Wrap Up Lancashire

2,095 coats distributed to 16 charities throughout central Lancashire (a 98% increase on last year). A BIG THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO DONATED UNWANTED COATS. You’ve made a real difference to your community.

We will be resuming the collection of unwanted children’s books in the New Year and would be grateful for your donations which will help children in our community.

After an absence of some years, Leyland Rotarians have returned to quizzing by entering the District’s 2024/25 inter-club competition.

The first Pitch4Pounds awards have been made to Leyland Barracudas, Heartbeat, Drumming for Dementia, Leyland SEN Disco, and Leyland Dementia Music and Memories. Each of these organisations is doing valuable work in our community.

Rotary’s Youth Speaks contributes to improving young people’s oracy skills. Students from local high schools competed in the heats of in November at Balshaw’s High School. Click on details for more information and the results.

Leyland Rotary's Christmas Collections for local charities will take place at Morrisons on 13th and 14th December, and at Tesco on 19th, 20th and 21st December. Santa will be there to help.

At the start of his presidential year, Rotarian Jim Costello outlined his hopes that in our 70th year we in Leyland Rotary will be able to expand our involvement with the local community.

These are some of the local projects we are involved in.

A sample of some of the national programmes/organisations we support.

As part of an international organisation, Leyland Rotary supports the following: