Club members and guests are invited to support this year’s Lift the Lid on Mental Illness Fundraiser by either paying $5 for wearing your or our favourite headgear - hats, beanie and fascinators all welcome!
Watch out!! should you choose not to cover your head.
Our guest speaker Peter Norton - Professor of Clinical Psychology, Monash University will help us focus on the important topic of mental illness with his topic “Mental health in Australia: The Good, the Bad, and the Frustrating”
All funds raised will be donated to Australian Rotary Health’s National annual fundraising day for mental health research. Funds raised by our Club are being directed to a PhD Project at Alfred Hospital being supervised by our own RCM Member Prof Sue Davis "Mental Health in Young Women ". This project has been adopted as a District 9800 project.
The Lift the Lid campaign, founded by ARH Vice Chairman Greg Ross, started in 2016 in partnership with Rotary Clubs of Victoria. The event was such a success that it has now been extended to all Rotary Clubs across Australia.
Each year approximately 1-in-5 Australians will experience a mental illness and in order to help future generations of young Australians, we need to look ahead through research and find out how we can prevent this type of illness occurring.
Please consider how you can support this important initiative by participating in a fun Lift the Lid lunch on Wednesday 10th October.
