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Recent News

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Shelter Box events

Summer schedule released

 

Another new member! 14 May 2013

Our best year for attracting new members continues, with Colin Voogt being the latest.

 

Annual Beach Clean 13 April

A great community project organised by Ayrshire Rotarians. Over 220 volunteers turn up!

 

Charity Golf Day

Running BikeEnter a team and help disabled children through ACE Race Running Club

 

 

 

Wallace Allan achieves milestone

50 years as a member of Ayr Rotary

 

Ayr Rotarians world-wide exposure

The International Applachian Trail features the ACP bridge building project

 

Peter Ball Alloway, 26 March 2013

Peter Ball

 

Alloway are supporting "Hogar Intergral", helping children in Bogota

 

 

 

Curling Report
Euan Lawrence explains the social side of Rotary curling

 

Rotary Theme 2013/14

Message from Ron D Burton, RI Pres.

"Engage Rotary, Change Lives"

 

Fantastic fundraising from Symington and Craigie Parish Churches

£1800 for Shelter Box

 

Shelter Box Latest News

Shelter Box

Rob Keating reports on latest developments, including visits to Glasgow and £1800 raised from Symington and Craigie Churches

 

Ayrshire Curling Bonspiel 13 Jan 2013

Curling BonspielGreat Rotary fellowship with a competitive edge

 

 

 

Living Hearts Charity - Peru

Heather Buchanan

 

Heather Buchanan from Living Hearts charity gave an update to the Club on 8 Jan 2013. Here's a moving video of their work

 

Another new member

Bert Mossie

 

Bert Mossie is welcomed into the club and inducted by Pres. Alan Meikle on 8 Jan 2013. Alex Thomson was his proposer

 

Shelter Box Campaign

Have you supported our campaign? If you know your Box Number, you can track it here, and see if has been deployed yet.

 

Work party for Coastal Path shuns mechanical methods

 

 

 

Paul Harris visits Ayr

Read the story of Paul's visits to Ayr and his love of Robert Burns

 

 

 

Meetings

Full list of meetings

 

Tues 28 May 2013

James Brown - The Ayrshire Pilgrims' Trail

VOT: Len Houston
Welcome: Winifred Sloan, Robert Mossie, Neil Beattie

 

Tues 4 June 2013

Roads - Janice Kelly SAC

VOT: Gus Iannotti
Welcome: Jimmy Begg, Brian Clarke, Henry Cooke

 

Projects

Shelter Box

BoxAdopted in 2009 as a major club project, this has grown each year and now we have team led by Bob Henderson, delivering presentations thoughout Ayrshire. We have funded over 40 Shelter Boxes and have been recognized with an award from Shelter Box UK.

 

African Power Project (Malawi)

solar power

The Solar Power project is now alomst complete. This club donated £25000! More details

 

 

Ayrshire Coastal path

Path workersThis major project was led by member Jimmy Begg, to celebrate the 2005 centenary of Rotary International. We now have a 100 mile path which has proved popular with locals and overseas visitors.

 

 

Rotary District News

District 1230 Website

Keep up to date with District News

 

April 2103 Newsleter

DG Alex Blair reports

 

 

Rotary International News

RIBI news page

Monthly Newsletter - May 2013

 

RIBI Service News

A monthly update from RIBI (April 2013).

 

RIBI International Newsletter

April 2013

Issued by International Service Committee

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Forth-coming Events

 

 

New Members Welcome!

Thinking of joining the Rotary Club of Ayr?

We are one of the largest and most active clubs in Ayrshire, and have been successsful in recruiting younger members recently. Come along to a meeting to find out why these young business people joined our club.

 

 

 

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Ten Good Reasons to join the Rotary Club of Ayr

 

What is Rotary?

  • Rotary is a service organisation of business and professional leaders united worldwide, who help those in need, ecourage high ethical standards in all vocations and work towards world understanding and peace
  • Rotary is approximately 1.2 million service-minded men and women belonging to more than 32400 Rotary clubs in virtually every country in the world. Membership is by invitation
  • Rotary runs the biggest non-government scholarhsip in the world
  • The Rotary Foundation charity gives £60 million every year to educational and humanitarian programmes which promote international understanding
  • Rotary began in 1905 in Chicago

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