Charity Golf Day 2024

The tournament is an AM/AM stableford competition for teams of four with the two best scores counting on each hole. Handicap allowance will be 100% of full handicap up to a maximum of 24 strokes for men and 36 for ladies.

St Andrews Garden Update

St Andrews Garden Update March 2024

Penrith Rotary and Lions Joint Quiz Night 2024

Penrith Rotary and Lions Joint Quiz Night 2024

Tanzania Sanitary Pad Project 2023

Tanzania Sanitary Pad Project 2023

Children in Need Ramble 2023

This year to support Children in Need Penrith Rotary will be organising a short ramble from Dalemain Mansion [about 2km and easy walking].

Trail Run and Fun Run 2023

Trail Run and Fun Run 2023 at Dalemain House

Business Meeting & Dinner - George Hotel/ZOOM

Speaker: Heather Clark - Time in RAF Service

Penrith Rotary Charter Night 2023

Our 77th Birthday Party. Our evening will be kick started by a performance from the "Committed to Rock Choir". Then after dinner our guest speaker will be Cath Marcangelo, leader of the Choir who will talk about her life in the entertainment business.

Charity Golf Day 2023

The Penrith Rotary Club held their annual fundraising Charity Golf Competition at Penrith Golf Club on Friday 28th July. The weather was good and the course was in excellent condition.

Handover Night 2023

Visit to Acorn Bank Watermill

Water Project at Bright Future School in Kilimanjaro

Well project at Bright Future School in Kilimanjaro

Young Chef 2023 - Final Update

Young Chef 2023 - Final Update

Joint Charity Fundraiser - Lions & Rotary in Penrith

A two course dinner followed by an evening of varied musical entertainment with Singer Will Harris. There'll be dancing too, if it takes your fancy, to a range of musical gendres.

Penrith Rotary responds to the Queen's Platinum Jubilee Green Canopy Appeal

Penrith Rotary will plant 420 native British trees in Penrith, organised in response to the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Green Canopy Appeal by the Woodland Trust.

Young Chef 2023

The Rotary Young Chef is a national competition that gives young people the opportunity to test their culinary skills against their peers. The competition is held over successive elimination rounds culminating in the national final to be held April 2023

National Award for Penrith Rotarian

Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg thanks Penrith Rotarian Jeff Fawcett for his work on restoring Coronation Gardens in Penrith

Opening Phase 1 of the Coronation Garden

Opening of Phase 1 of Penrith's Coronation Garden

Band Concert

‘A Christmas Feast of Music and Song’

Update 5th Nov 2012

Good progress is being made in the renewal of the Coronation Garden in Portland Place Penrith. The outline of the new design is now clearly visible

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Youth Services

Rotary Club of Penrith Youth competitions

Rotary Garden in St Andrews Churchyard

It is our intention to upgrade the Rotary garden in St Andrews churchyard.

Trail Run and Fun Run 2022

Trail Run and Fun Run 2022 at Dalemain House

Spooktacular Halloween Night - George Hotel

A Spooktacular evening in the haunted Ballroom at the historic George Hotel Penrith.

Club Charter Night - Speaker Simon Yates Climber and Adventurer

Charter Celebration

Charity Burns Supper 2022

Charity Burns Supper 2022

Charity Golf Day 2021

The tournament is an AM/AM stableford competition for teams of four with the two best scores counting on each hole. Handicap allowance will be 100% of full handicap up to a maximum of 24 strokes for men and 36 for ladies.

Charter Night 2020 - Alan Hinkes - Mountaineering

Charter night 2020

Famous mountaineer Alan Hinkes Joins Penrith Rotary

We are proud to announce that the World famous mountaineer Alan Hinkes OBE has joined us as an Honorary Member. He was officially welcomed onboard on Monday 27th April night at the club’s first full online meeting.

Ellie Smith-Barratt - Royal British Legion Fundraising During Covid - ZOOM

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Handover Night 2020

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Rotary Young Musician District 1190 Final 2020

Rotary Young Musician District 1190 Final 2020

John Shorter - Mountains & Us - ZOOM

Speaker Night - Kieth Paver - Virology - ZOOM

Kieth gave us a very interesting talk on Virology, including some insight into the Covid19 virus

Gareth Arnold - Crowd Funding for Community Projects - ZOOM

Walk & Dine September 2012

Walk & Dine September 2012

Walk & Dine June 2012

Walk & Dine June 2012 A Rotary Walk and Dine via Lowther Castle and Wale started and finished at Hackthorpe followed by a superb lunch in the Lowther Castle restaurant

Rotarians at work!

