Rotary for members in Oxfordshire
Our Christmas party is always without fail, great fun and on the evening of Friday the 13th December, we all found ourselves along with our friends from St Michaels Choir who helped us with one of our big events last Rotary year ensconced in the wonderfully warm and cosy atmosphere of The Plough Inn at […]
One of the wonderful things about being in Rotary is the way we come together to help members of our wider community. In this case, it was the Oxford Winter Night Shelter. We came up with the idea of a Christmas cafe and to hold it in the venue where we normally meet. We sold […]
On Saturday the 14th our Rotary district held its Christmas Celebration at Douai Abbey. This is held every year across the Thames Valley by each year’s district governor in their area. It is also used to raise money for their charities which in the case of our District Governor Frank Quinn it is End […]
We had beautiful sunshine for our Sunday morning at Restore’s Manzil Way garden. Rada, our new Rotaract club president, had been in touch with Maya at Restore, so the trowels were waiting for us and we knew where to plant. Another team was working on a new footpath and there was a church service inside […]
We took advantage of the catering facilities at our new venue and we celebrated Burns Night in style. A few days early, but still the real thing – some Scottish music, tartan napkins and decorations, and of course haggis, neeps and tatties. We even had a go at an address to the haggis, under instruction […]
Club members joined members of the church to plant 1,000 crocus corms in front of the new church entrance on Sunday 28th October. Experienced gardeners joined beginners and the general consensus was that even if planted upside down, the small corms were clever enough to right themselves. Why do we do this? Well across Britain and […]