Completed meetings and events 2020-2021

Club members tending a plot on Worthing seafront

Mon 28th June 2021 Club Meeting with Speaker via Zoom

Expert Phil Taylor will speak about Beekeeping

Mon 21st June 2021 Club Weekly Meeting

AN INFORMAL MEETING VIA ZOOM, SADLY NOT BEING ABLE TO GO TO THE WUNDSOR HOTEL AS PLANNED DUE TO THE EXTENSION OF RESTRICTIONS. WE SHALL JUST CHAT AND SOCIALISE
WITH NO SPEAKER - JUST A GET-TOGETHER TO CATCH-UP !!!
Bluebells taken at 'The Dover' Worthing

Mon 14th June 2021 Club Assembly Meeting via Zoom

This is an annual meeting of the club at which a representative of the District Governor is in attendance to mediate on the plans and programme of the new President and chairs of the various committees present their proposals for the coming Rotary year read more...

Mon 7th June 2021 - Informal Coffee Meeting for club members, family and friends

Informal Coffee Morning at Sea Lane Cafe sea front Worthing to which all club members Friends of the club, their family and friends are cordially invited.
Entrants pictured from a previous year's Three Forts Challenge, run around the Downs. This year's event held on 23 May 2021 will only have 300 instead of the usual 600 plus taking part due to Covid-19. The event has male and female runners.

Mon 24th May 2021 Club Meeting via Zoom with a Speaker

Talk by our very own Club Past President Mary Lermitte who will speak about her life.
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Mon 17th May 2021 Club Meeting via Zoom

Speaker from the Woodland Trust followed by President’s remarks, Secretary’s notices and any spots from club members

Mon 10th May 2021 Club Meeting via Zoom with a Speaker

We shall have a talk by our own Elaine Ansell and the usual spots from the President and the Secretary and other members
Cusco, Peru

Mon 10th May 2021 Club Meeting via Zoom with a Speaker

We shall have a talk by a representative from Jordan's Cereals and the usual spots from the President and the Secretary and other members read more...
A local very safe pleasure boat.  The RNLI are engaged with vessels of all types as well with swimmers, yachtsmen and women, rowers and who get into difficulties in the water.

Mon 26th April 2021 Club Meeting via Zoom with Speaker Caroline Tilley of RNLI

Caroline returns to give us a power point presentation on the work of the RNLI, one of the most popular national charities in the U.K.

Mon 19th April 2021 AGM via ZOOM

CLUB ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING followed by a discussion by President-Elect Sally Nowak on various formats for meetings in her year and then Rotarian Michael Steele will give a talk on the motor trade.

Mon 19th April 2021 AGM via ZOOM

CLUB ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
WILL ALL MEMBERS PLEASE MAKE EVERY EFFORT TO ATTEND THIS IMPORTANT EVENT IN THE ROTARY YEAR
Picture of a past Worthing Carnival

Mon 12th April 2021 Club Meeting via Zoom with a Speaker

Talk by Jennifer Donn of Rampion which produces wind farms
Volunteers transporting Shelterboxes in the Philippines - our club is a supporter of this charity

Mon 29th March 2021 Zoom Meeting with a Speaker and a Formal Vote to elect the Second Vice

Zoom Meeting with speaker Lucy Brooks on High Salvington Windmill
followed by a Formal Vote on the election of Club Second Vice-President
Sunny Days

Mon 22nd March 2021 Joint Club Zoom Meeting with Rotary Club of Montego Bay Jamaica

Link-up with Rotary Club of Montego Bay, Jamaica with speaker Dominica Pradere from that club, which is celebrating its 60th Anniversary on 21March 2021

Mon 15th March 2021 Club Meeting via Zoom with a Speaker

Talk about the legendary Irish playwright and critic George Bernard Shaw by Brian Freeland
Shecffield Park Sussex

Wed 10th March 2021 FUN QUIZ compiled by Elaine and John Thwaites

An entertainment evening via ZOOM to which all members, spouses, partners and friends are warmly welcomed
Fistral Beach Newquay Cornwall -  'the Mecca for surfers'
by way of contrast!

Mon 8th March 2021 Club Meeting via Zoom with a Speaker

Thanks to Nicky Babbage-Clark we shall have the pleasure of enjoying a talk and slide show presented by Jan Crouch, one of her friends, featuring Nepal and the Himalayas.
Not to be missed!

The picture shows Fistral Beach, Newquay, Cornwall

Mon 22nd February 2021 Club Meeting via Zoom with a Speaker

Sussex University student Zoe Benefer will speak on Operation Wallacea a programme into bio-diversity research at multiple study sites in 14 countries worldwide.
Rotary aims to connect with other people and organisations

Mon 15th February 2021 Club Meeting via Zoom with a Speaker

Speaker Caroline Tilley of the RNLI who will talk for 30/40 minutes

Mon 8th February 2021 Club Meeting with ZOOM

Talk by Carl Walker on behalf of Worthing Food Foundation

Mon 8th February 2021 - Mon 31st May 2021 Press Release

Collaboration between our Club and Worthing Speakers Club read more...
Planting along Worthing front by Rotarians

Mon 25th January 2021 Club Meeting with ZOOM

Talk by Kenny Tutt. owner of Pitch Restaurant, Warwick Street, Worthing and a recent Masterchef Champion
(NO meeting next Monday 1st February)

Mon 11th January 2021 Club meeting via Zoom with speaker Paul Godfrey

Paul will talk about Antiphospholigid Syndrome

Mon 4th January 2021 Weekly Meeting via ZOOM with speaker

Mr Ali Khan, native to the Worthing area will talk to the club about his companySTEM. Ali is dedicated to promoting STEM subjects (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths)in schools and has 15 years experience in promoting this work.

