NEWS ARCHIVE

Press Releases issued by RIBI from 1 July 2001

Press Call Notice - £15,000 IN 20p COINS TO BE LAID DOWN IN ROTARY WHEEL LOGO
June 2002
On Saturday 29 June 2002, Rotary District 1240 (Essex and Hertfordshire) will lay down £15,000 in 20 pence coins which they have collected from their club members for the The Little Haven Childrens' Hospice, Raleigh, Essex

Press Call Notice - ROTARY SCHOOLS ATHLETIC SPORTS MEETING
June 2002
On Sunday, 30th June, 2002, the Rotary Club of Dulwich and Peckham will host an annual Schools Athletic Sports Meeting at Crystal Palace National Sports Centre.

OVER 25,000 KIDS WITH SPECIAL NEEDS TO BE TAKEN ON A DAY OUT TO REMEMBER
May 2002
A record number of children with special needs from all over Great Britain and Ireland will join the 13th annual Rotary KidsOut Day on Wednesday 12th June 2002. Rotary KidsOut Day is a day out promoted by Rotary and supported by KidsOut, the national charity for children with special needs.

ROTARY'S CITIZENSHIP CD-ROM FOR SCHOOLS TO BE LAUNCHED AT GLASGOW CONFERENCE
March 2002
Citizenship is the focus of a new CD-ROM in the Rotary award winning 'Coping with Life' series, which is to be launched at Rotary's annual conference in Glasgow this month. The CD-ROM has been highly commended by the Prime Minister, "I think it is a fantastic innovation. It is using technology to get through to children, teachers and parents in ways which would have been unthinkable when I was younger. I congratulate Rotary on their vision in producing such a valuable and relevant resource and, more importantly, for making it available free to schools," Mr Blair commented.

ROTARY PEACE CENTRES TO BE LAUNCHED AT GLASGOW CONFERENCE AND THE UN
March 2002
Professor Paul Rogers, Head of Peace Studies at Bradford University, will be speaking at this year's Rotary conference about Rotary's new Peace Centre initiative, due to begin in September 2002. Seventy Rotary World Peace Scholars have been selected to participate in the two-year MA graduate programme related to peace and conflict resolution at seven universities throughout the world. Bradford University, chosen from more than 100 universities world-wide, will be running the Peace Centre MA programme in the UK.

WORLD PEACE TO BE ON THE AGENDA FOR ROTARY'S ANNUAL CONFERENCE IN GLASGOW
March 2002
Around 3000 Rotarians will be in Glasgow for their annual conference to be held in the city from April 11-14, where international peace will be the main theme. The Rotarians will be listening to a variety of speakers and meeting fellow Rotarians at both business and social events at the conference. It is the largest annual gathering of members of Rotary International in Great Britain and Ireland.

LOCOMOTIVE 86615 REDEDICATED ROTARY INTERNATIONAL
February 2002
Freshly painted locomotive 86615 has been rededicated to Rotary International at a ceremony at Ipswich train station today (25 February). 86615 Rotary International has been repainted from its old Freightliner grey to the new green and yellow Freightliner livery. At the same time as the locomotive was repainted the nameplates were refurbished and reapplied to it.

TO RUSSIA WITH LOVE
February 2002
When 14-year old Dima Skvortsov went out to play in the garden of his home in Kum’ja, a small village in the republic of Mari El, 500 miles to the east of Moscow, in July 2000, he could not have known what changes it would bring to the life of his family.

PRIME MINISTER LAUNCHES CITIZENSHIP CD-ROM
January 2002
Citizenship is the focus of a new CD-ROM in the Rotary ‘Coping with Life’ series, a Rotary International in Great Britain and Ireland initiative, launched today by the Prime Minister Rt Hon Tony Blair MP.

ROTARY PRESENTS OVER £250,000 TO CHARITY

MILLIONAIRE'S CHRIS TARRANT PRESENTS KIDS OUT PICTURE AWARD
November 2001
Who Wants to be a Millionaire's Chris Tarrant presented a prize to the winner of the KidsOut national photographic competition at a special ceremony held on the set of Millionaire, at Elstree Studios on Saturday 17th November.

ROTARY CLUBS IN GB&I TO DISPLAY SPECTACULAR FLOAT AT LORD MAYOR’S PARADE
November 2001
Rotary International in Great Britain & Ireland clubs have joined forces to deliver a truly spectacular and captivating sight at the 2001 Lord Mayor’s Show - the colourful procession, traditionally held on the second Saturday in November, in celebration of the appointment of the new Lord Mayor.

TEAM ROTARY WORLD CUP RALLY DRAW RAISES OVER £250,000 FOR CHARITY

ROTARY'S LEAFLET BLITZ TO ALERT THE NATION TO THE THREAT OF TB
October 2001
Rotary clubs throughout Britain and Ireland are this month distributing nearly half a million leaflets to create awareness of the threat of TB. Rotary has formed a partnership with the UK’s leading charity TB Alert to increase awareness of the killer disease and to raise funds to combat it. Leaflets are being distributed by Rotarians at schools, libraries, shopping centres, hospitals, leisure centres and doctors surgeries and many other outlets.

ROTARY AND SPORTS AID - A NEW HOPE FOR BRITISH SUCCESS IN FUTURE OLYMPICS
August 2001
A new initiative forming a partnership between Rotary International in Great Britain and Ireland and SportsAid, will help to create Olympic champions out of talented and committed young sports men and women, by providing them with the financial support that they need and deserve to fulfil their sporting potential.

ROTARY JOINS TB ALERT TO COMBAT KILLER DISEASE
July 2001
Rotary International in Britain and Ireland is joining the UK’s leading charity TB Alert to increase awareness of the killer disease and to raise funds to combat it. At home, new cases of TB have been emerging at a worrying rate: there were around 8,000 last year in Britain and Ireland alone, an increase of 10 per cent on 1999 and it appears to be showing no sign of abating

RADICAL CHANGE FOR ROTARY TO MEET 21ST CENTURY CHALLENGE
July 2001
Rotary announced today radical changes in the development of new clubs, as well as changes in the rules governing existing clubs, to meet the challenge faced by volunteer organisations in the new millennium. The new Rotary year which starts on 1st July sees the launch of a global initiative to set up 190 new clubs, 22 of these in Great Britain and Ireland.