Woking District Rotary
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Woking District Rotary at a glance
The strength of Woking District Rotary shows through our actions. By working together we achieve more than we can by ourselves, overcome challenges more efficiently, and make friends in the process. Come and join us and together we can do more.
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News and Events
We have just celebrated our 50th Anniversary!!
Wow, Woking District Rotary Club became 50 years old on Sunday 18th October 2026!
We celebrated this anniversary in style over the birthday weekend along with friends from our twinned club in Sweden, Uppsala Linne.
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At a gala dinner on Saturday 17th October held at Chobham Golf Club we raised funds for a local Rotary charity called
"Cut Out Cancer"
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This is raising money to buy high tech surgical equipment for Royal Surrey's new cancer centre covering Surrey, Sussex and beyond. With our help, the new facility should maintain its status as one of Europe's leading surgical centres.
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We can report that the evening (and the whole weekend) was a great success. As well as properly celebrating our golden anniversary, we raised over £2,000 for Cut Out Cancer from the raffle and auction on the night.
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Freemantles Burnt Out Minibus Replaced With Rotary Help
Freemantles School received its latest addition to its fleet of minibuses. This replaces that stolen and burnt out over the Christmas break (as reported by the Woking News & Mail front page story in January).
The school appealed for financial help because there was a huge gap between the money recovered from insurance and the cost of a replacement minibus. As school funds were very limited, the 'Friends of Freemantles' launched a 'Go Fund Me' campaign. Woking District Rotary stepped up and pledged to fill the gap between what was needed and what the Friends’ campaign would eventually raise. At the end of the campaign the remaining gap was £4,717. Our Rotary club gave the money quickly to enable the bus to brought into use as early as possible.
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The school caters for around 280 pupils, aged 4 to 19 years, with complex social communication needs. Minibuses are an essential enabler for community learning. Pupils spend time out in the community on trips ranging from things as mundane as a visit to a shop at one extreme, to a placement at a mainstream college for a number of weeks at the other. These trips are seen as important to help bring what is taught in the school into real life.
Club President Gill Colbeck said: “As Rotarians we always want to support our local community, and Freemantles School is at the heart of that, so we are delighted to have been able to plug the financial gap to enable the excellent work of the school to continue. Some of the proceeds from last year’s Fireworks Extravaganza have been used to do this. We are looking forward to this year’s Fireworks Extravaganza on 8th November to enable us to continue this good work”.
Our Forthcoming Rotary Meetings and Activities
For information about what we are doing for the next few months, see ask what we are doing using the contact form below and we would be pleased to let you know. The same applies if you would like to join us for an evening to see who we are, hear about we have been doing and our plans going forward.
Contact Woking District Rotary about joining our club or anything else
We would prefer you to use the form here, which will send your request to several people. But if you have difficulties please email: wokingdistrictrotary@gmail.com
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Meetings
We meet on the first and third Wednesday evenings each month at Hoebridge Golf Centre (see the google map below). If you would like to come along, please contact us using the form above to confirm when and where we will be on any particular date.
Dress Code is Smart Casual.
HOEBRIDGE GOLF CENTRE
Old Woking Road
Old Woking
Surrey
GU22 8JH​​
