Tarporley logo What is Rotary?

  • ROTARY is a service organisation, united worldwide, helping those in need, encouraging high ethical standards in all vocations and working towards world understanding and peace.

  • ROTARY is more than 1.2 million service minded people belonging to 30,000 Rotary Clubs in 150 countries. Membership is by invitation.

  • Tarporley is one of approximately 1,900 ROTARY Clubs in the UK with 50,000 members

  • ROTARIANS meet weekly to enjoy each others' fellowship and discuss ways to serve others.

  • ROTARY is compassion for the underpriviledged, the ill and the disabled, who benefit from over 50,000 Rotary Club service projects in the world each year.

  • ROTARY runs the biggest non-government scholarship scheme in the world.

  • The ROTARY FOUNDATION gives more than £21 million every year to educational and humanitarian programmes which promote international understanding.

  • ROTARY began in 1905 in Chicago. The world headquarters are in the USA and the Secretariat of Rotary in GB & Ireland (RIBI) is in Alcester - Warwickshire.
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