District Awards

The following awards were announced at the District Council Meeting in Perth on 15th September 2024.

Awards for Rotary Year 2023 -2024 were presented by Immediate Past District governor (IPDG) Jim Hatter & District Governor Elect (DGE) Graham Leith. The projects were selected from those entered in Rotary Showcase by 20 Clubs across the District, resulting in 167 projects being highlighted. Members are encouraged to check the Service Project Centre to see all. Congratulations to the winners:

Best Environmental Project: KILRYMONT ST. ANDREWS: Although this sounds like a simple project it is important in maintaining contact with the local community and showing how Rotary cares.  In conversation with the management at their local community hub this club became aware that the appearance of the grounds around the hub is important in encouraging people to want to use the hub so they took on the job of maintaining and improving the grounds. Read More

Top Increase in Membership: With a Net Increase of 6 members over 23/24, the winner of the Top Membership Increase award is ABOYNE & UPPER DEESIDE

Best Youth Project: ELGIN: This project works with the local Primary Schools to get Christmas gifts for children who might not get much at Christmas time.  Locations are selected in the local towns and villages where they erect a Christmas Tree and hanging on the tree are Angels. These angels have a note of a gift for a child, whether its boy or girl and a rough idea of what the child may like. Members of the community select the Angel and buy for that child, then return the gift to the location. Gifts are wrapped and passed out to the schools for the children.  Supporting over 122 children who received Christmas presents, and 19 families who received goody bags of snacks and sweets. Read More

Innovation in Recruitment: ELGIN For not only developing a strategy that actively focuses on trying to recruit new members at every event they do and every time they are facing the public, but most importantly actively encouraging all their members to carry it out at every opportunity.

Best Foundation Project: ALLOA: On World Polio Day on 24th October, this club transformed a local park into a giant classroom, and 70 young people and Staff from local schools made their way in groups around a circuit in the park. They visited six stations, at each of which a Rotarian was ready to give them information about just what polio is, why it is a problem and what we are doing to get rid of it once and for all from the planet. Each group built up a folder of information which they were then able to take back to school with them to spread the message to other pupils and hopefully also others at home. The day finished with all the pupils having their pinkie marked purple, which as you all know is the international sign that a young person has been vaccinated. This is a massive undertaking, but we look forward to the world being polio-free in the very near future.  

Best International Project: ALLOA: Addressing the Rotary area of Focus of Water, sanitation, and hygiene over £20K has been raised and transferred so far to Support RC Warsaw City and RC Milan in their water purifier project in Ukraine. The winning club is also cooperating with the clubs in Milan and Warsaw to get a global grant for their Water Aid project. So far, this joint effort has culminated in a funding package of $183,000, enabling seven water purifiers to be despatched to Ukraine, where they will improve the quality of life of many suffering people.  

Best Community Project: ALFORD AND DISTRICT: This Project was set up under the Warm Welcome UK initiative "Warm Spaces" in Partnership with a local Church to provide access for a social space where people who might be socially isolated and lonely could meet weekly during the winter months from October to March.  They could enjoy free food and hot drinks and good company. The project was to be manned by a team of 5 initially, and would be open weekly on a Wednesday from end of October till end of March the following year. Benefiting anyone who felt lonely or isolated and providing a networking service to spread awareness of local services and other community information.