Club Diary, Programme & Duties

Rotary Club of Bridge of Allan and Dunblane
				Last Updated by	SB	05/05/2021

Thursday Meetings	Club Schedule	Detail	Visitor Host	Door & Set up	Events & District Meetings	Additional Detail
06/05/2021	Lifetime Travels- Peter Ireland (Rotary Club of Callander)	Travels in North Sudan		Rod Jones (Zoom meeting) login from 6.45pm. Meeting starts 7pm
13/05/2021	Business Meeting			Rod Jones (Zoom meeting) login from 6.45pm. Meeting starts 7pm
20/05/2021	Kilmarnock Rotary Club-George English	"2020 was the 400th Anniversary of the voyage of the Mayflower, though many events have been held over until 2021. George English had an ancestor, Richard Warren, who was a passenger in 1620. His talk covers the events during the Reformation which led to the Pilgrims leaving for the New World; the voyage itself and the impact the Mayflower has had on Western civilisation. George has completed at least 50 online presentations to clubs during 2020."		Rod Jones (Zoom meeting) login from 6.45pm. Meeting starts 7pm
27/05/2021	Walking Treasure Hunt	Followed by Bar supper		Time and location - Hopefully Westlands
01/06/2021	Council Meeting
03/06/2021	Club Assembly
10/06/2021	Outdoor Quiz Night	Westlands Hotel
17/06/2021	Business Meeting				AM AM Monday 21/6/2021	Dunblane New Golf Club
24/06/2021	"Reflections on writing “The Nurse Who Found Herself In 1916”- Sally Lawton	Sally has been a nurse educator for over 30 years and she has always been fascinated by nursing in World War 1 and this led her to write “The Nurse Who Found Herself In 1916”. Her presentation covers her reflections on writing this book and draws comparisons between nursing then and now.
01/07/2021	Club Handover
06/07/2021	Council Meeting
08/07/2021	Mercy Ships- Debbie Hodge	Mercy Ships (a faith-based international development organisation that deploys hospital ships to some of the poorest countries in the world, delivering vital, free healthcare to people in desperate need
15/07/2021	Business Meeting
22/07/2021
29/07/2021	Keep Scotland Beautiful- Barry Fisher	Barry is the CEO of Keep Scotland Beautiful, based in Stirling.
03/08/2021	Council Meeting
05/08/2021
12/08/2021	Dr.Peter Gordon- "Bridge of Allan's Orchards".	This is the story of the Scott family of fruit-growers and jam makers of Carluke, who moved into BofA in Victorian times, and planted extensive orchards which continued to thrive until the 1960s. Dr Peter Gordon is a direct descendant of the family.
19/08/2021	Business Meeting
26/08/2021	Club Member Peter Williams	"Rotary and Toastmasters International"
02/09/2021	"Evidence for changing sea levels on the River Forth"-Murray Cook	Murray has recently been excavating in Bridge of Allan, and has found old oyster shells which have now been dated to over 6000 years old (ie from a time when the sea covered lower BofA). Murray is, of course, Stirling Council's archaeologist and has spoken to the club more than once before, last time about the Atlantic Wall on Sheriffmuir.
07/09/2021	Council Meeting
09/09/2021
16/09/2021	Business Meeting
23/09/2021
30/09/2021
05/10/2021	Council Meeting
07/10/2021
14/10/2021	Business Meeting
21/10/2021
28/10/2021