Message from President Bronwen Moran…………Rotary Theme for the Year is Hope
Key Activities for the Year
Membership Development and Retention.
Public Image.
Projects and Fundraisers.
The Rotary Foundation.
Disaster Management and our links and support of Ukraine and Moldova.
Club Training and Leadership and use of My Rotary
Youth Programs including RYLA and Crucial Crew and possible competitions
Health and Education particularly Mental Health Support
Club Service and Support for Community Initiatives
more John Cooper took over as President on 2nd July. HIs focus for the coming year is membership, membership and membership ! Bronwen was thanked for all her hard work and presented with some flowers on behalf of the club.
more Rotarians Keith, Phil, Mickey, Peter and David gathered early to erect the Gazebo and prepare the stand for Diss and District Rotary at this year’s Carnival. President Bronwen arrived to find it all completed.
more The weather was superb, the garden outstanding and thanks to everyone that supported we raised £2,172.68 for charity
more Please offer help if you are free on these dates. Tuesday 3rd December, The Nest (Norwich) Tuesday 4th March 25, Letton Hall Tuesday 15th July 25 , City College
more Thanks to all our supporters we managed to raise £2400 for our two charities. A brilliant result
more Thanks to everyone that supported us. We raised £1800 plus gift aid £2250 for local charities
more Pancreatic Cancer UK and Norfolk and Waveney MIND were the two charities chosen by Bronwen Moran as her President’s charities during her year of office.
more Slow cookers provided again by Diss & District Rotary Club for Waveney Food Bank
more Thank you to everyone that supported this. We collected approx. £255, add in Gift Aid and then is trebled by the Bill Gates Foundation so in effect approx. £1000. This adds to the efforts from the garden party earlier in the year.
more Diss Rotary have paid £1000 towards the fuel to get an artic load of medical equipment to Ukraine. Photo shows Rotarians ,Brian Earley and Chris Standley of Norfolk Service who has previously taken loads out for us.
more £1638 has been collected and the club has topped this up and donated £1000 each to ShelterBox and Care International to support the humanitarian efforts. Thank you everyone for your support
more Diss and District Rotary Club is pleased to be able to support local man, George Waterman (far left on photo)to attend the week long RYLA development course at Grafham Water.
more Following our move from the Park Hotel to Scole Inn our old Rotary sign has been refurbished and moved.
more The Rotary Club of Diss and District has raised a total of £6,180 in Rotary year 2022/2023 and as such is one of only seventeen Gold Partner Clubs in the UK to achieve this. See Below for the impact this has had globally.
more Rotarians attended a garden party hosted by John and Nusia Cooper in aid of the Rotary International Foundation Appeal for END POLIO NOW. We raised £465.80 equivalent to £1397with the Bill Gates top up.
more The annual garden party again took place in the garden of James and Lyn Kay and the Rotary Club is very grateful to them and to their neighbours The photo shows the Rotarians who returned the next day to clear up.
more Rotarians and Guest visited the 100th Bomb Group Museum at Thorpe Abbots on 29th August. A Fish and Chip supper was arranged along with some 1940 style singing. Thanks to Ken and David H for organising an enjoyable evening.
more Phil Completes 7 laps on hottest day of year. Thank you to everyone that has supported Phil. £1450 and counting.
more President Bronwen and Immediate Past President Peter were recently given a guided tour of the new EACH facility in recognition of the fundraising we do for them.
more President Bronwen formally welcomed back Martin Rickard into the Diss and District Club. Martin has been a member of Rotary for 47 years.
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more A charity golf day at Stowmarket raising money for SARS.
more President Peter was delighted to be able to present Rotarian Alison Bannister with a Paul Harris Fellowship for her outstanding work and commitment to our club.
more President Peter presented Ellie Miller from EACH with £1000 from the Easter Egg Appeal.
more Working with Waveney Foodbank again, we provided cost effective cooking equipment in the shape of slow cookers...
more Ukrainian refugees and a local pianist treated us to some Operatic songs
more Club support for Moldova
more Following the disastrous floods in Pakistan, the club has been raising funds to help support ShelterBox