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If there's a profession you can think of, chances are we have or have had a member with experience in that field or close connections to it.
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🇬🇧 Banbury Rotary Club at Remembrance Sunday 2025 🇬🇧
Today, members of Banbury Rotary Club were honoured to take an active part in Banbury’s Remembrance Day commemorations — a moving and unifying occasion for our town as we remembered those who gave so much for our freedom.
Where does Rotary fit in?
Braving Storm Benjamin, a team of around a dozen intrepid Banbury Rotary Club members and friends today planted 12,000 crocus corms at Banbury Cemetery and Crematorium.
Why?
Because, come spring, they hope the burst of purple colour, will raise awareness of Rotary’s global mission to eradicate the terrible disease - polio.
Read on to find out about a project that dwarfs the scale of HS2 but is 99.8% complete!
The most heartwarming series of events of the year is almost here! For four magical evenings, your local Rotary Club is thrilled to present our annual Children's Singing for Children Concert Series! Be enchanted as young voices fill the air with joy, harmony, and a wonderful enthusiasm. Each school will bring two songs of their own choice ranging from timeless classics to modern favourites.
Following that - prepare for unforgettable massed choir finales guaranteed to uplift your spirits and put a smile on your face or maybe bring a tear of joy to your eye! This isn't just a concert; it's a celebration of community and the incredible power of young people singing.
Bring your family, bring your friends, and make memories that will last a lifetime. All monies raised go to support Children's Charities. Add it to your calendar now!
Following the success of last year’s Charity Christmas Light Trail, the Westminster Group Foundation is once again bringing festive cheer to Banbury with a dazzling display of lights and decorations at Westminster House.
John Davies told us about how his involvement in stamp collecting when his children became interested got a bit out of hand and ended up with him having a collection exhibited at several international exhibitions!
Supporting 4 local charities
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The dates for the next Contact meeting are 14-17 May 2026.
Click below to see details of the programme.
Summer holidays saw a smaller than usual number of members at the Friday meeting.
The absence of our president also gave our recently designated 1st Vice president an opportunity to run his first club meeting – which he did with unsurprising efficiency despite being adorned with an L-plate!
All good wishes Peter and Pat as you move away to your new home.
Thanks also for the super "farewell do" where good food, good drink, good weather and most importantly good company were the order of the day.
You can see some of the photos from our 2025 exchange by visiting the photo-album here.
Tuesday 20th May, 7 o'clock at BCC for a pre club European Exchange meeting. (Contact)
Bring a plate to share with a German theme, and pen and paper
Alison will take us through the arrangements for our trip to Aalen-Heidenheim, it is really important at least one person per couple attend but hopefully all can, to make sure we are all well briefed.
A tradition has evolved of club members not giving Christmas Cards to each other but - instead - making a payment into The Rotary Foundation Fund.
The last club meeting at the Freemasons' Hall took place at the Christmas Lunch on13th December 2024. 
For members only - the 2025 internal lottery offers you a year of regular (weakly!) excitement for a mere £10/annum.
These events are all in the list of upcoming events but mixed up with a large number of Service Activities such as supermarket collections and other fund-raising or community service events.
Visit planned by John Bennett to the Bugatti museum located at Prescott Hillclimb on Wednesday 16th October followed by optional pub lunch.
Nigel R has emailed members alerting them to the likelihood of the Clubrunner app becoming the main vehicle of club communicationand has asked for members who are not yet able to use the app to get in touch with him.
It's World Polio Day.
Members can download duty Rotas from here but you'll need to be logged in.
