This year will see the completion of the Rotary Club of Mosman’s first scholarship awarded to a successful student through the Harding Miller Education Foundation. With each full scholarship supported by a donor, or donor organisation, Harding Miller matches the scholarship – so two for one! The Harding Miller Education Foundation was established in 2015 […]
The Rotary Foundation has just introduced a new kind of grant for deployment in Australia and Brazil – Corporate Social Responsibility Grants, or CSR Grants. The goal is to attract financial backing for Rotary projects from for-profit organisations. CSR Grants combine the simplicity of a District Grant and the scale of a Global Grant. The […]
The highly acclaimed global World Press Photo Exhibition, which is seen by millions each year, returns to Auckland, NZ, for the first time since 2019 to showcase and celebrate photojournalism and documentary photography of the past year. The annual exhibition, which is seen in over 60 cities around the world, now includes Tāmaki Makaurau once […]
Harnessing the power of working collaboratively, six Napier Rotary clubs have turned a grand idea on paper into reality, with the creation of more than 50km of pathways and cycleways around the Hawkes Bay city. In 2002, then Councillor Barbara Arnott had the vision to provide Napier with a comprehensive system of safe pathways circumnavigating […]
Protecting our oceans from waste has been the focus of the Rotary Club of Tauranga Sunrise’s environmental program recently, installing drain socks on two major storm water outlets that drain into the beautiful Tauranga Harbour. Club Director Michelle Beaton says the drain socks (sausage-shaped nets) were fitted over the two outlets towards the end of […]
New Little Penguin (or Fairy Penguin) nesting boxes, made by members of the Rotary Club of Palm Beach, WA, have the potential to revolutionise artificial nests worldwide, according to club member and bird specialist Rick Dawson. A heat trial of the boxes has been running on Western Australia’s Penguin Island to assess if double wood […]
Getting up at the crack of dawn to complete a five-kilometre fun run might not be some people’s idea of how to spend a Sunday morning, but add in the fact that you get to do so on an airport runway and the Rotary Club of Fairfield’s event certainly has a novelty factor. Club spokesman […]
The Rotary Club of Brookfield, Qld, has been an avid supporter of the charity Broken to Brilliant over the years. The organisation assists domestic abuse survivors on the road to recovery. The Rotary Club of Brookfield was honoured to be invited to write a testimonial for Coerced to Courageous, the fourth book in a series […]
What do you do with more than 1,300 pairs of disused reading glasses? The answer for Havelock North Rotarian Niall McCormack was simple – repurpose them and then take them to Africa where they are greatly needed. The Hastings-based optometrist quickly got club members on board with the project to collect glasses that could have […]
By the Rotary Club of Adelaide Light, SA Who could forget the images of millions of people scrambling desperately for safety outside Kabul airport in Afghanistan after the Taliban took control? Simultaneously, some 10,000 kilometres away in Adelaide, SA, members of the Rotary Club of Adelaide Light were undertaking training to engage in a refugee […]
Drawing on their community connections and organising prowess, two big-hearted Rotary clubs in Victoria and South Australia have made a tangible difference to the lives of Afghan families fleeing their homeland. By Jeanette Leigh, Rotary Club of North Balwyn, Vic On August 15, 2021, Afghanistan’s President, Ashraf Ghani, fled the country as American troops withdrew […]
Rotary’s involvement in disaster relief has been recognised during National Volunteer Week, acknowledging Rotary’s key role in sheltering people in need and making lasting change. In celebration of National Volunteer Week, ShelterBox Australia announced the winners of the 2023 ShelterBox Volunteer Awards, with Rotarians taking out three main awards. The awards are an annual event, […]