This years Charter Dinner under President Marion was very much enjoyed by all. A lovely three course dinner followed by 3 speakers.
Clive from the RNLI explained to us that the money raised by us this year was going to training new lifeguards;
Liz Holliday told us a a brief history of St Peter’s School where today 96% have English as a second language. The school appreciated the partnership with Rotary who help with reading and sit on the Board of Govenors;
Dr Peter Slee, Vice Chancellor of Leeds Beckett University gave a very amusing talk and highlighted ‘What the University does for us’. He said the University community was lage and complex and was in the top 20 of the Country’s Universities in size and scale. It generates 1million pounds for the local community and is considered a local University where 2/3rd of the students live in Leeds, the fastest growing city in the country. HE went on to say that although they did not have the depth of research that Leeds Univercity have they had done work on Social Care and Dementia, Obesity, Brain Injury and making housing more adaptable to climate change.
