New Rotary Mastermind Crowned

August 18th was the date of our annual Mastermind competition with question master Craig Wilson  adopting the John Humphrys role. The entire club competed in the first round with the three highest scorers in the final. After a tie-break question between equal scoring Euan Lawrence and Neil Beattie the former competed ... More

Croquet Masterclass from David Arnot

David Arnot, Chairman of Auchincruive Croquet Club, was the speaker on 11th August and provided a highly entertaining history of the game from its origins in the 1850's to the present day. Balls and Mallets were keenly examined by Rotarians as David explained the different variations of the game including Golf Croquet and ... More

Cracker of a presentation from Ruby

Our speaker on 28th July was Ruby Mooney ably assisted by her guide dog, a 2 year old black labrador named Cracker. She and Cracker have been a team for around 10 months and Ruby explained how guide dogs can assist in the day-to-day lives of visually impaired people. Ruby is a volunteer consultant with Guide Dogs ... More

Flower show stand a bloomin’ success!

Our stand won the Gold Medal! With the powered water wheel, Shelter Box tent and wonderful flower arrangements by Ros Stewart and May Steel, we attracted a lot of interest from the public, who gave generously to the Shelter Box Appeal.               ... More

Magic Performance At Caption Competition

As our speaker for 21st July cancelled at short notice the President and Secretary decided to unleash a caption competition on the club. The top table, which included Assistant District Governor Peter Noreiko of the Troon club, voted on the quality of wit on offer with the winning team being "The Magic 4" which ... More

District Governor Visit 14th July 2015

Our newly appointed District Governor Andy Lees of the Mid Argyll club paid a visit on Tuesday 14th July. The District Governor explained his plans for the forthcoming year encouraging all present to “be a gift to the world”. He also gave an interesting insight into his own background mentioning his time ... More

New President Takes Over & Rotarian of the Year Awarded

Douglas Haddow, last year's Rotarian of the year, has been elected to the President of Ayr Rotary. He said it was a great honour to lead the club for the forthcoming year and follow in the footsteps of many distinguished past Presidents who have demonstrated excellent community spirit. Douglas added it is his aim to ... More

Wine tasting for charity 16 June 2015

Ayr Rotary members love having fun, and the evening at Majestic Warehouse Ayr certainly provided that! A fantastic £340 was raised to support the flood victims in Malawi.  Not only did the boys from Majestic excel themselves with some excellent wines, including a well-priced champagne, but Jacqui Wilson and her ... More

Another Charity Golf Day Triumph

President Neil Beattie of the Rotary Club of Ayr presenting a cheque for £2500 to May Gilchrist of CLIC Sargent. The monies were the proceeds from our recently held charity golf day. More

Treasure Chest £200 goes to young violinist

Our monthly handout has gone to an up and coming violinist, Sophia Constantinou. Sophia is 13 years old, and has already achieved Grade 8. She attends the Royal Conservatoire in Glasgow,  and the money helped her with fees for the National Youth Orchestra of Scotland and the West of Scotland Schools symphony ... More