The men and women of our club volunteer their time and resources to help others in their local communities and throughout the world.
We held the Wessex Rotary Group 7 final in the Portsmouth Guildhall Debating Chamber by kind permission of the Lord Mayor of Portsmouth, Councillor Cheryl Buggy, who also presented the certificates to the winning teams. The competition has been running for many years and is organised by a variety of Rotary Clubs across the UK. The winners [...]
We would like to thank all the good citizens of Waterlooville who helped us raise £2,000 for local good causes and charities through the street and ASDA collections. This year we decided to re-instigated our street collections using our sleigh, Joss’s big red tractor, father Christmas and his little (and not so little) Elves. This [...]
Well, we had a super Christmas Party on Tuesday! Along with family and friends we enjoyed a lovely Christmas Dinner at the Mead End Inn, complete with balloons, party poppers, streamers and much, much more. One guy at the party was celebrating a special birthday and treated us all to wine to celebrate – how [...]
On the 29 November, our President presented the Paul Harris Fellowship Award to Frank Reynolds for his outstanding support to our club, our local community, fellowship and international projects within Rotary. He was instrumental in partnering with The News in the “Grant A Wish” scheme when two pen friends on either side of the “Iron [...]
ROTARY YOUNG CHEF – 2011 – WATERLOOVILLE AND HAVANT Kelly Wren, a student at South Downs College, won the Waterlooville and Havant round of the Rotary 2011 Young Chef competition held at South Downs College on Saturday 19th November 2011. As well as a cup, certificate and a cookery book, Kelly was presented with a [...]
Well it’s Bonfire Night again, it comes around each year with frightening speed! We had our party, complete with hot dogs, burgers and lots of fireworks. Although it was a cold night, everyone enjoyed themselves thoroughly and we’re all looking forward to another bonfire party next year! This morning we were busy sorting out boxes [...]
It’s getting to that time of year again. Everyone is rushing about trying to get everything done before Christmas! Rotary is no exception. This week, we have the usual meeting on Tuesday but a busy week follows. On Friday, we are collecting shoe boxes from schools around Waterlooville, we then drop them off at the [...]
Internationally, Rotary Clubs have worked tirelessly to buy and administer the vaccine to eradicate polio worldwide. In fact, this has almost been achieved! Members of some Rotary Clubs are going to India this month to help with the National Immunisation Day. The Rotary Organisation pledged to end polio in 1985 and with the help of [...]
President Neil Clifton together with four of our club members and their partners attended the 81st Annual conference of the Rotary Wessex District in Eastbourne over the weekend of the 14 to 16 October 2011. 76 of the 77 club in the Rotary Wessex District attended. The theme of the conference was “What will be [...]
We would like to thank all who took part on Sunday in our Cyclo Sportive and what a fantastic day it was! Over £5,000 was raised for our charity “Action For Blind People”, which is part of the RNIB, and other charities being personally sponsored by some of the riders.
