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The Rotary Club of Colchester Centurion District 1240 |
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Founded in 1905 by Paul Harris in Chicago, the name 'Rotary' was derived from the early practice of rotating meetings among members' offices. And has developed into a worldwide organisation with over 1,000,000 members. Rotary International in Great Britain and Ireland(RIBI) with its own constitution, is a territorial unit of Rotary International, the association of Rotary Clubs worldwide. It administers 29 Rotary districts in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. There are some 1,823 clubs within these districts with a total of 60,986 Rotarians. The Rotary ideal of fellowship is exemplified by the fact that a single Rotary district covers the whole of Ireland. This district, with its single organisation is a working model of the Rotary spirit in action More than £15 million was raised by Rotarians in the Great Britain and Ireland for charitable causes, in addition to Rotarians' time in support of community projects at a local, national and international level in 1999 | |
