by Scott Wolstenholme | Apr 6, 2025 | Member Events, Speakers
A new entrant to the family of Rotary is expected to give a ‘job talk’ to let other members know something about their experiences: facts that do not necessarily emerge in more casual conversations. At the Rotary Club of Roundhay this can also apply to long serving...
by Scott Wolstenholme | Feb 17, 2025 | Community, Speakers
‘You have so many outstanding qualities. You are a very warm, kind, generous, person – one of the kindest we’ve ever met, and certainly one of the most interesting. I do hope politics never hardens you. Please keep your gift of what in political terms can be described...
by Scott Wolstenholme | Feb 11, 2025 | Community, Speakers
The Joanna Project is a small charity inspired by the Christian ideal that every person is a child of God and inherently loved. With this ideal in mind, the Project undertakes to support a challenging client group: women, trapped by life-controlling addictions, often...
by Scott Wolstenholme | Jan 11, 2025 | Community, Speakers
On 25 November 2024 we had the pleasure of a talk all about hedgehogs from Julia Malloch, volunteer for education at Prickly Edge Rescue Centre, Methley. Rotary charitable endeavours and grants used to be concentrated on six ‘Areas of Focus’, namely peacebuilding and...
by Scott Wolstenholme | Nov 8, 2024 | Community, Speakers
It is now 110 years since the outbreak of the Great War in 1914. The passage of time must not be allowed to dim our consciousness of the appalling slaughter wrought by the two world wars of the 20th century, nor to diminish our respect and gratitude for the sacrifice...
by Scott Wolstenholme | Oct 27, 2024 | Speakers
An evening at Leeds Grand Theatre Warren Smith joined the Rotary Club of Leeds in 1977 and is their longest serving member. This week he regaled us with a feast of name dropping, culled from a long and distinguished career as a theatre manager. The career, and name...