Welcome to this first ever edition of Rotary Digital; an exciting innovation from Rotary Great Britain & Ireland to keep you more informed and engaged about Rotary not only at home, but around the world as well.

Thanks to the Rotary GB&I Communications Team at the Rotary Support Centre for bringing this project to life over several months.

What we have produced is a topical, lively and compelling read for you to enjoy, whether you are sitting with your laptop, tablet or mobile.

Navigating around Rotary Digital is simple. If you like to replicate the print experience, we recommend starting with our cover story, then using the navigation arrows at the foot of each story to move back and forwards through the issue. You can also press the Home button to go back to the contents.

If you prefer to dip in and out then magazine.rotarygbi.org is the address you’ll need to bookmark. Plus, make sure you’re following us on social media.

We have tried to keep the story count high, and the read lengths for each article at around three minutes. But, above all, we have sought to ensure the content is quality and worth your while reading and sharing.

Rotary Digital will be published monthly, sitting alongside the companion Rotary Magazine which you will continue to receive through your letterbox every quarter.

The next issue of Rotary Magazine will be the Spring issue, published in April, with a cover story on Tom Hamblet, the recent BBC ‘MasterChef: The Professionals’ champion, who is a former winner of the Rotary Young Chef competition.

If you’ve like what you’ve read, feel free to share Rotary Digital with your friends and family, allow them to enjoy the Rotary journey and understand, in bitesize chunks, what we are all about.

And please keep in touch. Storytelling is an essential part of what we do, and what we need to do to grow Rotary. So please share your stories and pictures with me – either individually or at a club level, no matter how small – so I can then share them with the rest of the Rotary community.

You can reach me at: editor@rotarygbi.org

Dave King

Editor, Rotary Digital