July 2025
July Timeline 14th July – We were joined by Clive Paget and Mandy Morgan from Yewstock School who enlightened us on the history of the school and its work with special needs children. A recent open day was attended by Paul and he has highly recommended a visit next year to learn more about the school. Yewstock School – A […]
June 2025
9th June – we were pleased to welcome The District Governor Debbie Dunford, who presented a Paul Harris award to Genette Gale for her exemplary service especially with the Youth and Community projects. Rtn Rob Blackman gave us an interesting history of English Wine going right back to the ancient Britons and including a tasting of an English […]
May 2025
12th May – Speakers evening. After the regular business we were brought up to date on the work of The Friends of Westminster Hospital by Chairman Julian Pritchard. www.friendsofwmh.org.uk From the work with the patients, to the garden, car park extension, property purchases and office accommodation for the community mental health team and more recently […]
April 2025
6th April A glorious sunny Sunday brought out both families and keen runners to join in Shaftesbury Rotary’s second Family Fun Run and what an enjoyable morning it was, for all, runners, spectators and marshals The event had around 150 entries with half of the fitter runners opting for the 10 kilometre and the remainder opting for the 5 kilometre run. We were assisted by […]
March 2025
10th March – Speaker meeting. After some regular business we were introduced to Darren Harte of the Dorset Centre of Excellence at Coombe House. He brought us up to date on the progress and future plans for this SEND school and the facilities they have on the site. We look forward to exploring the opportunities […]
February 2025
10th February – Regular business was discussed and a donation agreed to “Hope”. Andy reported that Rotakids was active and had undertaken a litter pick session recently. Our speaker was Steve Russell who spoke on a dive boat holiday in the Red Sea Young Chef Competition – Shaftesbury, in conjunction with Gillingham held the local […]
January 2025
BURNS NIGHT CELEBRATION GOES WITH A BANG! BURNS NIGHT CELEBRATION – 70 Rotarians, Masons and guests came together on Saturday 18th January to celebrate Burns Night at The Heritage Suite.Tony, the piper, joined us for the second year running and started off the evening. Richard Shean was on-hand to manage proceedings for the evening. Liz of Beautiful Buffets […]
December 2024
The Shaftesbury Rotary Caldwell Award for 2024 was awarded to Open House for the great work they and their volunteers do supporting the local community. Open House has a great team that offers benefit advice, housing advice, emergency food parcels, a store of second-hand furniture to help people who cannot afford furniture or white goods, […]
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 […]