Rotary’s campaign to rid the world of the debilitating disease polio reached another milestone last year when the World Health Organisation certified Africa as wild-polio free. Rotary clubs and volunteers around the world have fundraised, campaigned and worked tirelessly for…

While the Government’s coronavirus road map is still in place we are holding meetings by video-conferencing on Zoom only. Break-out sessions, where groups of four or five members are placed in ‘rooms,’ are proving popular as they enhance the social…

In the year that the RRS Sir David Attenborough, the new British-built floating laboratory, will head south to serve the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) it was apt that we should have the BAS’s director, Professor Dame Jane Francis, as a…

Club President John Murray lays a wreath on behalf of the club at the town’s war memorial on Remembrance Sunday.

John Murray is our new club president. He has lived in Harpenden since 2001 when, after a career including spells in the oil industry and running his own business, he was appointed chief executive of the Society of Maritime Industries.…

Lottie Apsey (inset) used a host of photos to illustrate her Zoomed talk on her experiences in Malaysia. The former St George’s School student deferred her degree course to spend eight months as a volunteer, teaching conversational English to senior…

Phil Godfrey, a Rotarian from Solihull, spoke to the club about his 42,000-mile  train journey round the British Isles to raise funds for research into a rare disease, antiphospholipid syndrome (APS). Having been in a senior position with the railways…

Club member David Rankin, speaking at the Rotary District Conference on February 29 about the Village Club members’ involvement with The Prince’s Trust. David explained that our club members, having a long history of providing annual ‘mock interviews’ for 70…

Susan Fairbairn spoke to the club about the varied and distinguished career of her father, Lord Hill of Luton. Born Charles Hill, in London, he lived most of his life in Harpenden where he fathered five children. He trained as…

Clear dishes and smiling faces say it all. Club members with their spouses and partners had just enjoyed a splendid dinner, prepared by trainee chefs at Oaklands College’s Stables Restaurant in St Albans. The menu included duck liver parfait, seafood…