Spring The magazine of the2012 Rotary Club of Alnwick

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ShelterBoxRotary International signs project partnership with ShelterBox

In March Rotary International signed an agreement with the international disaster relief charity, ShelterBox, which will increase their joint capacity to help families around the world displaced by disaster. The agreement formalises the twelve-year bond between the two organisations and cements the place of Rotarians around the world at the heart of ShelterBox activities. It is the first time that any organisation has become an officially recognised ‘Project Partner’ of Rotary International.

ShelterBox was founded by Rotarian Tom Henderson OBE in 2000 as a Rotary Club Millennium Project of the Rotary Club of Helston-Lizard. It has since become one of the world’s leading humanitarian aid charities providing emergency shelter and supplies to over 107,000 families worldwide following disaster.

Rotary clubs across Great Britain and Ireland raise around £1.5 million each year for the charity and some Rotarians are ShelterBox Response Team members who go out to disaster areas and provide hands-on help during times of need. These disasters can be anything from dealing with the aftermath of tsunamis to helping refugees from war-torn countries who have fled conflict.

Tom Henderson OBE, ShelterBox Founder and CEO, said: ‘Rotary and Rotarians have been integral in the operational development of the organisation, from being eyes and ears on the ground during deployments, to providing logistics, accommodation and translation services, right to assisting with the pitching of tents. Many of our global Response Team volunteers are Rotarians. Others have joined the Rotary family having seen the difference that Rotary and ShelterBox make on the ground. They have always helped us in endless ways.’

Rotary International in Great Britain & Ireland (RIBI) President Ray Burman said: ‘This formal agreement is great news not only for ShelterBox and Rotary but also for the many thousands of people we jointly help every year. Rotary is about saving and improving lives wherever in the world our help is needed. We have always had a great relationship with ShelterBox and our network of 34,000 Rotary clubs across the world means that these boxes, and other disaster relief supplies, can quickly get to places some aid agencies struggle to reach.

‘Rotarians raise funds but we also provide hands-on help. We give our time and our skills to help others. With this new agreement, Rotarians will be able to respond even quicker to calls for assistance. I urge the public to continue supporting Rotary causes and help to make a world of a difference.’

Cover picture - Swimarathon banner at Willowburn

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Rotary International CEO and General Secretary John Hewko said the agreement will increase hands-on service opportunities for Rotary club members in disaster-affected communities by providing the means for local members to have an immediate, lifesaving impact.

John Hewko, Rotary International CEO and General Secretary, said: ‘For more than ten years, ShelterBox has given light to over one hundred thousand families worldwide in their darkest hour. This project partner agreement represents our mutual goal of helping those in need. It gives Rotary a forward-facing approach to immediate disaster relief.’

Public donations are vital to ShelterBox’s continuing work. To make a donation please ring 0300 0300 500 or go to www.shelterbox.org to donate online and get the latest updates on our response to disasters around the world. � www.shelterbox.org

Paul harriS FellowShiPS

The Award

The presentation of Paul Harris Fellowships, symbolised by the beautiful medallion on a blue and gold ribbon, along with a certificate and lapel pin, is an event of special significance in Rotary.

The Fellowship was established by Rotary International in 1957, initially as recognition of significant contributions to the Rotary Foundation, the registered charity that supports the efforts of Rotarians worldwide to organise humanitarian, educational and cultural programmes. The Fellowship was named after the Chicago lawyer who founded the Rotary International organisation together with three business associates in 1905.

Three local recipients

Three new Paul Harris Fellowships have recently been created by the Rotary Club of Alnwick. In December we honoured

two of our own members, Joy Palmer-Cooper and Billy Bell for their humanitarian and community efforts.

On 16th February Alnwick Rotary conferred this honour on a non-Rotarian, Mrs Doreen Coleman. The Fellowship was presented to Mrs Coleman in recognition of her work for many voluntary organisations in the town, particularly her unstinting support and many hours of work, behind the scenes, for the Alnwick International Music Festival.

Presenting the award, President James Bateman said, “We thank you for your commitment to

humanitarian service in keeping with the Rotarian ideals of service above self.”

