Welcome to our website - from President Pat Crowfoot 
IMPORTANT BUT SAD BREAKING NEWS!
Windermere Air Festival 2012 cancelled due to economic climate
The Windermere Air Festival 2012 has been cancelled due to the current economic climate, lack of sponsorship and grant funding that was previously available to it and in addition, due to Olympic related events, which will take place in Bowness-on-Windermere next year.
Bluestone Events will no longer run the event, having helped organise it in 2010 and been 100% responsible for its delivery in 2011. The Windermere Air Festival was run for the first time as a commercial entity in 2011. Although this year's event was hailed as a success, with ongoing uncertainty in the economy, the event's funding sources have been squeezed even further, with the probability that if it were to go ahead next year, organisers could face a substantial loss and/or be forced to pass on higher costs to Festival visitors.
Kate Thomas of Bluestone Events, said: It is with regret that Bluestone Events has been forced to withdraw from the Windermere Air Festival but the prevailing economic climate has made it impossible for us to stage the event in 2012, as the risk it would pose to our business would simply be too great. We would support anyone wishing to take on the running of the event in the future when the economic climate has improved.
The Windermere Air Festival is a great event and we are proud to have been involved in it over the last two years.
Pat Crowfoot, President of the Rotary Club of Windermere, which organised the first 10 Air Shows said: I would like to thank Bluestone Events for making a success of this year's Windermere Air Festival. Without their involvement, it simply wouldn't have taken place, as the Air Festival has grown too big for a voluntary service organisation like ours to undertake. The Rotary Club hopes that when economic conditions have improved that an event management company will re-launch the Windermere Air Festival, with the goal of making it better than ever.
OUR CLUB
Our Club meets every Wednesday evening at 6.30pm when we enjoy an excellent two course meal at the Windermere Hydro Hotel.
As well as having fun and speakers on our evenings we are also working with the World Health Organisation and other bodies to eradicate polio throughout the world. Rotary and our club are always there to respond to local and International disaster situations.
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Our Rotary Club is sixty four years old and is one of the seventy six Clubs in Rotary District 1190 and we presently have thirty eight members - all male, but who knows what the future may hold for us? If you are a Rotarian visiting our website, we hope to give you all the information you need to encourage you to visit us on a meeting night or at one of our functions which are listed on our programme page.
But what is Rotary and who are Rotarians?
Rotary International is a world wide organisation of clubs whose members are
all of like mind in their desire to serve their fellow human beings and to do
all they can to relieve some of the problems which people have throughout the
world. Rotarians are the members of Rotary clubs - they are male or female, no
age, colour, creed or race restrictions exist to preclude membership of any Rotary
club.
All members are or were employed in a vocation which would see them as self employed
or in a decision making position within their employment. Rotary meetings are
generally held weekly, usually over a meal when members have the opportunity
to enjoy each others' company in a social and pleasant atmosphere. Membership
is normally effected through a club member but we welcome enquiries. Our membership
subscription this year is £110.00.
If you are not a Rotarian, but are interested in us in any way then this site will, we hope, also give you the information about us, about Rotary International and about what we do and who we are. In our pages we aim to provide information of interest to many folk and to help you find just what you are looking for.
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