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District 1120 Handover 2025
Sun 29th June Annual District 1120 Handover from retiring DG Brian Dunne to Incoming DG Penny Spiller at the Great Danes Hotel
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District Conference 2025/26
Sat 25th October Combined District 1120 &1130 Conference in Eastbourne
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Physionet collections
Monday 1st July 2024 - Monday 30th June 2025
RC Chestfield Our ongoing collection of Medical Aids in support of Physionet
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Tereo School Project - South Africa
Monday 2nd December 2024 - Wednesday 31st December 2025
RC Chestfield A joint venture with our contact Rotary Club in South Africa - Helderberg Sunrise Rotary – Somerset West, South Africa
moreSt Christopher's FUNWALK 2025
Sunday 11th May 2025
RC Bromley Game Changers You can choose to walk 3, 5, 8 or 11 miles on the day – whatever works best for you. But whatever distance you choose, it’s always more fun with friends and family so please encourage them to come along too!
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St Christopher's FUN WALK
Sunday 11th May 2025
RC Bromley Borough Volunteers required to help with marshalling.
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Thanet Schools Young Artist Festival 2025
Monday 12th May 2025 - Saturday 17th May 2025
RC Margate Annual schools arts festival encouraging young people to embrace art. Further details: https://www.facebook.com/share/12HpeDWqEqX/?mibextid=wwXIfr
A Concert in Aid of Community Hospice
Saturday 17th May 2025
RC Sidcup Presented by The Rotary Club of Sidcup in collaboration with Bexley Music, Sidcup Inner Wheel, and St Lawrence’s RC Church
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10th Anniversary Charity Dragon Boat Challenge
Sunday 25th May 2025
RC Medway Sunlight We return for our annual Charity Dragon Boat Challenge - over £110,000 raised for charity ! See the Dragon Boat Challenge pages for details.
Beachy Head Lighthouse Challenge TV
Sunday 25th May 2025
RC Eastbourne AM This year’s Lighthouse Challenge is on Sunday 25th May for more details click here: https://www.rotary-ribi.org/clubs/page.php?PgID=911717&ClubID=1859
Speaker Meeting & Lunch
Friday 30th May 2025
RC Maidstone Once again we invite you to come along for a great speaker and lovely two course meal. We have secured the amazing talent of 'Tony Harris' who will be manifesting as The Right Honourable Margaret Thatcher. Book by calling 07770 738041
Rotary South East (UK) & Gibraltar
68 Clubs Making A Difference
We have 68 great Rotary Clubs in Rotary District 1120; stretching from South East London, along the Kent and Sussex coasts and also including Gibraltar. We are 1,650 men and women; all having fun whilst serving our communities and making a difference worldwide.
What We Do
We like to meet people, socialise and have fun together whilst doing good in the world.
We apply our leadership and expertise to solve social issues. We raise funds and manage projects both locally in our own communities and also overseas to promote peace, alleviate poverty, support education, fight disease, provide clean water and address poor sanitation.
Since the mid eighties Rotary, together with the World Health Organisation and other partners, has also been at the forefront of the battle to eradicate polio from the world.
Looking for a new opportunity?
Rotary is not just a club that you join. It is an invitation to endless opportunities. Rotary opens opportunities for you to serve in a project as big and historic as End Polio Now or in a small community project where you plant a tree to help the environment. Everything we do opens another opportunity for someone, somewhere.
If you think Rotary could be for you we would love to hear from you soon. Just email membership@rotarysoutheast.org.
Supporting The Environment
Supporting the Environment has become Rotary's 7th Area of Focus.
More than $18 million in Foundation global grant funding has been allocated to environment-related projects over the past five years. Creating a distinct area of focus to support the environment will give Rotary members even more ways to bring about positive change in the world and increase our impact.
Polio Latest
Updated 25th April 2025
Our flagship project of Polio eradication continues with only two Polio endemic countries Pakistan and Afghanistan. The head line figurers year to date are:
Afghanistan 2 cases in 2025
Wild poliovirus is still circulating in Pakistan and Afghanistan. Last year, the variant poliovirus was detected in a few previously polio-free countries — a stark reminder that if polio exists anywhere, it’s a threat everywhere.
The concern with natural disasters and ongoing conflicts in many parts of the world is that immunisation rates are dropping. Cases of Vaccine Derived Polio are quickly jumped on with targeted vaccinations but the only answer is total eradication and we are so close. The development of novel vaccines using the technology developed in COVID now stops the transmission of Vaccine derived cases. Please support End Polio Now Five Key Facts On Polio:
1. Polio mainly affects children under age 5.
2. There is no cure, but polio is preventable with a vaccine.
3. Only two countries continue to show new cases of wild polio virus
4. We’ve reduced cases by 99.9% since 1988.
5. Until we end polio forever, every child is at risk.
