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Rotary Albert Park (part of Rotary International) is a group of neighbours, friends, and community leaders providing humanitarian service, encouraging high ethical standards in all pursuits and helping build goodwill and peace locally and worldwide. Our club was established in 1992 and has a long history of service. We have a membership of about 40 with a 50:50 gender balance.
Join us for Dinner where we can introduce you to the Club & its members, and answer any questions you may have about membership. For more information, contact us at any time.
We also have a Facebook Group and share many of our upcoming events there.
Many of our meetings are recorded and available on our YouTube channel.
Interested in volunteering in and around the City of Port Philip? We're always looking for help! Register your details here.
Meetings/ Events Click on date to book | Wed, 26 January | Wed, 2 February | Wed, 9 February | |
Speaker | No Meeting | "Sowing Seeds" | ||
Topic | Australia Day holiday | TBA | Performance | |
Venue | Gasworks Arts Park | |||
Time | 6:30pm start | 7pm start |
Gasworks Arts Park "Sowing Seeds"
“Sowing Seeds is a new piece of verbatim theatre, born out of the diverse stories, characters, and cultures found within a Melbourne community garden. Performed in an immersive and site-specific way, it invites the audience to share in the gardeners’ rituals, such as harvesting basil for the pesto-making contest in the summer, and planting seeds in the spring. Sowing Seeds is about the importance of community, and the ramifications for the individual when that community is split apart. “
It is an all-ages and wheel-chair friendly performance, with more information here: https://gasworks.org.au/
Contact Matthew if interested
Christmas with Rotary Port Phillip
at Lifesaving Victoria
This year, we held a joint dinner with the newly formed Rotary Club of Port Philip (previously Melbourne South and Port Melbourne).
For more photos, go to (here)
RIMERN Update - 16 December
A huge couple of milestones at RIMERN (Rotary Inner Melbourne Emergency Relief Network) today!
Our first order dispatched to an Afghan refugee family of 11 & two more ready to go to families of 6 people in each…. 10 more orders for Afghan families just came in. AND today marks 6 months since we got the keys to our warehouse! What a busy, productive, amazing six months it’s been!! Thanks to all our donors, our volunteers & supporters…. We’re on our way!!
For more information, go to https://www.facebook.com/groups/495145215239091/posts/617026809717597/
Bags of Hope - Alfred Health Update
A great video from Alfred Health, one of the amazing projects we support! Thanks to everyone in the club who've helped out, and continue to help in the future. https://youtu.be/iItCCN_T3X4
Earlier this month, the Rotary Club of Albert Park and Winds of Hope made a financial contribution to the Afri-AusCare Food Relief program, organised by the Rotary Club of Prahran.
This program is designed to support African families in the community who are experiencing difficulties during the ongoing Coronavirus lockdowns.
For more information, go to https://afri-auscare.org/
This is the Melbourne arm helping local community who are homeless, food or socially insecure.
We meet some beautiful people who identified as refugees from Russia & Brazil. As we delivered treatment they told us stories of their lives as professional musicians & being seperated from their young children in Brazil due to COVID. In our clinic we provide free dental treatment, lunch and a goodie bag with toothbrush, toothpaste and a range of beautiful Sukin products as a little pamper gift. The thing I found most interesting was although we delivered free treatment to help them, each offered their time or services to help us raise money for the charity
. In no way did this feel like a hand out but more a little helping hand up in these weird COVID times.
. In no way did this feel like a hand out but more a little helping hand up in these weird COVID times.If you would like to donate to this project, go to 
All donations above $2 are tax deductible in Australia
All donations above $2 are tax deductible in Australia
Just a quick update to let you know that the wheelchairs have arrived safely at the Heroes Day Care Centre in Rwanda!!! Re-assembly and distribution of the wheelchairs to families of the Centre starts tomorrow.
Thank-you again to everyone who supported this incredibly worthwhile project.
Thank-you again to everyone who supported this incredibly worthwhile project.
For more details on the project, go to (here)
Thirty five aged homeless and socially insecure residents live in Port Melbourne at Wintringham Hostel. They pay 85% of their pension to live in the facility and struggle financially with hygiene products, clothes and some small items of furniture for their rooms. This club project will be filling the needs directly of the residents through a strategic partnership with Wintringham management.
