Rotary Club of Shetland

District 1010 - Scotland North - Club No. 1164

The Rotary Club of Shetland was chartered in 1972. During the first twenty-five years of its existence fund-raising for local and national charities was relentless and a conservative estimate is that the Club raised a sum in excess of £100,000 between 1972 and 1997. Donations included £3,200 to Polio Plus, Red Cross House in Aberdeen £10,000, Shetland MacMillan Nurse Appeal £10,000, the Lerwick Lifeboat Appeal £4,000, and Cancer Link Aberdeen and North (CLAN) £10,500.

Club membership is 29 and members continue to maintain the Object of Rotary, "To encourage and foster the ideal of service as a basis of worthy enterprise".

As well as fund-raising members are committed to helping the less able in the community with weekly car runs, Christmas parcels and by providing daily newspapers for the pensioners rest room.

The Rotary Club of Shetland
President 2002/03 Gordon Reid, members and guests.