Events

Rotarian Mark Colfer will make a presentation to the club.

Calcutta Rescue is a pioneering Indian-registered charity working to improve the lives of the poorest people in and around Kolkata. They provide free healthcare, education, vocational training, social support and sanitation so that families and whole communities have a chance to lift themselves out of poverty

Bristol Junior Chamber is a social networking group for young professionals in Bristol. Where like-minded people in Bristol can build confidence, develop new skills, and contribute to charitable and social causes in the city. They have been around for more than 75 years and proud to be a leading networking organisation for the Bristol business community, hosting a range of interesting, engaging and fun events throughout the year.

The Belshazzar's Feast Project in Bristol is a fundraising concert event scheduled for April 4, 2027, at the Bristol Beacon. The concert will feature the world premiere of two commissioned works by local composers, Tom Green and Liz Lane, and will support two charities: Help Musicians and the Bristol Music Trust. The event aims to raise significant funds for these charities, which provide support for professional musicians and promote music and the arts in the region.We are gathering together a cast of around 300 amateur musicians to perform Belshazzar's Feast to raise a significant sum for our two wonderful charities, Help Musicians and the Bristol Music Trust.

There are no fees at all to participate in this project, but we invite you to make a voluntary donation to our charities. Currently, all donations go to Help Musicians as you can’t have more than one charity on a JustGiving page, but rest assured that a reconciliation will be made post the concert so each charity gets 50% of the amount raised by the project.

We really hope that you can be generous so that we can meet the £10,000 target from participants. We can meet this target with an average donation of £35.

Even if you are unable to sing or attend the performance on 4 April 2027 we would be delighted if you are able to make a donation to these charities via this JustGiving page and thank you in advance.

This morning we will enjoy a festive breakfast to celebrtae Christmas 2026. 

Over the next five years, Bristol City Leap will deliver nearly £500 million into low carbon energy infrastructure, such as solar, wind, heat networks, heat pumps and energy efficiency measures – all of which will help Bristol meet its carbon reduction targets of becoming carbon neutral by 2030.

Bristol City Leap has the potential to deliver a better quality of life for our residents and is a critical step in our city’s commitment to climate action. Components of the initiative include increasing the warmth and comfort of homes, improving air quality and creating over 1,000 local jobs.

Ujima Radio: More than just a radio station.

Since launching in 2008, Ujima has built an audience of 30,000 listeners daily on FM, with just over 800,000 live streams a month worldwide online reaching 169 countries including 10,000 live streams a day from USA and Hungary and the same again on our Listen Again service! Plus in 2023 we launched onto DAB. Ujima is volunteer led and run by a team of over 100volunteers. We have promoted and worked on cultural events including Bristol Harbour Festival, St Pauls Carnival, Bristol City Council, Watershed, SS Great Britain, Engine Shed, Bristol Sounds, Siren Festival, Love Saves The Day, Downs Festival and Pervasive Media and several other organisations including Bristol Beacon, St George’s Bristol and Arnolfini in the city from our Arts Council England investment.

Ujima Radio CIC is Bristol’s leading African & Caribbean arts and media social enterprise. Providing on-air community broadcasting. 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year.

They are a non-profit organisation supplying Bristol with local news, lively discussions across a range of topics, with art and music from Bristol, the Caribbean, Africa and the rest of the world.

• Broadcast on FM radio, DAB and online.
• Celebrate African and Caribbean cultures through music, projects and informative talk shows
• Provide career pathways into the radio, media and the arts
• Train, support and up skill volunteers
• Act as a consultant for community organisations and businesses
• Provide a platform for showcasing local and international artists
• Work in partnership with the business, public, media communities and academia including our investors UWE Bristol, Bristol City Council, Boomsatsuma, BSWN, African Voices Forum and University of Bristol sector to provide opportunities for collaboration.

Linda Greenland is inspirational. She has  raisied funds to start a school in Kenya, provide boreholes for clean water and dignity kits to young girls so they can handle their periods with dignity and so much more. She has made this her life's work. 

Hft began in 1962 with a belief that still guides them today: learning disabled people should be able to live their lives their way. This includes having opportunities to learn and develop their talents, with support that reflects who they are and what matters to them.

At the time, learning disabled people faced limited opportunities once they left school. A group of parents wanted a different future for their children and came together to establish The Home Farm Trust, now known as Hft.

Quarterly Business updates. 

Jonathan Aning is a Consultant Urological Surgeon at the Bristol Urological Institute (BUI) and a Honorary Professor of Urological Oncology at the University of Bristol.

He trained in Urology in the South West of England. 

After completing the Uro-oncology fellowship at the Department of Urological Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, he spent 4 years as a Consultant Urological Surgeon at the Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne (2014-2018). 

Jonathan was appointed to the Bristol Urological Institute (BUI), North Bristol NHS Trust in 2018. He specialises in the management of prostate and bladder cancer including robotic surgery and leads the uro-oncology research program at the BUI. 

Jonathan is passionate about improving patient outcomes and has active research interests across the patient pathway in prostate and bladder cancer. He is the present Chair of the Somerset, Wiltshire, Avon and Gloucestershire (SWAG) Urology Cancer Clinical Advisory Group, the Clinical Lead for Cancer Genomics Research for the South West Genomic Medicine Service Alliance and serves as a member of the European Association of Urology (EAU) Section of Oncological Urology Board. He has previously served as the chair of the British Association of Urology (BAUS) Section of Oncology.

Every year, The Rotary Foundation gives hundreds of millions of dollars in grants to Rotary Clubs throughout the world for humanitarian projects, vocational training and scholarships in Rotary’s cause areas.

Ranging from small-scale, short-term activities to large, international projects, Rotary grants strengthen global partnerships and provide sustainable and measurable benefits to communities.

Grants from The Rotary Foundation support thousands of projects every year.

Rotarian Anne-Marie will give a new member talk. 

Producer and director Justin Anderson has made programmes for the BBC, Discovery Channel and National Geographic television. He was a sequence director and assistant producer on the Emmy Award-winning first Planet Earth series where he achieved notoriety for spending 2 months working in a huge pile of bat guano! He was lucky enough to present an acclaimed radio documentary for BBC Radio 4, where he tracked arctic wolves across the frozen wastes of Canada. His work has led him on many varied adventures, from 10 days underground in Lechuguilla cave, to camping on a Nunatuk in an Arctic ice field. His first love is the mountains and for Planet Earth 2 he has travelled from Ladakh and Everest in the Himalaya, to the remote mountains of Peru.

About Super Swifts

Follow the swifts on their incredible journey north, from the jungles of Africa to their nesting site in Europe. A little bird, small enough to sit in the palm of your hand. Swifts may be small and brown, but they are the champions of the bird world – flying faster, higher and for longer than any other bird! This new title in the celebrated Nature Storybook series is packed with interesting facts to inspire a love of the natural world.