“Tooting your horn”*

Welcome to the Rotary Club of Tooting web pages. Led by a young pharmacist, Ernest Skues, the Rotary Club of Tooting was chartered in 1930 with 24 members in the great recession – some 25 years after the formation of the world’s first Rotary Club in Chicago.

At that time local businessmen joined this fledgling movement to put back something into the local community in which they earned their livings. It became the sixth Rotary Club in the London Borough of Wandsworth.

Today it numbers business and professional men and women from all walks of life and all ethnic groups as members. Rotary Clubs exist in most countries of the world.

Our aims have broadened to offer help and support to people at home and abroad.

Tooting Rotary Club local projects over the years have included support for the elderly; for the disabled; for children in need; for the varied work of St George’s Hospital; for local schools; free blood pressure testing in the community, among many other local projects.

Internationally the Rotary Club has supported small and large projects which alleviate suffering at the time of International disasters, provision of clean drinking water, basic library facilities and provision of small fishing boats and livestock to replace those lost in such disasters as the Tsunami in 2004, Typhoon Sidr, Bangladesh in 2007 and the Haiti Earthquake in 2010.

As a member of Rotary International – the umbrella organisation comprising 1.2 million members in over 32000 clubs – the Tooting Rotary Club is proud to have helped fund the vaccine to rid the world of polio in the last 25 years. This work has been carried out by Rotarians worldwide through Rotary’s own charity, The Rotary Foundation.

* In American English “Tooting your horn” “translates” to “Blowing your own trumpet!” in British English.