How it all Started

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On the 10th January 1924, when Mrs Oliver Golding presided over a Club formed in Manchester of Rotarians' wives. This Club was the first one to bear the name Inner Wheel. The anniversary of this milestone is celebrated each year on World Inner Wheel Day. In the next years the Organisation grew until, in 1934, when seventy nine Clubs had been formed, it was decided to unite them into the Association of Inner Wheel Clubs Great Britain and Ireland.

 

By this time these first seventy nine Clubs, subsequently known as the Seventy-Niners, were already grouped into Districts with the same boundaries as those of Rotary. There are 29 Districts in G.B.& I.  By 1967 Inner Wheel had spread to the rest of the world and it was decided to form International Inner Wheel, to be governed by a Board comprising representatives from each country with the qualifying number of Districts and Clubs.

 

International Inner Wheel links together members in different parts of the world - Europe, Asia, Africa, Australasia and the Americas.

 

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