Rotaract Clubs Recognised for their Contributions to the Rotary Foundation
Rotaract clubs have now contributed more that $2 million (US) to the The Rotary Foundation with a record breaking $676,435 donated in 2025-2026.
The contributions from Rotaract clubs this past year, which saw a 33.5% increase in the total donated, also saw donations come from more clubs than ever with 1,193 clubs recognised, 157 more clubs than the year before, demonstrating the continued growth of Rotaractors’ commitment to The Rotary Foundation.
In Great Britain and Ireland, the Rotaract clubs of Tyneside, London and Brynmawr have received the Rotaract Giving Certificate, signed by 25-26 Foundation Trustee Chair Holger Knaack, in recognition and celebration of clubs whose members contribute US$100 or more to The Rotary Foundation during the Rotary year.
The Rotary Foundation helps Rotary members (which includes Rotaractors) advance world understanding, goodwill, and peace by improving health, providing quality education, improving the environment, and alleviating poverty. The Foundation is a not-for-profit organisation supported solely by voluntary contributions from Rotary members and friends of the Foundation who share its vision of a better world. This support is essential to Foundation grants, which bring sustainable improvement to communities in need.
Every contribution supports meaningful, sustainable projects that create lasting change in communities around the world. These achievements in giving represent more than record-breaking numbers. They show Rotaractors’ generosity, leadership, and spirit of service.
Raquel D'Garay-Juncal, from the Rotaract club of Tyneside and long standing supporter of The Rotary Foundation, said;
“I've been donating to the Rotary Foundation for several years now, and I've learned that no contribution is too small to matter: it all adds up to scholarships awarded, communities served, and lives changed. What many clubs don't realise is how attainable the Rotaract Giving Certificate is: it just takes a club's members contributing $100 total, in any amount and to any Foundation fund. If your club hasn't taken that step yet, I'd encourage you to start; it's a simple way to see how far your generosity can go.”
Since it was founded more than 100 years ago, the Foundation has spent more than $4 billion on life-changing, sustainable projects - with 91% of funds spent on the programmes and projects it delivers.
There are a number of ways you can support The Rotary Foundation, either as an individual or with your club and as a one off or as a recurring donation.
General Funds - Giving where the need is greatest.
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Help Rotary make a world of difference to the lives of others!
Your gift to our Annual Fund helps Rotary clubs and their members take action today to create positive change in communities both at home and around the world.
Your contributions help us strengthen peace efforts, provide clean water and sanitation, support education, grow local economies, save mothers and children, and fight disease.
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The Endowment Fund where gifts to Rotary ensure prosperity.
Rotary strives to increase the value of your gift and supports causes today while generating funds that will further the work of future Rotarians.
Donating to the Endowment Fund will ensure your gift grows and investment earnings improve communities around the world, ensuring lives live better.
Imagine your donation still impacting and changing lives 100 years on!
Fact: Over 200 Peace Fellow Scholarships have been funded by Rotary’s Endowment Fund.
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End Polio Now - Rotary and our partners have immunized over 3 billion children worldwide since 1988. With your help, we can end this paralyzing disease for good.
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Polio is a crippling and potentially fatal infectious disease, which typically affects children under the age of five.
For as little as 20p, a child can be protected against the virus for life.
Polio cases have declined rapidly from 350,000 annually since 1985, when Rotary began the fight to End Polio Now and Forever.
If we don't finish the fight right now, more than 10 million children could be paralyzed by polio in the next 40 years.
Today, we are “this close” to creating a polio-free world, and we need your help.
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Areas of Focus - We're tackling the world's biggest challenges. Direct your donation to the causes you care about.
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Today, over 70 million people are displaced as a result of conflict, violence, persecution, and human rights violations. Half of them are children.
With your donation to this cause, you will enable Rotary and its members to help address underlying causes of conflict, including poverty, discrimination, ethnic tension, lack of access to education, and unequal distribution of resources.
Rotary tries to create the environments where peace can happen.
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Approximately 400 million people in the world can't afford or don't have access to basic health care. We believe good health care is everyone's right!
Fighting Disease is one of the special 'Areas of Focus' for the Rotary Foundation of the UK.
Disease results in misery, pain and poverty for millions of people worldwide. That's why treating and preventing disease is so important to Rotary. Our members combat disesases like Malari, HIV/Aids, Alzheimers, Multiple Sclerosis, Diabetes, and Polio but we also work on prevention, focusing our efforts on health education and bringing people routine hearing, vision and dental care.
With your donation you can help in our leading efforts both large and small.
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Your donations to this cause, will help Rotary support solutions that bring clean water, sanitation and hygiene to more and more people every day.
Rotary shares its expertise with community leaders and educators to make sure projects succeed long-term.
Please help us to give people access to clean water and sanitation, decrease waterborne diseases, enable children to stay healthier and attend school more regularly, and support mothers in spending less time carrying water and having more time helping their families.
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Over 775 million people over the age of 15 are unable to read or write.
Basic Education and Literacy is one of speacial Area of Focus for the Rotary Foundation UK.
Your kind donation to this casue will help Rotary strengthen the capacity of communities by supporting basic education and literacy, reducing gender disparity in education, and increasing adult literacy throughout the world.
Everyone, young and old, should have the right to education.
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An estimated 5.9 million children under the age of five die each year because of malnutrition, inadequate health care, and poor sanitation.
With your donation you will help Rotary to make high-quality health care available to vulnerable mothers and children so they can live longer and grow stronger.
We provide education, immunization, birth kits, and mobile health clinics. Women are taught how to prevent mother-to-infant HIV transmission, how to breast-feed and how to protect themselves and their children from disease.
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Nearly 800 million people live on less than the equivalent of £1.50 per day!
Your kind donation to Rotary's Economic & Community Development 'Area of Focus' will enable our members and charity workers to strengthen local entrepreneurs and community leaders, particularly women in impoverished communities.
Rotary creates opportunities to help not only individuals, both young and old, but also communities thrive financially and socially.
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The world produces approx 400 million metric tons of plastic every year!
Supporting the Environment is one of the special Areas of Focus for the Rotary Foundation of UK. With your donation to this cause, you will be supporting activities that strengthen the conservation and protection of natural resources, advance ecological sustainability, and foster harmony between communities and the environment.
We aim to empower communities to access grants and other resources, embrace local solutions, and spur innovation in an effort to address the causes and reduce the effects of climate change and environmental degradation.
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All donations are combined into one fund and made available through Rotary Disaster Response Grants ultimately supported by 'The Rotary Foundation'; they cannot be directed to a specific disaster.
The Rotary Foundation of the United Kingdom (RFUK, Charity No. 1002059 Company No. 2582374), is an Associate Foundation of The Rotary Foundation (TRF) of Rotary International, based in Evanston, USA. RFUK supports the aims of The Rotary Foundation by providing funding for its programmes and offering a direct service for giving in Great Britain and Ireland.
RFUK has recovered over £1 million in Gift Aid since 2001, allowing even more communities to benefit from The Rotary Foundation.
