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Centenary diary 2015-2016

Forthcoming events celebrating the centenary year are listed on our website (click here to see them).

The Centenary Dinner will be held on 11 May 2016 [please note change from 12 May] which is almost 100 years to the day since the inaugural dinner at the Hotel Metropole on 25 May 1916.

Centenary diary:

*At a Friday Rotary Club of Leeds luncheon.

2015-12-04
Talk by Dr Raymond Newman entitled "Secondhand goods".*

2015-11-27
Visit by Rt Rev Nick Baines, first Bishop of the Diocese of West Yorkshire and the Dales.*


2015-11-13
Ten Nyakudarika on last summer's Rotary Youth Leadership Award course (Ten was sponsored by RC of Leeds).*

2015-11-02
Visit to Leeds Hindu Temple courtesy of Rtn Niranjan Vakharia - shared visit with Bradford West Rotary Club

2015-10-30
My job by David Repper, formerly managing director of James H Heal Ltd, specialists in the design and manufacture of textile testing laboratory instruments and test materials.*

2015-10-24
Free blood pressure checks event in the Merrion Centre

2015-10-23
Visit of Lord Mayor of Leeds, Councillor Judith Chapman & award of Paul Harris Fellowship to Anthony Norcliffe, musical director of Mill Hill Chapel.

2015-10-09
Talk by Kevin Grogan (RC of York & Chairman of District 1040 Membership Committee).*

2015-10-02
Dr Ian Laidlaw on renewable energy.*

2015-09-25
Lucy Fox on the Saxophone (Lucy - the recipient of a Leeds RC Anthony Cooke-Donald Webster scholarship - recently graduated from Leeds College of Music with a first class degree in classical music).* [Read a 2014 interview with Lucy]

2015-09-11
Speaker Judy Brown of District 9370 (South-eastern South Africa and Lesotho).*

2015-08-21
Visit of District Governor, Hazel Haas.*

2015-08-14
Speaker Michael Nice (operations director, St George's Crypt) on the work of St George's Crypt.* 

2015-08-07
Speaker Dr Michael Green on the fine art of murder.*

2015-08-04
Charity concert of organ music played by Anthony Norcliffe at Mill Hill Chapel, Leeds.

2015-07-31
Speaker Lynn Rhodes-Holme (co-ordinator for Candelighters & Stroke Awareness) on the work of the Candelighters Trust.*


2015-07-18
Annual bowls tournament at Grassington followed by a meal at the Gamekeeper's Inn, Long Ashes Estate. (In aid of Candlelighters)

2015-07-17
Speaker Ken Robertshaw on his canoe trip down the Mississippi on behalf of the Theodora Children's Trust.*

2015-07-15
Installation of Keith Harbage as President for Rotary Club of Leeds' centenary year.*