Brigantes and Covid Fund-raising efforts during the difficult months of the Covid crisis saw over £33,000 raised from members, their families and friends, and through innovative events such as a virtual climb of Everest and a virtual balloon race. These…
On Remembrance Sunday at one o’clock Harrogate Brigantes held their 26th annual Remembrance Service at the Commonwealth War Graves cemetery at Stonefall. There are over 1000 graves, most of them of young airmen, mostly volunteeers, who came from around the…
What a brilliant thing to be able to do! We’ve purchased a portable defibrillator for the regular Junior Park Run in the Valley Gardens. There were already a couple of defibrillators set up in the Valley Gardens but they used…
Harrogate Brigantes Rotary is pleased to announce that Youth Music, the national charity, funded from the National Lottery via Arts Council England that supports music making by young people, has awarded a grant of almost £6000 to the next Kids…
We all know about Harrogate District of Sanctuary. They’re the group to which we donated the money we raised at last year’s charity dinner. At the beginning of June John Hart from HDS came to speak to us and he…
You know when spring has really arrived: daffodils, lambs, bursting hedgerows, even an optimistic smudge of suntan cream. Our April walk had them all. The magnificent seven, including new signing David Hoskins and led by Graham and Jet, having squeezed…
7 March 2023 It was good to see the Technology Tournament back at St Aidan’s High School for its first post-Covid appearance. This time the school teams had to power a container from one side of a river to the…
On Friday 18 September David Hayes, the President of Harrogate Brigantes Rotary Club, stood on the summit of Everest (virtually). It was the culmination of the Club’s virtual expedition to the highest mountain in the world to raise money for…
Harrogate Brigantes Raise over £20,000 to support local charities and services during Covid Lockdown began, as we all know, on 23rd March 2020. Nationally we were in the midst of a crisis, almost something from the realms of SciFi, and…
This year Supporting Older People wanted to give all their members a Christmas gift to let them know they are thinking of them over the festive period. They needed 260 Christmas gifts, so they sent out an appeal for funding…