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York Rotary News 2024-25
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Fashion at York College
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
Nov 7


Making a mountain out of a marathon
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
Oct 21


Awards for Treemendous volunteers
Treemendous is a York based charity and on Friday 17 th October President Paul Roberts had the great privilege of presenting Paul Harris awards to two of their volunteers. Paul said this is a rare occasion because in the lifetime of the Club we have made only 20 Paul Harris awards to non Rotarians. We recognise today an organisation and two individuals who meet the criteria of delivering significant contributions to our community within the Rotary ethos. Frank Paterson sai
Oct 18
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