Rotary Club of Banbury

Dinner & Music at the Whately
How about a meal along with popular arias from well known operas and musicals and a Matt Munro tribute act?
This is what will be taking place at 7:00 for 7:30 the Whately Hall Hotel on Saturday 14th September. Tickets £38pp.inclusive.
Contact [email protected]

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It's the end of the football season and once again local Clubs have supported me with donations of kit to be forwarded to my communities in Sierra Leone
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All my latest news from my projects in Sierra Leone

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Crocodile disrupts canal clear-up! Click link for further details!
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It may look basic BUT it will "Make A Real Difference" to the students at Westminster Community Secondary School, Sierra Leone

Handwash station on new toilet block - Alan's Africa To us washing our hands is so easy but in Sierra Leone when there is no mains water this everyday task is not so easy. At the recently built toilet block at Westminster Community Secondary School we have just completed the installation of a water harvesting system complete with a […]

The very LATEST news from the newly created Westminster Community Secondary School in Sierra Leone

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A huge thank you goes out to Rotary Club of Banbury for their very generous donation of £500!!
This money was raised during Christmas supermarket collections at which several members of the Banbury Social Group helped out.
This money will go a long way towards supporting visually impaired people in Oxfordshire.

Thank you so much for your support!

Photo description: Steve from the Rotary Club presenting the cheque to Janet, our Banbury Social Group's organiser with a member of the social group on either side.

A pleasure welcoming members of the Rotary Club of Banbury to Westminster today for a tour of the Palace.

It was great to see lots of familiar faces including Banbury Mayor Fiaz Ahmed and Cllr Tony Ilott.

If you are part of a local community group and interested in coming to Parliament, please email my office at [email protected].

The Rotarian Magazine

From its beginnings as a 12-page periodical, The Rotarian (now called Rotary magazine) has grown into an award-winning publication with a circulation of over 500,000, inspiring the creation of a host of Rotary regional magazines.

The first issue was published in January 1911 as The National Rotarian. It included news items from existing clubs, announcements of new clubs, and an essay by Paul P. Harris. Rotary’s founder discussed the purpose of Rotary clubs and pondered what the response would be if he asked every Rotarian, “What is the philosophy of Rotary as you understand it?”

Harris, along with Secretary Chesley R. Perry, launched the publication to share information with a growing number of Rotarians. Perry was the magazine’s first editor and held the position until 1928.

The official formation of clubs in Canada and England prompted the magazine to change its name to The Rotarian, starting with the September 1912 issue.

Early on, the magazine focused on business ethics, character development, and membership growth. Throughout the years, well-known critics and authors, along with popular artists and photographers, contributed their work to its covers and pages.

In the 1940s, the magazine published many commentaries about the effects of war by prominent writers and leaders such as Sherwood Anderson, Winston Churchill, Thomas Mann, H.G. Wells, Mohandas K. Gandhi, George Bernard Shaw, Pearl S. Buck, and J. Edgar Hoover. A selection of these articles was reprinted in three booklets from 1942 to 1947.

As Rotary clubs formed around the world, regional magazines appeared, each offering Rotary news from a local perspective. The first regional magazine was published in Great Britain and Ireland in 1915.

More than half of Rotarians worldwide receive a regional magazine instead of The Rotary Magazine. The Rotary World Magazine Press publishes more than 30 officially licensed Rotary regional magazines. These publications are produced independently by Rotarians, distributed in more than 130 countries, and published in more than 20 languages.

https://www.rotary.org/en/history-rotarian-magazine

https://banburyrotaryclub.org.uk/2024/banbury-town-council-events-2024/

Banbury Town Council Events – 2024 Banbury Rotary Club tradionally works with the Banbury Town Council at various events. We’ve included the programme of Town Council events for 2024 below with a double purpose in mind: To fac…

https://banburyrotaryclub.org.uk/2024/banbury-breakfast-club-presentation-8-feb-2024/

Banbury Breakfast Club Presentation – 8 Feb 2024 This will be a joint presentation by the two Banbury Rotary Clubs: The Banbury Rotary Club Banbury Cherwell Rotary Club After a brief introduction to “What is Rotary” the talk will foc…

History of the Rotary Bell: 🔔

In 1922, U.S. Rotarians organised an attendance contest; the challenge was that the losing clubs would join in giving the winning club a prize.

