Visits to Barley Studio Over two Wednesdays - 29 th  October and 5 th  November - 13 Rotarians and partners toured round one of York’s many unsung centres of excellence, a ‘stained’ glass design studio and workshops at Dunnington. Keith Barley demonstrating the cutting of glass Innocuous looking industrial buildings on the outskirts of Dunnington contain a 10-strong body of very skilled craftspeople and we visitors were treated to the first-hand knowledge of the two most expe

Jane Albon is helping York College with their fashion design course over the coming academic year.  Jane followed being a fashion student by a very successful career in the fashion industry so Jane has a lot of invaluable experience to bring to the course. Jane has already attended the College and talked to the students about her career, the next stage has been organising mock interviews and there will be more involvement as the academic year progresses. One of the stages of

We came, we saw, we organized – on a still-dark Sunday morning in October, the Rotary team of baggage handlers arrived at the event village of the Yorkshire marathon on the campus of York University. The morning shift was there early – from 6.30am – and in no time the tables and numbering carefully put in place by the organisers had been re-organised based on long Rotary experience. There would be no snaking backwards and forwards in our part of the tent: numbers went from fr