About Our Club

About our Club.

Chartered in the year following the opening by our late majesty, Queen Elizabeth II, of the town square named after her, our Club has for 42 years served the Community in South Woodham Ferrers and environs.

Benefitting from its location, sited between two creeks on its East and West and the River Crouch to the South, the Town and Parish has expanded to a population of some 18000, over the years. And during this period our Rotary Club has been active, working to help the local community; charities; organisations and schools through its fundraising and other activities. 

Our Club is part a Rotary worldwide organisation which helps anyone who may need it, irrespective of religion, ethnicity or politics. We are like minded men and women who do what we can to make a difference and do so with fun and fellowship.

If you are interested in finding out more about Rotary please use the “Contact us” link on this site or telephone our Secretary Roger on 07956 002709 or our President, Derek on 07867 513792. We are a friendly bunch and would like to welcome you to The Lodge at Rettendon, Hayes Chase, Burnham Road, Battlesbridge, Wickford, SS11 7QT  where we meet up to three Tuesday evenings, according to our calendar.

The Club intends to be able continue to make donations, as we have in the past year, to charities and  worthy causes in our community. Our year generally involves major fund raising and community focused events, such as the Christmas Sleigh and the Swimarathon. And, to mention a few other activities on our agenda, we set up our Trees of Joy, providing books and toys for children who have little to look forward to at Xmas; help at the Town Xmas Fayre and provide service to the community generally, for example Benches for community use; planting in the Town Square; planting in Compass gardens and supporting RotaKids Clubs established recently of which we are very proud.

Looking further afield, as part of a worldwide organisation, we have responded to disaster situations which seem to occur, far too frequently and will do so again as the necessity arises. 

Please consider finding out more about us. We appreciate that the pressure of present day living impacts on us all and upon membership of clubs generally. Therefore, we have a number of categories of membership of our Club and have recently introduced a category "Friends of Rotary" for those men and women of our community who can not give regular commitment but would consider occasionally helping at a Rotary event.