Elgin Rotary Club

Welcome to Elgin Rotary Club's website. Here you will find a brief introduction to the club and its history as well as a little bit of information on the local area and its landmarks.

Elgin Rotary Club is part of the 1010 District which stretches from Fife in the South to the Shetland Isles in the North, a small but vital part of the Rotary International organisation that stretches over 200 countries with approximately 1.2 million Rotarians.

Currently the club has 74 members + 3 honorary members. An extremely active club, Elgin is involved in most aspects of Rotary where service and fellowship apply. Read about who we are and what we do here. Visitors to our club will find a warm welcome awaits them. Come along and enjoy our Thursday lunch, the speaker and meeting the members.

Meetings are held every Thursday in the Mansion House Hotel, Elgin IV30 1AW (off the Tesco roundabout) at 12:45pm for 1pm

01343 548811

reception@mhelgin.co.uk

Elgin Rotary Club News

Latest: Holding Hands for Heroes 12 September: press release

Charity Bed Push 15 August Cooper Park

Royal Marines Concert 3 September

Calendar of Events 2010. Please visit this page regularly for updates.

13th February: The 28th Bothy Ballads Competition

6th March: Young Musician of the Year Competition

17th April: Stroke Awareness Blood Pressure Checking

5th June 2010: Music in the Park in aid of Macmillan Cancer Support. A MotorFun event. Click here to read how much was raised by the fun run and the concert.

6th June: Motorfun 2010 in the Cooper Park

3rd September: A Concert by the Band of The Royal Marines.

After the disappointing cancellation of the 2009 concert in Elgin Town Hall due to flooding, Elgin Rotary Club is delighted to announce the rescheduled concert in Elgin Town Hall in aid of Help For Heroes and sponsored by DIAGEO. This promises a feast of music from Classics to Jazz and Pops and a magnificent spectacle.

Tickets on sale from Elgin Library now

Holding Hands for Heroes 12 September: Press release

31 October to 14 November: Visit to the Rotary Nepane Water Project in Nepal

Supporters should visit the Projects page to read about the Nepane Water Project and the planned visit. You can also download a detailed itinerary and an application form for this trip of a lifetime or speak to your club secretary for more information.

The Fellowship Malt:

A special and exclusive bottling of a smooth Speyside Single Malt brought to you by Elgin Rotary Club and sold to benefit Rotary Foundation where the funds raised have been used to immunise over 250,000 children against polio, helping the global push to eradicate this dreadful disease.

To read more and place an order click here.

Club Projects:

The Elgin Club organises many fund-raising events and projects at home and abroad.

Click here to read about the NEWAH water projects and Treks to Build in Nepal or here for other Club achievements.

Contacting Elgin Rotary Club:

If you wish to contact Elgin Rotary Club, please e-mail by clicking here or on the link at the bottom left of the page.

Your enquiry will be passed to the relevant person but there may be a short delay.

The Rotary Year 2010/2011

A new Rotary year sees a change of theme to Building Communities, Bridging Continents and President Ian Davidson taking over from Graeme Archibald after another successful year. Ian will be assisted by new Senior Vice President Graham Milne, Junior Vice President Dave Mitchell, Secretary Iain Jamieson and new treasurer Brian Bremner.

Graeme hands over the chain of office to Ian, watched by the new President of Elgin Inner Wheel, Dorothy Duncan.

Club Roll of Honour 2010-2011

Honorary Members

HRH The Princess Royal; Mr Grenville Johnston, Lord Lieutenant of Moray; Mr Frank Strang

A Brief History of the club

The first meeting took place in the Burgh Courthouse on 13th May 1926.

The charter was presented in Kilmolymock Freemasons' Hall on 25th November 1927.

There were 24 Founder Members and the founder President was the late E.S. Harrison of Johnstons of Elgin (later to become Lord Provost of Elgin).

The founder secretary was the late F.A. Ritson, C.A.

The Charter was signed by Arthur Supp, President of Rotary International and presented by J.H. Weston, Chairman of the Scottish District.

The Club was visited and addressed by Rotary International President and founder of Rotary, Paul Harris, on 2nd of June 1934, when he and Mrs Harris visited Elgin.
In 2005, HRH princess Royal accepted honorary Membership of the Club

Contacting the WebMaster

Club members wishing to have news or articles included on the site or to have errors or omissions corrected may e-mail the webmaster by clicking on the link at the bottom left of the page.