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In the next 30 days...
The Long Ride
Saturday 1st July 2023 - Sunday 30th June 2024
RC Bexhill This year President James Slinn is setting himself the target or riding 2,500 miles to raise funds for Dementia Information and Support Courses CIC (DISC) and Sara Lee Trust
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Thanet Schools Young Artist Festival 2024
Thursday 22nd February 2024 - Sunday 19th May 2024
RC Margate Rotary Club of Margate presents the 15th annual Thanet Schools Young Artist Festival.
Tereo School Project - South Africa
Monday 4th March 2024 - Friday 27th December 2024
RC Chestfield A joint venture with our contact Rotary Club in South Africa - Helderberg Sunrise Rotary – Somerset West, South Africa
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World Cruise Quiz
Friday 19th April 2024
RC Isle of Thanet Sunrise Teams of up to eight people. You can attend dressed in the style is optional.
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*** Fashion Show ***
Monday 22nd April 2024
RC Senlac An exciting evening of fashion & fun hosted by Travelling Trends. A ladies night out with a difference! Live CATWALK SHOW plus ample time to try and buy.
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'Coming Home' Opera Evening
Saturday 27th April 2024
RC Margate An evening of Opera in aid of Oasis Domestic Abuse charity and QEQM League of Friends
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Bluebell Walk
Wednesday 1st May 2024
RC Heathfield & Waldron Venue: Bates Green Farm, Tye Hill Road, Arlington, Polegate BN26 6SH Since 1972 the Arlington Bluebell Walk and Farm Trail has developed into seven interesting walks over three working farms involving local charities.
20th Anniversary Celebrations - 6th May 2024
Sunday 5th May 2024 - Monday 6th May 2024
RC Chestfield Our Club celebrates its 20th Anniversary this year on 6th May 2024.
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20th May 2024 - 20th Anniversary Celebrations
Monday 6th May 2024
RC Chestfield Our 20th Anniversary Charter Celebrations
morePresident's Night
Saturday 11th May 2024
RC Rochester Visiting members of our Contact club of Slagese in Denmark will join us and other guests for Dinner and Swinging 60's live band at River Valley Golf Club, Upchurch
Kench Hill Activity Centre
Friday 17th May 2024 - Sunday 19th May 2024
RC Medway The Rotary Club of Medway are funding an activity workshop weekend for children and young people with Downs Syndrome and their families. This is being carried out in conjuction with 21 Together the Downs Syndrome charity.
Rotary South East (UK) & Gibraltar
72 Clubs Making A Difference
We have 72 great Rotary Clubs in Rotary District 1120; stretching from South East London, along the Kent and Sussex coasts and also including Gibraltar. We are 1,800 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 12th April 2024Our 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 new cases in 2024 (6 cases in 2023)
Pakistan 2 new case in 2024 (6 cases in 2023)
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.
The fight continues ....
