Gemma Stapleton of Roundwood Park School is this year’s winner of the Bill Hewetson Memorial Prize and Rotary Young Citizen Award. The awards recognise a young person’s achievements in the spirit of the Rotary motto Service above Self. She is pictured after receiving her awards, a token and certificate, from Rotary in Harpenden President Richard Young.
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Virtual Balloon Race
Join in our VIRTUAL Balloon Race for the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee on 2nd June 2022 and you could win some great prizes!
Rotary’s 100+ Tips for Preparing for Interviews (Part One)
Over 100 tips, produced by Rotary Club of Wrexham Erddig to support those preparing for interviews.
Rotary’s 100+ Tips for Preparing for Interviews (Part two)
Part two of our top tips, designed to help build confidence and support to those preparing for interviews.
Technology challenge launches into space
Twenty-eight teams of students packed into the gym at Marlborough Science Academy, St Albans, to take this year’s Rotary Technology Challenge.
Chosen charities receive their Classics donations
Representatives of the three charities chosen by Rotary in Harpenden members to be the main beneficiaries of the funds raised by last September’s Classics on the Common receive their cheques from Rotary in Harpenden President Richard Young and Classics Event Manager Liz Jack.
Pens at the ready, concentration required
Keen quizzers are seen puzzling over an evening full of challenging questions at Rotary in Harpenden’s Quiz of Quizzes, which this year celebrated its silver anniversary.
Collecting for Ukraine refugees
Rotary in Harpenden members, along with Harpenden Lions Club members, collecting donations in aid of Ukraine refugees from travellers at Harpenden Station.
Debating skills rewarded
A delighted Roundwood Park School team hold the senior cup which they won in the Harpenden heat of the Rotary Youth Speaks competition.
Rotary shoeboxes leave a footprint in Africa
This winter’s Rotary shoeboxes not only carried toys, games, writing materials and toiletries to disadvantaged youngsters and elderly people in central and eastern Europe; they also helped to provide a £2,600 donation to a major water and sanitation project benefiting rural schools in Malawi.