Welcome to Skipton Rotary Club. Please scroll down through this page to find out more about us. To view other pages please use the headings above.

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Youth Opportunities

Youth Opportunities

Skipton Rotary endeavours to create opportunities for young people through activities that build character & confidence along with new skills in the process.
Read all about Rotary Youth Competitions and Leadership Awards via the links

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Aquabox - Clean water in a crisis.

Aquabox - Clean water in a crisis.

Aquabox provides safe drinking water and humanitarian aid to people affected by natural disasters, extreme weather and conflicts. Aquabox is a Rotary charity run by the Rotary Club of Wirksworth since 1992.

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Community Grants

Community Grants

How to apply for help for your local Club, charity or organisation. For Youth grants see under What We Do - Youth Opportunities.

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School in a Bag

School in a Bag

Delivering School Bags to disadvantaged children around the world.

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Want to help your community?

Want to help your community?

Volunteers welcome to help Rotarians in their tasks about town. Helpers at Fund Raising events, such as Car Park on a Saturday; stewarding at our Dragon Boat Races; occasional Can Shakes etc.
We call you Friends of Rotary.

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Sand Dams - Build project at Kwainyoe, Kenya.

Sand Dams - Build project at Kwainyoe, Kenya.

Our District, together with D1010, D1145 and D1190 raised funds to enable a new dam and agricultural development to be built in the Dry Lands of Kenya with the support of African Sand Dam Foundation and Sand Dams Worldwide.

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About us


Skipton Rotary Club

For nearly one hundred years Rotary in Skipton has been involved in local, national and international community projects, volunteering and fundraising while at the same time having fun and socialising as a group. Like most Rotary Clubs, we meet once a week. For further details about our meeting venue, when we meet and how to find us, please see the information in the side panel.  You can also follow us @skiptonrotary on Facebook, Instagram, X and even perhaps Linkedin.

Fun & Friendship

Skipton Rotary is a friendly club where we have as much fun as possible working together to make a positive difference to people’s lives within the community. We hope that the lives of the volunteers who join us will be enriched as they take part in a range of fundraising, formal and informal social events, visits and even foreign travel, forming friendships, by volunteering their expertise and often discovering new talents and interests.

Fundraising & Volunteering

We undertake a variety of fundraising events including weekend and bank holiday car parking at Skipton Building Society, quizzes, concerts, bicycle recycling auction, Dragon Boat racing, Christmas Market stalls, as well as many annual fundraisers.

Get Involved

Our members volunteer their time and skills to plan fundraising and social events while enjoying each other’s company and friendship. There are several ways you can help us to ensure everything runs smoothly and to make the most of opportunities to raise money for the various charities we support.

Join Skipton Rotary

If you enjoy helping others, connecting with Rotary will give you the chance to do something positive and worthwhile. Rotary has over 35,000 clubs with 1.2 million members worldwide. As a Rotarian, while travelling at home and abroad for work or leisure, you can join a local meeting and engage with Rotarians the world over. Interested and want to find out more? You are very welcome to join one of our meetings. Please contact using the form below or via our membership page.

Help us to be the kind of group you are looking for and get to know a friendly bunch of volunteers helping the community.

Come to a Meeting

If you would like to come along and see what we do you are welcome to join one of our regular meetings without having to join Rotary first. Just let us know you are interested and we will do the rest.

Become a Member and join Skipton Rotary

When you have been to one or two of our meetings you may well decide you would like to join Rotary in Skipton and become a full member of Skipton Rotary Club. This means you can attend all our meetings and be fully involved with all our club’s activities. You will experience the friendship and enthusiasm of all our members while at the same time making a positive contribution to the local, national and international community.

If you enjoy helping others, connecting with Rotary will give you the chance to do something positive and worthwhile. Rotary has over 35,000 clubs with 1.2 million members worldwide. As a Rotarian, while travelling at home and abroad for work or leisure, you can join a local meeting and engage with Rotarians the world over. Interested and want to find out more? You are very welcome to join one of our meetings. Please contact using the form below or via our membership page.

Become a 'Friend of Rotary'

If you feel now is not the right time to become a full member but would like to be kept informed of what we are doing, we will add you to our mailing list. We hope you can be involved in club events and keep up to date with everything we do.  Help us to be the kind of group you are looking for and get to know a friendly bunch of volunteers helping the community.

Sometimes we need an extra pair of hands when running our various events. If you can help, please get in touch. You could be asked to do anything from stewarding an event, help run our weekly charity car park in town, helping to erect a marquee to planting crocus bulbs to promote the campaign for polio eradication. Whatever you can do we would like to hear from you!

Rotary International Club No 18956, District 1040.
The Rotary Club of Skipton Trust Fund, Registered Charity No 502427

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Happening soon...

Santa Fun Run & Xmas Lights Switch on

Sun, Nov 24th 2024 11:00 am

Santa Fun Run & Xmas Lights Switch on

Santa Fun Run in the morning. Christmas Lights switch on from 4pm.

Weekly meeting

Wed, Nov 27th 2024 5:30 pm

Weekly meeting

Our speaker tonight is Freddie Sarira. He is a Graduate student at the University of Bradford majoring in Sustainable Development supported by a Rotary Peace Fellowship (2023 - 2024)

Skipton Christmas Markets

Sun, Dec 1st 2024 10:00 am

Skipton Christmas Markets

Join us for Skipton’s Traditional Christmas Market! Two Sundays - 1st and 8th December. Charity Car Park on the Bailey open.

Weekly meeting

Wed, Dec 4th 2024 5:30 pm

Weekly meeting

Richard Thackrah - Remembrance Day & War Memorials in the digital age.

Weekly meeting

Wed, Dec 11th 2024 5:30 am

Weekly meeting

Foundation Craven bring us news about their work in the community.

Weekly Meeting - Christmas Dinner

Wed, Dec 18th 2024 6:00 pm

Weekly Meeting - Christmas Dinner

Start your Christmas celebrations with Rotary. Usual venue of the Tempest Arms.

Meetings & Venue

Where and when:

We meet on Wednesdays at 17.30 for 18.00

(5th Wed's are usually elsewhere with partners. See Events calendar. Please mail all apologies and details of guests to - apologiesandguests@skiptonrotary.org This address will contact both Secretary and Attendance Officer. ) Tempest Arms
Elslack Lane
Elslack
Skipton
BD23 3AY  01282-842450
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Rotary News

Be part of a global network of volunteers, trying to make the world a better place. Please also see the 'links & news' page for information from the local district and live feeds from Rotary International and Rotary International in GB&I.

Rotary serving communities through supporting foodbanks

Diversity is part of Rotary’s core values