Guest Speakers

Showcasing Rotary projects during lockdown

Our club members decided back in early April that we would like to use our Zoom meetings to showcase some amazing Rotary projects and Rotary partnerships to our members, friends and visitors. We have …

Our Rotary Scholars

At our club meeting on Tuesday 26th November we were pleased to welcome our two current Rotary Scholars Jelka and Emilia. Both are studying for a PhD at the University of Oxford and both are hosted by…

“OK” Our Kids – Watch Out

We were delighted to welcome lots of visitors to our club meeting on Tuesday 22nd October. Our guest speakers were Tony and Lynn Churchill from OK Our Kids and they told us about the book that they ha…

Burns Night Supper and Broadmore Hospital

We took advantage of the catering facilities at our new venue and we celebrated Burns Night in style. A few days early, but still the real thing – some Scottish music, tartan napkins and decorat…

Atrocity’s Archives: The Remnants of Transitional Justice in Rwanda

Tonights speaker was Julia Viebach, who currently has an exhibition at the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford on the Rwandan Genocide of 1994.

Guest speakers : Rotary Scholars Gideon Laux and Chris Chew

Our guests tonight are two of Rotary’s scholars, Gideon Laux, from Germany, and Chris Chew, from Australia. Gideon is working on a project to provide access to energy in India and Chris is spe…

Anne Bajorek: Guest Speaker from YoungDementia UK

The Rotary Club of Oxford Spires recently hosted a Musical Memories fundraising event in aid of YoungDementia UK. To help explain to club members what YoungDementia UK does as a charity, as well to gi…

Saeed Ahmed Rid, a Rotary Peace Fellow from California

In today’s club meeting our guest speaker was Saeed Ahmed Rid, who wanted to talk to us about his academic research and the book he wrote called “India Pakistan Peace Process – A Strateg…

Joanna, Europa Nostra (EN) and Oxfordshire Historic Churches Trust (OHCT)

Joanna has always been interested in both tangable and non-tangable heritage, how people interact with these and perserving them. She is on the safety council of the EN (for Social and Economics), and…

Just Because I Can. Naomi Riches’ rowing challenge shows that anything is possible

On Tuesday members of Rotary Oxford Spires were given a taste of athletic inspiration as Paralympian Naomi Riches MBE shared her experience of rowing down the length of the River Thames.

Aeronautical History of Oxfordshire with Peter Burton

On the 28th of February, we were very lucky to have Peter Burton come along to talk to us about the Aeronautical History of Oxfordshire. It was a lively meeting with a lot of discussions.

Happy New Year meeting and Maggie’s Centre Guest Speakers

It’s the new year, first meeting of the year, it’s a full house at the Oxford University Club, and in today’s meeting we have two guest speakers representing the cancer support charity Maggie’…

MURDER!! How one member of Rotary Oxford Spires has connections to a murder

What does one member of the club have to do with murder? Well today club member Carol gave us a presentation on how investigating her family tree revealed a fascinating story of murder.

Michaela Holzem and the Impact Of Developmental Biology On Our Understanding Of Evolution

At the last club meeting we learnt about one of our members, Michaela Holzem, and what she does outside the Rotary club. She gave us a presentation about her PhD Thesis that she is doing at Oxford Bro…

It’s a full house! Meeting with Rotarians, Rotaractors and Rotary Scholars

What a day! Today we had a visit from a couple of Rotary Scholars and Oxford Rotaract and a representative of the New Theatre.

Literacy In A Box Trust – Mike Ware and Rachel Gerrish guest speakers

In less well-developed countries, where their infrastructure and resources are poor, there is much less opportunity for their children to be educated and become literate. Mike Ware and Rachel Gerrish …

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