The Rotary Club of Odiham and Hook

18/07/2026

Lovely sunny day for the Odiham fete and all set up ready to roll:

14/07/2026

🌳🎨 STUDENT DESIGN WINNER FOR 'THE FIRS' RESTORATION! 🦅✨

We are absolutely thrilled to celebrate a fantastic partnership between Robert May's School and our local community!

What is The Firs? 🌲
Located on the route to school for many of our families coming from RAF Odiham, The Firs is a historic, small wooded area. Thanks to a wonderful grant from Hart District Council, Odiham Parish Council and the Odiham and Hook Rotary are completely restoring the site—improving biodiversity, making it accessible, and creating a peaceful nature space to support local mental health and wellbeing. 🥰🍃

ℹ️ The Student Challenge:
As part of the restoration, two new information boards are being installed. After consulting with our Student Council, RMS students were tasked with designing boards that showcase the history, wildlife, and plants of the site.

We are incredibly proud to announce our talented winners:
🥇 Winner: Arthur D (9S) – awarded a fantastic £100 book token! 📚🎟️
🥈 Runners-up: Tabitha E-P (9P) and Pip L (9P)

The awards were presented onsite by Angela McFarlane (Chair of Odiham Parish Council) and Bryan Berry (Chair of the local Rotary Club).

A massive thank you to everyone involved for reaching out and inviting our students to leave a lasting legacy on this beautiful local space. We cannot wait to see Arthur's designs printed! 🌟👏

13/07/2026

Great to be able to support Mayhill school at their fantastic summer circus event with over 500 parents and children attending. Well organised. Nice to see so many happy faces.

05/07/2026

Great to be helping out at the Hook Show again this year:

01/06/2026

Just a few days before we welcome Chris Quinn to the Old School in Odiham. Chris will be performing a variety of guitar blues, folk and roots music. Doors open at 7.15pm on Saturday 6th June and Chris has prepared a little sneak peak in the clip below. He’s a Shrewsbury chap so forgive his pronunciation of Odiham 😃. Tickets are £15 and are selling well so don’t delay if you want to secure yours. See the link below for details: http://www.chrisquinnmusic.com/live

01/06/2026

12/05/2026

Excellent Charity lunch at the Odiham Cricket club today raising funds for the Hampshire & Isle of Wight Air Ambulance. All enjoyed a lovely lunch and listening to a very good speaker from this very worthy cause.

10/05/2026

Great to help with car parking at the Basingstoke Festival of Transport today and a real pleasure to work with the Basingstoke army cadets.

01/05/2026

Great to be at the Hook village meeeting with 27 other local organisations. Busy week with the Odiham annual meeting earlier.