Happy Birthday Rotary!
On February 23rd 1905, a man called Paul Harris, a lawyer in Chicago Illinois, arranged to meet up with some of his business acquaintances from the city to see what they could do to help the local community. And so …
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Learning About Recycling
We were delighted to welcome Marten Gregory, recycling Team Leader from the Commercial Waste and Strategy Team at Dorset Council, to our first get-together of 2021. Marten presented a detailed overview of Dorset’s waste operation, explaining how many people work …
Festive Cheer!
The festive season has proved to be a great success for Swanage Rotary again this year thanks to the enormous generosity of the people of Swanage, Studland, Langton, Corfe Castle and the surrounding area. Although our usual activities had to …
Pop In to our Pop Up
Swanage & Purbeck Rotary have opened their very first ‘pop-up’ charity shop. Situated in Station Road, Swanage, on the site of the former Mobility Shop, it will be open for the next two weeks (excluding Sundays) selling Christmas goodies and …
Innovative Rotary
We used the opportunity of Zoom to re-run the presentation from Australian Rotarian Mark Huddleston, originally shown at the Virtual District Conference in October. Mark is a renowned strategist, commentator, presenter and trainer in membership development and has very defined …
Inspirational!
This week we heard from Ella Beaumont, formerly a member of the Team GB wheelchair basketball team and now a producer of wheelchair-fit videos and a researcher for TV production company Whisper. Ella has been paralysed from the chest down …
‘Hybrid’ Meeting Hears Shelterbox Update
In a first for our club, this week’s meeting was an experiment in combining a Zoom Meeting with a socially distanced physical one at our normal meeting venue of Swanage Conservative Club. Just under half of the members met in …
Message from the New DG
For our first meeting of the new Rotary year, we were grateful to be able to grab some of our brand new District Governor Tim Mason’s time on Zoom, to give us an early steer of his plans for the …
A Lifetime of Service
Our speaker at our recent Zoom meeting was our very own Hubert Pierce. Hubert’s Rotary service goes back more than 50 years and he was a member of Blackpool North and Lytham clubs prior to coming down south to join …
Meeting in the New Normal
Swanage Rotary held its first ‘virtual’ speaker meeting this week, since the start of the lockdown, and we were delighted to welcome District Governor Nominee Paul Steele from Guernsey Rotary to join our Zoom meeting and tell us all about …