Riverside Rotary
Helping charities and the local community since 1991
Welcome to Riverside Rotary
Who or what is Riverside Rotary?? 
We are a members club forming part of the Rotary International family. A mixed group of ordinary local people with members of all ages living around the Maidstone area and beyond. We meet twice per month to discuss and plan our activities in an informal atmosphere and we run a range of community service, fund-raising and social events throughout the year. Our members are from a wide range of backgrounds, trades and professions. But we all have two things in common: wanting to help and support those less fortunate than ourselves and having fun whilst doing so.
Some of the charities we support
Supermarket xmas collections
Every year we collect donations from customers of local supermarkets to support local and other charities. Half of the money raised goes to specific named local charities and the other half to other charities and good causes that we support through the year. We take donations by either cash or card. This year we collected at Morrisons in Parkwood and Tesco in Grove Green.
Thank you to everyone who helped and contributed.
£3046 raised in donations this year
We're having a busy year!!! As well as our regular meetings, we've recently :
- Visited Denga Primary School in Zimbabwe to provide the children with books. Vice President Catherine and Rotarian Zelda went there in person.
- Held our Pig Racing evening in aid of Kent & Sussex Air ambulance. This was great fun with members, guests and a range of toy pigs combining to raise over £1400.
- Run our annual Bikes and Tools for Africa day collecting disused bikes and tools in conjunction with Lockmeadow Market. Nearly 100 bikes donated this year which was a great result. Thank you to everyone who donated.
- Planted 1000 Crocus bulbs in Loose in support of the End Polio Now campaign . We're hoping for a really colourful display in the Spring.
- Filled shoe boxes of christmas gifts to be sent to disadvantaged children and families in Eastern Europe.
- Started planning for our 2026 Swim Relay event. We raised over £16500 for Demelza and other local charities and good causes this year. In 2026 we're adding Kent, Surrey & Sussex Air ambulance as a main charity alongside Demelza and are hoping for a bumber event! The event will be held on Sunday 22nd March and the website is now live so you can read all about it, enter your team and make donations here.
What we have coming up in the next few months
Coming up in the spring...
Our annual Swim Relay event will be taking place on Sunday 22nd March 2026.
We've raised over £42000 over the last 2 events and are hoping to push that up to over £60000 in March. It's a great, fun day where swimmers of all ability can take part and raise funds for their favourite good cause whilst supporting Demelza and the Air Ambulance along the way.
The website for 2026 is now live and teams are booking in already so have a look at the website here to find out more and to enter your team.
Club meetings
January : 13th January Business meeting. Members only
27th January Open meeting, guests and visitors welcome.
Talk from Paula Ray on the RBLI
February : 10th February Open meeting, guests and visitore welcome. Speaker TBA
24th February Open meeting, guests and visitore welcome. Speaker TBA
March : 10th March Business meeting. Members only
24th March Open meeting, guests and visitors welcome. Speaker TBA
Anyone wishing to attend or enquire about any of our open meetings please email us here
School Mock Interviews
Mock interviews at Rosewood School for Yr 11 students, Monday 12th January.
Swim Relay
Sunday 22nd March. See the panel to the left for information. Anyone interested in taking part please click here
Riverside Rotary - People of action