Latest News

Future Events

Lunchtime meeting - All about Strokes

28th October 2025
Venue: Abbots Barton Hotel, New Dover Road, Canterbury
Strokes and their impact - Julie Camburn, Abbotts Barton 1pm for lunch
View Event

Covert Forensic Science - an evening meeting with Jacqui Grace

11th November 2025
Venue: Abbots Barton Hotel, New Dover Road, Canterbury
An evening meeting with Jacqui Grace, a former covert forensic officer
View Event

Purple-themed recipe e-book: help eradicate polio from the world!

Support PolioPlus with a donation for the purple themed e-recipe book

Support PolioPlus – the Rotary project to eradicate polio – by downloading the purple-themed e-recipe book.

Members of our club, the Rotary Club of Canterbury, have worked together with members of the Rotary Club of Canterbury Sunrise to produce a purple-themed recipe e-book (i.e. a digital book) in order to raise awareness about polio and Rotary’s work to help eradicate this potentially devastating disease from the world*.

The unique book features recipes suggested by Rotarians, Inner Wheel members and their family and friends and will focus on foods or ingredients that are bluey-purple, pinky-purple, reddish-purple or purply-purple! There’s lots more in the book too.

How to download the e-book

To download a FREE copy of this unique e-book (PDF format), which is not available anywhere else, click here [compressed PDF, 2.31MB]

Please make a donation to PolioPlus

We would love it if you would make a donation to support PolioPlus* if you have enjoyed the book or any of the recipes within it, or if you just want to donate to our fundraising for PolioPlus.

To make a donation via:

  • Bank transfer to Sort Code 60-04-27 Account No 46120327. Please use the Reference: Your Surname/RECIPEBK

or

  • Post a cheque payable to: The Rotary Club of Canterbury Trust Fund to:
    The Treasurer, Rotary Club of Canterbury (Recipe Book), c/o 28 Whitehall Gardens, Canterbury CT2 8BD.

We suggest a donation of £5 – £10, but would be grateful for however much or little you can afford. All the money raised will go to PolioPlus.

** If you have any queries, please contact us, putting “recipe book” into the subject line.

Gift Aid – help us raise even more for PolioPlus at no cost to you

If you are a UK taxpayer and would like the Rotary Club to be able to recover the Gift Aid on your donation, then please complete the form below: 


If you are sending a cheque and would like the Rotary Club of Canterbury to recover Gift Aid on your donation, download, print off and complete the Gift Aid form and send it with your cheque to:

    • The Treasurer, Rotary Club of Canterbury, c/o 28 Whitehall Gardens, Canterbury CT2 8BD.

Download the Gift Aid form by clicking here

Many thanks for your interest and we hope you have a purple-licious time using our recipe book!

*About polio and PolioPlus

As recently as the late 1980s polio was a devastating disease, endemic in 125 countries around the world. Thanks to the efforts of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI), with which Rotary partners, there are now just two countries left with wild type polio. Rotary’s PolioPlus programme was the first initiative to tackle global polio eradication by vaccinating children on a massive scale.

Why purple?

The colour purple symbolises Rotary’s worldwide campaign to eradicate polio – a purple dye is used to mark the finger of a child who has been immunised. Rotary in Great Britain and Ireland’s Purple4Polio campaign raises awareness for Rotary’s battle to eradicate polio now and forever.

We want to help Rotary, through its PolioPlus programme, to work towards the global eradication of polio. By donating to our fundraising for PolioPlus you will be helping us to do this.

Sponsors

ExtraDigital Internet Marketing & Web Design

Get in Touch

The Rotary Club of Canterbury
The club doesn’t have a permanent
meeting venue at present. Please
email the address on the Contact
page for meeting venues and times.

Would you like to become a member of the Rotary Club of Canterbury?