Special General Meeting

Tue, Dec 7th 2021 at 10:30 am - 12:30 pm

To receive the Annual Accounts and elect officers for the following Rotary year.

At the Special General Meeting, the Accounts for the year ended 30th June 2021 were approved.

The officials elected to serve for the next Rotary Year 2022/2023 were as follows:

President: John Lipscombe

Secretary: Keith Higgin

Assistant Secretary: John McLoughlin

Treasurer Brian Franklin

At the Business Meeting which followed, revised plans were discussed for a further Santa Sleigh collection on Sunday 19th December to cover Alston Crescent area, where we were forced to postpone the collection because of the very inclement weather.

Volunteers were also sought for collections at Morrison's store on 16/17/18/19 December.

Details of the Carol service at Whitburn Parish Church on 10th December at 7.00 pm were also announced. All are welcome to this service, which will be followed by light refreshments and an opportunity to chat.

'What We Do' Main Pages:

World Community/Internat'l Service

Rotary Club of Seaburn works with communities overseas, mostly through The Rotary Foundation.

End Polio Now

Rotary International's big effort to rid the world of this crippling disease started in 1985. We are so close to completing the job. Just one last push!

Community Service

'We're for Communities' and work within our local community, whose assistance and support we value greatly.

Youth Opportunities

Activities include working with schools,Youth Competitions, Rotary Youth Leadership Award scheme, our Interact Club, Rotakids clubs and much more.

Members of Seaburn Rotary wish to express their condolences to members of The Royal Family upon the death of Her Majesty.

Vocational Service

We follow this avenue of service by helping in schools in a variety of ways. We also have speakers who tell us about their occupations.

Satellite Club

Former Rotary Club of Seaburn Satellite Club, which was formed into a separate Rotary Club SR1.

Club/Membership Services

This committee is concerned with the administration of the club. It incorporates: House; Registrar; Fellowship; Programme; Sport. The President Elect is usually the chairman of the committee, with other members taking a lead in each particular activity.

A collage of the seven cards we have on offer for sale in 2020.

Each year a new card is painted by Rotarian Randle Oliver. These are sold to friends as well as other Rotary club members to raise funds for Rotary Foundation and other charities, including our own Benevolent Fund.

MEMORY CAFE

This new community venture opened in August 2017. The meetings are held at 2.00 pm on the last Wednesday each month.

Redby Rotakids with their charter and Rotarians

Redby Academy Rotakids were excited to received the charter on 17th May 2016

Membership

Rotary's main purpose is to encourage and nurture volunteerism locally, nationally and internationally. We have an active Membership Committee and would like to hear from anyone interested in finding out more about Rotary.

The Rotary Club of Seaburn received a banner award in recognition of its generous support of Rotary Foundation, being the 3rd highest donor in Rotary North East. It demonstrates the club's commitment to Doing Good in the World.