Welcome to the Rotary Club of Evesham

If you are a casual visitor, I hope you find our website interesting.  We are continuing to work on it to provide more information for visitors and our members.  If you would like to know more about us, why not come and see us at one of our meetings?  They are a mixture of club business, guest speakers and good fun, and you can be sure of a warm welcome.  

Do you know anything about Rotary?  We are a world-wide organisation of 1.3m people dedicated to "Service Above Self", and our club is a great example of this ideal put into practice.  We raise money for a wide range of local charities and also contribute to international campaigns to provide education, medical care, water, sanitation and emergency relief to the world's most vulnerable people.  Because there are Rotary clubs throughout the world, local Rotarians ensure that every penny we raise is spent directly, and only, on these projects.  Our club is linked to four others in Europe: in Denmark, Norway, Germany and Holland and together we undertake projects of a larger scale than one club alone could manage.  Our last joint project was to provide irrigation water for a village in Malawi.

You might have heard of the Evesham Tree of Light, our biggest fund-raising project, which has now been going each Christmas for fourteen years and which has raised about £120,000 for local and Rotary-selected charities.  These include St. Richard's Hospice, Acorns Children's Hospice, Evesham Shop Mobility, the County Air Ambulance, the Citizen's Advice Bureau, Talking Newspaper, Noah's Ark, Tracey Sollis Leukaemia, RNLI, the Acquired Brain Injury Unit and many others, including the Mayor of Evesham's dedicated charities.

A big feature of our club is good company and having fun.  We enjoy our meetings and we also have a varied programme of social events to choose from throughout the year.  I believe fun generates energy, and energy drives our service to our immediate community and the wider world. 

If you would like to visit us, meetings are each Tuesday at 12.30 p.m; at Ecgwins PMC, 117 High Street, Evesham.  Call me on 01386 442367 or Merlin Mather, our Secretary, on 01789 778836 to book yourself in.

You will be most welcome.

Peter Davidson

President 2012-2013              

 'Evesham  Festival of Music' was  held between July 1st and 5th July 2009

             to see   full details and  more pictures of this event go to   www.eveshamfestivalofmusic.org.uk