President - Paul Brown

Welcome to our website

My personal welcome to you as you find out about the

 work being done by The Rotary Club of Baldock. 

Hello and welcome to the Baldock Rotary Club website

I am Paul Brown, the Club President for the year 2025-26. It is an honour and a pleasure to be the Club President, the 12 months ahead will be challenging but with the team I have behind me, I am confident that we can move the Club forward and I can continue the good work of my predecessors.

Rotary is one of the largest voluntary organisations in the world which is committed to do good locally, nationally, and Internationally. Rotary is a non-sectarian,apolictical body of roughly 1.2 million volunteers in 45.000 clubs based in over 130 countries. With this world-wide network of clubs, Rotary is in a unique position to react to crisis events and make sure that suitable aidbvgets to the right place.

In 1984 Rotary became a major partner in the Global Polio Eradication initiative along with other major players including who and UNICEF. Our Club continues to support this objective.

locally, the Rotary Club of Baldock is well known for the Christmas Lights in the town. These we have been putting up since 1978, and we have an exciting programme to use modern technology in our future displays. This is our thank you gift to the population of Baldock for the great support you all give to our fund raising activities, particulary our Santa's Sleigh collection during December. I also would like to thank our local supermarket, Tesco, and Baldock Motorway Services who gave us permission to hold collections at their doors.

Other annual events include the Open Gardens during the Baldock Festival in May. A Jazz Evening in October and the Burns Night Supper towards the end of January.

One recent local project is the planting of the second Rotary Wood at Ivel Springs just of Norton Road. Our thanks go to the support from Knights Templar School pupils and the general public for help in clearing the site and the planting of the trees. Our original wood, adjacent to the great North Road is maturing well, although we have suffered some Ash die-back. In the recent years we have supported many Baldock youth organistions and the Baldock Churches.

The future success of out Club cemtres around attracting new members to our friendly, vibrant club. If you feel that you can give something back to the local community we would be pleased to hear from you. Our weekly lunchtime meetings are held at the Baldock Community Centre on Wednesday's, but we welcome any support you can offer.

Thank you for your time to read this introduction, Paul

Info

Club membership enquiries to Michael Muir  07909 002631 & Paul Luckett  07484 867288

Sants's Sleigh  Thom Odd  07799 841982

Our website can reached by putting in The Rotary Club of Baldock 

RGB&I  https://www.rotarygbi.org/