Band Concert 2011

Penrith Triathlon 2011

Visit to RAF Spadeadam

Walk & Dine

5 mile circular walk around Morland with lunch at the Mill Inn Yard Cafe

Handover Night - Dr Theo Western - Great North Air Ambulance Service

Walk & Dine 29/03/2009

A 6 mile walk round Lowther Estate from Askham. 25 walked and 31 dined.

Penrith Triathlon 2012

Penrith Rotary entered two relay teams in the annual Penrith Triathlon Registered Sprint event held at the town’s sports centre on Sunday 26 August.

Visit from Penrith [Australia]

Jean Vranich and her husband Luciano from Penrith, Australia attended the annual general meeting of the club on 14th May 2012. They were very warmly welcomed by the club president Malcolm Boyd.

Olympic Torch Parade

Olympic Torch Parade through Penrith 20th June 2012. Penrith Rotarians and partners were among the first to welcome the Olympic Torch into the town.

Rememberance Sunday Parade

Rememberance Sunday Parade

Maz joins the Royal Navy

Former Penrith Rotarian Marianne Pelter embarks on a new career in the Royal Navy

Trail Run 2012

Penrith Rotary Trail Run in Lowther park

Trail Run 2013

Penrith Rotary Trail Run in Lowther park

Charity Golf Day 2011

Charity Golf Day 2012

This years Penrith Rotary Club am-am tournament was held on Friday 10th August 2012 at Penrith Golf Club. Weather and playing conditions were ideal resulting in some excellent scoring. The tournament attracted over 200 players.

Crocus update

Penrith Rotary Club. Purple Crocus in Ullswater Road, Penrith Motorists driving along Ullswater Road, Penrith cannot help but see a large patch of purple

Focus on the Crocus

Crocus Planting 2013

Crocus Planting 2013

Presentation to Yanwath Infants School

Presentation to school to purchase playground equipment. Picture shows Erin and Finn Smith with mother Gill who is organising the fundraising

David Brooks - Fix the Fells

Coffee Morning

On 11th October the Club are organising a coffee morning at the Penrith evergreen Hall for Penrith senior citizens.

Tynefield Drive Day Centre

Tynefield Drive Day Centre planter presentation

Rotary Santa's at the the Pot Place

Rotary Santa's helped Kevin and his team at the Pot Place Plumpton to give children a memorable afternoon visit to Santa.

Young Writer

Rotary Young Writer Competition The 2011 Rotary Young Writer’s competition has identified a range of literary talent within the town’s two secondary schools. The theme this time was ‘Olympic Dreams’ or ‘Olympic Spirit.’

Antoni Nieznalski benefits from RYPEN Course

Technology Tournament 2013

ROTARY TECHNOLOGY TOURNAMENT WINDERMERE HYDRO HOTEL FRIDAY 15TH MARCH 2013

Ready Steady Cook 2011

Ready Steady Cook 2012

ULLSWATER Community College, Penrith, was the venue for the final of this year’s “Ready, Steady, Cook” school challenge, organised by the town’s Rotary Club. The six finalists – two from the host school and four from the town’s Queen Elizabeth Gram

Green Car Project

Green car built by the students of Ullswater Community College. It is part of a National programme to produce an electric, single seat car, which will be raced at various locations in the UK.

DG Welma Robinson - ZOOM

Charity Golf Day 2020 - CANCELLED

The tournament is an AM/AM stableford competition for teams of four with the two best scores counting on each hole. Handicap allowance will be 100% of full handicap up to a maximum of 24 strokes for men and 36 for ladies.

Charity Golf Day 2019

Penrith Golf Club

Young Chef District Final

Young Chef competition District Final

Mabogini Malaria Control Programme

Mabogini Malaria Control Programme

Tanzania Visit

Tanzania visit to set up joint venture on Malaria prevention

Trail Run and Fun Run 2019

Trail Run and Fun Run 2019

World's Greatest Meal

This is the club monthly social event, this time held at the Agricultural Hotel Penrith and will be part of the "World's Greatest Meal" to raise funds for Polio eradication wordwide.

Penrith Rocks for Pudsey

This year to support Children in Need Penrith Rotary Club and Penrith rocks are getting together to do a ramble around the Penrith Rotary Walk

Trail Run and Fun Run 2018

Trail Run and Fun Run 2018

Ready Steady Cook 2018

Ready Steady Cook

Rotary Young Musician National Final

Rotary Young Musician National Final at Heriot Watt University Edinburgh

RYLA 2018

Rotary Youth Leadership Awards

Technology Tournament 2018

Students from QEGS and UCC competed in the annual Rotary Technology Tournament on Friday 16thMarch at Kendal Leisure Centre. This year’s engineering challenge was based on Elon Musk’s Space X Company that launches rockets into space. T

Charity Burns Supper 2018

Our Premier Social Event held at the Roundthorn Hotel Another great night at the #Roundthorn Hotel celebrating the life of Rabby Burns. Over £1400 was raised towards #Rotary supported charities. The chuckles brothers were selling raffle tickets.

