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

Our BLEED BOX CAMPAIGN has installed emergency bleed packs all around the Metropolitan Borough (e.g. in Silver Street Bury ). Other local Rotary Clubs have joined us together with Bury Lions and other local organisations. We  received the magnificent sum of £7500 from Bury Lions towards more boxes. Many thanks to them!

Forthcoming Meetings etc.

FUTURE EVENTS in 2025

Thursday 9th October 7 pm: Rifle Club shooting

Wednesday 15th October 6 for 6.30 pm Club visit to Rossendale Rotary

Sat-Sun 18/19th October: Club attends Rotary District 1285 District Conference

Wednesday 22nd October 7pm: Meeting with meal at Greenmount Golf Club, speaker  from D-CaFF

Saturday 25th October: Start of Wrap-Up coat collection-various collection points

Monday 27th October: Start of Poppy Appeal collections for British Legion, Tesco, Woodfields (to 8th November)

Wednesday 12th November: Curry Evening, Jewel in the Crown, Bury, 7 for 7.30 pm

Wednesday 26th November Meeting with meal at Greenmount Golf Club. Speaker Owen Dykes. Bury Fusiliers.

Monday 1st December: Start of Santa Runs, Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays in December, 6- 9 pm

Friday 12th December, 7.30 pm, St. John's Church, Tottington, Square Street Singers Concert, Turkey Muffins but bring your own drinks! £10

Saturday/ Sunday 13th and 14th December: Father Christmas Grotto outside Tesco, Woodfields

Wednesday 16th December: Christmas Meal at Greenmount Golf Club

EVENTS IN 2026

Wednesday 28th January: meal at Greenmount Golf Club- Speaker Councillor Yvonne Wright- Tottington Civic Pride

We undertake various community projects, at present including helping out at Pets in Need (most Mondays), St John's Garden/churchyard maintenance (most Wednesday mornings, if not wet). 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. There is a Big Book Sale on Saturday 4th October and a "Pop Up Book Sale" on November 22nd. Jigsaws will also be on sale.

Whitehead Gardens, Tottington Project.  Proffitts are about to start work very 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, School Christmas Card Competition with winner sent to local Care Homes,Elms Bank School, Kids Cancer Charity,Eagles Wings, Francis House and Derian House Children's Hospices, Blood Bikes, 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 and collections from our very generous General Public.

We hope to plant  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