The Rotary Club of New York City was declared the winner and to them was awarded as a prize a bell from a popular patrol boat, which was placed on wood that came from HMS "Victory", Admiral Nelson's vessel at the battle of Trafalgar.

Since then, the bell used in Rotary meetings started to represent, as on the ships, order, discipline and the time to guide us through the weekly hour and a half meetings. The bell informs us with its sound the beginning of the Rotary meeting, other club rituals and of course the closure of the regular club meeting.

Not one but TWO trophies for The Warriner School at this year's Rotary Young Musician of the Year.

Huge well done to all members of Warriner Baroque.

Congratulations to Katie (II), Arabella (IV), Ava (IV), Adanna (II), Izzi (II), Maddie (V), Connie (LVI) and Izzy (UVI) for their excellent performances this weekend at the Banbury Young Musician Competition.

The wonderful event, organised by the Rotary Club of Banbury and brilliantly hosted by The Warriner School, showcased an incredible array of local young talent.

After some truly stunning performances by our girls, we returned with four certificates and five trophies.

🔹 Ava (IV) - Intermediate Singing - 1st Prize - (Banbury House Trophy)

🔹 Maddie (V) - Intermediate Woodwind - 1st Prize - (Worrall Trophy)

🔹 Ava (IV) - Intermediate Strings - 1st Prize - (Anthistle Trophy)

🔹 Izzy (UVI) - Senior Woodwind - 1st Prize - (Anker Trophy)

🔹 Ava (IV) - The One Man Band Trophy - Awarded to the most improved competitor who has taken part in previous Rotary Competitions.

Well done to all the girls who participated in this event, gaining further experience and confidence in performing whilst making new friends with common interests and talent in the music world.

https://banburyrotaryclub.org.uk/2024/young-chef-16-jan-2024-2/
Nine young chefs battle it out for the title of Banbury Rotary Club Young Chef. Here are the results.

Young Chef Results – 16 Jan 2024 Just some of the meals prepared by the nine Young Chefs Our Young Chef competition exists to provide new development opportunities to secondary school students in relation to discovering healthy an…

"Haluu" from Sisimiut, Greenland! 📍With a population of fewer than 6,000, Sisimiut stands as Greenland's second-largest city. Chartered in 1980, Nuuk is Greenland's only Rotary club and has about 50 members.

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We still have a few 2.30pm tables available!!! We also do takeaways!!!! Please preorder!!

https://banburyrotaryclub.org.uk/2024/katharine-house-tree-collections-jan-2024/

Katharine House Tree Collections – Jan 2024 Happy New Year – but act quickly to recycle your Christmas Tree in an environmentally friendly way! Banbury Rotary Club provides on-going support for Katharine House Hospice. Rotary also has …

And so this is Christmas. And What have you done?
Here's just some of the things we've done at Banbury Rotary Club in 2023
How about making your new year resolution to join us - or at least find out about us. Your job, gender and ethnicity are irrelevant - but we do prefer people who like to get things done! Click below.

And so this is Christmas – and what have you done Visit the post for more.

https://banburyrotaryclub.org.uk/2023/100-book-donation-to-katharine-house-nov-2023/

100 Book donation to Katharine House – Nov 2023 Children’s author Adam Groves was brought up in Bloxham. His father is currently president of The Rotary Club of Banbury, which is how it transpires that the club has been able to provide a l…

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Young Photographer – March 2023  Young Photographer Competition 2023/24 Theme: This year we have chosen the theme “Landscapes in Beautiful Britain ”. Aims and Objects: The aim of the Competition is to encourage young people to…

https://banburyrotaryclub.org.uk/2023/young-musician-closing-date-26-nov-2023/
The closing date (Nov 26) for entries to the Rotary Young Musician Competition is now getting very close. If individuals or schools want to enter - now is the time to sign-up!

Young Musician entry closing date – 26 Nov 2023 A reminder that the closing date for entries to the Banbury Rotary Young Musician is fast approaching. For full details please click here.

15-year-old Eimhear McGrath, winner of Rotary Young Chef 2023, recently got to enjoy the trip of a lifetime to Tuscany, facilitated by the competition's sponsor Filippo Berio UK ☀️🍕👩‍🍳

Find out more about Eimhear's Italian adventure: https://www.rotarygbi.org/rotary-young-chef-winner-experiences-trip-of-a-lifetime/

Filippo Berio