· ROTARY is a service organisation of business and professional leaders united world wide who help those in need, encourage high ethical standards in all vocations and work towards world understanding and peace.

· ROTARY is approximately 1.2 million service-minded men and women belonging to more than 32,400 Rotary Clubs in virtually every country in the world. Membership is by invitation.

· ROTARIANS meet regularly to enjoy each others fellowship and discuss ways to serve others.

· ROTARY is compassion for the underprivileged, the ill and disabled, who benefit from over 50,000 Rotary Club service projects in the world each year.

· ROTARY runs the biggest non-government scholarship in the world.

· THE ROTARY FOUNDATION gives more than £58 million every year to educational and humanitarian programmes which promote international understanding.

· ROTARY began in 1905 in Chicago. The world headquarters are in Evanston, Illinois, USA, and the Secretariat of the Rotary International in Great Britain and Ireland is at Kinwarton Road, Alcester, Warwickshire, B49 6PB.

For more information see
www.rotary.org

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