Welcome to the Almancil International Rotary Club AIRC

Our club aims to engage with our community to improve the lives of people. We are always looking for new members that can help us to achieve this. At weekly meetings, our members catch up with friends, hear what’s happening in our community, and share plans and exchange ideas for creating lasting change.


Your club connection gives you the chance to develop skills like public speaking, project management, and event planning. You’ll meet interesting people from your community and around the world. And you’ll tackle local and international issues that are important to you and your fellow club members.

Rotary International

For general informtion about:

  • What is Rotary
  • Our causes
  • Members access
  • and more...


Visit the website of Rotary International. (you will be deverted to an external website)

History Rotary Almancil

Almancil International Rotary Club (AIRC), chartered in June 2006 was the first International Rotary Club in Portugal to use English as a common language.  The first members comprised seven different nationalities of which some had been Rotarians in their home countries before moving to Portugal and some who had never before been members of Rotary.


Each though had a common aim.  Having only recently deciding to make Portugal their home, with the exception of a few Portuguese members, many were not at that time fluent Portuguese speakers.  However, they each wanted to do something for their adopted country.


To enable us to continue with all our projects we organise many events, none of which would be successful without the generous help of our sponsors


Interested to participate?

Contact us today!

AIRC address

Our club meetings take place at
The Conrad Hotel
Estr. da Quinta do Lago
8135-106 Almancil


AIRC address:
Sítio do Além
Caixa Postal 846A
8135-011 Almancil

Club: 73179 District: 1960

Conrad Hotel, club meeting AIRC


Organization AIRC 2023-2024

Board


President

Franco Pasotto

Vice President

William Browne

Secretary

Volker Biebesheimer

Treasurer

John Slatter

Past Presedent

Francesca Wallace

Master of Ceremonies

Francesca Wallace



Committees


Financial Committee

Brian Giles


Francisco Neto


Klaus Ukens



Press and Public Relations

Julia Biebesheimer

press and media

Susanna Bettoni

web

Maarten Schiphorst



Innovation

Brian Giles


William Browne


Alexander Glennie



Community Services

Peter Hinze


Kathleen Browne


Alexander Glennie



Major projects


Sea Horse Phase II

Klaus Ukens

Alzheimer Phase I

Uschi Kuhn



Common projects with other club

John Slatter

games and nations day

Sonia Cabrita


Maarten Schiphorst



Membership

Claire Busbridge


Kathleen Browne


Susanna Bettoni



Leisure events and fund raising

Uschi Kuhn

Qdl and Vale do Lobo

Wiliam Browne

Golf, tennis and other Sports

John Slatter



New generation


interact

Jose Galamba

summer camp

Volker Biebesheimer



Rotary Foundation

Sandy Glennie


Peter Hinze



International liason


Ireland

Claire Busbridge

UK


Germany

Ursula Weber, Fritz Drabert

Italy

Susanna Bettoni

Algarve

Jose Galamba



Lawyer of the Club

Francisco Bivar Weinholz

Accountant

Valeria Pires

Web

Maarten Schiphorst

Zoom masters

Klaus Ukens


Maarten Schiphorst

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