The 2025 Rotary Technology Tournament, organised by Bob Tunnicliffe from Harrogate Brigantes, attracted 34 teams from local secondary schools. Students hard at work producing their machines They battled it out to see who could successfully construct a machine which would…
Nell Bank Centre near Ilkley was the setting for a Showcase Event on 5th March attended by Stephanie Urchick, the Rotary International President – the top Rotary officer. This was one of four UK events she was attending in this…
Brigantes member Moya Prichard was our castaway this time, prompted by Guy Wilson standing in For Lauren Laverne who was unavailable. Moya took us through her eventful life thus far, taking in marriage to Keith, living in Wiltshire and Jersey…
A diver working on the wreck of the Gribshunden Forget the Mary Rose and the Titanic. Now there’s the Gribshunden and it lies in shallow waters just off the southern coast of Sweden. It was a sort of floating palace…
Children of Funzi and Bodo –Photo courtesy of the Funzibodo Trust It’s not the name of a new boy band but a combination of Funzi and Bodo, two islands in Kenya. Ashley Peatfield told us the story of how a…
The Picture depicts our critics about to demolish their coattage pie The Falcon of Sparta by Conn Iggulden This was our February Book Club book, a historical yarn from antiquity about Greek and Persian armies slugging it out in the…
Put a several hundred kids from six local primary schools onto the stage of Harrogate’s magnificent Royal Hall, give them songs to sing from over a century of musicals and what do you have? The latest production in a long…
It’s a basic fact that we all die. How we die is another matter. Richard Cyster, a volunteer at St Michael’s Hospice in Harrogate talked to us about St Michael’s, established in 1987, and about the hospice movement generally. We…
If you’re reading this – and we hope you are – well done! You’ve logged onto our new website. We hope you like it and that it gives you all you want to find out about Brigantes Rotary. It was…
Bernard Mageean is Chairman of Harrogate Hospital Radio. Founded in 1977 in the days of vinyl and turntables, it now has 50 members and 30 presenters, broadcasts on 95.3m FM, is regulated by Ofcom and is a registered charity. It’s…