Upcoming Social Events
January 2025
BURNS NIGHT CELEBRATION GOES WITH A BANG! 70 Rotarians, Masons and guests came together on Saturday 18th January to celebrate Burns Night at The Heritage Suite in Bell Street. Tony, the piper, joined us for the second year running and started off the evening in his own inimitable style. Richard Shean was on-hand to manage […]
November 2024
8th November – members enjoyed The Rod Stewart Story at Salisbury Playhouse. The show was great – an excellent tribute with a great backing band. If you closed your eyes, he really could have been Rod himself. Thanks to Peter Sale for organising. 10th November – eight of us, led by Acting President Peter and […]
October 2024
11th October – A group of us met for an Italian meal at San Tonino in Shaftesbury. We enjoyed excellent food in pleasant surroundings with a convivial atmosphere. Thanks to Tim Cook for organising. 14th October – Our own Rotarian Martin Sayers gave us an interesting talk on the third successive summer adventure, 23 weeks […]
September 2024
Our usual twice monthly meeting at the Grosvenor was cancelled by them at short notice, so unfortunately we were unable to have a speaker. However it is good to keep in touch so we arranged to meet at Aroma, our nearest Indian restaurant. In an open restaurant we were unable to transact any business but […]
August 2024
August Timeline Thirteen of us gathered for a traditional Sunday Lunch at The Forester, Donhead St Andrew on Sunday 11th August. The Snug was reserved for us and we enjoyed two courses in very pleasant surroundings. There was lots of lively conversation. We were also very pleased that new member Stephen Russell and his partner were able to join us. We […]
July 2024
July timeline RotaKids care about local older people – 30 RotaKids from Abbey Primary School and Shaftesbury Primary School undertook visits to three local care homes this week. They visited Cedars Lodge, John Shoobridge Court and St Denis Lodge. The young people played games, danced and chatted with the residents. They also took artworks they […]
June 2024
10th June – Our first meeting this month and we have already been busy with a presentation cheque to BOOBS; and sponsoring three teenagers on a weekend organised by Rotary District for Young Carers, as well as Kids Out next week at Longleat. Our speaker this evening was Phil Martin of Phil’s Epic Ride with […]
May
May Timeline 5th May – Shaftesbury Feastival – six of us helped at the Cheese Races on Gold Hill. Despite inclement weather and the weight of some of the cheeses, we managed to get all the races run without mishap. There were lots of entries in the children’s and men’s races, although disappointingly not so […]
April
April Timeline 8th April – A brief review of yesterday’s Fun Run. Despite the wind, we had a good turnout with 120+ runners over the two distances. A multitude of compliments from the runners on the course, organisation and their enjoyment of the day. Overall, a successful event and the club voted unanimously to book […]
