by David Hawkin | Aug 17, 2026 | Community, Speakers
When Liz Hooper stood up to talk about Candlelighters, she wasn’t simply speaking as a charity Ambassador. She was speaking as a mother who had walked through the dark, uncertain territory of a childhood cancer diagnosis. Her family’s connection with the organisation...
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 Raghu Das | Feb 6, 2026 | Community, International
Rotary Club of Roundhay Delivers Clean Water Through International Partnership The Rotary Club of Roundhay Leeds is proud to support international projects that create lasting change, and a recent clean water and sanitation project in Ghana demonstrates just how...
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...