Completed meetings and events 2022-2023
Thu 22nd June 2023 Handover Meeting
This will be the last meeting of the current Rotary Year and Rod Curtis will hand over Presidency to Kevin Widdick.THIS WILL BE AT THE STOWMARKET GOLF CLUB. Please contact Tim Evans with any special requirements or for apologies.
Wed 7th June 2023 A.G. M. Business / Visioning Meeting
PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF DATE FROM 8th JUNE. This is the AGM postponed from 25th May and will include a review of the 5 Year plan. It will be by zoom and the contact information will follow.
Thu 25th May 2023 TOUR OF THE FOOD MUSEUM
On May 25th we will be going on a conducted tour of the museum.This will be more historical rather than viewing artifacts.
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Thu 11th May 2023 CLUB QUIZ.
Rodney’s speaker is now unavailable so we will have the second half of Ann Widdick’s general knowledge quiz presented by Kevin. This will be by zoom and joining details will follow.
Thu 27th April 2023 Guest Speaker - Mike Smith from Stowmarket Food Bank.
Mike with his wife Hazel founded this Food Bank some 10 years ago. read more...
Thu 13th April 2023 Fund Raising Review.
This will be a face to face meeting at The Food Museum.A buffet meal will be available during discussions. read more...
Thu 30th March 2023 Sadly this meeting with Gill Hendry of the RSPCA had to be cancelled because of the high number of apologies received.
At The Food Museum. read more...
Thu 16th March 2023 Guest speaker - MARTIN KINSEY
At the Food Museum. The speaker is Station Staff Officer and Executive Officer, at Wattisham from Oct 2020. There will also be guests from The Rotary Club of Bury St Edmunds (Abbey). read more...
Thu 2nd March 2023 Zoom Meeting - Dr Keith Paver.
Dr Keith Paver is the RI polio eradication coordinator for Region 20, and he will be talking about the relationship between the eradication of polio and the fight against Covid-19. We are very lucky to have a speaker of this quality speaking to our club. read more...
Thu 16th February 2023 Business Meeting
This will be at the Food Museum in Stowmarket.Please would Team leaders who have something to report distribute their reports to the club by Sunday 12th February.
Thu 2nd February 2023 General Meeting
This meeting is scheduled to be by zoomContent and joining instructions will follow.
Thu 19th January 2023 General Meeting
Venue - the Museum of Food in Stowmarket at Iliffe Way, IP14 1SL. There is a separate car park.As Jeff, Meeting Member, has Covid, the meeting will be an open meeting with discussions on several topics.
Thu 5th January 2023 General Meeting
This is planned to be a zoom meeting where Kevin will demonstrate some of the facilities available to members in the new website.
Thu 22nd December 2022 Christmas Dinner
This years Christmas Dinner will be held at The Chestnut Horse in Great Finborough.Tim has passed the menu choices to the venue.
Thu 8th December 2022 SGM / Business Meeting
This will be a zoom meeting and will be the final business meeting for 2022.The Secretary will advise the Agenda and the zoom joining instructions nearer the date.
Fri 25th November 2022 TESCO CHRISTMAS COLLECTION.
We will be holding our usual Christmas collection at Stowmarket Tesco.This will be a 2 day event on the 25th and 26th November 2022.
Please come along and support us.
Thu 24th November 2022 Foundation Talk by club member Steve Munns
This is planned to be a zoom meeting. Steve will go through his experience of Rotary Foundation.Thu 10th November 2022 Guest Speaker - John Dearlove.
John Dearlove was a senior British diplomat in Prague. On retirement he set up the Barrandov Opera at his home at Kennels Farm in Needham Market. This meeting will be at The Chestnut Horse, Gt Finborough.Thu 27th October 2022 Zoom Meeting
This will be a zoom meeting and will look at case studies of appeals when pupils are not been allocated the requested school in a catchment area. Philip will send out the joining instructions for the zoom connection shortly.
Thu 13th October 2022 General Meeting
This meeting will be held at The Highwayman. It will be face to face with a one course meal.It is hoped that this years RYLA candidate (Megan) will be able to attend and brief us on her experience.