President  –  Susie Robertson
Vice President – 
Secretary – Maureen Drummond
Treasurer – Doris Campbell
International – Mary Leslie
Club Correspondent – Dot Williamson
Membership & Development – Margaret Currie

The Aberdeen Club celebrated their 82nd Birthday since the Club was founded in Feb 1943. Four members of the Banff Club managed the drive to Aberdeen to help members celebrate. Gloria is seen cutting the cake and she is a very glamorous 89 year old and very active in many groups in Aberdeen along with her love of travelling.  President Susie is with Gloria and also arranged an excellent speaker for us – Gordon Casely. Gordon’s presentation took us through slides of his travels by bike in Tibet and Nepal. A lifetime ambition for Gordon was to be as close to the base of Everest with no desire to climb it. Gordon highlighted political and cultural changes taking place over many years in these countries.

Members were busy helping out at the Rotary Charity Shop held in George Street Aberdeen in April – great to work alongside friends in Rotary for the benefit of local charities. Over £2000 was raised. Aberdeen Rotary have announced the dates for 2025 are 27th April to 3rd May so donations are now being collected.

 Margaret Currie volunteering above 

Inner Wheel members took part in a walk through the centre of Aberdeen to promote the Rotary END POLIO NOW Project

Again this year we planted and hung our flower baskets outside Clan House. This started in 2014 to mark 90 years of Inner Wheel which coincided with 30 years of Clan House which is a charity funded haven for cancer sufferers and their families.

Monthly coffee mornings are hosted by members.  

Aberdeen member Doris Campbell chose Scottish Charity Air Ambulance (SCAA) as her charity for District 1 during her year as District Chairman. £6,434 was raised by the 19 Clubs in District 1 in 2023. This charity saves lives and the majority of air ambulances are called out to road traffic accidents (RTA). In 1971 Doris was involved in a serious RTA  on the banks of Loch Maree (West of Scotland). An air ambulance would have taken Doris to hospital in 30 minutes instead of the 3 hour wait and 4 hour journey to Raigmore Hospital. SCAA is an important charity in Scotland.

For more information on Aberdeen Inner Wheel or any of the clubs in District 1 please contact

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Aberdeen Inner Wheel President 

2024-25

Susie Robertson

Our very successful 80th Birthday Dinner was held on February 14th at the Ardoe House Hotel with 62 attendees including Association President Karen Davies, IIW Vice President Trish Douglas, District Chairman Doris Campbell, President of Aberdeen Rotary Club Linda Walker, representatives from District, past members and club members from  St Fittick, Banff, Forfar, Montrose, and Laurencekirk clubs.   

Mary Keith did a sterling job with the floral decorations for the tables, they looked splendid and much admired. Gloria offered a fitting Grace and Eveleen gave the vote of thanks in her usual sincere manner. The speaker, William Brown-Kerr of Braemar Mountain Rescue team presented an illustrated talk on the work of the volunteers called out on numerous occasions to rescue people in difficulty on the mountains.

Our club has taken part in this challenge set by our Association President.  We have collected over 100 stationary & crafting items to donate to an inner city school where they can be used by disadvantaged children.

PDC Doris Campbell has completed two personal challenges – walking 100 miles during October 2023 with dog Brodie to raise funds for SCAA and knitting 100 squares for CHAS.

The District 1 Rally was held in Aberdeen at the end of May 2023. District Chairman Doris is from the Aberdeen Club and members enjoyed their day at the Marcliffe Hotel. The weather was glorious, the food was delicious and members and guests are gathered in the courtyard for a photo courtesy of the Lord Provost’s photographer. There is also a collage of photos from the day.

If you are looking for a good place to have a Christmas meal look no further than the training college for chefs and hospitality staff called Gate 63 based at The Gallowgate, Aberdeen.  We had a delicious meal – 2 courses for £18 plus gave the staff a tip. My pudding was gingerbread pudding with butterscotch sauce and ice cream – yum. I took the photo but did have some Christmas sparkle on. Aberdeen Club members had a most enjoyable celebration and only a couple of call offs. Doris x

Members enjoyed a talk about St John Scotland  in April (2023) and funds were presented recently to their local group to assist with local projects – installing defibtillators, CPR training and transporting renal patients to appointments.

President Beth presented the group with the club’s cheque at the Echt Show in July