Graham Smith

Joy, James and Billly

Doreen and James

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in and aroundThe ChrisTmas LunCh 15/12/11

At our last meeting of 2011 the traditional “Christmas Message” was given by Rev Gordon Turner, a former vicar of the Alnwick Baptist Church. E n t e r t a i n m e n t was provided by a festively d r e s s e d c h o i r f r o m the

D uchess’s High School, all to the very high standard that we have come to expect from that school.

Long Service Awards

Long Service Awards were given to members who had clocked up significant years of service in Rotary. Pictured below with the President are Ritchie Waddell (45 yrs.), Ian Walker (25 yrs.), Billy Bell (35 yrs.), Carnegie Brown (25 yrs.), Alan Jones (35 yrs.),

and Dennis Dalby (45 yrs.) and then, in individual photographs, Michael Harper (50 yrs.) and Cliff Pettit (45 yrs.).

TorCh and awards 05/01/12

Festival of Alnwick

In our first meeting of the new year we looked forward to summer when Alnwick Town Council Clerk, Bill Batey, came along to give us a foretaste of the Festival of Alnwick being planned to coincide with the Olympic Torch coming through Alnwick in June.

The Coquet Trail

Years of experience trail-finding in the jungles of Borneo and Brazil turned out to be the perfect preparation for the Smiths who emerged as winners of the Club’s car treasure hunt held last September. In January Diane Pearson, organiser of the “Coquet

Trail”, presented the Smiths with their trophy - a Coquet cobble, complete with bespoke graffiti. •

Bill

Bear Diane Elaine Grylls Pearson Smith

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Burns LunCh 26/01/12

Our regular Burns Lunch in January featured, in no particular order:

� Gordon Inkster on Burns;

� Andy Grant on pipes; � Haggis, neeps and

tatties on the plate, and...

� Whisky in the glass.

All in all, an ideal preparation for Gordon’s spirited rendition of “Tam O’ Shanter”.

BaiLiffgaTe museum 15/01/12

We were very pleased to welcome to our meeting on the 15 March two women who give much of their time as volunteers at the Bailiffgate Museum in Alnwick. Francis Blezard and Jane Mann told us of the history of the museum and its progress over the years, and its vision for the future. Jane Mann kindly wrote the following piece for AlnwickDotes.

This year sees Bailiffgate Museum celebrate its tenth anniversary. Nestling in the heart of the ancient market town, it offers a view of the past different from that of our larger, and more well known neighbour, Alnwick Castle. While the castle celebrates the Percy family and exhibits some of the most expensive works of art in the world, our heritage is that of the

common men and women who worked the land, here in the most northerly of English counties, fished the seas, dug for coal and raised their families. Our position, so close to the Scottish border, means we also add the Border Reivers and major, bloody battles with the Scots, to enrich the story we tell. In every way we see ourselves as a People’s Museum.

Every year, in addition to welcoming the public to see our permanent collection, we also stage a non-stop programme of exhibitions, events and activities for all. This year we host art, photography and textile exhibitions, exhibitions on Historic Alnwick and the maritime heritage of Alnmouth, to name a few. We have run Northumbrian music evenings, rag-rugging days and willow-weaving weekends. Families can spend hours in our child-friendly museum, not only are we free for children, but also have a host of games and activities to keep them, and mum and dad, occupied.

What probably surprises, locals and tourists alike, is the fact that Bailiffgate is run entirely by volunteers. The museum also has to raise every penny to keep open throughout the year. To ensure that the museum maintains its programme of outreach work in the community and modernises the way its collection is shown, the volunteers have embarked on a major application to obtain a large Heritage Grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund. If successful, and we shall know by September 2012, we are certain that the next ten years will be as good, if not better, than our first decade.

The Heritage Grant would mean we can digitise our growing photograph collection, run projects to capture the memories of the older generation, take the museum out to the villages we serve and generally modernise our interior. We have ambitious and exciting plans, and if successful, we will be able to truly realise our mission to be a People’s Museum. Do come and visit us if you ever pay a visit to Alnwick! You won’t be disappointed.

� www.bailiffgatemuseum.co.uk

Jane Mann

Gordon

Frances and Jane

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fare enough 22/03/12

On 22 March, due to the absence on sick leave of the intended speaker Rev. Rachel Squires, we were treated to a talk from Jim Callaghan about his early career with British Rail (Shipping and Continental).

