Welcome
A Message from our President - Malcolm Darroch
Our 50th Anniversary Year 
Welcome to our website which I hope you find both interesting and stimulating. It is designed to give you a flavour of our Club and what we do in Rotary.
Rotary or Rotary International to give it its full title is the biggest voluntary service organisation in the world with its 1.3 million members in 187 countries - our Club represents Rotary in the Bulwell & Basford region of Nottingham, but you do not have to live within that area to be a member or to help with projects.
Our Club has been growing for 50 years and this year we are very keen to make sure it is a milestone to remember. We are a growing Club which is unusual in this day and age and it is perhaps because we are a happy group with a large and varied social programme, and involve ourselves in interesting projects particularly those that focus on help in the community, i.e., the 'Step Up' project with Oasis (Salvation Army) advising and helping people in Bulwell & Basford who are having to face hardship. The 'Hayward House Hospice' garden project and the 'Support a Soldier' initiative designed to get shoe boxes full of goodies and a letter to our troops in Forward Operating bases in Afghaniastan and the Aqua Box project sending water purification devices and other helpful items to areas of need around the world. These together with the usual charitable work we do in the community define Bulwell & Basford Rotary Club.
If you think you could make a difference and you want to make a difference then come along and join us. There is one of our projects suitable for you to help us with or indeed you may have one you think we could help you with, then do contact us via the website or come along to one of our meetings at the Westminster Hotel, (see below) and discover at first hand what we and Rotary are all about.
We hope to meet you soon.
President 2011 - 2012 Malcolm Darroch
What have we been doing?
1. B&B Rotary reach their target of 108 AquaBoxs in 20010/11 year. A wonderful result.
Pictured L2R Bill Smith, Keith Bentley, David Smith and Malcolm Darroch. Go to "News",
then bottom of the page and "International"
2 What is this? For more information go to Hayward House News Item
3 John Martin, Malcolm Darroch and George Bagshaw promoting Rotary in the Market Square for Polio.
Christmas Sleigh Action 2010 Heathfield Estate.
Want to join Rotary or just help with a project?
Please contact us via the "Contact" page.
Dictionaries for Life
Hempshill hall school was just one of the many local schools to benefit from this scheme -- see the news article for details
"Support a Soldier"
Bulwell and Basford Rotary Club have started a scheme to support our soldiers currently protecting the people of Afghanistan at "forward operating bases" (FOB's) in Taliban held areas of the Country.
For information on what we are doing and how fellow Rotarians,
Companies and the general public can help, go to our item under Club News.
We have included a list of items that our troops would like to receive.
Venue
Westminster Hotel, 312 Mansfield Road, Nottingham, NG5 2EF. Telephone: 0115 955 5000
Meetings normally held 12.45 each Wednesday lunchtime except 5th Wednesdays. If you wish to come along to learn more about Rotary or one of our projects, please contact our secretary
John Martin on 0115 9232794 or email johnemartin@talktalk.net or alternatively use our contact page so that arrangements can be made.
For more information about the Westminster Hotel visit:
www.bw-westminsterhotelnottingham.co.uk/ or google 'westminster hotel nottingham'
Committee for year 2011 - 2012
1. David Smith SVP. 2. Arthur Pask JVP 3. Roger Foxall - Treasurer 4. John Martin - Secretary