Completed meetings and events 2015-2016

Wed 29th June 2016 GUEST EVENING BBQ, NO MEETING AT KINGSKNOWE GOLF CLUB

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Wed 22nd June 2016 Club Assembly & Handover to Incoming President

Wed 15th June 2016 Joint Club Council Meeting

Wed 8th June 2016 The Changing Trends in Antiques

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Angus MacPhie

Wed 1st June 2016 An evening with Roy Johnston with his special guest Angus MacPhie

Club member Roy will interview Club member Angus in his inimitable style...... read more...
Presentation of our Club's cheque to Ailsa for the work of Visoi by President Peter

Wed 25th May 2016 'Visoi Children's Centre International', Ailsa Thom

Visoi operates at Kampi Ya Moto in Kenya read more...

Wed 18th May 2016 Peter Cowlishaw. The Mola Mola Fish

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Wed 11th May 2016 Business Meeting, Old & New Committees

Wed 4th May 2016 GUEST EVENING 'My Paintings', Richard Basker

Richard, a member of our Club, paints with watercolour. He will be showing his work and talking about the technique.
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Wed 27th April 2016 'Dementia Policy - the National Picture', Theresa Douglas

The national picture so far as Dementia policy is concerned and how we are developing the health and social services workforce. Theresa is Assistant Governor, RI District 1020 and a member of Livingston Rotary Club read more...

Wed 20th April 2016 'The Pentlands', Robin Murdoch, Archaeologist

The image has been released into the public domain by its author, Kitkatcrazy, at English Wikipedia. This applies worldwide.
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Wed 13th April 2016 'DICTATORS & DIVIDENDS "“ WHAT NEXT FOR THE UK STOCKMARKET', Harry Morgan

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Wed 6th April 2016 AGM & Business Meeting

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Edinburgh

Wed 30th March 2016 'My Edinburgh', Hamish Coghill

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Wed 23rd March 2016 'The House of Lords', Earl Home

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Wed 16th March 2016 Scatter Week - No meeting at Kingsknowe Golf Club

Our members visit various Rotary Clubs in the District

Wed 9th March 2016 'Wobbles, Tilts and Time Lords: Understanding the Climate of the Past', Prof. Kate Darling. After the meeting, our quiz team was challenged by the team from Penicuik Rotary Club

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Wed 2nd March 2016 Business Meeting

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Wed 24th February 2016 'Royal Caledonian Education Trust (RCET), Matthew Middler

Matthew Middler is the Fundraising Development Manager for RCET. read more...

Wed 17th February 2016 'New Pension Regulation', Steve Wilson

Steve Wilson, Director, Alan Steel Asset Management read more...

Wed 3rd February 2016 'The Edinburgh Assay Office', Elsbeth Morrison

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Wed 27th January 2016 GUEST EVENING Our Annual Burns Supper

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Fri 22nd January 2016 Results from the Young Musician of the Year, Club Competition, Student Union, Heriot Watt University

The winners will take their places in the Area Final on !0 February read more...
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Wed 20th January 2016 'Sport in South West Edinburgh and Oriam', Chris Sellar

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Wed 13th January 2016 'The Rock Trust', Allison Calder

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Wed 6th January 2016 'Scottish Shale Oil Industry', Harry Knox

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Wed 30th December 2015 NO MEETING - BEST WISHES FOR 2016

Best wishes for 2016

Wed 23rd December 2015 NO MEETING - MERRY CHRISTMAS

Have a great Christmas

Wed 16th December 2015 GUEST EVENING, Christmas Party

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Wed 9th December 2015 Edinburgh Castle - Archaeology & History,' Adrian Cox, Archaeologist Historic Scotland

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Wed 2nd December 2015 'Audiology in 2015', Alistair Meikle MSHAA. A round of the District Quiz followed our Club meeting

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Wed 25th November 2015 'Tales from the Courts', Stewart Houston

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Wed 18th November 2015 'Midwifery', Dr Gillian Smith

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Wed 11th November 2015 Business Meeting & SGM

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Wed 4th November 2015 Visit of District Governor Andy Ireland

Andy became District Governor in July this year and this visit to our Club is only one of the many visits (over 60) he will make to all the clubs in District 1020 during his year of office read more...