He took us back to the early sixties when as a student he spent his summers booking journeys on the boat trains from Dover Marine Station to destinations across Europe. After qualifying in 1967 with a degree in Maths, he became a full time BR employee calculating fares using the distances travelled through different countries. Jim regaled us with amusing stories about confused travellers and general misunderstandings, including one passenger wanting to visit Italy who ended up in the middle of the Simplon tunnel under the Alps.

Bill reminded us of the devaluation in 1967, when he was heavily involved in the recalculations of all the fares across Europe. He went on to describe how one of the benefits of working for BR was the free pass system, which allowed one free trip per year to travel throughout Europe. One such trip involved crossing the Bosporus, where a highlight included sharing a compartment with a friendly gentleman, his children and his three wives!

mounTain resCue 29/03/12

In April the Rotary Club of Alnwick learned about the Northumberland Mountain Rescue Team in a talk from Brandy Wilson and his endearing companion Jock, a Border Collie. The team was established in the 1960s and provide an irreplaceable service that

now extends to urban areas s u p p o r t i n g the police in the search for missing v u l n e r a b l e persons. The service they provide is i n v a l u a b l e , particularly to the hill-walker and climber but also to the wider community.

Currently the team comprises some forty volunteers trained to deal with a variety of emergency situations from floods to aeroplane crashes, and at any one time there are about thirty five people with pagers available for call-out. Brandy explained how each volunteer had a speciality: navigation, first aid, the ability to coordinate operations with RAF helicopters and others.

There are six dogs and handlers in the Team, and Brandy described how, in a search and rescue situation, one well-trained dog can do the work of twenty people. Most call-outs are for people becoming lost or suffering injuries while walking in the National Park. The handlers have to pay all the expenses for their dogs, but are helped considerably by the local vets. Also the organisation raises money with sponsored walks and other activities because the Team costs about £20,000 per year, excluding the expenses of the volunteers.

Graham Smith

out and aBoutsri Lanka 10/01/12

While visiting Sri Lanka in January I had an extremely pleasant lunchtime meeting with the Rotary Club of Colombo North, which is the link Club with the Jaffna School where the furniture which we sent from the Delaval school is now in use. The Rotarians were delighted to receive the old school silver cup.

Brandy

Jock

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They will engrave it with our Club name at their own expense and then take it on to Kudaththanai Karaiyor School. One day I will go and see it in Jaffna!

The cup can be seen in the photograph above, along with members of the Club. The school architect (a very distinguished Sri Lankan architect) is the gentleman sitting front right and the Club President is seated front left.

� www.rotaryclubcolombonorth.org

Joy Palmer-Cooper

swimaraThon 25/02/12

In aid of ‘End Polio Now’

Grantham used to be famous as the birthplace of Margaret Thatcher, but now it has been put on the world map by Rotary; the Grantham Rotary Club had the idea of a Swimarathon to raise awareness of Rotary’s ‘End Polio Now’ campaign. The event encourages everyone to join together to have fun and raise money.

The Swimarathon idea has now ‘gone global’ and for the first time the Rotary Club of Alnwick joined many others in this worthwhile project thanks to the Willowburn Leisure Centre generously allowing us to use their superb facilities. In addition the Rotakids organised a highly effective publicity campaign involving flyers, posters in schools and website notices. Without their input the event could not have been so successful.

The idea is that Rotary clubs around the world register as many people as possible to swim 100 metres between 12.00 noon and 1.00 pm. Each swimmer pays a small fee which goes to the campaign, and an attempt is made to create a world record for the number of people swimming 100 metres at the same time. This of course means night time in Australia, and in Brisbane it was warm enough to swim in the sea where the swimmers were joined by an excited dog!

World Record Holders in Alnwick

Worldwide, over £30,000 was raised, enough to vaccinate more than 150,000 children! In Alnwick eighty people entered, egged on by a noisy crowd of supporters. We raised £174 from the swimmers (no dogs were included) plus an extra £66 wheedled out of spectators by Rotakid Bailey selling crocus buttonholes. Many others supported the event: from Cairns in Australia to Vancouver in Canada, from Nairobi in Kenya to Shanghai in China, and when the results from the last club (35 swimmers from Rawalpindi in Pakistan) came in to the Grantham HQ a new world record was confirmed. The old record was 2,533 and we achieved nearly double that: 5,107!

So the swimmers of Alnwick are now world record holders and they deserve a huge “Thank you” from those who have been saved from a terrible, wasting disease.

� www.rotaryswimarathon.org

� www.rotaryglobalswimarathon.org

Graham Smith

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moCk TriaLs CompeTiTion 10/03/12

In order to publicise the work of HM Courts and Tribunals Service, local magistrates organise an annual mock trials competition for local schoolchildren at the Magistrates’ Courts in Bedlington. The event, held in early March, is supported by local government and local Rotary clubs, and also by Greggs the Bakers who generously supply lunches for sponsors and contestants. Several magistrates gave up their Saturday to help and this year the audience included the High Sheriff of Northumberland, the Rev. Fiona Sample, who presented the prize to the winning team.

There are more entrants every year. This year seven Northumberland schools competed for the coveted cup and a prize of £250 for their school fund. Based on an actual case, the schools each take a turn at defending and prosecuting, watched carefully by a team of experienced judges who award points according to a previously agreed scheme. The final results were close, but a clear winner emerged – the Duke’s Middle School from Alnwick!

The winning team is shown above celebrating behind a magistrates’ bench in one of the Bedlington courtrooms. We all wish them luck in the regional finals in Sunderland.

Graham Smith

feeL The spiriT 15/03/12

In the spring of 2011 the Rotary Club of Alnwick organised a concert of opera music hosted by the internationally renowned mezzo soprano, Andrea Baker, who is herself an honorary member of the club. The evening raised over £1,000 for a local youth

charity, the Gallery Project. In the audience was a group of pupils from the Duchess’s High School who were so enthralled by the performance that Andrea agreed to run a series of musical workshops with the school.

Her progress with the Duchess’s School choirs led Andrea to suggest that the Rotary Club should organise a concert of opera and gospel music to be called “Feel the Spirit”. It will be held at the Alnwick Playhouse in early summer when she will perform with the pupils. With typical generosity she has insisted that any profits (which will be matched by a grant from the Rotary Foundation) will go back to the music department of the school to purchase much needed musical instruments.

When Mick Lock, an ex-teacher who helps manage the choir, approached Sainsbury’s with this proposal, the management of the local store was eager to help with sponsorship. The photograph shows Vicky Johnson and Andy Findlay of Sainsbury’s handing over a cheque for £400.00 to Niamh Callanan of the School music department while Mick Lock looks on.

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The performance is scheduled for Wednesday, 9th May and promises to be a rare opportunity for the people of Alnwick to enjoy a programme of world class music.

� www.andreabaker.org

� www.sainsburys.co.uk

Bag paCking 14/04/12

Yet again another excellent effort by all concerned resulted in a successful day’s bag-packing at Morrison’s on Saturday 14th April. At the end of a hard day’s packing and collecting we were able to deposit over £750 in our charity account. Thank you so much to all concerned.

� www.morrisons.co.uk

Marion Long

MeMBerShiPnew memBers

We extend a warm welcome to our new Rotarians, Mary Graham (Alnwick)and Stan Johnstone (Howick) and also to Wendy Patterson (Denwick), Jackie & Paul Black (Shilbottle) and Lyn and Simon Webb (Boulmer), all from our Satellite Club.

iT’s up To you

A personal message for local Rotarians

The District Governor said recently that if we were looking for one word to describe what Rotary is about, that word would be “community”. Whether it be community at home or abroad, Rotary is involved. Most Rotarians are also members of clubs, associations, church groups, trusts or charities, because that is the type of people we are – we care. And those are the places our future Rotarians can be found. They only need to be asked along – and who better to do it than you?

It is the personal contact that matters. My sponsors were Carnegie Brown and the late Ian Robertson and (which is also important) they continued their interest in me after I had joined Alnwick Rotary Club.

In 2002 our numbers were down to 28 and it was then that we produced a leaflet (On yellow paper, remember?) that we put around the town and through letterboxes of new houses. In 2005 we produced another leaflet with more information about Alnwick Rotary Club, this time with pictures of our activities.

