Community Service Project Group

The Community Project Group has provided and continues to support services and activities across both the local community and the wider world by way of hands-on involvement in addition to small donations to local charities and organisations within Harrogate and the district.

Currently, the project group,

• organises the car parking for Saint Michael's Hospice:
  • Light up For Life Christmas event on 14^th December 2025
  • Twilight Walk in March 2026, date to be confirmed.
• We have arranged a community bucket collection at Morrisons on the weekend before Christmas,
• our Christmas Tree collection in early January helps avoid the queuing at the local dip,
• Knaresborough Bed Race marshalling support,
• Harrogate Food Bank & Easter Egg Collection,
• Kids Out – we continue to provide financial support for a Springwater school outing. The picture below shows John Wallace, Club President and James Grimshaw, Rotary Club member handing over a cheque to students at the school.

Following the Rotary philosophy of 'Service before Self' the Community Project Group has built upon past achievements. The Rotary Club of Harrogate has recorded a number of major achievements during its hundred years plus existence including:

• founding the Harrogate Society for the Blind (now known as Vision Support Harrogate District),
• creating a holiday camp for disadvantaged people,
• creating an orphans refuge,
• forming the Harrogate Boys Club,
• creating the Harrogate Flower Fund and
• providing transport for elderly people to a variety of regular and ad hoc events within the Harrogate Council for Voluntary Service,
• marshalling one-off events including the Olympic Torch relay and the Tour de France peloton in Harrogate,
• delivering meals on wheels to elderly people.

For further information about CPG activities contact John Wallace, Rotary Club of Harrogate, on 07527 535395 or complete the email contact below.