Toasting Rotary Clubs

Our Toast List to the Rotary Clubs of:

Date of Toast

Replies from Clubs

October 2020

Newcastle Under Lyme

28/10/2020

The banner was presented to us by Rotarian Derek Broome (PDG – 9210) on the 31st March 2010 with the compliments of the then President Roger Garland and members.

November 2020

Brentwood

04/11/2020

Hello Simon, Thank you so much for your email and what an inspiring idea. We do have associations with other clubs around the World and their members have joined our regular weekly meetings on the odd occasion – especially now that we can only Zoom in to the meeting. It does have some silver linings. I will be informing the club at our meeting next Tuesday that I have received this email from you and will be raising the suggestion that we follow suit.  Any idea that reminds us of our history and International connections is a good one in my mind. Thanks again and kind regards, John Stephenson PHF, Secretary.

Kloof, South Africa

04/11/2020

Hi Rod, What a coincidence. Last night at our Rotary Club of Kloof meeting, we raised a glass and drank a toast to your club. I told our members about your contact with SA and having visited our club, and a bit about your club and also how well SA Virologist Nicola Brink has done. I believe she has received an award recently. So thanks for the toast. Stay well. Warm regards, Reg Courtney, President.

Please click HERE to learn more about RC Kloof.

Shanklin

11/11/2020

Cheers from Shanklin Rotary from Lyn Fleming, President Elect

Bradford West

25/11/2020

Many thanks for your contact and for kindly toasting us at your regular meeting. Due to COVID we have been unable to meet face to face since March but continue to meet via Zoom. I will report your communication at our regular Thursday pm meeting today. Once again many thanks. Brian Marshall, Asst. Sec.

December 2020

Ashby-De-La-Zouch

09/12/2020

Thank you very much and greetings from myself as President to all your Presidents and members. What a good idea! I'll share it with my members at our meeting on Thursday evening.

Dingwall

16/12/2020

Thank you for letting us know about your proposal to toast our club at your meeting this evening. In the midst of various difficulties currently prevailing it is warming to receive a message which illustrates the friend ship of Rotary. On behalf of our Club I wish you good fortune for the coming festive season and for 2021. Yours in Rotary, Hugh A. MacKay, President

January 2021

Bristol Breakfast

06/01/2021

Many thanks for your recent email informing us that your Club had given a toast to our Club at your meeting on 6 January. We were delighted to be able to announce this at our meeting on 13 January and we duly reciprocated! We discovered from our membership that a number of them had flown out to Guernsey to visit you and that one of our founder (I think) members had moved to the island, establishing a connection between our two Clubs. Personally, I have very fond memories of Guernsey which I have visited on a number of occasions. First, as a boy scout, my group regularly had our summer camp at a farm at Pleinmont. The story there was that the farmer had been evacuated to our home town (Accrington) during the Second World War and was kind enough to offer us the privilege of camping on his land as a ‘thank you’. We had some truly memorable holidays walking the coast paths and playing in the gun towers in the dark. So much was I enchanted by Guernsey that I subsequently went with a group of sixth form friends and then, after I married, with my wife. Guernsey holds a very special place in my memory and I hope I shall have the opportunity to visit the island again. So, as this year’s President of Bristol Breakfast, I am especially glad to be able to send best wishes to you and your club. John Whittaker, President, Bristol Breakfast Rotary Club

I was the pilot that flew a group of us to your club many years ago. The member who moved to Guernsey was Norman Dewey. I heard that he had been quite poorly and he must be elderly if he’s still alive. Also I know Nick Brown who is/was a member. Regards, Julian Telling.

Weston-super-Mare

20/01/2021

How wonderful that our fellow Rotarians in Guernsey thought of us and raised a glass! We returned the gesture with much friendship today and were delighted to do so. This is a great idea and we are going to adopt it so thank you most sincerely. Yours in Rotary, warm wishes Norma Johnston, President Weston Rotary on behalf of all members of the club.

February 2021

March 2021

Stockton-on-Tees

24/03/2021

Thank you so much for your email which I have now circulated to all our members. Please pass on our kind regards from our President Bill and all our members. I hope everyone and their families are well and keeping safe. Kind regards, David Earnshaw (Hon Sec - Stockton on Tees Rotary Club).

