Why join Rotary?
(The persuasive part)

The Opportunity to Serve
Friendship & Fun
Entertainment and Sporting Activities
Business Development
Citizenship and Leadership
Continuing Education
Public Speaking Skills
Vocational Skills
Cultural Awareness
Community Service
Supporting Local and National Charities
Prestige and Standing in the Community

Friendship
The Rotary Club of Brentwood à Becket has nearly forty active members from all walks of life.  We encourage and foster as many younger members as we can, but this is not always possible due to the commitments of life.  However, age does not preclude any person from being an active Rotarian, and many of our members have been drawn from other service clubs such as Round Table, 41 Club, Rotaract and Rotaserve.  Whilst our doors are open to both male and female members we also have a thriving Inner Wheel club for wives and female partners to enjoy.

Entertainment
We have a programme of events each year for the enjoyment of the members and their families.  An invitation at some of our weekly meetings during the year is extended to our wives, husbands or partners to join us.  We have a speaker at most meetings, where the subject matter normally generates much interest and discussion.
Many trips out are arranged, such as visits to London landmarks, or theatre outings together with vocational visits to places of work. Also popular are the annual pilgrimages to Romford Dogs and Newmarket races!  Day trips to gardens, stately homes and places of interest generate much fellowship amongst the members, all of these activities helping to cement the bond of friendship that comes from being a Rotarian.

Sporting Activities
We have our own sporting programme, where members regularly play against each other at pool, snooker, darts, cribbage, tenpin bowling, petanque, tennis, table tennis, bowls and any other event that does not require too much energy!  We have sixteen golfers in the club, and that is obviously very popular.  We also become involved in competitive sport against other Rotary clubs, which allows us to meet even more like-minded people, all with one aim..

 Enjoy the fellowship that Rotary brings
Service above Self

What is Rotary?
(The serious stuff!)

 A Service Organization
Rotary is a global network of community volunteers.
Some 31,000 Rotary clubs in more than 165 countries carry out service projects in their local communities and abroad, to address critical issues such as poverty, health, hunger, illiteracy and the environment.
Rotary clubs participate in a broad range of humanitarian, intercultural and educational activities around the world.  Grants from the Rotary Foundation support club projects that provide health care and medical supplies, clean water, food and clothing, job training, youth development,  and education to millions of people in need, particularly in the developing world.
Rotary builds understanding through international scholarships, exchange programmes and humanitarian grants.  Rotary funds young professionals to explore their career fields in other countries, and allows students to study abroad to further their education.

Polio Eradication
PolioPlus was launched in 1985, an ambitious programme to immunize the world’s children against polio.  As a result, polio cases have dropped 99% and the world stands on the threshold of eradicating the disease.  Rotary has provided around half a billion US dollars and countless hands-on hours to this critical effort. 
We are almost there......

Community Service
The raising of money is only the beginning.  We then have to spend it wisely on local, national and international charities.  From the Essex Air Ambulance to the Guide Dogs for the Blind through to sponsoring our own hospice in Kenya.
We actively get involved in hands-on service. ‘Kids Out’ is where we take underprivileged children to the seaside for the day.  ‘Crucial Crew’ is a programme where up to five hundred local school children come together to learn all about avoiding the pitfalls of life.  We look after the elderly as well, by giving a group from a local home a slap-up lunch and a day out.

Youth Activities

One of our main projects each year is organising the local and area ‘Youth Speaks’.  This is a public speaking competition for local school students of all ages, and is very popular as it gives all who take part the confidence they might require for the future.