Introducing the Rotary Club of Leicester

Officers and Committees, 2009- 2010

Club Constitution and By-Laws

Presidential Address and Work Programme for 2009 - 2010

Neigbouring Clubs (Rotary District 1070)

Information on the History of the Club:

History of the Rotary Club of Leicester,
1916 - 2000

"...one of England's best..." From the 1934 Journal of Paul Harris, Founder of Rotary, recording his visit to the Rotary Club of Leicester

Recollections of Leicester Rotary, 1939, by Founder Member Robert Holt

Eighty-eight years of Rotary meetings and meeting places in Leicester by Patrick Boylan, 2006 

Club distinctions

Rotary Links:

Rotary International

R.I.B.I.

District 1070

Inner Wheel District 7 (East Midlands)

Rotary Club of Guimaraes, Portugal (Leicester's Twin Club)

Visiting other Clubs: Search engine to find where 33,000 Rotary Clubs meet worldwide

General Leicester & Leics. Information

Leicester City Council

Leicestershire County Council

Leicester Mercury

Leicestershire Chamber of Commerce

President for the 2009-10: Patrick Boylan 

Download President Patrick Boylan's Presidential Address and Work Programme for 2009 - 2010

The 2009 - 2010 theme of RI President John Kenny of Edinburgh

Members meet each Monday lunchtime (except Bank Holidays) in the city centre at the Ramada Leicester Hotel (formerly the Grand Hotel and then the Ramada Jarvis Leicester Hotel), Granby Street, Leicester, LE1 6SE (tel. 0844 815 9012).  (Click here for location and travel directions, including a Google Map)

Visiting Rotarians and guests meet from 12 noon in the bar, with a two course lunch available for collection from the Servery from 12.30 pm onwards (last serving of main course at 1. 05 pm).  At 1.15 pm we have a speaker who gives us an insight into many and varied aspects of our community and international issues, and the formal close of the meeting is at 1.45 pm, though members and guests are encouraged remain for fellowship to 2 pm if business or professional commitments permit this.

To assist with the catering, will visiting Rotarians and other visitors please inform the Club by 10 am. on our Visitors and Apologies Telephone Line: (tel. 0116-242.5350) 

 9^th November: Heather Broughton, Head of Heritage and Countryside, Leicestershire County Council: "Watermead Country Park development"

16^th November: First Business Meeting, including Election of Principal Officers for 2010- 2011

 23^rd November: Ann Height, Chief Executive Apex Leicester: "Working with offenders and ex-offenders”

30^th November: Byron Rhodes, Chairman Leicestershire Police Authority: “Why the Police Authority is important”

 7^th December:  Our own member Moira Bartlett and Nanae Hamma, Rotary Foundation Ambassadorial Scholar from Japan studying at Leicester University: “Scholars, counsellors and co-ordinator”

14^th December: Our own member Paul Bonnett: “A life in the day of PSB”

21^st December: Family of Rotary Day: all family and other guests especially welcome for this traditional pre-Christmas event with special guests Fuchs Foundation Fellows Ruth Hollinger and Dr Amy Rogers.  Ruth, a geographer, and Amy, a biologist, were two of the four members of the Fuchs Foundation's four week long 2007 Antarctic Expedition.

(The locally-based Fuchs Foundation commemorates the life and work of explorer Sir Vivian Fuchs, whose 1956-58 Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition inspired a generation of school children. Today the Fuchs Foundation aims to inspire future generations by sending young geography and science teachers to the Polar Regions to do scientific projects the harshest of conditions, and through this inspire their own teaching, that of their colleagues, and encouraging their students to study science and geography.)

28^th December: No meeting (Bank Holiday)

2010

4th January: Annual New Year Address by the Bishop of Leicester, Rt. Rev. Tim Stevens

Saturday 14th November: 6.00pm for 6.30pm. Charity Event organised with Asaf and Freda Hussein at the National Space Centre: An Evening of Intercultural Entertainment, Refreshment and Information to Help END POLIO NOW.

The National Space Centre is in Exploration Drive, LE4 5NS (accessed via Corporation Road, off the A6 Abbey Lane, about a mile north of the City Centre. Plenty of secure, free parking.

Just £20 per person.  Bring family members and friends.  Book your places by contacting Rtn Robert Mansfield on <robertrmansfield@btinternet.com> or tel. 0116.270-8284.

Membership of Rotary is by invitation, but the Rotary Club of Leicester always welcomes enquiries from professional and business men and women and community leaders living and/or working in the City and County:

Click here to e-mail our Membership Committee 
(please make sure to include a phone number with your enquiry)