Founded 1916; R.I.B.I. Club No. 13
Trust Fund Charity Registration No. 507525
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Introducing the Rotary Club of Leicester Officers and Committees, 2008 - 2009 Presidential Address and Work Programme for 2008 - 2009 Neigbouring Clubs (Rotary District 1070) Information on the History of the Club: History of 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 Rotary Links: Inner Wheel District 7 (East Midlands) Rotary Club of Guimaraes, Portugal (Leicester's Twin Club) Visiting other Clubs: Search engine to find where 30,000 Rotary Clubs meet worldwide General Leicester & Leics. Information Leicestershire Chamber of Commerce
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President for the 2008 - 2009: Robert Mansfield Read President Robert's Presidential Address and Work Programme for 2008 - 2009
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Dreams Real" is the Rotary Theme for 2008 - 2009 chosen by Our weekly meetings: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)Current Club meetings programme:Monday lunches22nd June: John Florance, BBC, Radio Leicester, 'A Life on the Radio Waves.' 29th June: SECOND BUSINESS MEETING including Secretary's report and Treasurer's report and accounts 6th July: INDUCTION DAY: the new Club President, Patrick Boylan, and Assistant District Governor, Terry Gooding 13th July: Tony Donovan, Executive Director, Age Concern Leicestershire and Rutland: "New opportunities for older people in Leicestershire and Rutland" 20th July: Dave Brazier, Chief Executive STRIDE (the Training, Recycling & Income Development Enterprise and trading arm of the Leicester-based Charity SHARP) 27th July: Caroline Keicher: Rotary Foundation Ambassadorial Scholar studying at De Montfort University: "Grass roots campaign for corporate sustainability".
On 2nd March 2009
Basil Pickford (right) received from Robert Mansfield, President (left), a Rotary Paul
Harris Award Other dates for your diary 2009 Wednesday 10th June: Rotary Kid's Out Day, Wickstead Park Saturday 13th June: Charter Presentation and Dinner of the Leicester Novus Rotary Club, which our Club is sponsoringTuesday 16th June 2009 Golf Match v. The Leicestershire Golf ClubThursday 18th & Friday 19th June: Rotary World Peace Symposium, Birmingham Saturday 20th June: Rotary Foundation 10 Km ("or less"!) Sponsored Fun Run, Birmingham Sunday 21st to Wednesday 24th June: Rotary International's 100th Convention, Birmingham (including "A Night with Rotary" hospitality evening for Convention delegates, Leicester Click here to download RI Convention Programme and Registration Booklet (PDF)Wednesday 8th July: District Council Peterborough Saturday 25th to Friday 31st July: Special Olympics Leicester Saturday 19th September at 7pm in Church Langton Parish Church: charity event for Rotary Foundation and the church in the Church Langton Handel's Messiah Festival: "Handel and Leicestershire" - talk by Patrick Boylan with musical illustrations by Nicola Bigham (soprano), Anne Graf (also), Stephen Foster (bass) and David Cowen (organ)Friday 25th - Sunday 27th September 2009: Hosting Rotary Foundation's national Link Weekend for new Ambassadorial Scholars arriving in the UK to start their studies across Britain (home hospitality required) Becoming a Rotarian Membership of Rotary is by invitation, but the Rotary Club of Leicester always welcomes enquiries from professional and business men and women living and/or working in the City and County:Click here to e-mail our Membership
Committee For general information of the worldwide Rotary movement and its membership see: Rotary International's Information for Prospective Members web page Our Twin Club: Rotary Club of Guimaraes, near Porto, Portugal Michael Archer, the Club's 2006-7 President, and two other members of the Guimaraes Rotary Club visited Leicester in March 2007 following a visit by the President and two other members of our Club in Autumn 2006, in each case to explore the possibility of proceeding to a formal Rotary Twinning arrangement between the Clubs.
In June 2007 the twinning was finalised with an exchange of Twinning Certificates (above) between the two Clubs, and a party from Leicester, led by the President, Derek Goodman, joined the Guimaraes Club in celebrating its 60th Charter Anniversary on Thursday 27th March. The two Clubs have now submitted to the Rotary Foundation for supplementary funding a joint project: to create two "sensory Rooms" for both children and adults with cerebral palsy in a centre in Guimaraes which supports approx. 300 - roughly half children and half adult. One room will provide such things as a musical water bed, pall pool, sound and light panel, bubble columns and a soft play sofa. The second room will provide tactile walls, a massage mat, sol et lumière panels, swing frame and proejctors with music. The total cost is around £35,000, and our Club's share of this will be at least £5,500 (possibly more depending on the exchange rate to the dollar - which is the working currency for Rotary Foundation grants). The Guimaraes Club's Portuguese, English and French website is at: http://www.rotaryguimaraes.org/ Rotary Club of Leicester contacts: Secretary: Bob Collins, 1 Kestrel Close, Leicester Forest East, Leicester, LE3 3NN, tel./fax: 0116-238.7320, E-mail: RB.Collins @ btinternet.com Speaker Finder: John Dean Web Editor: Patrick Boylan Click here for the full list of Officers and Committee Chairmen© 2009, Rotary Club of Leicester. The titles "Rotary" and "Rotary International", and the various Rotary logos and images are © Rotary International Inc. and Rotary International in Great Britain and Ireland. Website last updated: 16th June 2009. Web Editor: Patrick Boylan |
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