Press items
written by Rtn Phil Roser PHF
LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCE FOR YOUNGSTERS
A large audience recently enjoyed an evening feedback talk from Josh Proud and Jacob Heys, who in July completed a challenging week of leadership and character-building activities, sponsored annually by the Rotary Clubs of Northallerton and Northallerton Mowbray for...
SALUTE TO ARMY ENGINEERS
The Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (REME) at Catterick Garrison have recently received an award for hosting an annual technology competition for local schools. For the last 7 years, 1 Close Support Battalion REME have provided a hangar in their barracks...
STAND-IN SERVICE FOR THE COFFEE POT
Each week on Wednesday and Saturday mornings the Methodist Church in Northallerton opens its hall as a café called the Coffee Pot. During August they generously offer charitable organisations the chance to run the Coffee Pot for the benefit of their charity....
CHANGE AT THE TOP OF NORTHALLERTON ROTARY CLUB
After a highly successful year as the first lady President of the Rotary Club of Northallerton, Emma Biggs hands over today to David Ison. During her year in office, Emma has devoted great energy and commitment to her role, initiating several innovative ideas for...
FRIARAGE BENCH COMMEMORATES LOCAL DOCTOR
A well-known and respected local doctor has been remembered with a hand-crafted wooden bench placed in the garden inside the Friarage Hospital in Northallerton. The garden is on the ground floor off the main corridor opposite the Friends of the Friarage shop, and...
CHARITY SPRING FAIR
Seven charities including Friends of the Friarage, Pendragon Community Trust, Applegarth Community Garden, Northallerton and District ME Support Group, Northallerton Men's' Shed, CRUTCH, and Northallerton Rotary Club bric-a-brac will offer stalls in a charity Spring...
BEER MAN HOPS INTO ROTARY
A fascinating new member has joined the Rotary Club of Northallerton. Ian Isherwood, the son of a farming family, worked as an agronomist in North Yorkshire, advising farmers on methods to increase crop yield. He later became a grain trader in Lincolnshire, before...
ROTARY CLUB HELPS LAUNCH FRIARAGE HOSPITAL FUNDING APPEAL
At a highly informative launch evening for a funding appeal to create new eye surgery provision at the Friarage Hospital, reported in last Friday's Darlington & Stockton Times, President Emma Biggs of the Rotary Club of Northallerton presented a cheque for £1,100...