Completed meetings and events 2021-2022
Fri 24th June 2022 Weekly Club Meeting
Our Speaker this week is Julian Cowie who is talking to us about "Jock Thomson's Bairns"
Fri 17th June 2022 Weekly Club Meeting
This week we welcome the Guid Nychburris Principals to the club.
Fri 10th June 2022 Weekly Club Meeting
This week sees our Club Assembly where we will look forward to the year ahead.
Fri 3rd June 2022 Weekly Club Meeting
This week's meeting is informal
Fri 27th May 2022 Weekly Club Meeting
"Shorthand: A Journalist's Superpower" by Speaker Fiona Reid, editor at DNG Media. She has been with the company for 22 years and has been in the hot seat as Editor for the last four.
Fri 20th May 2022 Weekly Club Meeting
Corin Hardcastle will speak to us on "Computers, Education and Nepal"
Fri 13th May 2022 Weekly Club Meeting
The club welcomes the finalists of our Primary School Speechmaking Competition and looks forward to hearing their award winning speeches.
Fri 6th May 2022 Club AGM
This week is our club Annual General Meeting where we will review the things we have been up to over the last 12 months.
Fri 29th April 2022 Weekly Club Meeting
Our speaker is Rotarian Jamie Milligan who will tell us something of his professional life as he gives his "job talk".
Fri 22nd April 2022 Weekly Club Meeting
This week we are having an Informal Meeting with no speaker. We will simply enjoy fellowship together over lunch
Fri 15th April 2022 Weekly Club Meeting
This week the Rev Johannes Wildner, Parish Minister at Maxwelltown West Church, will bring us a message for Easter.
Fri 8th April 2022 Weekly Club Meeting
This week, semi-retired Diary Farmer, Douglas Kerr will tell us about his challenge to visit all 93 inhabited Islands of Scotland and climbing to the highest peak in each for Mary's Meals, D&G Befriending Group and Dalbeattie Rotary Club.
Fri 1st April 2022 Weekly Club Meeting
This week Richard Baines will speak on "Logan Botanic Garden: Scotland's Most Exotic Garden" and one of the regional gardens of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, located 14 miles south of Stranraer, attracting over 33,000 visitors annually.
Fri 25th March 2022 Weekly Club Meeting
CHANGE OF VENUE - this week we are NOT meeting in the Cairndale Hotel - instead we are meeting at the ABERLOUR TRUST based at North West Resource Centre, Lincluden. Please Click "DETAILS" to find out more including who our speaker is. read more...
Fri 18th March 2022 Weekly Club Meeting
"Reporting on A Pandemic" by our speaker Fiona Reid, editor at DNG Media, owners of The Annandale Observer, The Annandale Herald, The Moffat News and The Dumfries Courier. Fiona has been with DNG Media for 22 years and in the hot seat for the last four..jpg)
Fri 11th March 2022 CENTENARY DINNER
Tonight we are holding our Centenary Dinner to celebrate 100 years of Service above Self through Rotary in Dumfries. Contact Club Secretary Tom Marchbank for tickets by e-mail: t.marchbank@sky.com
Fri 11th March 2022 Weekly Club Meeting
There is no lunchtime meeting this week because we are holding our Centenary Dinner this evening
Fri 4th March 2022 Weekly Club Meeting
Our speakers this week are Ian and Janet Harra from charity Chernobyl Children's Lifeline. They have taken children from Chernobyl on holidays for about 20 years and will speak to us about their work with this charity.
Fri 25th February 2022 Weekly Club Meeting
This week will be a Business Meeting where we will discuss club business. The meeting will take place in the Cairndale Hotel.
Fri 18th February 2022 Weekly Club Meeting
This week we return to in-person meetings at the Cairndale Hotel. Our first meeting back together will be a Centenary Update where we will hear all about the events and projects taking place to mark 100 years of the Rotary Club of Dumfries.
Fri 11th February 2022 Weekly Club Meeting
This week Euan MacNeish will speak on the topic "Giving every child access to safe surgery." Euan works for Kids Operating Room , a Scottish charity transforming children’s lives across the world. The meeting will take place on Zoom.
Fri 4th February 2022 Weekly Club Meeting
Our speaker this week is Richard Melvin, Director, Dabster Productions Ltd who will be speak on the topic, "A Comedy of Errors: Life as a Comedy Producer for the BBC." The meeting will take place on Zoom.Fri 28th January 2022 Weekly Club Meeting
Our speaker is Blake Milteer, Curator, Photography (The MacKinnon Collection) for the National Galleries of Scotland and the National Library of Scotland who will talk to us about "The MacKinnon Collection". The meeting will take place on Zoom
Fri 21st January 2022 Weekly Club Meeting
This meeting will take place on Zoom
Fri 14th January 2022 Weekly Club Meeting
This meeting will take place on Zoom
Fri 7th January 2022 Weekly Club Meeting
Speaker Slot Available
Fri 31st December 2021 Weekly Club Meeting
There is no meeting this week.
