Rotary Wareham helping the community whilst having fun and meeting people !

We meet twice a month at the Springfield Country Hotel  on Tuesdays from 7-15pm. 

The Rotary Club of Wareham was chartered in 1972 and is very much a fun loving club made up of male and female members, with the common theme of friendship and providing service to the local community and wider support to Rotary International initiatives worldwide, such as Shelter Boxes and the eradication of polio.

We meet at the Springfield Country Hotel in Wareham, where we can catch up with friends, and meet visitors and guests who are always made most welcome by the membership.

Together we can make a difference.

Further information on the club can be found on various pages on this website, but if you wish to contact the club click on "Contact" at the bottom of this page and someone will get back to you as soon as they can.

For further information on Rotary see What is Rotary and 12 Reasons to join Rotary.

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On behalf of Wareham Rotary, apologies that we didn't manage to complete all of the carol collection routes in December  due to technical problems and bad weather. Thank you to those of you that we did manage to visit and thank you for your generous donations.

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Tools for Self Reliance collection, January 2026

We will be collecting DIY or trade tools and sewing machines again on Saturday 24th January 2026. The tools will be sent to "Tools for Self-Reliance" at Netley Marsh to be refurbished and packaged into sets ready for sending to Africa.

The collection will be on Saturday 24th January 2026 between 9-30am and 11-30am at Sandford St Martin Primary School.

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Rotary Open Gardens 2025

Proceeds from the Open Gardens have been donated to Dementia Friendly Purbeck. For more photos of the Open Gardens afternoon see - photos

  

We're delighted to announce that we sold 216 tickets to our Wareham Rotary Open Gardens event this year(146 sold last year)

All proceeds from our event were again donated to Dementia Friendly Purbeck. This evening Ann Popperwell from Wareham Rotary presented a cheque for £2,700.00 to Mike Bonfield, Chairman & Mo Andrews, Treasurer of Dementia Friendly Purbeck in Ann's garden. Dementia Friendly Purbeck is working to recruit another Admiral Nurse and Mike said he was overwhelmed by the response and Dementia Friendly was well on their way to reaching their target for an additional nurse.

 Ann Popperwell thanked The Priory Hotel and all those who opened their beautiful gardens for us, plus everyone who supported our event by buying a ticket!

Also of course those that helped on the day with stewarding, selling tickets, baking cakes and serving refreshments and added we could not have done this without you, a great team event!

 If you would like to open your garden for us in June 2026, please let us know.

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Wareham Carnival 20th July 2025

Wareham Rotary had their usual stall at Wareham Carnival with a variety of children's games. We saw lots of happy children. A good result!

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Purbeck Sounds Community Radio Station

 

Ann Popperwell, President of Wareham Rotary, presented a cheque for £250.00 to Purbeck Sounds Community Radio Station based in Commercial Road Swanage.
Maxine Sims presenter and fellow Rotary member received the cheque on behalf of Purbeck Sounds.
Maxine was delighted to receive the cheque and thanked Ann for the generous donation from Wareham Rotary.
Maxine said the generous donation would help fund much needed equipment to facilitate live recording of community events .

Purbeck sounds is a community radio station which is proud to support the local community.

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Daffodil Party 2025

 

Wareham Rotary held their annual Daffodil Party on Saturday 1st March 2025. It was a great success with over 90 local people enjoying an afternoon of bingo, afternoon tea and musical entertainment from Karl Lattimer. 

See Daffodil Party 2025 for more photos.

This year's Daffodil Party will be on Saturday 14th March 2026.

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Cheque presentations

Rotary Open Gardens 2024 cheque for £2,000 presented to Dementia Friendly Purbeck.

Sara's Rotary Pimms on the Patio 2024 cheque for £540 presented to Dementia Friendly Purbeck.

The tents are sturdy and have been used for years in some parts of the world after previous disasters. Last year shelterboxes were sent to the Rotary Clubs in Turkey and Syria to house those in need in light of the emergency following the series of earthquakes.

To contact the Rotary Club of Wareham (Contact: Ann on  07870 775119)

 

Wareham Rotary makes regular donations to Shelterbox as well as public collections in response to particular disasters (eg. Ukraine war, Morocco earthquake and Libya flooding).
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