by Chas Bedford | 2 Mar 2024 | News
Online registration for the North Downs Walk opened on 1st March, and will remain open until a week before the walk date (9th June). The link on the walk page directs walkers to a form where they can enter their details, following which they can download a sponsor...
by Chas Bedford | 9 Feb 2024 | News
If you live near Staplehurst, and your garage, shed or attic are cluttered with old bikes or tools, we have good news for you. Weald Rotary works with charity organisations who collect, clean and recondition tools and bikes and send them out to a new working life in...
by Chas Bedford | 15 Jan 2024 | News, Uncategorised
Part of the Rotary tradition is our after-dinner speakers, a mix of the entertaining, informative or thought-provoking. At Weald, our members take turns as ‘speaker finder’ with the twist that, if you can’t find a speaker, you have to do a talk...
by Chas Bedford | 29 Oct 2023 | News
It always takes a while to collect and collate sponsorship funding from the North Downs Walk, but the results are worth waiting for – especially this year. The on-the-day rough assessment was that the Walk had raised about £21,000 for all the charities and good...
by Chas Bedford | 29 Mar 2023 | News
We don’t want walkers getting lost on the North Downs Walk, or while they are trying to find Harrietsham Village Hall and the car park first thing in the morning. We also need to warn traffic at the points where the route crosses roads and give other advice to...
by Chas Bedford | 15 Mar 2023 | News
One of our best-attended Tuesday evenings of the year, and also one of our best speakers. “The Air Pilot’s Tale” was presented by Flt.Lt. Charlie Brown RAF. Charlie gave us a fascinating and entertaining story of a life in aviation, in the RAF...
by Chas Bedford | 8 Mar 2023 | News
Weald of Kent welcomes our newest member, Peter Wilford, a GP doctor recently retired. Peter, already well-known to many members, was formally introduced by Chris Jesson with whom he has shared some community volunteering, and welcomed into Rotary by our president...
by Chas Bedford | 24 Feb 2023 | News
It has been a busy week for the NDW committee. With the 2022 results all in, we have been presenting the annual trophies and the main sponsorship cheque. We met Laura Megatli of Cancer Research UK to inspect part of the walk route and presented a cheque for the...
by Chas Bedford | 18 Feb 2023 | News
We are part of a global organisation, Rotary International, with some 1.4 million members and represented in almost every country. Rotary and the organisations it supports are already responding to the massive earthquakes that devastated parts of Turkey and Syria on...
by Chas Bedford | 26 Jan 2023 | News
Members of the Rotary Club of the Weald of Kent have presented five ‘Tonies’ musical storyboxes and talking books to Aspire Federation, a group of four small rural primary schools: Kingswood, Leeds & Broomfield, Platts Heath and Ulcombe. The Tonies come with...
