Kids Aloud 2025
Put a several hundred kids from six local primary schools onto the stage of Harrogate’s magnificent Royal Hall, give them songs to sing from over a century of musicals and what do you have? The latest production in a long…
Graham Chilvers
St Michael’s Hospice
It’s a basic fact that we all die. How we die is another matter. Richard Cyster, a volunteer at St Michael’s Hospice in Harrogate talked to us about St Michael’s, established in 1987, and about the hospice movement generally. We…
Harrogate Brigantes Website
If you’re reading this – and we hope you are – well done! You’ve logged onto our new website. We hope you like it and that it gives you all you want to find out about Brigantes Rotary. It was…
Harrogate Hospital Radio – A Talk by Bernard Mageean
Bernard Mageean is Chairman of Harrogate Hospital Radio. Founded in 1977 in the days of vinyl and turntables, it now has 50 members and 30 presenters, broadcasts on 95.3m FM, is regulated by Ofcom and is a registered charity. It’s…
Introduction to ‘Knaresborough Revolutionaries’
Kit Lacey, Revolutionary Knaresborough Rotary Club had a great idea. They found some young businesspeople in the town who wanted to find a really good social project and run with it. Kit Lacey told us about the new group, the…
Rotary and the 2004 Tsunami
Rotary is a worldwide organisation but you don’t necessarily appreciate what that means until you see it in action. Brian Souter from Knaresborough Rotary Club spoke to us about how, after the devastation of the 2004 tsunami, Rotary rolled up…
KIDS ALOUD 2025 – “MUSICAL MAGIC”
Rehearsals are now well under way in local primary schools for the next Kids Aloud production, Musical Magic, which takes place at Harrogate’s Royal Hall on 1 March. The show features some of the highlights of musical theatre over almost…
North Star – A Membership Project
Susan Rogers came to talk to us about North Star, a Rotary membership expansion project which started last year. It’s no secret that, although some Rotary clubs continue to thrive, others are facing a decline in membership and North Star…
Brigantes Book Club in Festive Mood
Shakespeare’s Local November’s Book Club was in festive mood with Christmas hats, crackers and bad jokes. We were chatting about ‘Shakespeare’s Local’ in which beer writer extraordinaire Pete Brown describes the George inn in Southwark. Never mind about the fact…
Brigantes Rotary Officers Elected for 2025-26
At a Special General Meeting at the Crown Hotel on 26th November the following were elected for the Rotary year beginning on 1st July 2025 President Diane Stokes President Elect Les Ellington Treasurer Mike Hammond Club Secretary Bill O’Rourke Minutes…