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

ROTARY is more than 1.2 million service-minded men and women belonging to 27,000 Rotary Clubs in 150 countries and 35 geographical regions.  Membership is by invitation.

ROTARIANS  meet weekly to enjoy each others' fellowship and discuss ways to serve others.

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

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

THE ROTARY FOUNDATION gives more than £21 million every year to educational and humanitarian programmes which promote international understanding.

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