Welcome to the website of the Rotary Club of Ashby de la Zouch Castle

How time flies. It seems like only last week that I was asked if I would consider becoming President of Rotary Club Ashby Castle. In reality it was two years ago!

It is a great honour and privilege to take on this position and I look forward to the year ahead.

The Club participates in many projects and events both locally and internationally.

Our members are of all ages and backgrounds. We are a friendly, vibrant bunch of people and we are very proud to support and serve the community of Ashby and surrounding towns and will continue to do so.

Some of the work we do will be known to everyone, especially the Santa Fun Run and Walk which takes place on the first Sunday in December. Also many know our Santa Sleigh which begins the countdown to Christmas Day.

We are especially proud of our work with the schools in the area, children are our future.

There are many activities they can participate in. For example Young Chef, Young Writer, Young Musician among others. We also send one or two older young people to Rotary Youth Leadership Award (RYLA). This has proven to help all that have attended in their careers by learning new life skills.

The club will be helping out at various events this coming year among others; Jim’s Tractor Run,

Conkers Fireworks, Ashby 20. The Sealed Knot is back and we will be giving a hand there. We will also be helping at Race the Train in Tywyn.

Internationally we will continue to support Bombalulu School in Kenya, Bikes for Africa plus support any disaster with the aid of Aquabox and Shelterbox.

Rotary’s biggest International Project is End Polio Now. The funds collected for this project gets doubled with help from the Bill Gates Foundation. Every October the weekend closest to October 24^th the Lount Memorial is highlighted in purple to commemorate World Polio Day.

We are also have fun by having plenty of social events, an afternoon at Zamani’s, a session at Harold Staunton Sailability, a Games evening, to name but a few.

Why don’t you come along for a visit to meet us all? We would love to meet you and share our work both locally and internationally with you.

We meet every Tuesday, meetings are 7.00 for 7.15. The first Tuesday of the month is 19.00 for 19.15. This enables those members that are working to attend meetings.

The location is  Springfields EMH, School Lane Ashby

President Julie Kydd