Introducing the Rotary Club of Leicester

Officers and Committees, 2011 - 2012

Club Constitution and By-Laws

Neigbouring Clubs (Rotary District 1070)

Information on the History of the Club:

Club distinctions

History of the Rotary Club of Leicester,
1916 - 2000

"Family Tree" of the Club since its formation in 1916

"...one of England's best..." From the 1934 Journal of Paul Harris, Founder of Rotary, recording his visit to the Rotary Club of Leicester

Recollections of Leicester Rotary, 1939, by Founder Member Robert Holt

Eighty-eight years of Rotary meetings and meeting places in Leicester by Patrick Boylan, 2006 

Rotary Links:

Rotary International

R.I.B.I.

R.I.B.I. President's Page on Facebook

District 1070

District 1070 on Facebook

Inner Wheel District 7 (East Midlands)

Rotary Club of Leicester Novus

Rotary Club of Guimaraes, Portugal (Leicester's Twin Club)

Visiting other Clubs: Search engine to find where you can visit 33,000 Rotary Clubs across the world

General Leicester & Leics. Information

Leicester City Council

Leicestershire County Council

Leicester Mercury

Leicestershire Chamber of Commerce

President for the 2011-2012 Rotary Year: Brian Smith 

The 2011 - 2012 theme of RI President Kalyan Banerjee
of the Rotary Club of Vapi, Gujarat, India

Read a profile of RI President Kalyan Banerjee here

Our weekly meetings:

Members meet each Monday lunchtime (except on Bank Holidays) in the city centre at the Mercure Leicester City Hotel (formerly the Grand Hotel and then the Ramada Leicester Hotel), Granby Street, Leicester, LE1 6ES, tel. 0844-815.9012. (Click here for location and travel directions,)

Visiting Rotarians and guests meet from 12.15pm, with a two course lunch available for collection from the Servery from 12.30 pm onwards (last serving of main course at 1. 05 pm).  At 1.15 pm we have a speaker who gives us an insight into many and varied aspects of our community and international issues, and the formal close of the meeting is at 1.45 pm, though members and guests are encouraged remain for fellowship to 2 pm if business or professional commitments permit this.

To assist with the catering, will visiting Rotarians and other visitors please inform the Club by 10 am. on our Visitors and Apologies Telephone Line: (tel. 0116-242.5350) 

"Family Tree" of the Leicester Club since its formation in 1916

Current Club meetings programme:

9th January: Rt Revd. Tim Stevens, Bishop of Leicester: “New Year Address”

16th January: Rotary Fellowship Lunch

23rd January: Rtn Richard Power: “National Health Service – plus ca change"

30th January: Prof. Dominic Shellard, Vice Chancellor, De Montfort University

6th February: Dr Julie Attard, Leicestershire Victoria County History Trust: "The Charnwood Roots Project"

13th February: Steve Riddington: "Sir Francis Chichester"

20th February: Sue Smout, Open Hands Trust

27th February: Rtn John Aldridge: "A funny thing happened to me on the way to the Pulpit"

incorporating the revisions adopted on 27th June and 14th November 2011 (in pdf format)

NOTE: If you are able to support our neighbouring Rotary Clubs at their annual Charter Dinners or similar events: please contact Past President Derek Goodman, Chairman of our Fellowship Committee to make a booking

Monday 30th January, 7pm: Rotary Club of Northampton 90th Anniversary Charter Dinner, Marriott Hotel, Northampton (£35)

Friday 4th May: Charter Anniversary Dinner of our daughter club, Leicester De Montfort

Sunday 6th May at 3pm: Annual Bluebell Service in Swithland Woods

Sunday 6th - Wednesday 9th May: Rotary International Convention, Bangkok

Saturday 12th May: District 1070 Assembly (open to all members of the Club)

Wednesday 12th June: Rotary "Kid's Out" Day, Wickstead Park, Kettering

Membership of Rotary is by invitation, but the Rotary Club of Leicester always welcomes enquiries from professional and business men and women and community leaders living and/or working in the City and County:

Click here to e-mail our Membership Committee 
(please make sure to include a phone number with your enquiry)