Our annual Australia Day Concert has been renamed the “Summer Gala Soirée”!
Another exciting line up is planned for the 2023 Concert, and a coffee van has been booked to provide refreshments throughout the evening. Tickets are now available.
Our thanks go out to the sponsors who allow us to actually make a profit from the event:
plus Freeze Frame Opera for the use of the truck that forms the “stage” and the National Trust for the use of the grounds of Woodbridge House.
The Rotary International Convention is an annual event, held in a different location each year, where the Rotary family comes together to be inspired, meet like minded people from around the world, and take fresh ideas back to your club.
The next Convention will be held in Melbourne. The last time it was held in Australia was in 2014; opportunities to attend in Australia only happen every 10 years or so.
The Post community newspaper printed an article about our 2022 Pride of Workmanship Award on 3 December 2022.
Thanks to the generous donations of club members, fundraising by our club, and work colleagues of our Christmas Stocking project coordinator, 121 Christmas stockings (worth $605) have been donated to be given out to children in foster care. Thank your to our project coordinator Stephanie Rainey-Smith for coordinating this again…
We are delighted to again be acknowledged with a Bronze ShelterBox Champion Award for the 2021/22 Rotary year.
With November designated as “Rotary Foundation month” we thought it would be appropriate to observe this with a presentation on Polio Plus by the doyen of this program, PRID Ken Collins, who was involved with the eradication of Polio from 1984 until his passing in August 2022.
Our first Peace Pole ceremony took place today at North Cottesloe Primary School, with Rotary Club of Freshwater Bay Charter President Di Collins attending on behalf of our Club. The school is keen to hold the ceremony annually on November 11th.
Our Singaporean members Sheila Cheng and Lau Eng Seng regularly conduct projects locally on behalf of our Rotary Club. We enjoy the updates of the great work they do. Dementia is an area our club is particularly passionate about; Dementia Singapore recently shared the photos below on Facebook and Instagram.
We were advised on 8th November 2022 that the donations in memory of PRID Ken Collins total $17,250; with $7,500 in donations from other sources as well, the Bethesda Foundation is now able to go ahead and purchase their first cuddle bed for Bethesda Palliative Care! We are very grateful…
On Wednesday 26th October, our guest speaker was a nurse from Papua New Guinea, Regina Pima Seki, who has returned to Perth to undertake her Doctorate in Maternal and Child Health at Curtin University, having previously come here to complete her Masters. Regina told the same story of high mortality…