April 2021

Cheadle & District

07/04/2021

Many thanks for your message and greetings from Rotary in Cheadle & District. I must confess that I haven't been to Guernsey although some five years ago I was with a group of Rotary yachters and flyers who enjoyed a long weekend hosted by Rotarians in St Hellier, Jersey. Who knows - when we  get back to be able to travel again we might make it to Guernsey? Best wishes to everyone in the Rotary Club of Guernsey. Yours in Rotary Service, Patrick Tyrrell, Secretary, Rotary Cheadle & District

Rotary Guernesiais

21/04/2021

Thank you for your kind thoughts. Apologies for the delay in responding. We will be certain to return the toast at our next meeting. What a lovely idea. Katie Court. Rotary Guernesiais.

Saddleworth

28/04/2021

Hi Simon, Thanks for your email. The email arrived just in time for our zoom meeting yesterday. Such good timing! It was a pleasure to read it out to our assembled Club at the conclusion of our meeting. Members were delighted to have received your kind and timely greetings. They have asked me to thank you sincerely for your thoughtful actions. It all makes the final toast 'Rotary and Peace the World over' all the more relevant. Thanks again. Clint Elliott. Secretary - Saddleworth Rotary Club.

May 2021

Amesbury

05/05/2021

Sleaford

05/05/2021

Bad-Ischl, Austria

12/05/2021

Halstead

12/05/2021

Combourg - Dol, France

19/05/2021

Bishops Waltham

19/05/2021

Thank you for your messages and for toasting  our  club. It’s a lovely idea and please pass my appreciation and regards to your club.  I will pass your regards on to my club. YIR, Mandy Tourle, BWRC President

Stockholm Farsta, Sweden

26/05/2021

Schwabisch Gmund, Germany

26/05/2021

June 2021

Gately

02/06/2021

St Andrews

02/06/2021

On behalf of the Rotary Club of St Andrews we are humbled to receive a toast of a "Rotary Cheer" from beautiful Guernsey. Please thank all your members for their kind greetings and toast. We give you and your members our very best wishes and hope we will see some of you in St Andrews again before long.  Your golfing members would be very welcome next June to our International Rotary Golf Fellowship Tournament as seen on our web site. We also invite any of your members to join our zoom meeting this Wednesday at 1pm when we will have a presentation by a former St Andrews student who is now a Rotarian in Pennsylvania.  Her presentation "Hop on the Bus" is promoted on Rotary International web site as well as our own.  The link for Wednesday's meeting is    https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85804188096?pwd=MDBEUHFZMGcxaGpPbUp4SkU4RTJPUT09. Just join in the meeting if any of your members are free. Zoom meetings for this past year has enabled us to use 10 former students from our Rotaract Club to give presentations from India, US, Canada, Crete and Turkey. We pinched a minister of the Church of Scotland from Guernsey a few years ago.  Graeme Beebee is minister of St Leonards church where many of our Rotary members worship. As you say Rotary is all about networking locally and internationally. Again please pass on our "Cheers" to all your members. As incoming president for this coming year my slogan is 2 words -----"Have Fun". Colin Mitchell.

Farnborough

09/06/2021

Thank you so much for your email to our club informing us of you displaying our banner at one of your meetings. It is always good to hear from other clubs especially those across the seas!  What a lovely tradition to toast members of other Rotary clubs in other parts of the world. Indeed it reminds us of our international involvement. Please convey our greetings and best wishes to your members from Farnborough. Kind regards, President Katy (Harris)

Mill Hill, London

09/06/2021

Picton - New Zealand

16/06/2021

Eschwege - Germany

16/06/2021

Paignton

23/06/2021

Thank you so much for the greetings from Guernsey, and please pass on our greetings to your members, from what today is a wet and windy Paignton. We are unable to meet as a Rotary Club at the moment because of the current restrictions, but are hopeful for the end of July.  Our Handover will take place next Thursday 1st July when I will be taking over as President from my husband who, has carried us through the the pandemic and been in the ‘hot seat’ for two years. Fingers crossed the weather will improve as this will be happening outside on the beach……or we may end up with some very soggy Rotarians! We have a lot of plans for when we can finally meet as a Rotary Club again and I think we will adopt your ‘tradition’ and resurrect the flags we have been presented with in the past and remember those RCs with a toast at out meetings. We wish you all well in your future endeavours and who knows in the future we may all meet, as one of our ideas is for our RC to socialise by taking trips together. Kind regards, YiRF, Sue Kirkham, Rotary Paignton, President Elect.

