Restock your cellar for Christmas and the Festive Season with Rimern, wine lovers!
The much heralded Van Rouge/Blanc Wine Sales have generated money to pay for part of the livery of our Van Rouge Van. Further funds will complete the funding of signs and future operating costs.
Next Meeting Wednesday 24 January 24 – RIMERN Volunteer Day
Join us at RIMERN warehouse for Volunteer & Learn Day
Time 11am for some volunteering, packing, sorting etc.. Finish at 2pm.
At 12.30 we will break for refreshments and hear about the project.
Venue RIMERN (Rotary Inner Melbourne Emergency Relief Network), 32-34 Lincoln St, Brunswick East VIC 3057
Price $25
For the 6th edition of District 9800 October Networker for 2023-2024, please click here. In this issue they cover articles from around District 9800, including 'Cheaper and Easier International Shipping to Timor Leste'.
Toorak 1 Group held its annual end of year dinner at Toorak Hotel on Thursday 14 December 2023.
Thank you to Quin Scalzo for last week's reflection on Wednesday 13 December 23.
At the Rotary Melbourne meeting on Wednesday 13 December 23 President Chris inducted new members Irena Bauer and Will Brown, followed by entertainment by Jozseph Tallosi.
Regrettably, President Chris observe many close members of our community afflicted with neurocognitive decline, a condition that has become common in our elderly community. This year he is proud to invite members to support, as our Club Christmas Appeal, PALZ, Professionals with Alzheimer’s.
PP Mary Barry, our On to Conference Chair (OTC), has updated us now with "On To Conference" activities and highlights, Wednesday-Friday 10-12 April 24. Don't miss this very special time in our Rotary Calendar which personifies Friendship, Fun, Food and Fact Finding on route to Bendigo where the District 9800 Conference will be held from 12-14 April 24.
Our Rotary Melbourne Make House a Home project (MAHAH) has assisted hundreds of homeless people since it commenced in 2017, with our volunteers purchasing, packing and delivering sets of homewares helping Launch Housing as they find new homes for the homeless. You can watch our video to see how it all works.
With Christmas just around the corner we're eager to make it merrier with a Rotary Melbourne after lunch get together of Fellowship, Christmas drinks and delightful company! 🎄✨
Rotary Melbourne's Peter Berg atteneded the first of two sessions on the City of Melbourne Economy Summit which was held on the morning of Wednesday 6th December 24. Invitees to the summit, which included a representative from Rotary Melbourne, were from local Melbourne businesses, Government and Not-for-Profits.
We, as members of our cherished Club, stand on the shoulders of our former members and community stakeholders. This is a reflection I make every day as I turn to the Club current and emerging vision and activities.
Malvern Group held its annual end of year dinner at Kooyong Lawn Tennis Club 29 November 2023.
The final, monthly evening meeting for the year transformed into a fun celebration of the growing importance of the evening meeting team in helping the Club reimagine its connection with younger members whose numbers are growing strongly.
Following an address last year to one of our evening meetings by the Founder and CEO of the NFP For Change Co., Tenille Gilbert, the Welfare of the Young Committee sought a proposal around a specific and sustainable need that we might help to fund.
Seeing someone sleeping rough in your local area can feel confronting, especially when you’re unsure how to help. While there's no one right action, it is clear that the kindness of strangers can make a world of difference. And that means each of us.
On the afternoon of Sunday 19 November 2023, President Elect (2024-25) Catherine Baxter convened a strategic workshop of interested members to begin work on the Club’s 2024-2027 Strategic plan.
Rotary Melbourne is a leader in promoting and adopting Environmental Sustainability initiatives. The Club is committed to achieving carbon neutrality by calculating emissions and offsetting through carbon credits and adopting trees in social enterprises such as WithOneSeed, a community agroforestry program supporting subsistence farmers in Timor-Leste.
Here is a link to allow members and friends to buy trees, maybe as Christmas gifts https://cornerstorenetwork.org.au/collections/trees
Attached HERE is the latest Donations in Kind (DIK) newsletter. One of the articles highlights that DIK is still supplying the Ukraine with critical and expensive medical equipment.
This Week Wednesday 13 December 23 ‘Partners Day’– In person only
Join our annual Festive lunch at No35 filled with friendship, food music and songs.
Time 12.30 for 12.50 – 2.00pm
Venue No 35 Sofitel
Price $60 (2 course lunch @ No35) + BF
The final meeting for 2023 is one of good cheer and festivities.
Bookings: https://events.humanitix.com/rotary-melb-lunch13dec
Gathering on the Goldfields
Bendigo: Friday 12 to Sunday 14 April 2024
Earlybird registration closes on Saturday 16 December 23
Book NOW https://www.trybooking.com/events/1126739/sessions/4194420/sections/2109327/tickets.
Our Rotary Melbourne Elves are out in force this December supporting Launch Housing by helping to deliver over 2000 toys in time for Christmas for children impacted by homelessness.
Tania Miletic was a recipient of a Rotary Melbourne Paul Harris Fellow (Sapphire) in 2021 and also a 2002-04 Rotary Peace Fellow. Read this article from the December 2023 issue of Rotary Magazine.
Thank you to Ross Scholes-Robertson for last week's reflection on Wednesday 29 November 23.
Past President Bob Glindemann from our East Timor Committee recognised Bill and Ann Rolfe’s generous donation to the East Timor Roofing funded Don Bosco Training Centre on the eve of East Timor Independence day.
