Welcome to the The Rotary Club of Barnard Castle (founded in 1940), serving Teesdale.

Please browse freely through these pages to learn what Rotary can do for you and what you can do for Rotary. Rotary International is the world’s longest established and largest voluntary service organisation. First established 100 years ago, in February 1905, there are now 1.2 million members serving communities across every continent in the world. In Britain, there are over 1800 Rotary Clubs with over 60,000 members. 

This is Rotary     - (8 sided booklet) 

Redwell Inn, Barnard Castle

Please contact:  Ian Hodgson 01833 637032 or Tony Barmby 01833 630812 

if you are interested in finding out more about Rotary.

Download Club Program_ Updated 09/09/2008 

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Rotary sends TODYS to Panto

 

The Rotary Club of Barnard Castle donated £720 to TODYS (Teesdale Opportunities for Disabled Youngsters), which enabled them to send more than 30 youngsters, carers and family members by bus to see 'Jack and The Beanstalk' at Darlington Civic Theatre just before Christmas.

Before setting off from Teesdale Sports Centre, Santa Claus, who bore a striking resemblance to one of the Rotary Clubs' members, handed out boxes of chocolates and panto tickets to the youngsters.

Rotary President Peter Webb said, as the bus left for Darlington, ' We are delighted to be able to help TODYS, as the Rotary Club is highlighting helping youngsters in the dale this year, and this was a very nice opportunity'.

Joan Bailey, of TODYS, said,' We were really pleased to get this donation from The Rotary Club, as, whilst we do fundraising ourselves, we are so busy looking after the youngsters, we really don't have the time'.

 

Photo: Santa Claus and TODYS members set off for the Pantomime.

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   Rotary Club holds 1940's theme Christmas Meeting

 

In what is now becoming an annual tradition, The Rotary Club of Barnard Castle held their final meeting of the year in Romaldkirk Reading Room, where the theme was 'The 1940's'.

 Members and guests went to a great deal of trouble to locate clothes and accessories relating to the 1940's, and we had a range of civilian attire; the housewives with head scarves, the spivs with Black Market goods; to military outfits of Army, Navy and Air force, from the U.K., Holland, U.S.A. and Germany.

 As part of the entertainment this year, a number of Rotary members performed a 'Dads Army' sketch, dressed in 'Winter Warfare' costumes and including all of the favourite characters; Captain Mainwaring, Sergeant Wilson, Jones, Godfrey, Frazer, Walker, Pike, and Mrs Pike. The script was written by Sergeant Wilson (better known as Gerald Blake), and it was clear to all that he had been wasting his time all those years as Professor of Geography at Durham University, as his script writing abilities are brilliant!

 Rosemary Thompson and helpers served a full Christmas dinner, no doubt somewhat bemused by the startling appearance of some of their customers.

 

 

Photos – Barney Rotarians perform a Dads Army sketch, whilst 1940's revellers dance the night away. 

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 Rotary gives to Alzheimer's Society

The Alzheimer's Society benefited by £1000 recently, when the Societies Area Officer Lucy Hudson visited The Rotary Club of Barnard Castle, and talked about the disease and its' effect on the sufferer and carers alike.

 Lucy told Rotarians that the Society commits itself to defeating dementia through research. The programme has three themes - cause, cure and care. The search for cause and cure gives hope for the future, while research on care ensures that they are delivering the best help for the present.

 

Barnard Castle Rotary Donations

Following a successful year of fundraising, the Rotary Club of Barnard Castle are pleased to publish the Charities and organisations that have benefited since July 2007.    ROTARY CLUB OF BARNARD CASTLE DONATIONS 1st July 2007 to 30th June 2008    Cancer Research UK (Teesdale) 377.75 Clockmakers Charity 400.00 Teesdale Day Clubs 100.00 Rotary Foundation 360.00 RIBI Flood Appeal 200.00 Dreams Come True 50.00 Great North East Air Ambulance 700.00 Samaritans 150.00 National Autistic Society 150.00 Rotary Life Boxes 150.00 Water Aid 150.00 Sight Savers 150.00 Barnard Castle Meet 350.00 Mission Aviation Fellowship 200.00 Duke of Edinburgh Awards 400.00 Teesdale Carers 100.00 St. Johns Ambulance Jerusalem Eye Hospital 100.00 Rainbow Trust 100.00 Barnard Castle Scouts 150.00 Barnard Castle Methodist Church 150.00 Prostate Cancer Charity 500.00 Philip Green Memorial Fund 500.00 Muscular Dystrophy Charity 500.00 Bill Huntley Endowment Charity 200.00 Witham Hall Redevelopment Fund 200.00 Chernobyl Childrens Project 200.00 Jadphur Limb Project 200.00 Rotters 150.00 Relate 150.00 West Africa Trust 133.00 Emma Doherty 100.00 ACET 200.00 Shelter Boxes 200.00 UTAS 100.00 Fitzhugh Library 50.00 Hearing Dogs for the Deaf 50.00 McMillan Nurses 150.00 Killimatindi Project 100.00 Bubble Appeal 100.00 Darlington Soroptimists 673.99     TOTAL £8,944.74    A large part of the monies raised by the Club come from the Club's very successful series of lectures held at Barnard Castle School, and the ever popular Am-Am Golf competition held on the town's course during the summer.

Our Club is linked with

The Rotary Club of Ambt Almelo - Holland

Please note that the website is in Dutch

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