Fields of Life

President Gary, Richard Spratt, Helen Coulter and PP Liam McCartney

The Rotary Club of Lisburn President Gary Corkin presented a cheque for £2000 to Richard Spratt CEO of Fields of Life at theClubs  lunch meeting on the 18tho f March. The money will go towards the provision of clean water in Uganda.Also in the picture is Club Treasurer Helen Coulter who intend to climb mount Kilimanjaro as part of a Fields Of Life Group.

Presentation of Cheque to Cancer fund for Children

Over the last few years the club has pledged support for the Cancer Fund For Children. At a Club meeting in February 2016 a further Cheque for £7555 was presented to the Representative of the Fund by President Gary accompanied by some Club members

Tudor Cinema Night

Members after the movie at the Tudor Cinema

Over the years Club members have enjoyed an evening at the cinema in the small and atmospheric Tudor cinema in Comber. On Monday 21st march after a pleasant meal in Comber members again enjoyed a social evening at the movies.

Speakers March 16

Johnny Simpson

One of our newer members Johnny Simpson who  works in Financial Service gave us a my job talk on Friday 11th March

On Friday 18th March Richard Darrah introduced Dr Paul McConnell of Fusion Theatre Group as the guest speaker.Paul told us how the group had started with a small group of young people interested in drama and how it had grown.He listed the many productions including the latest,Whistle down the Wind which the group had put on mostly in the Lisburn Civic Centre

Dr Paul McConnell/Fusion Theatre

Dr Paul McConnell/ Fusion Theatre

Austin Treacy Governor of Hydebank, Speaker at 19th February Meeting

An Evening with Ruan Pienaar and Robbie Diack

There are a few places still available for what promises to be an excellent event organised by Richard Darrah and the  International Committee at Belfast Harlequins, Deramore Park Clubhouse. Tickets £35 per head

Ulster’s South African Rugby Stars Ruan Pienaar and Robbie Diack will talk about moving to Ulster from South Africa and their experiences of Life and Rugby in South africa and  Ulster.

After a welcoming drink a two course fork Supper will be served accompanied by musical entertainment by the Lagan Sea Horses.

Following this Alan McKelvey (Volunteer Director of Masicorp) will interview Ruan and Robbie.

All funds raised will go to Masicorp  a charity which works with the township of Masiphumelele in the Westsern Cape.

We encourage any members who have not already signed up for this event to support it if possible. At present we have approx 110 tickets sold and have a limit of 130

Evening Meeting Thursday 7th April

The Road to Mandalay

Our next Thursday evening meeting will be on Thursday 7th April and I have invited Dennis and Jill Wilson from Glenavy to come as our speakers.

Some of our members may know them – they have made a number of quite amazing long trips in various cars that they have access to.They have an old Rolls Royce which they drove from Paris to Peking – yes Paris to Peking !

Their most recent trip was  from Raffles’ Hotel, Singapore into Burma and the title of their slide show and presentation is “The Road To Mandelay.”

You can imagine these are no ordinary journeys and would encourage members  to come along on Thursday evening 7th April, I don’t think they will be disappointed.

The President would be delighted if members  were to bring a guest to this Rotary evening meeting.