Programme

Dominic Brockes of St James Place Wealth Management, who generously sponsor our District Conference, will update us on the turbulent financial markets and tell us how to safeguard our investments.

Have your blood pressure checked helps to prevent strokes and other problems from high blood pressure.

Know Your Blood Pressure Day at the Spires Shopping Centre in Chipping Barnet is between 10am and 4pm on Saturday 14th April 2018.

Free Blood pressure checks done by medical professionals, will be offered to shoppers under the direction of Barnet Rotarian and GP Dr Ian Johnston.

If you are in Barnet on the Saturday the 14th, please find time to drop in during the day and have your blood pressure taken!

This was the twelfth year that the Stroke Association has joined with Rotary in Great Britain and Ireland for this event to have blood pressure checks made.

Peter Suchet from the Honeypot Childrens Charity, will speak about the Charity and give us some stories about his famous Brothers David and John.

Ian Green, the excellent Chief Executive of The Terrance Higgins Trust, will update us on the valuable anti AIDS work that the Charity is involved in.

The new  Mayor of the London Borough of Barnet will be talking to the Club about their upcoming year in office.

Guests welcome.

Local walking guide Paul Baker will be giving a talk on Barnet and its Royal connections.

Guests welcome.

Immediate Past District Governor Mike Hodge (now restored to us ) will speak about the very recent Rotary International Convention in Toronto, which he and RIBI President Debbie Hodge and 25,000 other Rotarians attended.

The Leader of Barnet Council Councillor Richard Cornelius (recently re-elected for a fourth year term) will tell us what he hopes to achieve in those four years. This is a rare opportunity to hear from and indeed question the Leader of the Council and to show him how Rotary is alive and well in the Borough of Barnet.

This weeks Club speaker will be Bidemi Alabi, who is a director at Barnet TV.

Rotarian George Ritchie, from The International Fellowship of Flying Rotarians (IFFR), will be talking to the Club about the groups  dedication to promoting Rotary and aviation as an opportunity for fellowship and service.