The Harrogate Story
West Park United Reform Church, on the corner of Victoria Avenue and West Park in Harrogate was opened in 1862. It catered for a congregation of 700. Three years ago, with barely 30 worshipping there, it was in a bad…
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Off the Beaten Track in South-East Asia
Fresh back from six months in South-East Asia, Rotarian and professional photographer Charlotte Gale engaged Brigantes members with an interactive insight into her travels, local culture, traditions, history and the amazing APOPO land mine rats. Charlotte spent four of her…
Desert Island Discs of a Brigantes Member
Brigantes member Moya Prichard was our castaway this time, prompted by Guy Wilson standing in For Lauren Laverne who was unavailable. Moya took us through her eventful life thus far, taking in marriage to Keith, living in Wiltshire and Jersey…
Gribshunden – A Sunken Palace ?
A diver working on the wreck of the Gribshunden Forget the Mary Rose and the Titanic. Now there’s the Gribshunden and it lies in shallow waters just off the southern coast of Sweden. It was a sort of floating palace…
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…
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…