additionally, the meeting was supported by the Rotary District Governor David Buckland, and representatives from over 10 other Rotary Clubs, involved in their four week visit.

 The team thanked their hosts and expressed their gratitude to Rotary for enabling them to visit places of their dreams, such as Windsor Castle, Eton College, The Stables of the Household Cavalry, The London Eye, Tate Modern, Houses of Parliament, a Covent Garden performance etc.

 Individually, they had made vocational visits associated with their professional lives, to gain an insight into the British approach to Human Fertilization, Policing in 21^st Century, Youth Community and Olympic Dressage Activities, by visits to the Wellcome Trust,  Show Jumping Stables, and Scotland Yard.