Wintringham is a specialised welfare company that provides housing and care to elderly, frail men and women. The sole motivating philosophy at Wintringham is that of social justice. For more information, go to (here) 
We have recently donated some lounge chairs to the hostel, see right
If you would like to help with this project, go to Donations above $2 are tax deductible in Australia.
Donations above $2 are tax deductible in Australia.
Our GG1982894 has just completed its target of 110 teachers training sessions and 4840 teachers.
Due to Covid-19, since March 2020, we shifted from actual physical training sessions (only 5 were conducted in Feb 2020) to online teachers training sessions from 4 June 2020. Online sessions meant 2 hours sessions per day for 3 days followed by online mentoring and assignments sessions for 3 months. This switch to online teaching allowed the project to save on all transportation expenses and number of banners needed. Plus exchange rate benefits and interest provided for extra funds gave an additional amount.
We now will conduct an additional 10 teachers training online sessions (440 teachers) for government aided schools in the same Pune district area plus give certification, awards and recognitions to the top performing schools and teachers.
Due to Covid-19, since March 2020, we shifted from actual physical training sessions (only 5 were conducted in Feb 2020) to online teachers training sessions from 4 June 2020. Online sessions meant 2 hours sessions per day for 3 days followed by online mentoring and assignments sessions for 3 months. This switch to online teaching allowed the project to save on all transportation expenses and number of banners needed. Plus exchange rate benefits and interest provided for extra funds gave an additional amount.
We now will conduct an additional 10 teachers training online sessions (440 teachers) for government aided schools in the same Pune district area plus give certification, awards and recognitions to the top performing schools and teachers.
This project has been transferred to Rotary Williamstown
In the destitute villages of Bodhgaya region of Bihar state of India, where normal children are considered by their parents as assets and those with mental health issues as liabilities, Bodhi Tree Special School was established with a clear vision to bring about attitudinal change. The school, through its very limited resources, offers help to approximately 1,000 families, as well as assists with the sanitisation of village hutments.
If you would like to help this project, donate at All donations above $2 are tax deductible in Australia.
All donations above $2 are tax deductible in Australia.This project has been transferred to Rotary Williamstown
Women over 50 are the fastest growing group of people experiencing housing instability in Australia – often as a result of pay inequity, little to no superannuation or savings, divorce, domestic and family violence and time taken as unpaid carers. Adequate supply of social housing and affordable housing remains an enduring issue across Australia. Currently there are more than 40,000 applicants for social housing, on the Victorian Housing Register alone.
The Lakehouse is Melbourne's first Pop Up Shelter for women in need of temporary housing. For the Study report, go to (here)
Presentation of donation to One Ball. For more photos, go to (here)
OneBall is a free community program designed for young people aged between 8-18 years. The program provides opportunities for young people from CALD (culturally and linguistically diverse) backgrounds across Melbourne to play soccer in a social setting and encourages them to:
- be fit and active, and to enhance both their physical and psychological health and wellbeing
- develop positive cross-cultural relationships with others, and
- feel more connected and empowered to make a positive contribution to their community.
Presentation of donation to Geoff Amor to support Orange Sky Laundry, see https://orangesky.org.au/where-we-are/melbourne/
Great District Working Bee at the Rotary Park in St Kilda, see (here)
This park is now in the planning process for a redevelopment in the new year
The shortage of emergency response vehicles is a serious problem being faced in the Western Cape, South Africa, with the numerous fires that need to be contended with. The lack of vehicles often leads to emergency services taking up to 40 minutes to arrive at disaster scenes, especially in more remote areas. It goes without saying that the vital lost time can literally mean the difference between life and death. With the help of Rotary Albert Park, The Rotary Club of Newlands were able to donate a multipurpose vehicle to the Emergency Volunteer Services (EVS).
Below are some stories and video of the project:
Rotary Albert Park runs a book recycling project where it collects books from local libraries and from direct donations, sort, redistributes and sell them in various ways (including on-line) to benefit the community. On the third Saturday of each month at the Farmers Market at Gasworks Park (weather permitting) we have a wide selection of these recycled books for sale. We are located at the rear of Gasworks Cafe, 21 Graham Street, Albert Park.
We also hold a book store on Saturdays in front of the Holy Trinity Church on Bay Street.
Cash and Eftpos available
For more information on our book recycling project, go to (here)
Other Media Pages
The club is also on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter & Instagram. There are often additional posts entered by members and by other clubs, and it is a great way to get notified of events and functions.
