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        Club Speakers 2025/26      

Club Speakers

Mon, Aug 11th 2025 - Speaker Keith Joplin - Park Runs
Mon, Sep 1st 2025 - Club Meeting - Support Dogs Charity
Mon, Sep 8th 2025 - Club Meeting - Speaker Lily Waite-Wright Scout Jamboree in Korea
Mon, Sep 29th 2025  - Club Speaker Matthew White Knite Charity
Mon, Oct 27th 2025  - Club Meeting Speaker - Bumpy
Mon, Nov 3rd 2025  - Club Meeting Speaker Val Howe - Coats for Kids
Mon, Dec 15th 2025  - Club Speaker PDG David Phillips
Tue, Jan 27th 2026  - Visitors from Food Bank & Forget Me Not Hospice
Mon, Feb 2nd 2026  - Speaker - Arif Ahmed 
Feb 16th 2026  - Speaker - Birstall Shops Rotarian Ian
Club Speaker - MP Iqbal Mahamed Club Speaker - MP Iqbal Mahamed
Mon, Apr 13th 2026  - Speaker Ian Blamiers -
Mon, Apr 20th 2026  - Speaker Rotarian Mary Wallace - J Arther J Rank
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Rotary Club of Birstall Luddites
Club Speaker Keith Joplin - Park Runs.
President David pictured with Keith. (Keith gave permission to show photo)

President David pictured with Keith. (Keith gave permission to show photo)


LINKS
Dewsbury Reporter articl of Oakwell Halls first Funrun.

5K Your Way - Move against Cancer

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Rotary Club of Birstall Luddites
Speaker David Maltby

Support Dogs Charity. 1st Sept



President David with David Maltby from Support Dogs Charity.
(David gave photo permission)

LINKS
  Support Dogs Charity
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Rotary Club of Birstall Luddites
Club Speaker Lily Waite-Wright 
My experiences in South Korea at the World Scout Jamboree.

The World Scout Jamboree is a Scouting jamboree of the World Organization of the Scout Movement, typically attended by several tens of thousands of Scouts from around the world, aged 14 to 17. 




Lilly pictured with acting President Mary.




Lily giving her presentation.

"On Monday 25th Sept Lily gave a powerpoint presentation about her attendance, aged 16, at the 25th World Scout Jamboree held in South Korea in 2023.
This was an interesting and informative account of her experiences. It included the process of selection, preparation and the activities of the Jamboree itself. Lily also explained the challenges and complications of her enforced longer stay in Soel.
The presentation was delivered in an entertaining way and enjoyed by all."
(Peter Waite-Wright)

Lilly took questions from the Rotarians and was thanked by acting President Mary for her talk.

Lily is the granddaughter of Rotarians Peter and Patricia Waite-Wright, Peter is a Rotarian at the Rotary Club of Birstall Luddites and Patricia is a Rotarian at the Rotary Club of Headingley  




LINKS
25th World Scout Jamboree South Korea
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Gardian report World Scout Jamboree

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 Rotary Club of Birstall Luddites
Club Speaker Matthew for White Knights Charity.
Matthew visited the club on Mon 29th Sept and gave a talk about 
White Knights Blood Bikes Charity


Club Secretary Nigel with Matthew.

LINK White Knights website

(Permissions given for photos and Slides)

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Rotary Club of Birstall Luddites
Club Speaker Carolyne Kenzitt from Bumpy

Carolyne Kenzitt, from the Bumpy charity which is based at Howden Clough. The charity is a motorcycle, activity and training centre, who were set up and registered in 1989.

(pic from Jeremy)
President Dave with Carolyne
BUMPY (Birstall Urban Motorcycle Project for Youth) is an esteemed registered charity (#702335), established in 1989 as a training, testing and skills centre aimed at young motorcyclists causing a nuisance on wasteland.
(see Bumpy web site).

Website link: bumpy.org.uk

Please also visit our FACEBOOK site for late information.
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Rotary Club of Birstall Luddites
Zoom speaker for Coats4Kids Charity

On Mon 3rd Nov Rotarian Paul Barns set up a Zoom meeting at Batley Community Centre, using the Community Centres new screen and Tech system with Val Howe 
from the eClub in area 1070 for the Coats4Kids Charity.
Val explained the system they have to identify and supply new winter coats for children aged 4 to 14

See the web site for Coats4Kids Charity for more info.





LINK eClub District 1070
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Please also visit our FACEBOOK site for late information.
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Rotary Club of Birstall Luddites
Batley Food Bank and Birstall Community Partnerships update

At a recent club meeting we were pleased to welcome representatives from both Batley Food Bank and Birstall Community Partnership - Food share. Both groups gave our members details of how they work within the communities of Batley and Birstall. Although the Food bank and Food share work in different ways, they both provide a vital service for those in need of support in our area.

We were delighted to be able to donate £500 to each organisation from the monies collected at Tesco Batley during December.
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Rotary Club of Birstall Luddites
Speaker Arif Ahmed 

On Mon 2nd Feb Arif accompanied by the Iman of the mosque he attends gave us an insight
into he Muslim faith, including its history and how it has evolved over the centuries..
Below President David with Arif and his Inman

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Please also visit our FACEBOOK site for late information.

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Rotary Club of Birstall Luddites
Speaker MP Iqbal Mahamed.
MP for Dewsbury and Batley.

Iqbal came to the club and gave a talk about his life and the life of an MP in Westminster
Iqbal gave a interesting talk about his politics and the inter politics with main parties and with the independent MPs group of MPs in Parliament.

Luddites top table on left Pres Elect Nigel , President David, Iqbal and minutes sec Mary.

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Rotary Club of Birstall Luddites
100 years of Birstall Shops.
Rotarian Ian gave a talk about 100 years of Birstall Shops.
He started his "stroll" beginning at the Low Lane junction with Church Street.and progressed along Low Lane. through Marketplace to the Junction with Huddersfield Road, Looking at shops on the left of the road.
Ian's stroll came back along Low Lane again looking at shops on the left.
Ian was able to talk about the ownership of the shops through the years and the different uses of the shops.
He showed how a Town Hall was planned to be built close to the Market Place but was never built.
He showed where 3 abattoirs were and many butchers shops and Fish and Chip shops including one owned by a Belgian family.
Also the Co-op (Birstall Industrial Co-operative Society 1928) shop was on two levels and was a non-food store. 
Rotarians Nigel, Jeremy, Jerry and Caroline with Ian were able to give their own memories of past
Birstall shops.

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President David with Ian
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Rotary Club of Birstall Luddites
Club Speaker Mary Wallace J Arthur Rank

Rotarian Mary is a proud Hull Hullensian and Mary gave a talk on important people from Hull.
She gave a list of people, William Wilberforce, Philip Larkin, Tom Courtney. But Mary Mary picked another famous Hull person J Arthur Rank.
He was Born in Hull to a wealthy flour miller, he was a deeply religious Methodist, which influenced his initial entry into film (producing Sunday school films).

He was a Film Industry Leader: He financed and produced films during the "golden era" of British cinema, including The Red Shoes and Black Narcissus.
 His companyThe Rank Organisation

His company The Rank Organisation founded in 1937 expanded into leisure and entertainment, famous for the iconic "Gongman" opening logo
He is widely regarded as one of the most significant figures in British entertainment history. .
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