PONTELAND ROTARY BROCHURE 2020 REV 4.with hyperlinks

OUR EVENTS ROTARY PONTELAND Main Club COME AND JOIN US - Meets every Tuesday at 12.15pm or 7pm YOU WILL BE MOST (alternating) at Ponteland Golf Club, WELCOME NE20 9BD. www.rotary.org Satellite Club Meets first Monday in the month at 6.30pm. To find out more about our Club and for a full calendar of meetings and events visit our Club web site or contact us via the E-mail address given below. We look forward to meeting you. ROTARY PONTELAND E-mail: [email protected] Facebook: rotary ponteland Club web site: www.rotaryponteland.org.uk

WHO ARE WE? MAKING A DIFFERENCE GET INVOLVED Do you enjoy the companionship of other like Rotary Ponteland is run as a charity, making a If you want to put something back into our minded people? Do you enjoy working as a team, difference locally, nationally and internationally. community, help make an impact both at home contributing to your community, benefiting others Locally, we organise a number of events, raising and around the world, help with problem solving, and making a difference? considerable amounts for numerous worthwhile whilst enjoying the companionship of others, then Rotary Ponteland offers many opportunities. The causes including Daft as a Brush and Tynedale why not join us? You are invited, without Club holds regular weekly meetings at both Hospice at Home and have strong links with local obligation whatsoever, to join us at one of our lunchtimes and evenings, often with interesting schools and business. We organise the ever meetings, to see who we are and what we do. We speakers covering a multitude of fascinating popular annual Duck Race, held in Ponteland believe it will be an enjoyable experience and the subjects and where Rotarians can share a Park on the first Sunday in September and our start of a rewarding journey of discovery. convivial meal together. Our Satellite Club meets traditional Christmas Market, held in Ponteland monthly, starting with a meal and then with the Memorial Hall on the first Sunday in December. Rotary is an enjoyable and rewarding way to emphasis on helping organise a handful of We also organise a number of other events, from put something back into the community. I popular annual community events. comedy nights to musical evenings. particularly enjoy mixing the social side with the task of helping organise events and Rotary Ponteland is proud to be part of our On a wider scale, Rotarians work to protect raising money for good causes. recommend community, as well as Rotary International. A communities from preventable disease, keep involvement with Rotary Ponteland. global network of over 1.2 million members who women and children healthy, improve education Club member - Chris Goodfellow believe that great things happen when dedicated and economic outcomes, create safe water and minds come together. sanitation infrastructure and try to help make the Since joining the club in February 2017 I world a more peaceful place. Rotary International have made many new friends and supported have also partnered with the Bill and Melinda the club at fund raising and other events. I Gates Foundation, the World Health Organisation am proud to be part of the Rotary and UNICEF to end polio, once and for all. community. Club member - John Cooper