Intergenerational Event – Belmont Academy

The Age without Limits Action Day, which took place on March 20th, was an event celebrated across the UK, its purpose was to contest the often adverse and stereotyped depiction of older individuals prevalent in our society. The theme for this year? SEE and BE ... More

Willie Stewart’s Christmas Quiz 2023

For many years now Willie Stewart’s Christmas Quiz (or “guessing game” as it should really be entitled) has become a tradition the week before Christmas. So on 19 December 2023, Willie took great delight inflicting his trivia on the company. A close contest resulted in a tie between president Bob Cherry and ... More

District Membership Team Meeting

Report by Hazel McCully On 9th December, our district membership lead Doug Forsyth, came to Ayrshire to give an inspirational talk about Rotary and membership. All 9 clubs from Ayrshire had representatives who attended. Was great to see all Rotarians come together. More

An Evening at the Balgarth

This week the club's business meeting was held at the Balgarth Pines for the first time. The twenty six members gathered appreciatively in the warm and welcoming atmosphere of the function room on what was a bitingly cold and frosty evening. The special general meeting and the follow-on business meeting was run efficien... More

Savio D’Souza on Sports Injuries

On 30 May 2023 Savio D’Souza, a Rotarian in the Barrhead Club, gave us an interesting talk on sports related injuries. Savio is a senior practitioner at a Glasgow clinic and was able to explain how many joints in the body function. He had various models of the knee, hip, shoulder and foot to help demonstrate what happens ... More

Willie Stewart’s Xmas Quiz 2022

It’s that time of year again and it couldn’t be avoided! Willie Stewart’s traditional Christmas Quiz (or “guessing game” as it should really be titled) was as fiendishly difficult as ever and it was evident in his introduction that he took a malevolent delight in inflicting this annual mental torture once ... More

New Paltz Rotary Club, USA

One of Ayr Rotary's new members who has just returned to Ayr after a number of years in USA, helped organise this exciting Zoom meeting on Tuesday evening when we linked up with New Paltz Rotary Club, in the US town of New Paltz, which is about 80 miles north of NYC. In excess of 40 members from both clubs engaged in an ... More

Ian McAnulla on Political Cartoons

Ian McAnulla was the guest speaker at Ayr Rotary Club last Tuesday. Ian’s speciality is political cartoons and using many slide examples he showed his interested and inquisitive audience the hidden meanings behind popular and cleverly framed drawings. He explained that more than just the lampooning of characters, the ... More

Festive Fun at Ayr Rotary

Despite, or perhaps because of, the current Covid crisis Ayr Rotary members turned up in good numbers to take part in Willie Stewart’s traditional Christmas quiz. Unfortunately for them Willie had not let the pandemic moderate his fiendish determination to embarrass his victims and his questions were as brain-teasing as ... More

New Rotary Year, New President

At Ayr Rotary's AGM, on Tuesday 23rd June, President Ieuan handed over the chains of office to new President Ian Alexander. All this occured with the benefit and magic of a Zoom meeting. Ian thanked Ieuan for all his hard work and involvement in many projects throughout the year. He stressed the need to focus ... More