Rotary Club

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Good sound economics there, very sensible, but I bet they couldn't or wouldn't see it. They enjoy their lunches/trips abroad too much

Boys and clubs,

Ego Polishing perhaps

Well I only stayed in rotary for a few months. It operated on a very male business man model of lunching once a week in a local hotel with what felt like school dinners - price £10 per head. 40 men and a few women sat down to this weekly =£400 or £1600 per month and then agonised how to raise £200 for the local kids annual outing to a theme park. I pointed out the unsound economics of this and suggested as we are all overfed anyway that coffee and biscuits might be cheaper (£2) and the spare money (£8 per head per week) could go in the fund- fundraising done. I left soon after.

I seem to remember a friend telling me - he was a Rotarian, and this was some time ago - that most Rotarian are local business men, and there is a sort of vetting system, I think with all the really good work they do in the community, then there has to be something like that. I would assume that most clubs have their 'cliques' like minds will always mix with like minds, it is just a question of, if you join, take things slowly, although I do know it is quite an expensive hobby. They do give a lot of their time to the community, certainly where we lived in the past and where we are now.

DBH was invited to join, he went along a couple of times and said we would need to take out a second mortgage!

Our friend is the local President - it does seem to involve a lot of visits abroad, eating, entertaining etc

You need to talk to Ariadne, she's a Rotary person, perhaps you could send her a PM?

I'm not a member myself but I have heard our local branch have a bit of a clique going on.
They do do some brilliant work though.

Interesting that you have mixed feelings....
I really wanted to join and gave my contact details to a member who said there was a vetting process. I did feel there was a bit of a 'clique' going ...So far have heard nothing. Either my details were lost or the preliminary vetting meant 'no'!