Midsomer Norton and Radstock Inner Wheelers celebrated their annual Inner Wheel Day with fun and food at the home of member, Jacky Emm, and her husband, John. But, with the emphasis on putting back into the community, they also collected much-needed goods for the local Foodbank.

Inner Wheel Day celebrates the first ever meeting of the organisation, attended by 27 women and called together on January 10th, 1924, by Margaret Golding, a nurse, businesswoman and wife of a Manchester Rotarian, to promote friendship, to encourage service to others and to foster international understanding. And seven years later, the Association of Inner Wheel Clubs in Great Britain and Ireland was formed.

Before 1989, Rotary Clubs were purely a male stronghold, but that ruling has been overturned and, although women can now join the Rotary ranks, membership of Inner Wheel continues to thrive around the world, and anyone sharing its ideals can join. If you would like to be one of them, contact either President, Sue Hopkins on: 07944 298036 or Elaine Muir on: 07543 973666.

Sue Meadows