by Scott Wolstenholme | Feb 23, 2026 | Community, Speakers
Over the years, the Rotary Club of Roundhay has been honoured to be visited by many of theserving Lord Mayors of Leeds. This week was the turn of the 131 st occupant of that honourableoffice, Councillor Dan Cohen, who came to the club with his wife the Lady Mayoress...
by Scott Wolstenholme | Sep 11, 2025 | Community, Speakers
April Dixon is an engineer by profession but describes herself as an amateur bee keeper. Her knowledge of the subject is expert, and her obvious passion for bees made for a fascinating lesson in ecology when she came to talk to the club. April told us that ‘bees...
by Scott Wolstenholme | Jul 14, 2025 | Community, Speakers
Verity Hyland, 32, has a full time job as an events manager, but she has another job which she described as ‘24 hours a day as a farmer’. Farming is in her blood. Her maternal grandparents met through Young Farmers, a post war initiative to get young people into...
by Scott Wolstenholme | Jul 7, 2025 | Community, Speakers
Describing herself as ‘the original Doc Martin’ and ‘a GYPSY’ [GP with Special Interest], Dr Liz Martin came to the club in July to enlighten us on the important topic of diabetes. She has considerable experience, having set up a community team to help GP practices...
by Scott Wolstenholme | Jun 16, 2025 | Community, Speakers
We recently had the pleasure of meeting Kevin Sharp, Clerk to the West Yorkshire Lieutenancy, and at a separate meeting, Sue Baker, former High Sheriff of West Yorkshire. These two speakers each gave us a history lesson, and then demonstrated how in the modern world,...