Wed 28th October 2015 'lendwithcare', Dr Ajaz Khan, Senior Microfinance Advisor, Care International

Dr Ajaz Ahmed Khan is Senior Microfinance Advisor with CARE International and helped to develop the award winning lendwithcare Microfinance programme. Our Club is a keen lender to small entrepreneurs with repayments allowing us to lend and lend again. read more...

Wed 21st October 2015 'Now That I am a Civilian', Lieutenant Colonel Michael Grieve

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Screenshot of The Breeze Gallery website with kind permission of Bob Corsie

Wed 14th October 2015 'The Breeze Gallery', Bob Corsie

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Lapwing - Image courtesy of and with permission of RSPB

Wed 7th October 2015 'RSPB Scotland', Richard Watt

RSPB 'giving nature a home' (Image of lapwing courtesy of and with permission of RSPB) read more...
Tram in Workshop

Thu 1st October 2015 Visit to Edinburgh Tram Depot

Members of our Club visit the tram depot read more...
The DVD of 'Rotary In Motion'

Wed 30th September 2015 GUEST EVENING, Reprise of 'Rotary In Motion' Club video ten years on

The video shows most aspects of our Club activities and events in Rotary Year 2004-2005 - including the outtakes! read more...

Wed 23rd September 2015 'The Rotary Foundation', Update from PDG Allan Maclaughlan

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Wed 16th September 2015 'Children's Hearings Scotland', Seamus Spencer

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Wed 9th September 2015 Business Meeting

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Wed 2nd September 2015 'A Vision for Your Future', Ian Cameron, Cameron Optometry

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Wed 26th August 2015 'Urban Uprising, Rio de Janeiro', Jen Green & Sarah Hayden

Jennie Green and Sarah Hayden gave a presentation on behalf of 'Urban Uprising' read more...
Plaque from Eddie Pinto, Turing Trust Director in Ghana

Wed 19th August 2015 Anna Schuck, Rotary International Scholar. Also Update on Computers for Ghana from Jade House & Oli de Paolis (Turing Trust)

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Wed 12th August 2015 'Nicaragua', George Thomson

The 'Stonebreaker's Laundry' read more...

Wed 5th August 2015 'Job Talk', Richard Basker

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Sat 1st August 2015 Childrens Crafts, The Gyle Shopping Centre

12 noon until 3pm

Wed 29th July 2015 Visit to the Scottish National Portrait Gallery

The Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Queen Street, Edinburgh read more...

Sat 25th July 2015 Childrens Crafts, The Gyle Shopping Centre

12 noon until 3pm
Auctioneer's gavel

Wed 22nd July 2015 'Trends in Antiques', Mark Medcalf, Mark Medcalf Associates

" Paintings by Scottish colourist artists have never been cheap...." read more...

Sat 18th July 2015 Childrens Crafts, The Gyle Shopping Centre

12 noon until 3pm
Image by kind permission of Ian Reid, Director of Finance, National Trust for Scotland

Wed 15th July 2015 Ian Reid, Director of Finance, National Trust for Scotland

An interesting talk on many aspects of the National Trust for Scotland read more...

Sat 11th July 2015 Childrens Crafts, The Gyle Shopping Centre

12 noon until 3pm. This activity also takes place on Saturdays 18 & 25 July and 1 August
The Binns. Image by troy.afterburner with permission Creative Commons 2 Licence

Wed 8th July 2015 'The House of Binns and the Dalyells', The Hon Mrs Dalyell OBE DL FSA Scot

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Wed 1st July 2015 'The Care Inspectorate and my New Role', Annette Bruton

The Care Inspectorate's website is at www.scswis.com read more...
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