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 68 members +4 honorary members. An extremely active club, Elgin is involved in most aspects of Rotary where service and fellowship apply. 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

The Royal Marines are coming!

Mark your calendar and book you seats for a concert by the full concert band and drum corps of The Band of Her Majesty's Royal Marines Scotland in Elgin Town Hall on Saturday, 5th September 2009 at 7.30pm in aid of Help for Heroes and sponsored by DIAGEO.

These wonderful and versatile musicians will play military, light classical, Jazz, music from shows and much more.

All proceeds will go to Help for Heroes, the charity that helps those in our armed forces who have made sacrifices whilst serving their country. We are proud that our local RAF bases at Kinloss and Lossiemouth have both made such tremendous contributions.

Tickets on sale from Elgin Library  price £16 each. This will be a sell-out so get your tickets early.


Fit a Dey! The 10th Bell's Rotary Marafun is gone but not forgotten!

On the 7th of June the rain stopped, the sun came out and so did the spectators to support the competitors, stallholders and charities. Thanks to all who helped to make the day such a success.

The winners were Aberdeen Uni Old Guns in a new record time of 2:16:13 followed by Keith Builders Merchants, Keith & District AAC and Moray Road Runners, the former course record holders.

Click to download full Results as XL spreadsheet or PDF or view some photographs of the day.

An exhibition to celebrate the 10th Marafun is on being held in the Elgin Library.


The new Rotary year starts shortly bringing with it a change of theme and club officials.


Fellowship Malt: A special and exclusive bottling of a smooth Speyside Single Malt, sold to benefit Rotary Foundation. To read more and place an order click here.


Motorfun 2008Click here for some pictures of the day.


Club Projects

The Elgin Club organises many projects and fun-raising events. Click here to read about the NEWAH water projects and Treks to Build in Nepal or here for other Club achievements.

 

Club Roll of Honour 2008- 2009






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.