Welcome to our Website! If you are interested in joining us, or would just like more information about what we do, with no obligation, please get in touch by email to widnesrotary@gmail.com

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Kasupe Charity, Malawi

Kasupe Charity, Malawi

With the help of District Grants, we have been able to support this very worthwhile cause! Read on ....

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Our 2024 Gala Dinner Fundraiser Raised £10,000 for Widnes Foodbank !!

Our 2024 Gala Dinner Fundraiser Raised £10,000 for Widnes Foodbank !!

We had a wonderful evening! READ ON....

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Rotarylicious Meals

Rotarylicious Meals

Looking for recipe inspiration? Then check out the ten menus compiled by one of our members, Chris, who is a trained chef! Thanks go to Chris for putting this together.

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Emma Jones - an update on her Rotary Scholarship journey

Emma Jones - an update on her Rotary Scholarship journey

Emma has graduated from the Graduate Institute in Geneva after studying for her two year Master's Degree with the help of a Rotary Global Grant Scholarship and is now working in Switzerland for a Non Government Organisation. You can read her story here!

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Recognising Young People

Recognising Young People

In 2017 we nominated Aidan Jackson (then 14 yrs) for a Rotary Young Citizen Award after he raised £16,000 for charity. He has gone on to do great things ......

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Collecting and Recycling Used Spectacles

Collecting and Recycling Used Spectacles

Collection boxes are available in several Widnes opticians and community hubs, so if you have any to recycle, see below for more information on where to take them! THANK YOU.

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About us

Our Rotary year begins in July and we get up to all sorts of things,
please look through this website for more detail.   

Many will know us for our Christmas activities, especially our float, bringing Santa to see countless excited children (and adults!) as we collect, walking 65 miles in the process!  We also collect outside Asda Widnes and, for the first time last year, we were at Notcutts Rivendell Garden Centre with Santa and his elves!

As a result we raised a record, jaw dropping £23,500, all with the invaluable help of local businesses and volunteers, so our thanks go to them and to the Widnes community who so generously donated!

We donated this money back to the Widnes community in March at our annual 'Thank You Evening', put on to not only thank those who help us on the float, but to give the money raised in grants to 59 different groups and individuals, following a brief application process.
It was wonderful to see how much good goes on in our community!

This is not all we do and we are always looking for more members with new ideas, who would like to help not only our local community, but those abroad, following Rotary's motto of "Service above Self".

Now off to do more 'Dogoodery' in the words of a young Rotaractor!

Please get in touch in you'd like to know more - we are a friendly bunch!

 

 

 

 

 

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Happening soon...

Council followed by Committee's

Mon, Oct 6th 2025 5:00 pm

Council followed by Committee's

Monthly Council Meeting to discuss our ongoing plans, followed at 6 pm by the gathering of members to put those plans in place!

Meetings & Venue

Where and when:

We meet on Mondays at 6.00 pm

(Meeting on 1st and 3rd Monday (unless a Bank Holiday) in the month. No meetings in December as we're out with the Christmas Float!) The Woodlands Bar & Grill
Liverpool Road
Widnes
WA8 7XU  0151 424 8480

Rotary News

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Rotary serving communities through supporting foodbanks

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