As part of the Rotary Melbourne’s ongoing work to build peace in our city, at 11am last Saturday, Rotarians and friends met at the Rotary Melbourne Peace Bells, which are located in Rotary Melbourne Peace Park, at the corner of Anderson Street and Domain Road adjacent to the Royal Botanical Gardens.
Guest Speakers: Stephen McBurney, head of AFL Umpiring & Adrian Anderson, Vice President of the Melbourne Cricket Club, former General Manager Operations of the AFL
Date/Time Wednesday 25 September 24 @ 12.30 for 12.50 – 2.00pm
Venue No35 Restaurant Sofitel Hotel on Collins also Online via Zoom
Price Lunch $62 +online via Zoom $10
Information and Bookings: https://events.humanitix.com/rotary-melb-25-sep
Rotary Melbourne has been supporting The Smith Family's Learning for Life Program for nearly 20 years. Join us to volunteer at this year's Melbourne Marathon on Sunday 13th October when we work a drink station in the Ponsford Stand as the runners enter the MCG. You don't have to be a Rotarian to be part of this fun social volunteering event. Invite friends and family to join (minimum age 13). Click through and complete our contact form by selecting volunteering.
Planning is underway for the Around The Bay in a Day Bicycle 2024 event and the Rotary Melbourne fund raising activities for The Smith Family’s - Learning for Life Program. Join Rotary Melbourne Team NOW.
The Rotary Melbourne meeting on Wednesday 18 September 24 the guest speaker was Damian Cardona Onses, Director of the United Nations Information Centre in Canberra.
Thanks to Rosemary Nixon on providing a final update on the AFL 2024 tipping competition. Thanks to all who participated and the ESPN platform should automatically enrol tippers for next year, you just have to remember to pay!
Always promoting the Arts, Rotary Melbourne and maestro David Kram hosted young music scholar Julia Ogas from Nuremberg, Germany for part of her 6 week Rotary music exchange. 🎻 Watch what they got up to in just one day!
For the 2nd edition of District 9800 September 24 Networker for 2024-2025, please click here. In this issue they cover articles from around District 9800. Read about Walk with Us in October 2024 to raise money for the End Polio Campaign.
The event is The Big Serve Melbourne 2024 (“BSN”) will be held on Sunday, 27th October, 2024. This is a community day, designed to bring as many people together as possible to connect and have fun. It will be held at the Maribyrnong Park Tennis Club, Moonee Ponds. It is a community day, in support of mental health, any funds that are raised will go to three mental health support agencies, one of which is the Trauma Recovery Network Australia. The other two agencies have yet to be decided, there are so many that are worthy of support.
Rotary Melbourne recently made a donation to St John Emergency Services PNG, to enable purchase of a Zoll mobile ventilator for use in ambulances transporting snakebite victims from Kwikila District Hospital to Port Moresby General Hospital.
A Prospective Members Evening was held in the Rotary Club Melbourne (RCM) office on the evening of 11 September 2024. It was well attended despite the poor weather and protests at the Convention Centre.
In this edition, you’ll meet Esther and her family, who feel ‘blessed’ by the SecondBite food and other support they receive via Family Place Playgroups.
DIK has recently been offered a substantial quantity of 3M, N95 Masks (8210 P2 Respirators) with an expiry date of September 2025. While many local communities could greatly benefit from this donation, DIK may not be fully aware of the numerous community groups or individuals you collaborate with. Can you identify communities?
Working with a tight budget and some creativity, Mat Boyle and Anna Winneke are giving new life to reclaimed materials and setting an example for eco-friendly building practices.
Guest Speaker Damian Cardona Onses, Director, United Nations Mission, Canberra
Date/Time Wednesday 18 September 24 @ 12.30 for 12.50 – 2.00pm
Venue No35 Restaurant Sofitel Hotel on Collins also Online via Zoom
Price Lunch $62 +online via Zoom $10
Info & Bookings: https://events.humanitix.com/rotary-melb-18-sep-24
Members of the Rochester Rotary Club invite – 2024-2025 President Catherine, Members & Partners of Rotary Melbourne to the rescheduled date of Saturday 23 November 24. Please contact Eric Bish email if you are interested in attending.
Rotary Melbourne member Bruce Livett attended the Rotary Club of Kelowna, BC, Canada, District 5060, while visiting his daughter and granddaughter (18 months) on Wednesday 28 August 24. On his return to Australia Bruce will be inducted into the Rotary E-Club of Western Australia (as an Honorary Life Member).
Clinical trial investigating new treatment for Alzheimer’s Disease
The Bionics Institute is seeking adults aged 50 to 85 years who have been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease to participate in a clinical trial investigating a new treatment using non-invasive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS).
Rotary Melbourne welcomed and inducted Dr Dimitrios Salampasis on 28 August 2024 with the classification Innovation-FinTech. Dimitrios works is the FinTech Capability Lead and Senior Lecturer of Emerging Technologies and FinTech at the Swinburne University. In 2021 Dimitrios was the recipient of the 2021 Swinburne University Vice Chancellor's Engagement Award - Industry Engagement (Individual).
The Rotary Melbourne meeting on Wednesday 4 September 24 the guest speaker was Lorraine Finlay, Human Rights Commissioner, Australian Human Rights Commission.
Thank you to Tony Battaini for last week's reflection on Wednesday 4 September 24.
For your information 9 years ago Rotary Melbourne moved to Treasury then to our current office!
Rotary Melbourne's relationship with SecondBite is showcased in this month's Rotary Downunder magazine. We have been helping volunteer to collect food donations at Melbourne's markets since January 2007.
Rotary Melbourne recently made a donation to St John Emergency Services PNG, to enable purchase of a Zoll mobile ventilator for use in ambulances transporting snakebite victims from Kwikila District Hospital to Port Moresby General Hospital.
Rotary Safe Families welcome the announcment by the Australian Government to support family and gender-based violence. The funding includes $3.9bn from the commonwealth for frontline legal assistance services for families escaping violence, which will begin flowing from 1 July 2025. Another $351m from the federal government will go towards a five-year partnership for supporting specialist women’s and children’s services, as well as men’s behaviour change programs. This investment will be matched by the states, amounting to $702m. Read more HERE
