YORK ROTARY MEMBERS' PAGE
EVENTS
President's lunch, 27th June 2025 at the Novotel, 12.15 for 1.00pm
For more information and to book places
click here
Rotas & Lists
Fellowship Duty / Speaker Host list
Buddy Groups
KEEPING IN TOUCH
Our Friday meetings are currently held as "Hybrid Zoom meetings where Zoom participants can watch the day's speaker and share and participate in York Rotary business that follows the lunch at the Novotel
Zoom participants gather at around 1.10pm
Email Mike Hay for technical advice and/or to get the password ! Meeting Speakers are listed on the diary page
The ZOOM Link for Friday Club Meetings is: https://zoom.us/j/2993052538
SUPPORTING ROTARY FOUNDATION
Members can support Foundation, Rotary's own international charity, in a number of ways:
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- Adding a donation to your annual subscription each July
(The Treasurer will allocate accordingly)
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- Making a donation at any time. (use the Charity Account number below;
make sure you enter "foundation/your name" in the description)
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- Setting up a Standing Order for regular payments to Rotary Foundation UK (sustaining membership)
- just download the form. iDirect debit form
YORK ROTARY DIGITAL ARCHIVE
We now have a DIGITAL ARCHIVE recording much of the history of the Club's last 100 years. The archive resides securely in "the cloud", accessed via "Google Drive".
It contains, amongst many other things...
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- The complete set (almost) of monthly Rotagraphs from Edition 1 (1951) to date
- Club Accounts from 1981 onwards
- Our Website archives with news items from 2009 onwards
- Cy Read's "Golden Wheel" History (part 2) from 1981-92
- All Dragon Boat Challenge programmes and memorabilia from its 2003 inception onwards
- Club Minute Books from 1921 to 1974
- Club Council Minutes from 1948 to date
- Details and Memorabilia about the Club’s fund raising activities, community service
projects, international exchange visits and other activities
- and lots of photographs
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Access is for York Rotary members only. Further items are being added to the archive
To get instructions and passwords to view the archive, please email Graham Wilford on
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1921 Certificate of Membership of the British Association of Rotary Clubs
Making on-line payments
Subscriptions, events etc - payment to our MEMBERS account:
The details of our members' fund account are:
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"Rotary Club of York"
HSBC Sort Code 40-47-31
Account Number 91350447
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nb this is the Club general account, not our Charity account
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Please ensure you put your NAME and the event in the "Description box" so the Treasurer knows who is paying, and for what!
Fundraisers, donations etc - payment to our CHARITY account:
The details of our CHARITY account are:
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"Rotary Club of York Charity Fund"
HSBC Sort Code 40-47-31
Account Number 41350455
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nb this is NOT the Club's general/ members' account
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Please ensure you put your NAME and the event in the "Description box" so the Treasurer knows who is paying, and for what!
GO ON HOLIDAY FOR CHARITY!
In an arrangement with Riviera Travel (whose holidays are recommended by several of our members) we can now all fundraise effortlessly as we book a holiday!!
Our Charity Fund will receive a donation of 10% of your basic holiday cost with Riviera.
For full details please click here
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Note also that holidays booked by any friends or relatives with Riviera (If they mention Rotary Club of York) will also result in a similar 10% donation to our Club.
Please pass on the word........ i
ROTARY GBI & international sites
National & International Rotary sites - click logo image
District 1040
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Rotary Great Britain & Ireland
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Rotary International
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Rotary Foundation
York Rotary Policy Documents
York Rotary adopts and is bound by the national Rotary policies laid out by RGBI
(Rotary Great Britain & Ireland)
The RGBI policies can be found on the RGBI website ("My Rotary") at
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https://www.rotarygbi.org/members/club-district-support/compliance/
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(Requires Member log-in)
Policies include, amongst others..
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* Equality and Diversity
* Health and Safety
* Safeguarding (Children / Vulnerable Adults)
* Data Protection
* Dignity Policy
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York Rotary officers sign Compliance Statements each year, on behalf of Club Council, to confirm our adoption of these policies.
YORK ROTARY'S CENTENARY 2021
York Rotary celebrated our 100th birthday in 2021/22!!
Read all about our 100-year history and centenary events from the links below
Launch of Centenary Year (on Zoom) with look back in history (Feb 2021) view here
Centenary Celebration Dinner/Dance with Abba Revival (Nov 2021) view here
Dedication of College Green Sundial (Centenary Gift to the City of York (May 2022) view here
Centenary (President's) lunch at Mansion House York (May 2022) view here
York Rotary history (the first 100 years) view here
100 Years of York Rotary
"looking back... looking forward" video
created in February 2021