Fri 24th December 2021 Weekly Club Meeting
There is no meeting this week.
Fri 17th December 2021 Weekly Club Meeting
CHRISTMAS LUNCH
Fri 10th December 2021 Weekly Club Meeting
A Christmas Message by Guest Speaker Rev Johannes Wildner
Fri 3rd December 2021 Weekly Club Meeting
This week we are celebrating FOOTBALL SHIRT FRIDAY when everyone dresses up in a football team shirt to raise funds for the Bobby Moore Fund for Cancer Research. There will also be a fun quiz, compiled by Club Secretary, Tom Marchbank.
Fri 26th November 2021 Weekly Club Meeting
This week's talk is by Andrea Thompson, Editor of Dumfries & Galloway Life magazine. Andrea is well known to the club and we look forward to her visiting as our speaker.
Fri 19th November 2021 Weekly Club Meeting
An informal meeting while some of our members take part in Charity Bag Packing at Marks & Spencer
Fri 12th November 2021 Weekly Club Meeting
This week's speakers are Lesley Watson & Mark Turner from Solway Tours who will tell us about their programme of Guided Historic Tours in Dumfries and Galloway.
Fri 5th November 2021 Weekly Club Meeting
Centenary Lunch with keynote speaker Dame Barbara Kelly
Fri 29th October 2021 Weekly Club Meeting
This week's speaker is District Governor Ken Robertson PHF
Fri 22nd October 2021 Weekly Club Meeting
There is no meeting this week. Council has taken the decision to meet every other week during the current Coronavirus Covid-19 outbreak...
Fri 15th October 2021 Weekly Club Meeting
Speaker Slot Available
Fri 8th October 2021 Weekly Club Meeting
There is no meeting this week. Council has taken the decision to meet every other week during the current Coronavirus Covid-19 outbreak...
Fri 1st October 2021 Weekly Club Meeting
"The Reopening of the Theatre Royal and The Steamie" by Speaker Anne Aldridge from Dumfries Guild of PlayersFri 24th September 2021 Weekly Club Meeting
There is no meeting this week. Council has taken the decision to meet every other week during the current Coronavirus Covid-19 outbreak...Fri 24th September 2021 Weekly Club Meeting
There is no meeting this week. Council has taken the decision to meet every other week during the current Coronavirus Covid-19 outbreak...Fri 24th September 2021 Weekly Club Meeting
There is no meeting this week. Council has taken the decision to meet every other week during the current Coronavirus Covid-19 outbreak...
Fri 24th September 2021 Weekly Club Meeting
There is no meeting this week. Council has taken the decision to meet every other week during the current Coronavirus Covid-19 outbreak...
Fri 17th September 2021 Weekly Club Meeting
Membership Day - a focus on Membership of Rotary led by Ian Jess, Past District Governer and Past Club President
Fri 10th September 2021 Weekly Club Meeting
There is no meeting this week. Council has taken the decision to meet every other week during the current Coronavirus Covid-19 outbreak...Fri 3rd September 2021 Weekly Club Meeting
Speaker Slot AvailableFri 3rd September 2021 Weekly Club Meeting
Speaker Slot AvailableFri 3rd September 2021 Weekly Club Meeting
Speaker Slot AvailableFri 3rd September 2021 Weekly Club Meeting
Speaker Slot Available
Fri 3rd September 2021 Weekly Club Meeting
Speaker Slot Available
Fri 27th August 2021 Weekly Club Meeting
There is no meeting this week. Council has taken the decision to meet every other week during the current Coronavirus Covid-19 outbreak...
Fri 20th August 2021 Weekly Club Meeting
Update on Rotary year 2021-22An update for members on the year ahead with a highlight on the events for our Centenary Year.
Fri 13th August 2021 Weekly Club Meeting
There is no meeting this week. Council has taken the decision to meet every other week during the current Coronavirus Covid-19 outbreak...
Fri 6th August 2021 Weekly Club Meeting
Saving Scottish Wildcats Project presented by David Barclay
Fri 30th July 2021 Weekly Club Meeting
There is no meeting this week. Council has taken the decision to meet every other week during the current Coronavirus Covid-19 outbreak...
Fri 23rd July 2021 Weekly Club Meeting
Our Speaker this week is World Vision Ambassador, Barbara Harrison whose talk is entitled, "My experience of World Vision and the work that they do"
Fri 16th July 2021 Weekly Club Meeting
There is no meeting this week. Council has taken the decision to meet every other week during the current Coronavirus Covid-19 outbreak...
Fri 9th July 2021 Weekly Club Meeting
My Edinburgh Life - by speaker Shoko Takashima - Rotary District 1020 Scholar from Okayama Cyuo Rotary Club in Japan read more...