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Welcome to the new Rotary group in Great Yarmouth!

09/11/2026

🪩🎶 The final total is in! 🎱🥳

After an absolutely fantastic Beats & Bingo evening at Hemsby Village Hall, we’re delighted to announce that we raised an incredible…

🎉💜 £1,651.99!! 💜🎉

With 99 tickets sold, plenty of singing, dancing, laughter and bingo, what a brilliant night it was!

We couldn’t have done it without the amazing support of our local businesses, volunteers and everyone who came along.

🌟 A HUGE thank you to our wonderful sponsors:

💎 Platinum: Sidegate Storage Pertwee and Back Arcade Florist and Originals2Digitals.

🥇 Gold: Lucas & Wyllys Solicitors and Ignite Heating and Cooling

🥈 Silver: Clarity Partnership Limited and Simper Law Ltd

🥉 Bronze: Tracy Hendricks - Travel Counsellors and Muffin Top Bakes

And some very special thank yous to:

💜 Hemsby Village Hall for providing the bingo equipment and donating the bingo books.

🎶 Brett, our DJ, for keeping the music and atmosphere going all night!

👏 Glenn Saunders at Swan Saunders for his generous £100 donation towards our bingo dabber sales, and Sara Docwra and Jonathan Ling at This is Effective for supplying and personalising our fabulous themed dabbers!

🍔 Shaun Moore at Kerbside kitchen for keeping everyone fed!

🎤 Ian for his brilliant bingo calling!

💜 Henri and Jess for all their help with ticket sales, food orders and preparations.

📱 Amy for keeping our social media buzzing in the lead-up to the event!

And, of course, a MASSIVE thank you to Victoria and Ian for the incredible amount of time, effort and hard work they put into organising the whole evening. What a success! 👏💜

Finally, thank you to our fellow HR2 Rotary members and every single person who bought a ticket, picked up a dabber and joined in the fun.

Every penny raised will help us support good causes in our community and beyond. That’s what Rotary is all about! 💜

Same again next year? 😉🪩

08/11/2026

Today, some of our members attended the Remembrance Sunday service at St George’s Park, joining the community to pay our respects and remember those who gave their lives in service to our country.

We were honoured to lay a wreath on behalf of Rotary in remembrance of their sacrifice.

We will remember them ❤️

03/11/2026

🦆 A little look back at our 2026 Duck Races!

What a fantastic day we had at the Great Yarmouth Waterways! Lots of ducks, plenty of laughs and a brilliant turnout, all while raising money for some wonderful causes.

Here’s a little video to relive the fun!

A huge thank you again to everyone who took part, sponsored a duck or came along to support us.

🦆 Fancy getting involved next year? If your business would like to sponsor a duck in our 2027 Duck Races, please drop us a message. We’d love to have you on board!

28/10/2026

A big thank you to Imperial Hotel ! 💙

We would like to say a huge thank you to the Imperial Hotel, Great Yarmouth, for their continued support of Rotary.

The Imperial has been a fantastic supporter of our club, hosting special occasions including our Charter Night and, most recently, our Duck Race Presentation Evening.

We are incredibly grateful for the warm welcome, wonderful hospitality and support we always receive from the team.

Having the support of local businesses like The Imperial Hotel makes such a difference to our club and the work we do in our community.

Thank you to everyone at The Imperial Hotel for your ongoing friendship and support!

27/10/2026

We were delighted to present the Cliffside Royalettes - Norfolk with a donation of £300 to support their fantastic baton twirling troupe!

Based in Gorleston, the Royalettes have been going strong for over 40 years, with dedicated volunteer coaches helping young people develop their skills and compete at local, national and international levels.

A special mention to Matilda, who represented England at the recent European and World Championships! 🇬🇧👏

We are proud to support this wonderful local group and wish all the Royalettes continued success! 💙

25/10/2026

£17,802 Raised at the 2026 Great Yarmouth Duck Races! 🦆

We are absolutely delighted to announce that this year’s Great Yarmouth Duck Races raised an incredible £17,802!

The total was revealed at our Duck Race Presentation Evening this week, bringing another fantastic year of duck racing to a close.

A huge thank you to all the businesses who sponsored ducks, everyone who purchased tickets, our volunteers and supporters, and everyone who helped make the event such a success.

The evening also marked a special moment as Haven Rotary officially handed over the “Key to the Duck Race” to HR2 Rotary.

We would like to thank Haven Rotary for all their hard work over the years in making the Duck Races such a popular event. We’re excited to take on the challenge of organising next year’s races and continuing this wonderful tradition.

We were also delighted to celebrate Robert Lovick of Great Yarmouth Haven Rotary Club, who was awarded a Paul Harris Fellow Award, one of Rotary’s highest honours, recognising outstanding service and commitment to the Rotary ethos. A huge congratulations to Robert on this well-deserved recognition!

Save the date: Sunday 12th September 2027!

If your business would like to get involved and sponsor a duck next year, please get in touch. We’d love to hear from you!

Here’s to another fantastic year of duck racing!

24/10/2026

Another post-event thank you to one of the businesses that helped make Beats & Bingo Night possible: our Platinum Sponsor, and Back! 🚗💗

We had a fantastic night at Hemsby Village Hall, and the support of our sponsors means so much to Haven Rotary 2 and the local charities our fundraising supports.

A huge thank you to everyone at Pertwee & Back for getting behind the event and supporting our local community. 💛🎶

23/10/2026

We are still buzzing from Beats & Bingo Night! 🎶🪩

As the dust settles after a brilliant evening, we want to give a special post-event thank you to our Platinum Sponsor, Sidegate Storage. 💗

Your support helped us put on the event and raise vital funds for local Norfolk and Suffolk charities. We are incredibly grateful to local businesses like Sidegate Storage for getting behind our fundraising and helping make nights like this possible.

A huge thank you from everyone at Haven Rotary 2! 💛

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