Welcome to the Rotary Club of Plymouth

INTRODUCTION

Background information about the Club

This website

You can see details of meetings and events that are soon to occur.  The long narrow rectangle on the right hand side of this page will provide links to to other future activities.

Social Media

There is a direct link to our Facebook page in the right hand column.  This is the main source of the latest club activities which we regularly update.  You can also find us on Twitter with the direct link in the right hand column.

Club Activities

There are a number of activities which we support or have supported, either by helping with fund raising or with assistance in organising activities. We have helped the disadvantaged and disabled through:- Diana Challenge. An afternoon sailing or motor boating on Plymouth Sound with funds from the late Princess of Wales and finishing up with a Cornish pasty. Kids Out. Holidays and day trips for children. Special Olympics Plymouth& District. Enhancing lives of those with intellectual disability.

Guerrilla Gardening Project. For many years members of the club have volunteered to maintain the landscaping to the car park in Stoke Village, Plymouth. There is a small plaque recognising many years of keeping our city’s garden tidy and up to date.

RYLA. Rotary Young Leaders Award which provides high quality leadership training for young people aged between 18 and 28.

Polio Plus. Rotary International set the objective in 1985 to eliminate polio and the club supports and helps to fund this work where it is needed throughout the world. We have been greatly helped by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation who match fund our efforts to raise millions of dollars annually. The vaccine is now being delivered in Afghanistan by a painless, needless, pressure system.

Young Artist Competion. For many years this was a local event organised by the club for students in secondary education throughout Plymouth. Current education staff shortages has meant the schools can no longer take part. Until this year club member Pat Pearce has also been the District 1175 representative for the National Art Competition run by Rotary (Great Britain & Ireland).  A student from Devonport High School for Girls won the Intermediate category both in the club competition and the District in 2023.  Another DHSG student went one better and won 1st Prize in the senior category. 

Plymouth Pirate Weekend. We participate in this annual event on the Hoe and in the Barbican, raising funds for charities. This includes our Lucky Dip and famous Rat Race.

Christmas Collections. Our main fund raising activity is at Christmas when we collect for Plymouth Foodbank at a local superstore. During the month of December our car drawn sleigh with Santa Claus on board tour areas of the city in support of local charities, which include; Dartmoor Search & Rescue, Jeremiah’s Journey, The Horizon Project, 27^th Plymouth Scouts & Explorers, 28^th Plymouth Guides, Plymouth Mayflower Specials, and 2171 Sqd. Air Cadets. Club members walk with teams of volunteers from each charity from 1800hrs to 20.00hrs on evenings and routes licenced to us by Plymouth City Council.

We also have had an active liaison with two Rotary clubs in South Africa, Hout Bay and Kromboom. We were able to support both clubs financially with projects to improve the lives of those living in terrible conditions in local 'Townships'.

We support Rotary Youth Study Exchange where the club either sponsors a young person to visit and study in an other country or we support a student from another country sponsored by another club. Recently we welcomed Kaho a student from Japan, sponsored by the Rotary Club of Kobe to study at Plymouth University. She became involved in many of our activities, regularly came to lunch and also visited other clubs in the district.

Queen Elizabeth II.We re-planted a tree in celebration of our late queen’s reign, on her Diamond Jubilee. The ceremony was presided over by our Lord Mayor Councillor Tina Tuohy who is an Honorary member of our club.