Contact details
Secretary – Larry Anthony Tel: 01425 627386
Email secretary@bectonrotary.org.uk.
Becton Rotary is a modern Rotary Club providing new members with a cost effective, flexible and friendly way to be a member of Rotary International. We are a small mixed gender club with a big heart and enthusiasm to match. Our doors are always open to community minded people who want to share our enthusiasm for helping our local community in the New Milton & Milford surrounding areas.
Our flagship project is the coordination of a holiday bungalow at Naish Holiday Park where between March and September we provide a one week free holiday for families / individuals who otherwise would not be able to enjoy a holiday away from their home environment. Along with use of the bungalow our guests have free use of the parks facilities. This is a very popular scheme and all of the available weeks are normally taken up.
We are also working in support of New Forest Basics Bank by providing a collection service from Waitrose, Tesco and Aldi supermarkets and transporting the food to NFBB at Lymington.
Other recent projects have been working with New Forest Sewing for the NHS and Local Community providing PPE and Scrubs / Scrubs Bags to local hospitals and Care Homes plus our own Knitted Hearts project used to provide emotional comfort to isolated patients and their families. Probably one of our most unusual projects was the building of an Eco-Greenhouse for New Milton Infant School. The greenhouse was made from 1250 2ltr plastic bottles mounted on an environmentally sourced wooden frame and was mentioned in New Milton’s submission for Britain in Bloom. Further information on our activities can be obtained from our web page
www.bectonrotary.org.uk and Facebook
Our current meetings are on Zoom and typically every two weeks. When COVID restrictions are lifted we will resume face to face meetings and also our participation in low intensity fun sports such as Boules, Snooker and Darts where the fun we have is often more important than the result.
If you think you might enjoy being a member of our club you are welcome to attend any of our meetings as a guest, contact the Club Secretary for details. For those who may not want to commit to membership but feel they would like to support our activities we also offer the opportunity to be a Friend of Rotary. Our most recent members, a couple from Milford on Sea said….. We both joined Becton Rotary as we strongly believe in the work and projects they are involved with. The club is very friendly and skilled at working with other groups within the village and more widely across the New Forest. There are projects to suit everyone, so no-one need ever feel left out.”
