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What is Rotary?
ROTARY is an organization of business and professional leaders united world-wide, who provide humanitarian service, encourage high ethical standards in all vocations, and help build goodwill and peace in the world.

ROTARY is the world's first service club. The first Rotary club was founded in Chicago, Illinois, USA on 23 February 1905.

ROTARY is some 1.2 million service minded men and women belonging to nearly 29,000 Rotary clubs in virtually every nation in the world.

ROTARIANS meet weekly for fellowship and interesting and informative programs dealing with topics of local and global importance. Membership is by invitation and reflects a wide cross-section of community representation.

ROTARIANS plan and carry out a remarkable variety of humanitarian, educational, and cultural exchange programs that touch people's lives in their local communities and our world community.

ROTARY is The Rotary Foundation, which each year provides some US$60 million for international scholarships, cultural exchanges, and humanitarian projects large and small that improve the quality of life for millions of people.

ROTARY is Polio Plus, Rotary's commitment to work with national and international health organizations on the goal of polio eradication.  More than 1.2 billion children in developing nations have been immunized against polio through Polio Plus grants.

Interested in becoming a Rotarian?
Joining a Rotary Club is a rewarding experience that develops character and provides an opportunity to give of ones talents in attaining self fulfilment while enriching the lives of others.  The choice to become a Rotarian involves some personal reflection in making a decision to support the needs of the local  Rotary club's goals and those of Rotary International. 

Rotary club membership carries with it certain responsibilities -

  • Members are expected to attend weekly programs of the club. Opportunities to make up attendance include attending the regular meeting of another Rotary club, attending various other Rotary meetings, or attending a club service project authorized by the club committee.

  • Members are required to pay annual dues to their clubs, their districts, and to Rotary International.

  • Members are expected to participate in local or international activities or projects of the Rotary club.

  • Clubs encourage members to aspire to leadership or committee roles within their clubs.

  • Rotary’s classification system ensures that a club’s membership represents a variety of the community’s professional men and women, including leaders in business, industry, the arts, government, sports, the military, and religion. Rotary clubs are nonpolitical, nonreligious, and open to all cultures, races, and creeds.

If you feel that you could commit one evening a week,  and want to have an opportunity to try to make a difference in our community,  then contact:
The Secretary
The Rotary Club of Rayleigh Mill at
 RayleighMill@ConcertInThePark.org.uk

We will be pleased to let you have more information about ourselves and what we do.

 

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Rotary train at Southend Carneval
Rotary train at Southend Carnival 


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