Ayr Rotary Club 2023 Annual Charity Golf Day at Belleisle

A shotgun start at 9.30am on Friday 5th May saw eighteen teams tee-off to compete in the Ayr Rotary Club Annual Charity Golf Day at Belleisle Park. This event is the main fund-raiser in the club’s calendar, and raised an amazing £9400 for local charities. The principal beneficiaries this year are the local ... More

Thanks to our Sponsors!

The Ayr Rotary Charity Golf Day is on Friday 5 May 2023 at Belleisle Golf Course We could not run this day without the generosity of our sponsors. A huge thanks to them all. Main Sponsor: M L Williams, Funeral Directors   Stewart Travel                                   Â... More

Ayr Rotary Golf Charity Day

Our annual Charity Golf Day is on Friday 5 May 2023 at Belleisle Golf Course. This year our main beneficiaries are The Salvation Army Food Bank and The Gaiety Youth Theatre The Salvation Army Food Bank is a Christian Charity helping people who are struggling to feed themselves and their families. Demand for the ... More

Jewel Charity Curling Bonspiel

Ayr Rotarians travelled to Perth on 15 March 2023, to compete in the Rotary Jewel Charity Bonspiel. We were able to field two rinks, thanks to Alistair Tyre (ex Ayr, now North Berwick) joining us. The day is about Rotary friendship and rasing money for the Matt Murdoch Foundation, which was set up in 2014 to commemorate ... More

Tree of Remembrance 2022

We are back! After the success of our first Tree of Remembrance last year, our Rotary Tree is back at The Fishcross, opposite Marks & Spencer in Ayr High Street. This is your opportunity to post a short message about a loved one, on a label, which we tie to the tree. We ask for a small donation, all proceeds go ... More

Alasdair Meldrum Rides the Dragon’s Back – 18 Oct ‘22

The Dragon’s Back is 6-day multi-stage mountain race over 240miles with a total 57,000ft of ascent. Our own iron-man, Alasdair Meldrum, went off on a wee adventure at 6am on 5th September to run, jog, walk, crawl and cry down the spine of Wales from Conwy Castle to Cardiff Castle. He was doing this as part of the ... More

First Ayrshire Alps Cycling Challenge

Ayr Rotary Club’s major Autumn fundraising event was the Ayrshire Alps Challenge held on Saturday 8th October in partnership with Malawi Fruits, a Scottish charity which provides start up finance, training and support to agricultural enterprises; encouraging smallholding farmers to see their farms as businesses. ... More

Ayr Walks for Water – 8 May 2022

On Sunday 8th May the charity walk in aid of Aquabox took place along the promenade on Ayr sea front. The weather could not have been better as the sun shone for the whole of the event. A lot of hard work and effort by the organising committee took place before the event and we were well supported by South Ayrshire ... More

Charity Golf Day – 6 May 2022

After missing out for two years, owing to the pandemic, we held our Annual Charity Golf Day at Belleisle on Friday 6 May 2022. And what a day! Fortified by their bacon rolls and coffee, the teams made their way to their starting hole in pouring rain. It did ease off before the end of the round, but despite the weather, ... More

Remembrance Tree a Fund-Raising Success

The dust has now settled after a hectic few weeks for Jim Nelson and his Ayr Rotary Club team. With the go-ahead being given in November, there was a great deal to be done, in readiness for the opening day on 10 December 2021. South Ayrshire Council were very supportive, giving a grant to cover setup costs, and ... More