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Five members of our friends at Prestwick Rotary Club came along to our meeting this week to inform and amuse us with their “nostalgia cases”. This brilliant idea was the brainchild of the Prestwick club as a means of stimulating memories of the past in the minds of local care home residents. The term “nostalgia” […]

Ayr Rotary organised a visit to the Heritage Centre in Cumncck on 26 July 2024. Following a recent visit to the Club by Jim Smith, explaining how he had restored a Victorian steam fire engine, several members expressed an interest in visiting the Centre. And what a revelation! The place is packed full of vintage […]

David Booth is founder and trustee of Harbour Ayrshire, a registered charity providing ‘shelter from the storm of addiction’ and dedicated to helping individuals recover from drug and alcohol dependency and its terrible, associated affects. David delivered a short but well-crafted presentation in a succinct and easy manner to his attentive audience. His commitment to […]

Our guest speaker this week was Alasdair Meldrum, a former Ayr Rotary member, managing director of Albion Environmental Ltd and a member of the Chartered Institute of Waste Management. He gave a very interesting talk covering many aspects of waste from how we use (or misuse) our wheely bins to the control (or lack of) […]

“The hill roads of South Carrick make up the ultimate road cyclist’s playground. Popularly referred to as ‘the Ayrshire Alps’, the landscape offers fantastic scenery, cycle friendly roads, and a tough cycling challenge. This exciting new sportive launched with great success in 2022, with a choice of the long 80 mile route with 2170m climb, […]

Brian Hignett was recently inducted as the newest member of the Rotary Club of Ayr. Brian is a retired veterinary surgeon, who spent most of his working life doing farm work in Devon. Brian was born in Kent, but his family moved to Glasgow when he was four years old, he went to school at […]

This week the club welcomed Jim Smith, retired fireman from Cumnock and the man behind the project to restore an original, Welbeck, steam-driven fire engine which had lain, almost forgotten, in bits in an Edinburgh basement. That was where Jim accepted the gift offer and the challenge of acquiring and restoring the engine to its […]

Lesslie joined Epilepsy Scotland’s training department in 2006 and was appointed Chief Executive in January 2009. Her passion for improving the life of people with epilepsy comes from personal experience. She has a daughter who has epilepsy and learning disabilities so she knows how a diagnosis of epilepsy impacts the person, their family and the […]

  The return of our guest speaker George Ballinger, to present his talk on the Design and Construction of the Kelpies, a sequel to his previous talk in February on the Millennium link canals and the Falkirk wheel. George is a Chartered Structural Engineer, having graduated from Strathclyde University in Structural Engineering, and then worked […]

Our annual Ayr Rotary Charity Golf Day was a huge success thanks to the generosity of the local businesses and individuals who played. We have disbursed the funds to two fantastic groups – the Crosshouse Children’s Fund and the Ayrshire Coastal Path. That still leaves money in the kitty to be given to other deserving […]