Ashby-de-la-Zouch

23/06/2021

Pershore

30/06/2021

Holsworthy (Devon)

30/06/2021

July 2021

Masaka- Uganda

07/07/2021

Larne

07/07/2021

Prague International - Czech Republic

14/07/2021

Thank you so much for being linked with us - happy that we shall be able to toast to your club to on the closest occasion too - Monday July 19th at our regular club meeting with our special toast bringing to attention our two beloved drinks...being produced at a very good quality in the Czech Republic!!! See here: To all of you there from all of us here, in Moravian wine and good Czech beer, from beautiful Prague, with Rotarian cheer! Hope you shall be able to visit and have one of the drinks with members of ou Rotary Club Prague International (RCPI) very soon...Have a very good summer, Helena Kovarikova, RCPI

Victoria - Seychelles

14/07/2021

Bradford

21/07/2021

The Hague Metropolitian - Netherlands

21/07/2021

Greetings to RC of Guernsey from the President and members of RC The Hague Metropolitan. Thank you remembering our Club and displaying our banner. RCTHM is an international club with 27 different nationalities represented between our 43 members. We have a long tradition of completing international projects and like you, we enjoy the international nature of Rotary. We wish RC of Guernsey every success for the future and would be delighted to welcome you to our meeting should you ever come to The Hague. Yours in Rotary, Peter (Mr. Peter Burgess, Secretary RCTHM)

Forest of Dean

28/07/2021

Aberdare

28/07/2021

August 2021

Morriston

04/08/2021

Bristol South

04/08/2021

Uckfield

11/08/2021

Taunton Vale

11/08/2021

Thank you and your club for toasting Taunton Vale. I will ensure that I reciprocate on Monday when we meet. Please send our best wishes to your club including Simon Milsted who I believe to be your past President ( if not apologies). I am often in Guernsey visiting my sister in law (owns Wink) and my nephew (at the Hook) both in St Peter Port. Next time I will look you up and see if you are having a meeting. Kind regards Phil Greenway. President Taunton Vale RC.

RC Rastatt - Baden-Baden - Germany

18/08/2021

Rossendale

18/08/2021

Greetings from Rossendale Rotary Club. Many thanks for letting past president John know about the toast you raised to us the other week. We are getting back together, after keeping going on Zoom for 15 months. Last Weds 25/08 was the second meeting, and I have been asked to return greetings to you and your president. Rossendale is now in its 87th year, a few years younger than yourselves, but by now, well established in the community. Kind Regards, David Walmsley, Secretary.

Bhavnagar - India

25/08/2021

Tempe South - USA (Arizona)

25/08/2021

September 2021

Toowoomba  City - Australia (Queensland)

01/09/2021

Alstonville - Australia (NSW)

01/09/2021

Seaford, East Sussex

08/09/2021

Southampton Magna

08/09/2021

Rotherham

15/09/2021

St Ives

15/09/2021

Warszawa Wilanow, Poland

22/09/2021

Club of Bukoba, Uganda

22/09/2021

St Albans Verulamium

29/09/2021

Birstall Luddites

29/09/2021

October 2021

Umhlanga, South Africa

06/10/2021

Chard

06/10/2021

Holmfirth

13/10/2021

Saint Brieuc, France

13/10/2021

Sevenoaks

20/10/2021

Biel-Buttenberg, Switzerland

20/10/2021

Evanston Lighthouse, USA

27/10/2021

Tulln, Austria

27/10/2021

Dingolfing, Germany

03/11/2021

Wallingford

03/11/2021