Swimathon 2017

The Rotary Club of Penrith invites you to enter a team in our Swimathon which will take place on Saturdays 28th Jan and 4th Feb 2017. This fun event is intended to provide you with an opportunity to raise funds for your own preferred charity, good cause,

Dinner Guest Night - Hugh Ellison - 50 years in Rotary

Last Monday a landmark event was celebrated by Penrith Rotary Club at the town’s George Hotel. Hugh Ellison had clocked up 50 years continuous membership with the club. This impressive and rare achievement typifies Hugh’s lifelong community service.

Charter Celebration 2017

Charter Celebration 2017

Charity Burns Supper 2016

Our Premier Social Event held at the Roundthorn Hotel

Charity Burns Supper 2013

Burns Supper to celebrate the life and works of Rabbie Burns. Members are encouraged to bring guests to this gala dinner and evening of wit, song and dance.

Charity Burns Supper 2008

Trail Run 2014

Penrith Rotary Trail Run in Lowther park

Trail Run and Fun Run 2017

Trail run and fun run 2017

Trail Run and Fun Run 2017

Trail Run and Fun Run 2017

Purpling Penrith

The community knitters at #turnpenrithpurple are very busy and plans to adorn Penrith are well underway. We need purple wool, and lots of it. If you have spare wool, old jumpers/scarves etc we could use them. Have a look at their Facebook page turnpenri

Handover & Guest Night

Visit to Marvejols France

Visit to Marvejols France

Dhullikel Dreams

Here are some photos of last nights inspiring talk by John and Paula Davis (a Penrith Rotary member). They showed many amazing photos of their recent three month visit to Nepal.

Trail Run and Fun Run 2016

Penrith Rotary Lowther Trail Run 2016

Dinner - Phil Everett - Go Herdwick Project

Dinner - Handover & Guest Night

Rotary at Home

Rotary at Home at Heather Clarke's

Technology Tournament 2015

Technology Tournament 2015

Trail Run 2015

Penrith Rotary Trail Run in Lowther park

7pm Guest Night - Handover Night

Handover Night

Charity Golf Day 2014

Next year's event is on 8th August

7:00pm Guest Night - Tom Barker & Tommy Coulthard - Cumbrian Dialect

Cheque presentation to League of Friends Penrith Hospital and Hospice at Home Carlisle and North Lakeland

6:00pm Dinner - UCC Young Enterprise

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The Crocus Planters 2014

Planting more crocuses to increase the display for next spring

6:00pm Dinner - District International Team

Induction of Niki Morton

Young Enterprise 2014

Young Enterprise Comptetition 2014

Ready Steady Cook 2014

Ready Steady Cook 2014

7:00pm Dinner - Guest Night - Presidential Handover & Call My Bluff

Handover night

Inner Wheel & Rotary Penrith Garden Party 2013

Inner Wheel & Rotary Penrith Garden Party 2013, fundraising and fun.

Damaged Tree in new planter

When vandals struck on the newly erected planter in Little Dockray, Penrith, snapping off a sapling, Penrith Rotary Club stepped in to pay for a new tree. Rotarian Heather Clark who led the effort said, ‘So many people have worked hard to improve the stre

Christmas Dinner - In-House entertainment - Volunteers contact Heather Clark

Members and guests entertain the club on the occasion of the 2012 Christmas Party in the George Hotel. In the spirit of 'Variety' the audience were treated to music, recitations, humour and poetry.

6:00pm Dinner - Speaker - Kirkoswald and Langwathby Girl Guides

Guides Libby Telford, 12 yrs from Kirkoswald and Katie Wilson14 from Calthwaite, both members of Kirkoswald and Langwathby Girl Guides were part of a group that recently experienced a week of outdoor adventure at the ‘Our Chalet’ centre in Adelboden

6:00pm Dinner - Speaker -

Four local students attended this week's meeting of Penrith Rotary Club to receive a cheque from club president David Dixon.

Walk & Dine Octoberr 2012

Walk & Dine Octoberr 2012

Christmas Dinner

Guest Night 7.0pm for 7.30pm

Theatre & Dine

Walk & Dine - 29/03/2009

A 6 mile walk round the Lowther Estate

Guest Night 29/9/08

Visit to Carpentras [France] Rotary Club event

Handover Night 30 Jun 2008

Shortersendtoend Handover of Sponsorship

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Community Award 2008

Sharrow Bay Lunch - 2008

Bike Ride 16/03/2008

Walk & Dine 19/10/2008

About a dozen members and guests completed a pleasant 5 mile walk round Gowbarrow. the weather could have been a lot worse, although towards the end it was very windy. This was followed by lunch in the Dockwray Hotel.