Welcome to our club web-site and thank you for visiting our web site.

I wish you a very warm welcome to Hereford Wye Valley Rotary Club.

Thank-you for taking the trouble to find us. Our Club was chartered in 1981 and several of our founder members still take an active part. As at July 1, 2010 we have 34 members with ages, ranging from late thirties to early eighties. Although we are currently all men, we have no restriction on gender and would be very pleased to welcome new members of whatever sex or age.

As for our vocations, although a number of members are now retired, I work in insurance, we have two dentists, two farmers, two college lecturers, an architect, a builder, a land agent, a foot care practitioner, a solicitor, a systems auditor, a defence industry contractor and a storage business proprietor and we're always on the lookout for members with new vocations.

We try to provide a balanced mix of good works and good social interaction. We are organised into three committees.

Community, Vocational and Youth deals with requests from local organisations for help (during the last year this has ranged from physical help in building a communal garden, to providing cash donations to several organisations, to providing days out for disadvantaged children, to collecting donations of food items at a local superstore for distribution at christmas to deserving causes, to sending older children on leadership courses, to sponsoring youth public speaking competitions).

International and Foundation deals with help to third world countries and works towards greater international understanding (last year we raised a considerable amount towards the Rotary Polio Eradication campaign, in which Rotary International is supported by the Gates Foundation. We also supported individual projects both in Africa and India - a hospital and a school respectively - we hosted a group of Rotarians from our sister club in Dillenburg, Germany and we return there in September 2010, a group of us visited Buenos Aires on a Rotary Friendship Exchange visit - they will return to us in the summer of next year. We support the Rotary Group Study Exchange programme, where young professional people are given the chance to spend a month abroad, studying the lifestyle and culture of other countries - with that country sending a team back the following year to our district - this year's team will go to The Sri Lanka).

Club Service and Membership picks up all other areas of Rotary membership. It is responsible for ensuring we have an interesting programme of speakers and events, for ensuring we have a reasonable balance which is enjoyable to everyone, that new members are welcomed and looked after, that our arrangements for meals etc are to everyone's taste - and they do their best to keep me in line as President!

The clubs meets at the Hedley Lodge guest house at Belmont Abbey most Monday evenings (7.00pm for 7.30pm). Occasionally we make outside visits, so do check with us first as to our whereabouts on a particular evening. You are welcome to contact my mobile at any time 07802 726856 if you'd like more information.

Do make contact - we'd love to hear from you, whether you have a project that you'd like support for or whether you are interested in joining us.

If you would like to find out what is involved in being a Rotarian and how you might become a member, then please contact us. Rotarians visiting our area from anywhere in the world are always welcome at our meetings.

Thank you for visiting our site.

Alan Hudson

President 2010-2011