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President Ruth James

Welcome

If you are visiting our Club website to find out about us, Rotary membership offers a great opportunity to join with other members in projects to support the local community and offer support on an international platform for major disasters. Most people feel that they should put something back into their local community and this is your opportunity.

The Object of Rotary is to encourage and foster the ideal of service as a basis of worthy enterprise and, in particular, to encourage and foster:

FIRST: The development of acquaintance as an opportunity for service;

SECOND: High ethical standards in business and professions; the recognition of the worthiness of all useful occupations; and the dignifying of each Rotarian’s occupation as an opportunity to serve society;

THIRD: The application of the ideal of service in each Rotarian’s personal, business, and community life;

FOURTH: The advancement of international understanding, goodwill, and peace through a world fellowship of business and professional persons united in the ideal of service.

We all work together with the Four-Way test in mind:

The Four-Way Test is a nonpartisan and non-sectarian ethical guide for Rotarians to use for their personal and professional relationships. Of the things we think, say or do:

Is it the TRUTH?                                              Is it FAIR to all concerned?

Will it build GOODWILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS? Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?

We are a friendly club of just under 50 men and women, sharing lots of fun and fellowship.  In the 21st Century the Rotary Club of Burton upon Trent has been awarded the trophy for the best Club in the District (out of then 57 Clubs) on five occasions.

On Mondays we meet at Pirelli Stadium, the home of Burton Albion Football Club.   Usually, after lunch, a speaker presents a topic relevant to our community, our charity work, or to Rotary more widely.

To help those in need - locally, nationally and internationally - we raise funds through the Pirelli Stadium Parade, street collections, concerts and shows, quizzes, suppers, dinners, and anything else that springs to mind!

To read more about our Club and the Rotary movement in general, do explore 'What we do' in the menu top left.   An example of one of our projects can be seen below.

If you would like to put something back into the community while gaining a whole new group of like-minded friends, come and see us in action.   Contact us to arrange a visit to one of our meetings.

Congratulations...to Ruth James, the new Club President of Rotary Burton upon Trent for 2026- 2027

After a very good year as President, Peter Groves has handed over the reins to new President Ruth James.

Ruth comes from Burton and has lived in the area all her life.    She trained to teach at Bishop Lonsdale College, Derby and taught for forty years in four different schools in Derbyshire and Staffordshire.   She was headteacher at Holy Trinity C.E. (C) Primary School for twenty three years.   She has participated in many different sports including tennis and netball.   Her interest in football began at an early age when she had a season ticket at Derby County ,  going on to qualify as a Football Referee and for nearly 30 years she has been a season ticket at Burton Albion.  She attends St. Mary’s Church, Stretton.

Before joining Rotary is 2021, Ruth was a member and twice President of Soroptimist International of Burton upon Trent.  In Rotary she has chaired both the Youth and Community and Membership and Services Committees and has run the Club Programme.

Her vision for the Club this year is focused on three primary goals which align with Rotary International’s Theme of ‘Create Lasting Impact’.

• To strengthen local impact and address community need in particular through Books4Home and CRY (Cardiac Risk in the Young) not forgetting the other projects and services the club provides
• To grow the Burton Rotary family by encouraging others to  join
• To continue support of Rotary Foundation and the eradication of Polio

She asked members to join together in at least one project and to unleash change with themselves , whatever their age, so they can together create a lasting impact in the community and around the world, in the lives of those who need it most.

Latest News

Welcome to the Latest News from the Rotary Club of Burton upon Trent

The latest information can be found by accessing the "What we Do" files at the top of the page - please click on this heading.

Topics include:

• Burton Station Project
• Burton Hospital Project
• Books4Home
• Charity plant sale
• CRY
• Carers + Cafe
• Pirelli Stadium Parade

The Rotary Club of Burton upon Trent Trust Fund is a Registered Charity.
Charity No. 512286