The New Rotary Year Begins

Our members support numerous community activities throughout the year. At the Town’s Grand Fireworks Event we smoothly managed entry using the new ticketing system at the entry gates along with Ringwood Men’s Shed.

The Rotary Clubs of Ringwood, Bournemouth, Parkstone, and Pool lead by the Rotary Club of Winchester have joined together with nine Rotary Clubs in Uganda to fund the purchase and equipping of a mobile library in Kasese, Uganda

3 billion children immunised. 21 million saved from paralysis. 1,000 cases a day reduced to just dozens per year. Read the story of one of the most ambitious and successful public health programmes in history - pioneered by Rotary.

We’ve been supporting Ringwood Junior School’s Engineering Club for over 12 years now. To help fund the club we’ve secured sponsorship for them from Armfield Ltd. Managing Director Andy Macpherson joined us at our recent meeting.

What a great bunch of people to be working with on the north gate at the Ellingham Show. Almost smooth running! Thanks to all the Rotarians who took part plus our friends (and family members) and the Ringwood Carnival Crew.

Wow! If you weren’t at The Barn yesterday evening you missed a great night with The Swing Unlimited Big Band. 180 of us danced the evening away and raised funds for good causes. A really great evening.

On 3rd July we said a big ‘thank you’ to our outgoing President, Trevor Pogson, and ‘hello’ to our new President, Maddie Phillips. The Rotary Club of Ringwood was Chartered in 1947 so Maddie becomes our 77th President.

24 schools across the South of England submitted a record 1158 entries on this year's subject - Atmosphere