The Rotary Club of Portishead

05/06/2026

05/06/2026

We are now outside Waitrose Portishead collecting money to fit out a further ambulance for Ukraine. Our first donation was from Yana Hanich and Anna from Kharkiv who were so pleased to support.
We are at Waitrose with the Ambulance until 4pm

02/06/2026

Ukraine suffered its worst bombing by Russia last night.
Friday 5th June at Waitrose car pull in will be a specially fitted Rotary Ambulance, shortly to be taken to Ukraine, to support taking wounded civilians to hospital.
Rotary is now seeking to raise money for a further ambulance and members of Portishead Rotary will be on hand from 10am to 4pm to accept donations from the public

05/05/2026

Pictured with President David Grant holding their certificates as local winners are Trinity Primary School pupils namely Jasper Young Photographer, Pippa Young Artist and Harry Young Writer.
In addition Pippa's picture won the the District stage and it has now gone forward to the Rotary finals in June. We have our fingers crossed that Pippa can win one of the national awards

21/03/2026

The Rotary Swimathon was staged to day at Parish Wharf leisure centre with over 400 + swimmers achieving overall 5230 25 metre lengths equivalent to 81.25 miles. The club wishes to thank all the wonderful staff at Parish Wharf for making today so successful. The Wizards again broke their Swimathon record with 164 lengths in 35 minutes and were chased hard all the way by the Witches with a super 144 lengths. Both teams are members of Bristol & South Gloucs Swimming Club.

19/03/2026

Rotary Swimathon is now only 2 day away. We will have 68 teams with over 400 swimmers taking part
Teams please remember to include a lane counter to support your team at poolside and to keep an accurate score of the lengths you team complete in the 35 minutes session
🌞The weather is forecast to be dry and sunny

11/03/2026

Trinity Primary School provided two winners in Portishead Rotary Youth Competitions for Young Artist and Young Writer . Shown is President David Grant presenting Pippa with her certificate and voucher for Young Artist and Harry receiving his certificate and voucher for Young Writer. We are delighted to report that Pippa's entry is now through to the Rotary national finals.

03/03/2026

With our Rotary Annual Swimathon taking place at Parish Wharf on 21st March, we wish to thank our Business sponsors for their generosity in meeting all the pre Swimathon costs. This means that every penny raised by circa 440 swimmers sponsor forms goes to Charity, Schools, Adult & Youth organisation plus the Presidents chosen charities - this year being Jessie May ,MND Association and Changing Lives Clevedon. A Big Thank you to :-
Aspect Insurance Management ,
Astron Fire & Security Ltd,
Watkins Tasker Vets,
Specsavers Portishead,
F H Halliday & son Ltd
Muse
Autolink Vehicle Solutions
Nortech Computers
Parish Wharf Leisure Centre

25/02/2026

In Portishead's lake grounds looking from the lake towards the grass bank the words "End Polio Now " are clearly visible with planted purple crocuses. CLICK on the top picture for the full wording
In 1985 Rotary International set every club worldwide a mission to help rid the world of Polio. At that time there were 1000 polio cases a day in 125 countries.
Today the number of cases is down by 99.9% thanks to the hard work of Rotarians worldwide with the support of WHO, UNICEF and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. For every £1 a Rotary club raises the Gates Foundation gives £2
The result is that nearly 19 million people who would otherwise been paralysed are walking and more than 1.5 million are alive who otherwise would have died.
The colour purple is the mark on each child's hand after receiving vaccination drops given to millions of children each year to ensure this terrible disease never returns.