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 Brian Boys for 2026-27

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

No. 1047285

Our Charity Fund  spends on a variety of Charities, mainly local but also international charities recommended by Rotary. See below for details.

Forthcoming Meetings etc.

EVENTS in 2026

Saturday 18th July: Family Fun Day, with Bury Lions- Openshaw Park, Rochdale Road, Bury, 12.30 until 4 pm. Stalls:charity and commercial, food, children’s rides, Hawks & Owls etc. In aid of Bury Cancer Care.

Wednesday 22nd July: meal at Greenmount Golf Club, Poetry Evening, Members' favourites

Wednesday 26th August: meal at Greenmount Golf Club, no speaker.

Wednesday 23rd September: meal at Greenmount Golf Club, speaker Jessica Bradford from North Care Charity

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 the 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.  This small park is a memorial to those 6 people killed by a bomb in WWII which demolished a row of houses at the site. Following the re-dedication on June 9th to the memory of the people who died, work continues to complete this project.We will shortly be asking for volunteers to help with a monthly litter pick, tidy up etc.

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, Elton & Walshaw Junior Football Club,  Tottington Civic Pride, Back Up NW, D-CaFF, Crown Veterans Association Breakfast Club, Eagles Wing, Bury Lions, local scout going to international Jamboree, School Christmas Card Competition with winner's entry sent to local Care Homes, Kirklees Wildlife Rescue Centre, Rotary Toy Boxes, Carers' Christmas Hampers, Francis House and Derian House Children's Hospices,Manchester, Bolton & Bury Canal Society, St John's Tottington- graveyard maintenance, Pets In Need, Disabled Sports St Helen's, Sepsis Trust, LendwithCare, Disaster Aid UK, Mary's Meals,PhysioNet,  Rotary Shoe Boxes, Rotary Summer Campers (children from other countries come to our area), and Rotary Foundation (Rotary International's own Charity, which includes Polio Plus, which aims to eradicate polio completely from the world).

Note that most of our donations are raised via our Christmas Float. Last year 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, Holcombe Road 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