Becoming a Rotarian

An association of nearly 32,000 autonomous clubs in over 200 countries and geographical areas, Rotary International with 1.2m members, is one of the world's largest service organisations. The goal for a club's membership is an up-to-date and progressive representation of the community's business, vocational, and professional interests.

An important distinction between Rotary and other organisations is that membership in Rotary is by invitation. Rotary clubs invite individuals to join and become members.

Membership is vital to a Rotary club's operations and community service activities. A primary goal of the club is to continually expand the club with committed members who have the interest and ability to get involved in service and humanitarian projects. Prospective members must:

• hold, or be retired from, a professional, proprietary, executive, or managerial position;
• have the capacity to meet the club's weekly attendance or community project participation requirements;
• live or work within the locality of the club or the surrounding area.

The membership process
A person being considered for membership is invited by a member/sponsor to attend one or more club meetings to learn more about Rotary. The sponsor may then submit the name of the candidate to the club's membership committee.

Classifications: professional representation
Rotary uses a classification system to establish and maintain a vibrant cross-section or representation of the community's business, vocational, and professional interests among members and to develop a pool of resources and expertise to successfully implement service projects. This system is based on the founders' paradigm of choosing cross-representation of each business, profession, and institution within a community.

A classification describes either the principal business or the professional service of the organization that the Rotarian works for or the Rotarian's own activity within the organization. Some examples of classifications include: Solicitor, Printer, Dentistry, Property Investment, Architect, Restrateur, and Building Surveyor.

Membership of the Rotary Club of Southgate is by invitation, if you would like to be considered, please click HERE.
Download a membership leaflet HERE.

We are honoured to have as one of our members, Tony de St Dalmas, President of Rotary International in Great Britain & Ireland 2002/3 and a Director of Rotary International and Chairman of the Executive Committee of RI 2005/7. Tony is Aide to RI Presidential Nominee John Kenny.