Anyone can experience a mental health condition at any time. Leyland Rotary members were delighted to present Emma Bateson of Lancashire Mind with a donation for life-changing support to adults and young people.

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.

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 competition is contributing to improving young people’s oracy skills. Students from local high schools will compete in the heats of Rotary’s public speaking competition in November at Balshaw’s High School.

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: