Club Activities

Salford Rotary Club has traditionally had very close links with the community and this continues today with many locally based intiatives which you will find on this page.

The award ceremony featuring this years recipients

On 17th June 2003 President Richard Wavish and members of the Salford Rotary Club , in the presence of the Mayor and Mayoress of the City of Salford, hosted a reception in the Mayor's Parlour when certificates were presented to Salford High School pupils who had been nominated by their schools as being "good citizens of Salford ".

This award is designed to look for those young citizens who have shown themselves to be worthy citizens of Salford . It is not an academic award but rather one based on good citizenship.. Each of the Heads of the High Schools had been invited to nominate both a boy and girl from their school who are “Doing the Right Thing” The award winners were accompanied by their parents and families and representatives from the High Schools with over 80 people being in attendance.

In an attempt to do our bit for the environment, each year we leaflet an area of the city prior to twelfth night and in return for a small donation we collect natural Christmas trees for recycling. The greater Manchester Probation Service use this project as part of their community service programme, offenders are supervised in the gathering and mulching of the trees. All donations received are used for local charities.

A small team of club members visit St. Phillip's, a local primary school, regularly to hear the children read, the school is situated in one of the more deprived areas of the city where there are many one parent families. The headteacher of the school finds the extra assistance extremely valuable and the members involved also enjoy the sessions.

Spring sees the planting of daffodil bulbs in the grounds of senior citizens homes in the area, this gesture is always well received by the residents.

The club is currently supporting the District Centenary Project to build a home for homeless children in Eritrea. The home will be called the District 1280 Home and the project will cost Ł25,000, once the building is complete the running of the home will be the responsibility of Hope and Homes.

The Rotary Foundation is the Rotary corporate charity and is dedicated to furthering international understanding, goodwill and peace. The foundation's most ambitious project to date has been the Polio Plus Programme, a campaign to help the World Health Organisation and Unicef immunise the world's children against the disease. Rotarians in Great Britain & Ireland contributed over Ł8 million.

Each year Salford Rotary Club hosts a rally where visiting Group Study Exchange Teams address clubs from our district, last year we entertained a very interesting team from Tasmania. In previous years we have had teams from New Jersey, Australia and Utah, each year a team from our district goes out to the visiting teams' country, the main objective is to further develop international understanding.