Rotary Club of Chester Community Awards Introduction The Community Award fund is intended to assist small organisations and good causes from Chester and surrounding areas Objective The objective is to support organisations with a small grant that will make a...
After 18 long months, our Club is finally scheduled to return to actual meetings on 6 September. Our previous meeting location now being unavailable, we will gather at The Mill Hotel in Chester. A premier location in the heart of the City, The Mill admirably fulfils...
One of the ways that we have kept our Club alive over the last 15 months has been a series of guest speakers, organisd by our President (Prof Simon Burtonshaw Gunn) and delivered via Zoom. These speakers have included: Our Member of Parliament for the City of Chester...
The Rotary Club of Chester was founded in 1921 and to mark the centenary a book has been published tracking the history of the Club over the hundred years of its existence. Written by two past presidents, Brian Westcott and John Elsley, sources rely on minutes of...
2021 Raft Race - cancelled Sadly this year's Raft Race, scheduled for the 4th July, has again been cancelled due to the ongoing uncertainty surrounding the ability for large groups of people to gather for this event in its usual format. We look forward to welcoming...
A very interesting presentation at our Zoom meeting tonight on the history of the Manchester Ship Canal. The Canal is often referred to as the Channel Tunnel of the Victorian age. It is a magnificent feat of engineering, 36 miles long linking the birthplace of the...
