Tottington & Bury West Rotary Club

Meetings at Greenmount Golf Club:  First Wednesdays: Business & Council (Rotarians), 7.30 pm. Fourth Wednesdays: Meal, 7 pm, usually with speaker, all welcome.

We also have regular Committee meetings, many on Zoom. Please contact if you require details.  

 Guests  most welcome at Greenmount Golf Club or on Zoom!

President is Paul Jarvis for 2025-26

The Rotary Club of Tottington & Bury West administers a Charity Trust Fund, Registered Charity

No. 1047285

Many thanks to our brilliant drivers, Santa and all the collectors who have helped us with our Christmas Float and Grotto at Tesco. Many thanks to our General Public who contributed to our Charity Fund a total of £7666! In the coming year, we will spend this on a variety of Charities, mainly local but also international charities recommended by Rotary.

Forthcoming Meetings etc.

FUTURE EVENTS in 2026

Wednesday 25th February:meal at Greenmount Golf Club, speaker from Kirklees Wildlife Centre. District Governor of Rotary D1285 Edwin Partridge in attendance.

Wednesday 25th March: meal at Greenmount Golf Club, Reading of Club Charter (celebrating our 54th year) and speaker Ania Stark Ketcher from AgeUK

Thursday 19th March: Tree Planting Whitehead Gardens, Tottington

Wednesday 22nd April: meal at Greenmount Golf Club,speaker from Eagles Wing

Wednesday 27th May: meal at Greenmount Golf Club, speaker David Barnes from Manchester, Bolton and Bury Canal Society

Thursday 28th May: President's Bowls, Waggon & Horses, Hawkshaw. Bowling 6 pm, Meal 8 pm

Thursday 2nd July: meal at Greenmount Golf Club, Club Assembly and Handover to new President for 2026/27, Brian Boys

NOTE CHANGE OF DATE TO A THURSDAY

Wednesday 22nd July: meal tbc

Rotary's Motto is "Service before Self":

In addition to our Christmas Float (since 1977, every year except 2020), Wrap Up and Poppy collections, we undertake various community projects, at present including helping out at Pets in Need (most Mondays), St John's Church Garden/churchyard maintenance (most Wednesday mornings, if not wet). Volunteers always welcome! Also some litter picks. Contact for details.

Some of us are also helping at Tottington Centre with the voluntary library service which replaced that relinquished by the local council in December 2017. The library is open, Mondays to Fridays from 10.00 am to 5 pm (plus Saturday mornings 10-1). There is also a cafe: hours as library, except 10-4 pm weekdays. Rooms are available for hire and there are several activity groups for children and adults. 

Whitehead Gardens, Tottington Project.  Proffitts are about complete restoration works shortly. Eventually, we hope to have a pleasanter park to visit and to make it part of a Tottington History Trail. This small park is a Memorial to those killed by a bomb in WWII at the site. 

Over the last year or so we have donated to, or hosted/assisted at, the following:

British Legion Poppy Appeal at Tesco Woodfields, Various local charities with coats from our "Wrap Up Bury" appeal, sold books for the Tottington Centre, Rotary Technology Tournament, Brandlesholme Community Food Bank, Jigsaw (Bury), Bury Blind and Partially Sighted Society, Bury Enterprise Centre, D-CaFF, Crown Veterans Association Breakfast Club, School Christmas Card Competition with winner sent to local Care Homes,Elms Bank School, Kids Cancer Charity,Eagles Wings, Blood Bikes, Rotary Toy Boxes, Carers' Christmas Hampers, St John's Tottington- graveyard maintenance, Pets In Need, Tottington (help and funds), Disabled Sports St Helen's, Dementia UK, Shelter Box Trust, Sand Dams, Global Sight Solutions, Sreepur village project, LendwithCare, and Rotary Foundation (Rotary International's own Charity, which includes Polio Plus, which soon hopes to eradicate polio from the world).

Note that most of our donations are raised via our Christmas Float. Recently we have also had these added to by our Square Street Singers Concert at St John's Church. 

We have planted  daffodils this year at Old Kays and along the wall at Whitehead Gardens

The Bury Schools Technology Tournament is run with the other Rotary Clubs in Bury Metro.

If you wish to attend a Rotary meeting or event listed above, can offer your help with projects, or would like further information about joining Rotary please contact me

Rotarian Pat(rick) Neininger

 p.neininger@btinternet.com

or

 07885 492 901