Crathes Vintage Car & Motorcycle Rally Sunday 25h May 2008 For more details and on-line entry click here Good causes that we have supported   Nearly £20,000 is donated to charity every year by the Banchory-Ternan Rotary Club. Charities include local, national and international bodies. Some of the charities we have assisted are: ALEC Archie Foundation Banchory Academy Dux Awards Banchory Air Cadets Banchory Bag Campaign Banchory Boys Club Banchory Christmas Lights Banchory Cricket Club Banchory Initiative Banchory Scouts Banchory Shaw - St Ternan's Fair Banchory Singers Banchory Surgery Banchory Trampoline Club Banchory RC Church African Well Appeal Banchory West Church Barnados Breast Research Fund British Heart Foundation British Red Cross Cerebal Palsy CHAS - Children's Hospice Chest, Heart and Stroke Association Children 1st Cornhill Hospital Crathie Opportunity Holidays CREDO Dalvenie House Deeside Aid Romania Trust Dementia Scotland Erskine Hospitals Euroscola Family Mediation Grampian Forget-me-not Club Friends of Glen o' Dee Hospital Friends of the Anchor Unit Gordon Highlanders Museum Grampian Blind Target Shooters Grampian Families in Need Grampian Hospital Radio Grampian Schools Liason Guide dogs for the Blind Hearing dogs for the Deaf HomeStart Deeside Inchmarlo Golf Foundation Low-cost Housing in Kerala, India Lumphanan Playgroup Make a Wish Malawi Aids Clinic Marie Curie Cancer Care Maroc McMillan Cancer Relief Mercy Hospital Ships Message in a Bottle Scheme Mozambique Flood Appeal Multiple Sclerosis Nebulisers for local surgeries New Roxburgh House Niger Crisis Appeal NHS Grampian - Needy Families Peruvian Dental Trust Polio Eradication Fund Project Scotland Red Cross Sudan Appeal Riding for the Disabled Samaratains Sandpiper Trust Save the Children Scolty Centre Scottish Huntingdons Association Shelter Box Trust - Asian Earthquake Shoe Box Appeal Sightsavers SmarKids Foundation SPARKS St Colomba Ikelenge well project Tafo Trust The Anchor Unit The Forget-me-not club The Pakistan Earthquake Appeal The Tsunami Appeal Torphins Community Garden project Torphins Scouts Torphins Surgery UCAN Water Aid Wheelchair Foundation World Challange Tanzania Young Carers We've also supported local sports talent, sent local school pupils on international exchange visits, organised young musician competitions, young speechmaker events, assisted young enterprise ventures, provided tutors for Cookie Challenge and 'Life After School' events.......plus many more activities.

Is it the TRUTH? Is it FAIR to all concerned?   Will it build GOODWILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS?   Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?

Welcome to our website The club was founded in 1971 and currently has around 50 members. We are active in fund-raising for local, national and international good causes through a series of events and schemes throughout the year. The main annual fund-raisers are the Crathes Vintage Car & Motorcycle Rally, which is held in May of each year and the Inchmarlo Golf Challenge held in August. The club supports and encourages international exchange visits, sponsors educational, cultural and youth activities and promotes enterprise through the Young Enterprise programme in local schools. But it's not just about fundraising. There is a strong social aspect and members are part of a global network of 1.2 million Rotarians spanning most countries and cities around the globe. For further information please contact: President: David Holmes Secretary: John Kaighin Treasurer: Raymond Donald Webmaster: Chris Engel

The Town of Banchory Banchory Gateway Stane, erected to mark 100 years of Rotary Photo by Chris Bowden of Drumoak © 2007

Banchory looking westwards across Raemoir Road Photo by Ed Read © 2007

The town of Banchory (pop 6,500) lies on the north side of the River Dee some 18 miles west of Aberdeen, Europe's oil capital.   Originally settled in 5-6th centuries at the confluence of the River Feugh, the site became location of the annual St Ternan Fair during the middle ages. The town flourished with the coming of the Deeside Railway line in 1853 and became a popular destination for both holidaymakers and day-trippers from Aberdeen. During the 1970-90s the town expanded as a result of the oil industry and is currently undergoing a new period of growth. There are a range of shops, hotels, restaurants, garages and local services. The town has not one, but two excellent golf courses. Image above - looking to the NW with the Academy and Primary school in the centre with the High Street on the top left.

2008 Programme (Last updated 2nd May 2008)
Date	Meeting Details		Door	Door
May 21	Ian Walker - Stephen Fernie - 'How things have changed at Aberdeen University.		E Read	J Sellens
May 25 (Sunday)	Crathes Vintage Car & Motorcycle Rally
May 28	David Needham - A Speaker (To be confirmed) who will tell us about the Charity WaterAid. + (Council Meeting)		G Sinclair	R Singleton
June 4	Business Meeting - President David will say the Grace. Plus: - Talk by the Niece of the late Jim Cursiter who was on a Life changing year long Foundation Fellowship to Argentina.		C Suthland	A Thomson
June 11	Bill Burr - Young Speechmakers Evening (plus, hopefully, some of the Young Musicians)                          (Partners Evening)		J Thomson	J Turnbull
June 18	Ed Read - Kate Synott - An update on UCAN the Aberdeen based Urological Cancer Charity.                                                              + (Council Meeting)		R Wilkin	G Wilkinson
June 25	Club Assembly President David will say the Grace. Response by Assistant Governor Ewen Hatchwell.		E Gillanders	S Wilson
July 2	PRESIDENT'S HANDOVER EVENING		B Bell	R Bridger

 
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