Events

Every August Bank Holiday weekend, the Rotary club takes over the playing fields at Stokes Bay to host a display of scores of vintage vehicles from across the region. Such is the event's reputation, that the owners of a range of impressive vehicles head to the south coast each summer especially to take part in the show. But you don't have to be a petrol-head to enjoy the event. This is a family day by the Solent - and the sun normally shines brightly! Besides the array of gleaming car, bikes and trucks, there will be a feast of entertainment including a samba band, a petting farm, Juggling Jake's circus skills, a range of different stalls, plus refreshments.

Havant Rotary are holding a quiz  with all proceeds being used to support the club's Easter Egg project.

Welcome to the Doughnut Dash, a new two-mile run fun taking place along Stokes Bay on the Whitsun Bank Holiday Monday, May 25. Money raised from the Doughnut Dash will go to the Gosport Diving Museum, Naomi House and Jackplace hospices for children and young adults. The base for the Doughnut Dash will be the Diving Museum on Stokes Bay Road (PO12 2QT) where you can collect your numbers and also register on the day. Registration starts at 8am and the run begins at 9am from the start of the Stokes Bay promenade next to the Alverbank East car park. It is a short half mile walk from the Diving Museum. There is plenty of car parking next to the Diving Museum and all along the seafront.

Our annual charity Golf Day returns to Rowlands Castle Golf Club for it's 26th year. Over the last 26 years these events have raised well over £340,000, every penny of which has gone to support local charities in the Portsmouth area. In recent years well over 30 local charities have benefitted in this way. The money raised each year is placed in the Club’s charitable fund and is then allocated across the coming year to local charities chosen by members.

Warsash Festival has been running as a biennial event for the local community since the year 2000. It was inaugurated as a Millennium Celebration attracting some 7000 local residents to the summer fete and arena events. This has been an event that Locks Heath Rotary has attended with its side stalls and which has contributed well to our fund raising efforts. The event itself held during July as far as the author can remember has always taken place in warm British summer sunshine on the Strawberry Field in the heart of Warsash village. Unfortunately the event had not been held since 2022, until Locksheath Rotary took over the organisation in 2025, and ran a most successful Festival on July 5th. There will once again be a Warsash Festival in 2026, on July 4th, so please come along and support us and enjoy the event.

Southsea Castle Rotary are taking part in Relay for Life in Portsmouth and invite  members to join in. Relay For Life celebrates the power of community fundraising in the fight to beat cancer. Teams of friends, families and colleagues fundraise for research to save and improve lives, then unite as a community at an event to honour everyone affected by cancer and celebrate the progress we’re making to beat it. The event is focused around a relay where team members take turns completing an activity – whether that be laps of a track, walks through a park or some other challenge – to show that step by step, together we are beating cancer.

GOSPORT Rotary Club's Vehicle Rally and Family Day is now in its 72nd year - and this year takes place on Monday, August 31. Every August Bank Holiday weekend, the Rotary club takes over the playing fields at Stokes Bay to host a display of scores of vintage vehicles from across the region. Such is the event's reputation, that the owners of a range of impressive vehicles head to the south coast each summer especially to take part in the show.