Harleston & District Rotary Club - welcome!
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Lend with Care
Loans are given to entrepreneurs around the world usually from 3rd world countries. We choose to select farming as the activity to support. The repaid loans (typically about £30 for each of 15 groups) are recycled into further loans each quarter.
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1000 ORIGAMI CRANES OF PEACE
Origami Cranes as displayed in St. John's Church Harleston in 2019
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Sancroft Innovations - STEM Club
STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) Club is an after school club run by Rotarians with support from the High School. It is financed by Club Funds and Rotary District Grants
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Dictionaries 4 Life
The Club purchases a number of dictionaries and donates them to several local primary schools. The students keep their dictionary for "life" - as the project title suggests. The scheme is funded 50% from club funds and 50% from rotary district grants.
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Raising Club Funds
A Picture Sale is one of the many ways we raise money for local good causes and international crises through the Shelterbox Charity. Other methods include bucket collections for particular disasters e.g.earthquakes.
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Tools With A Mission
We are currently involved in a project called "Tools With A Mission" (TWAM) whereby tools old and new are brought in (to the Swan Hotel) or collected and then periodically taken to the TWAM headquarters in Ipswich for onward distribution abroad
About us
Harleston & District Rotary Club was formed in 1979 to promote the aims and objectives of Rotary International in the community. Using the resources of business and like-minded people from all walks of life, we provide support for the less fortunate of all ages around the world.
Our Club is also deeply rooted in the community, supporting local charities, groups and good causes, such as the Waveney Foodbank, the Dictionaries 4 Life project in conjunction with local Primary Schools and the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) project at the local Archbisop Sancroft High School.
We support international objectives, for example the End Polio Now campaign, loans through the Care International Lend with Care scheme, grant aid through our project partner the ShelterBox charity to communities around the globe that have suffered disasters like earthquakes, and the TWAM (Tools With a Mission) scheme helping countries in need throughout the world.
If you like what we do why not consider joining our club? - just contact our secretary and come along to a meeting. Email details are secretary@harleston-rotary.org.uk or use the contact tab at the head of this page.
Happening soon...
Wed, Oct 21st 2026 10:30 am
A Brunch
A social event at Goodies Food Hall
Wed, Nov 4th 2026 12:30 pm
Rotary Meeting
Regular Meeting at the Swan Hotel, Speaker/Finder Mike Whitehouse
Meetings & Venue
Where and when:
We meet on Wednesdays at 12.30 pm
(1st & 3rd Wednesdays only) <The Swan Hotel
19 The Thoroughfare
Harleston
IP20 9AS
01379 852221
W3W: ///sprinkle.whimpered.improves
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