When a group of nine Bilston business men met in the back room of the Villiers Arms in March 1931 to receive the charter that started Rotary in Bilston, I’m sure they could have had no idea what the next 90 years would look like or what a difference the club they were starting would make. What they did know was they wanted to make a difference, a difference to the community they lived in and in the lives of the people who lived and worked in Bilston.

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They probably didn’t really know what it was they were going to do or how they were going to do it but they knew they wanted to be part of a movement that had and still has the motto ‘service above self’ something that they and the hundreds of Rotarians that have followed in their footsteps have continued to do.​