We have eighty seven active Rotary clubs in our district, but we are always looking for opportunities to make the wonderful world of Rotary International available to a wider cross section of the caring public.
We currently have new clubs in formation in the following areas:- Broughton Astley: between Lutterworth and Leicester Gransdens and Camborne: to the east of St Neots and Sandy Kettering: a third club for the town South East Loughborough:near Barrow on Soar South Peterborough: based in Yaxley to the south of the city
We will soon be ready to start new clubs in:- Markfield/Groby: north west of Leicester Melton Mowbray: a third club for Melton
If you could be interested in joining a new club in any of these areas, please contact our district ‘new clubs’ officer, Iain Vernon. He will be delighted to tell you more and invite you along to a meeting to see for yourself.
Would you like to know more about the Rotary Experience?
Would you be interested in joining?
There are Rotary Clubs near to you, why not find out more?
For details log on to the web site of Rotary International in Britain and Ireland and find out more. www.ribi.org or email us from this site.
You will find out about clubs near to where you live and what they do.
The District covers a large area, Towcester to Peterborough and Biggleswade to Boston.
On this web site you will find details of Clubs in District 1070, all are interested in attracting new members. Many have websites which you are invited to visit. We hope that you will be interested and wish to join.
District 1070 Membership Development & Retention Committee
Under the chairmanship of David Morris (Melton Mowbray) the Membership Development & Retention Committee for 2010-11 is subdivided as follows;
Membership Development
The Committee’s responsibilities within the District are to promote and assist Clubs in the following areas:
RECRUITMENT
RETENTION
REGENERATION
EXTENSION
This committee will meet four times through the year, 10th July, 9th October, 8th January and 9th April.
Alan Faulkner (Spalding Welland Centenary) is the District Membership Officer and is responsible for collating monthly information from each Club on membership gains and losses and passing this information to the District Governor, the Assistant Governors and other members of the District Team who need this information.
The following are also members of the committee:
Les Aldrich (Ashby-de-la-Zouch Hastings)
Robert Bracegirdle (Loughborough Beacon)
Bill Hill (Wellingborough Hatton)
Chris Lambert (Northampton Apollo)
Lawrie Cooke (Huntingdon Cromwell)
Iain Vernon (Peterborough Ortons)
Extension is developed by a separate committee under the chairmanship of Iain Vernon.
The year 2010-11 begins with a total of 2751 members, which number will be adjusted when confirmation is received on the number of members who do not renew their subscriptions.
There are currently five new Clubs in Formation
In the year 2009-10 we inducted 142 new members and lost a total of 126, although this number will need to be revised after the 30th June.
Membership Services
This committee consists of:
District Golf – Ray Freshfield (Loughborough Beacon)
Ray has organised and supervised the District Golf Competition for 5 years and has given notice of his impending retirement.
There is therefore a current vacancy for his replacement
District Minor Sports – Ben Abbott (Melton Mowbray)
District Quiz – Graham Cooper (Soar Valley) who has served jointly with Bob McKinley.
Bob is retiring this year and his place is being taken by John Callow (Soar Valley)
Approximately two thirds of the Clubs in the District participate in these events. As each of the competitions are perceived as a tool retaining members, this initiative during then forthcoming year is to encourage the remaining Clubs to participate.
