Angus woman steps up to top district role at Inner Wheel

Post holder visits each club in the district and attends conventions at home and abroad

An Angus woman has been appointed to one of the key positions of the Inner Wheel in Scotland.

Susan Oliphant, from Forfar, has taken up the role of district chairwoman of the No 1 District, which has 27 clubs and 850 members.

The area covers all of Tayside and Fife as well as Aberdeen and stretches up as far as Elgin and Inverness and even to the Isle of Skye.

Susan will visit each club in the district and attend events in neighbouring districts as well as the Association Conference in Bournemouth in March.

She will also travel to the International Inner Wheel Convention in Melbourne, Australia in April next year.

Susan has been a member of the Inner Wheel Club of Forfar for almost 20 years and joined under the new membership rules of a female relative of

Friendship tomehas been the most significant part of my membership of Inner Wheel. SUSAN OLIPHANT

a Rotarian being allowed to join.

“My father had been a member and past president of King’s Lynn Rotary Club so I applied to join the Inner wheel Club in Forfar, where my husband and I live,” she said.

Since Susan jointed the Inner Wheel membership has opened up further.

In 2012 the link to Rotary or Inner Wheel was no longer required and women who wish to join are invited to do so and follow the objectives of Inner Wheel which are to promote true friendship, to encourage the ideals of personal service and to foster international understanding.

Susan has held a variety of roles at Forfar Inner Wheel including international service organiser, secretary, treasurer and president twice.

She will host the district rally in May in Forfar with the association president visiting from Great Yarmouth in District 8.

“My membership of Inner Wheel has been a time of making new friends, sharing new experiences and going to new places,” Susan added.

“Friendship to me has been the most significant part of my membership of Inner Wheel”.

Susan and her husband John recently semi-retired from their upholstery business Strathvale Furnishings in Forfar.

Susan Oliphant, from Forfar, who has been a member of the Inner Wheel club for 20 years.