Our secretary, Ian Walker has provided a four page leaflet, primarily for the use of new members, which is available at our normal meetings. I would recommend we all read it to remind ourselves of what Rotary offers.

Last year our membership hit the dizzy heights of 46 but it wasn’t the leaflets that found the extra 18 members: it was you! The leaflets were only a reminder

to members of the need to seek out like-minded people, whether they be quizzers, golfers, bridge-players or beetle-drivers, as long as they care for the community. Their membership of Rotary is up to you!

George Stokoe

Simon, Lyn, Jackie, Wendy and Paul

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CogS & gearSNews from Inner WheelAlnwick Inner Wheel Club celebrated its 64th birthday with an inter-club meeting at the White Swan Hotel in February 2012. District Chairman Sandra Knowles and President Kathleen Bateman cut the birthday cake which was decorated with snowdrops which have become the club’s emblem.

The speaker, Mr. Andrew Griffin presented a fascinating talk on Admiral Lord Collingwood and his close friendship with Admiral Lord Nelson, especially in relation to the Battle of Trafalgar. The audience was amazed at the many links and affection that Lord Collingwood held for Northumberland. His home was in Morpeth and he made references in his letters to the invigorating health-giving properties of the sea air and bathing at Newbiggin by the Sea!

A highlight of the birthday was a request from long serving p a s t - m e m b e r and a Past-President of the club, Mrs Cynthia Johnson, to address the meeting. Cynthia, a former Headmistress of the Duke’s School thanked the club for her invitation and held the audience spellbound by her speech of appreciation for the friendship and support which Inner Wheel has given her over the years. She and her late husband, Rotarian Dr. John Johnson, are remembered with admiration by many charity organisations in the town in which they were actively involved and Inner Wheel is proud to call Cynthia “a friend”.

On 16th March in a joint event with Rotary, President Kathleen and Rotary President James organised a Beetle Drive at the Pottergate Centre, with the proceeds shared between the Great North Air Ambulance and HospiceCare North Northumberland.

Anne Swailes

a CloSe ShaveOn seeing the front page of Christmas 1959 SEGAS Journal, issue 69, of Historic Gas Times I was immediately reminded of Christmas 1952 when I was works manager of Morpeth (Northumberland) gas works, part of the then Northern Gas Board.

1952 was not an extremely cold Christmas, but it was noticed that our output during the week prior to Christmas was higher than usual, put down, I think, to the growing number of gas fires and central heating. Even before my time it was custom at the works always to keep in stock a reserve of coal which was considered to be of better quality than that normally delivered just before the Christmas period, when the production at the nearby mines always seemed to produce coal of inferior gas-making quality and containing a higher ash content. It was normal to keep samples of these poorer coals to prove our complaint.

Arriving at the works at 9am on Christmas morning I was very pleased

to see the night stokers had done their job and the two gasholders, one

column, and one spiral guided, were both full. Our furnace man had done a good job

and the combustion chambers were up to the required high temperatures. The foreman

and I thought we had nothing to worry about and we could easily meet the demand for gas.

The works was connected to Newcastle-upon-Tyne 18 miles distant by an 8” main at an average pressure of 30psig. Because our works was a base load plant, we took in any extra gas we might need from this main. At 9.30am the works phone rang and the production engineer informed me that as Newcastle were expecting to be pressed to meet a big demand, under no circumstances were we to take any gas from the grid system.

This was not very good news. As the morning went on and the cooking load started it was very noticeable that our holders were rapidly losing stock. We had six beds of eight 24”xl6” D stopend retorts charged by a Morris charger. The retorts were charged on a 8 hour cycle, but it was decided under the circumstances

T h e R o t a r y a n d I n n e r W h e e l C l u b s o f A l n w i c k

Beetle Drive

with cash prizesFriday 16 th March, 7.00pm

Pottergate Centre, Alnwick

£5 (to include supper)

In aid of the Great North Air Ambulance and

HospiceCare North Northumberland

Ticket No:

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that any retort that was fully carbonised was to be drawn and refilled using the best coal in order to try to better our production. (The stokers on the shift received a bonus for the extra work.) This did help to an extent, but our holders were getting lower and lower.

In the meter house I noticed that the 8” line pressure was back up to 30 psig. There was obviously gas passing a leaking valve in Newcastle,and 15 miles of 8” main at 30psig contained a lot of gas. Desperate needs require desperate deeds, so I said to the foreman we will have to take gas into stock or we will empty our holders and not be able to a supply to the town and with disastrous consequences.

Our Arkon intake recorder chart had to be sent to Newcastle Production Office each morning showing our intake for the day. We also calculated the figure, so I lifted the ink pen off the revolving chart, and slowly opened the valve which let gas into our holders. What a relief it was to see that the holders were not going down and were holding their level. One holder, the column guided was down to one foot and grounded, and the spiral holder was down to two feet from grounding. This was at 2.30pm and the crisis was over. Two very relieved men !

As I said, the intake recording chart had to go to Newcastle the next morning, so I set the recorder pen back on the chart to where it had been earlier taken off and then slowly turned the chart to the correct time which showed no gas had been taken in during the prohibited period, and no one in Newcastle had noticed the drop in line pressure. I felt very guilty, but we had saved the day.

Our Newcastle engineer congratulated us the next day on keeping things going at Morpeth as they had done in Newcastle,and I never told what we has done but little did he know how close we were to a

disaster if we had not stolen some of his gas. The “NEED TO KNOW“ of “Yes Minister” fame did not arise, and that Christmas Day the foreman and I went home to a very welcome if late dinner.

Dennis Dalby

Observant readers may have noticed that, in the picture on page 4, Michael Harper is wearing his Christmas party hat while receiving his long service award! This is far from the level of decorum that one might expect from such a distinguished Rotary Club as Alnwick, and for such a dignified formal occasion.

When the risk of vindictive retaliation is so great, it is rarely wise for an editor to be too picky. However, on this occasion it does seem fair to point out that the relief photographer has failed in his duty to ensure due dignity for his subjects. It would only have taken a moment for him to suggest that Rotarian Harper should emulate Cliff Pettit and remove the jaunty headgear but, sadly, that opportunity was not taken.

Indeed, it seems that Michael Harper was not the only recipient to be treated in this cavalier manner. As evidence I proffer this photograph of another long service award winner, clearly delighted - yet unmistakably be-hatted .

Need one say more? Further comment is surely unnecessary.

Editor

due digniTy

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CoMing uPApril

● Sat 14th Bag-packing @ Morrison’s

● Thu 19th Bill Bland - St George

● Thu 26th Club Council Neville Wharrier - Neighbourhood Policing

May ● Thu 3rd Business meeting and AGM

● Wed 9th “Feel the Spirit” Andrea Baker concert, Playhouse

● Thu 10th John Humphries - Odes and Monologues

● Mon 14th Talk and Toddle - Pegswood Fire Station

● Thu 17th Cliff Pettit - 60 Years of Law

● Thu 24th Alan Jones - Parkhurst Prison

● Thu 31st Chris Friend - Mighty Oaks

June ● Thu 7th Joint Club Council

Brunch - St Michael’s Church Hall Judith Draper - Juicing

● Thu 14th Charity Golf Day - Foxton Hall

● Thu 21st Gordon Bacon OBE

● Thu 28th Club Assembly and Handover Visit by RotaKids

● Fri 29th District Handover

July ● Wed 4th Chef of the Year - Duchess’s High

School - 2.40pm - Awards at approx 4.30pm

● Thu 5th Club Council Speaker - Cliff Pettit

● Thu 12th Business meeting & Club Assembly Host: Diane Pearson

● Thu 19th Diane Pearson - Whiz Kids

● Thu 26th Speaker finder - Terry Long

MeetingsEvery Thursday at 12:30White Swan Hotel, Bondgate Within ALNWICK, NE66 1TD

01 665 - 602 109info.whiteswan@classiclodges.co.uk

ClubWebsite: www.alnwickrotary.org Club No: 18826 District No: 1030

PresidentJames Bateman

01 665 - 605 185 president@alnwickrotary.org

SecretaryIan Walker

01 665 - 604 375 secretary@alnwickrotary.org

If you want to know more about Alnwick Rotary Club please speak to our Secretary, Ian Walker.

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The next edition of AlnwickDotes is planned for July. Please give your contributions to Graham Smith or to me by the middle of June.

Colin Bradford, Editor