Welcome to East Sutherland Rotary Club 1694

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We are delighted to welcome you to our club website. 

As one of the 88 Clubs in Rotary District 1010 - North Scotland, we are actively involved in local, regional and international projects.  We offer organisations physical and financial assistance - whichever is most needed and deemed appropriate. In many occasions we will offer both if we can.  Our members are committed to our local area and help and support many groups and organisations in our own community.    

As a club we hope to use our skills and expertise to make a difference in our community by being TRUE in all that we do; being FAIR to everyone we deal with; offering GOODWILL and FRIENDSHIP and making sure that our actions are BENEFICIAL for everyone involved.

Our members are particularly fortunate to live in what is perhaps the most beautiful part of the UK here in the "Far North of Scotland" and we offer you a warm welcome to our web pages and true Highland Hospitality & Fellowship should you ever visit our club in Brora.

Sutherland is one of the largest counties in the UK and stretches from the North west coast to the Dornoch Firth, with dramatic coastline and miles of stunning beaches.

It has a population of just over 12,000 people and around 250,000 sheep!!

If you seek mountains, rivers, lochs and wilderness that are breathtaking,

 

If you seek castles, distilleries, museums & art galleries to savour,

If you seek wildlife; majestic red deer or golden eagles and osprey to admire,

If you seek true links golf courses that are unrivalled in their setting or design

 Or if salmon, trout or sea angling quicken your pulse then East Sutherland will provide you with all of these and so much more where the pace of life is just a smidgen less stressful.

No wonder East Sutherland has hosted the discerning visitor for centuries—the Picts, the Vikings, and it is even rumoured that the Romans called in and stayed long before Queen Victoria and the landed gentry of the 19th & 20th centuries made it their playground of choice, when Andrew Carnegie developed his hidden paradise at Skibo Castle and the Duke of Sutherland created the fairly tale Dunrobin Castle.

The East Sutherland Rotary Club is the only Rotary Club in the county and is an hour north of Inverness and an hour south of the Thurso Club; and it represents the coastal towns and villages of Bonar Bridge, Dornoch, Golspie, Brora and Helmsdale plus their hinterland.

These communities have a rich history,

Helmesdale and Golspie as important fishing ports

Bonar Bridge not just for its river crossing but for salmon fishing,

The Royal Burgh of Dornoch as a cathedral town and the county capital as well as having one of the top 10 golf courses in the world and silver sands that stretch for miles.

And Brora, once a busy harbour town with the most northerly coal mine in Europe and a world renowned woollen mill but now home to the much sought after Clynelish whisky. Brora also is home to many hotels and apartments which host the travelling golfers who have accepted 5 times Open Champion Peter Thomson's testimony that the Brora Course is one of the finest traditional links courses in the world.

The East Sutherland Rotary Club is coming of age being 21 years old in March 2010 and while it is a small (but we like to think a perfectly formed) club with 31 members and 3 honorary members it is busy, enthusiastic and occasionally a very successful wee club which is committed to Service Above Self and to supporting all the Rotary avenues of service.

But why tell you too much, when you know we are part of the larger family of Rotary the World Over and you can visit us at the Sutherland Inn in Brora at 6 for 6.30 any Wednesday and you can find out for yourself.

Visit us soon—in real time and in a real place not just on these virtual pages.

 

 

 

Graeme McLaughlin President       Alisdair Miller Vice President & club service chair

 

 William Sutherland Treasurer           Hugh Johnston attendance officer and speaker secretary

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fiona Risk - Youth Chair

Thanks to GF Sutherland, Tony Tracey, Ian Kennedy, Ken Crossen,  Iain Seargent, Clive Grewcock and Alistair Risk for use of photgraphs and editorial contributions - Copyrights reserved on all photographs.

 

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