Inner Wheel is an international women's organisation to create friendship, service and understanding. It has clubs in over 100 countries with over 100,000 members. It was founded in Manchester.
7-502: The organisation was officially founded on 10 January 1924 by Margarette Golding , a nurse, business woman and the wife of a Manchester Rotarian , who met with 26 other wives of Rotarians in November 1923. The first official Inner Wheel meeting was held on 10 January 1924 – this date is now known as "International Inner Wheel Day". This organisation was originally established for the wives and daughters of Rotarians although no Rotary connection
14-482: A speaker at the meeting but members meet socially on a regular basis. Clubs raise and donate money to a huge variety of charities. Helena Foster, who was the President in 1969–70, proposed that "Inner Wheel Day" should be celebrated on 10 January each year on the day that the original Manchester group adopted the name of "Inner Wheel" in 1924. Following the decision taken at an International Convention in 2012, membership
21-645: Is now required. Gradually other groups formed themselves into Inner Wheel Clubs and in 1934 the Association of Inner Wheel Clubs in Great Britain and Ireland was formed. The number of clubs around the world grew and in 1967 the International Inner Wheel came into being. There are clubs in many countries around the world. Inner Wheel clubs are grouped into districts with twenty-nine districts within Great Britain and Ireland. Most clubs meet monthly, often with
28-612: The Rotary Club's work but discrimination prevented then from becoming members in their own right. Margarette Golding persuaded 26 other wives to meet her at a room she had reserved at Herriott's Turkish Baths in Deansgate in Manchester. They met on 15 November 1923 where it was agreed to create a partner organisation to the Rotary Club which would assist the club in their role and provide a social benefit to its members. The first official meeting
35-551: Was a Welsh born nurse and businessperson who was the founder of the " Inner Wheel " club in Manchester that has grown to be an international organisation - originally open to the wives of members of the Rotary Club only, but now open to all. Golding was born in Blaenau Ffestiniog in 1881 and her family then moved to Hay on Wye . Golding trained as a nurse. She married Oliver Golding. Women had been involved informally in
42-687: Was on 10 January 1924 at their regular meeting place of the Social Club in Lower Mosley Street, Manchester. Golding founded and named the Inner Wheel organisation for the wives of members of the Rotary Club . There were other similar groups in Britain, but it was Golding who organised them into a national organisation under the name of the Inner Wheel. Golding has a plaque in Hay on Wye where she grew up. It
49-549: Was opened up to all women over the age of 18. The International Inner Wheel objectives are (a) promoting true friendship, (b) encouraging the ideals of personal service, and (c) fostering international understanding. In 2008, Inner Wheel had over 100,000 members in 102 countries and was one of the largest women's organisations with consultative status at the United Nations . Margarette Golding Margarette "Peggy" Golding (born Margarette Owen ; November 1881 – 1939)
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