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Christmas Celebration at St Mary in Castro on 14th December 2025
Saturday 16th August 2025 - Monday 15th December 2025
RC South Foreland The Rotary Club of South Foreland is supporting the Reverend Peter Sherred and his wife Mary in organising a Christmas Celebration of religious and secular songs and readings at the Church of St Mary in Castro.
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Riverside Church - Holiday Hunger Project
Thursday 28th August 2025 - Friday 31st October 2025
RC Chestfield Provision of food for families in need during the school holidays
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Celebrating Derrick Downs
Monday 22nd September 2025 - Wednesday 22nd October 2025
RC Margate Rotarian Derrick Downs celebrated at the Kent Charity Awards 2025
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Friday 17th October 2025
RC Eastbourne At Eastbourne Royal Golf Course see website www.eastbournerotary.org.uk for details
Xmas Toy Collection
Saturday 25th October 2025
RC Chestfield Collection of good condition used toys and local school clothing to go to those in need at Xmas
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Autumn Charity Quiz Night
Saturday 15th November 2025
RC Chestfield Our every popular Autumn Quiz Night - come along and join us
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65 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.
