Clubs and Organizations

The Community Center-CONTACT: 434-432-3115 - The Community Center is committed to engage the community through social, business educational, and recreational opportunities that contribute to the overall health, education, and well-being of its citizens. To that end, it is the general policy of the Center that groups or individuals are encouraged to use the facility for recreational, educational, cultural and other worthwhile purposes. It is the intention of the Center that its activities are available to allpersons regardless of age, gender, race, religion, or national origin.

Chatham First - a community development group that sponsors community social activities and economic development projects. Recent projects that we've been involved in include Christmas in Colonial Chatham, Blossom's Garden Party, and the Chatham Horse Show.

Chatham Garden Club. Since 1922 (the first year that a non-founding club was added to the Garden Club of Virginia), the Chatham Garden club has met to discuss, plan, and participate in historical restoration and beautification projects (both large and small) generally involving gardens. Their on-going projects include maintaining planters on Main Street planted each spring with red geraniums and vinca and maintaining the landscaping at 1767 Callands Clerk's Office.

Chatham Lions Club. The Chatham Lions club is a group that shares a common interest in community service, supporting the Lions motto "We Serve." The club has been particularly active in collecting eyeglasses and sponsoring medical care to remote regions of the world. Donated eyeglasses may be left at Worsham Appliances & TV, Allan Easley Insurance Agency, or any club member. Club President Elton Pruitt can be contacted at 432-8723 to find out more about activities and membership.

Chatham Rotary Club - a community-minded organization that meets weekly to share ideas and plan ways to improve the quality of life for people in the Chatham area and around the world. The Chatham Rotary Club is part of Rotary International, a worldwide organization of business and professional leaders that provides humanitarian service, encourages high ethical standards in all vocations, and helps build goodwill and peace in the world. Members of Rotary strive to live the motto of Rotary International: "Service Above Self." Among the programs and causes supported by Chatham Rotary members with their time, energy and money are the Main St lighting project, Robert Vines Memorial Park, Eyeglasses for Friends of Barnabas, Ham biscuits and cider at Christmas in Historic Chatham, Adopt-a-Highway, Project R.E.A.D. , Interact Club, Fire station support, Danville Community College scholarship, Bloodmobile, Picnic in the Parking Lot, Boy Scout Troup 346, Southside Saturday festival, Paul Harris Fellow program, Trash barrels and benches for downtown Chatham, and Donations to a global polio eradication project. The Rotarians meet over lunch on Tuesdays at 12:15 in the Chatham Baptist Church Fellowship Hall. Contact Mollie Holmes (mollie@gamewood.net) for more information.

Chatham Ruritan Club

Friends & Flowers Garden Club

Pittsylvania County Literacy Program

Pittsylvania County Litter Coordinator

Masons-Pittsylvania Lodge #24 AF & AM-meets monthly on the third Monday night at 7:30 PM, 61 North Main Street, Chatham, VA 24531 (above Premier Graphics)

Rawley Martin Chapter United Daughters of the Confederacy

Thomas Carter Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution

William Pitt Garden Club

William Pitt Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution

Morgan-Johnson Chapter # 44 Order of the Eastern Star
Chartered on September 8, 1927 and was named after masons, Mr. Hayes Morgan & Mr. George W. Johnson. The Order of the Eastern Star is the largest fraternal organization in the world to which both men and women may belong. Eastern Star is a social order comprised of persons with religious convictions and spiritual values, but is not a religion. Its appeal rests in the true beauty of the refreshing and character building lessons that are so sincerely portrayed in its ritualistic work. The chapter meets monthly on the 2nd Thursday of each month at 7:30 p.m.; 61 North Main Street, Chatham, VA.