Mon 21st December 2020 Club President's informal virtual drinks party to celebrate Christmas

By ZOOM - President's informal drinks party , all are invited!

Mon 14th December 2020 Club meeting via Zoom and musical entertainment

My Life in Music - presented by our President Haydn Smith

Mon 7th December 2020 Club Meeting with ZOOM and speaker

Our speaker will be Wendy Bardsley who is manager of the Community Fundraising team at St. Barnabas Hospice Worthing

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Mon 30th November 2020 Club meeting via Zoom. CLUB SPECIAL GENERAL MEETING -

Special General Meeting

Mon 23rd November 2020 Club meeting via Zoom with extra-special speaker

Talk via ZOOM by Angus Struthers, Vice President, Marketing and Sales for Cunard entitled "How a Cruise is put together".
Club members tending boxes of plants displayed along Worthing seafront

Mon 16th November 2020 Club meeting via Zoom

Rotarian Tony Moore will give a talk on 'My Life'. Tony will have a very interesting story to relate as he reached the very pinnacle of Rotary International.

Mon 9th November 2020 Club meeting via ZOOM or email committees can meet

Committees week. Committees meet using either Zoom or emailing
 A sand dam - our club has assisted a similar project.   creates a reservoir to store water in times of drought

Wed 4th November 2020 Club meeting via Zoom - QUIZ Night!

This is a fun occasion and relatives and friends are warmly invited.
The income of St. Barnabas Hospice. Worthing has been adversely affected by the Covid virus. Any money raised will be welcomed by this much loved organisation.

Mon 2nd November 2020 Club meeting via Zoom with extra-special speaker

We are honoured to welcome as our special speaker Dominica Pradere, Past President of the Rotary Club of Montego Bay, Jamaica who will give us a talk about her beautiful island and country.

Mon 26th October 2020 Club meeting via Zoom- BUSINESS MEETING

Discussion by club members of all aspects of its operations read more...

Mon 19th October 2020 Club meeting via Zoom

Speaker is our District Governor Nick Drake. However at the date of this posting Nick has sadly recently contracted Covid-19 so it is likely that an alternative programme will be arranged

Mon 12th October 2020 Club meeting via Zoom with committees

Committees can meet at any other mutually convenient time but by means other than Zoom if they so wish read more...

Wed 7th October 2020 Council Meeting via Zoom

Follow-up discussion on the way ahead read more...

Wed 30th September 2020 SPECIAL ZOOM MEETING TO DISCUSS THE WAY FORWARD FOR OUR CLUB

ALL MEMBERS ARE URGED TO ATTEND IF AT ALL POSSIBLE

Mon 28th September 2020 Talk on the charity Purple Community Fund via ZOOM

This charity has the aim of helping families succeed and fulfil their potential. They have programmes in the Plilippines and in Tanzania.
OUR SPEAKER WILL BE THE FOUNDER AND CEO OF PURPLE COMMUNITY FUND JANE WALKER MBE read more...

Mon 21st September 2020 Club meeting via Zoom

Special Guest Speaker read more...

Wed 16th September 2020 Fun Quiz in aid of Beirut Humanitarian Relief Effort via ZOOM

Our club feels that this is a very worthwhile cause read more...

Tue 15th September 2020 - Tue 15th December 2020 Chariot of Fire - Morgan Woods

Worthing young man postpones serious health problems
to live his dream of competing in the 2024 Paralympic Games being held in Paris read more...

Mon 14th September 2020 Committees meet via ZOOM

Our committees are due to meet on this day but they can vary both the date and the time if they so decide'. WILL CHAIRS PLEASE CONFER THEN DECIDE AND ARRANGE FOR THEIR ZOOM MEETING TO TAKE PLACE.

Mon 7th September 2020 INFORMAL COFFEE MORNING hHghdown Worthing Cafe

Club members, their spouses, friends and members of our Club's Friends' Group are cordially invited

Mon 31st August 2020 - LOOKING BACK ON PREVIOUS WORTHING ROTARY CARNIVALS

In the absence of the Worthing Rotary Carnival in 2020 due to the Coronavirus we show pictures from past Carnivals. These are preceded by pictures of local school children who took part in our club's 'Youth Speaks' (Public Speaking competition).

Mon 24th August 2020 Club meeting via Zoom

Experiences of a Travel Agent who falls foul of the Coronavirus pandemic and is stuck on board a cruise ship read more...

Mon 17th August 2020 Club meeting via Zoom

The club's Health and Safety Officer Mrs Juliet Grant will address the meeting read more...

Mon 10th August 2020 Club meeting via Zoom

Club Committees meet read more...

Mon 10th August 2020 Social Gathering at SEA LANE CAFE, WORTHING

Informal meeting to which all club members and their husbands, wives and partners are invited. The picture shows Rotarians in their best attire with others at a pre-Covid meeting somewhere in the country. read more...

Mon 3rd August 2020 Joint Club meeting with Highdown Rotary Club via Zoom

Presentation by Immediate Past District Governor Alan Moss on
plans for the celebration of the centenary of Rotary's presence in Worthing in 2022
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Mon 27th July 2020 Club meeting via Zoom

'My Life' talk by Rotarian John Brenton, following on from his first one on the subject some 30 years ago! read more...

Mon 20th July 2020 Club meeting via Zoom

Open meeting meeting with guest retired Rotarian Past President Joe Hayes the only American to be President of our club (1996/1997) and former Mayor of Arundel read more...

Mon 13th July 2020 Club meeting via Zoom

This will be an open meeting to enable members to discuss our plans and for suggestions to be made for this new Rotary year which began on 1st July with our new President Haydn Smith in charge. read more...
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