Guest speaker: Hayden from Clothes For Good
Guest speaker: Hayden from Clothes For Good Our club enjoyed a great presentation last night by Hayden (on the left in the photo), founder of Clothes For Good. Hayden started the first op shop in the Pacific three years ago, and through the op shop funds are raised for charity projects related to domestic violence, […]
Youth Without Borders – Spark Engineering Camp
Youth Without Borders – Spark Engineering Camp SPECIAL PROJECTS Youth Without Borders – Spark Engineering Camp In 2025-2026, Mina, ‘Youth Without Borders’, External Affairs Officer, addressed the club about ‘Youth Without Borders’ and its flagship program – Spark Engineering. Mina is a keen community volunteer, passionate about improving access to education, and is a former […]
Moira Kelly and the Children First Foundation
Guest speaker: Neuroscientist and advocate Dr Emma Burrows SPECIAL PROJECT Moira Kelly and the Children First FoundationThe Moira Kelly Report Moira Kelly was introduced to the club early in1997 when Past President Dennis O’Gorman invited her to a meeting as a guest speaker where she gave an indication of the good she was doing, and […]
Rotary Overseas Recycled Playgrounds (RORP)
Rotary Overseas Recycled Playgrounds (RORP) SPECIAL PROJECTS: Rotary Overseas Recycled Playgrounds (R.O.R.P)R.O.R.P. is an Australian project that rescues decommissioned playground equipment from local schools and councils, saving it from going to landfill. The project was initiated by the Rotary Club of Flemington-Kensington. Volunteers label and colour-code the equipment, dismantle, and store component parts until a […]
Special project: Cotton Wool Babies
Guest speaker: Neuroscientist and advocate Dr Emma Burrows SPECIAL PROJECT: Epidermolysis Bulosa (Cotton Wool Babies) Epidermolysis Bullosa (EB) is a rare genetic disease that causes the skin to be so fragile it blisters and peals at the slightest touch. EB is characterised by skin fragility with blister formation occurring spontaneously or following minor trauma. Living […]
ARH Indigenous Health Scholarship
Guest speaker: Neuroscientist and advocate Dr Emma Burrows SPECIAL PROJECT ARH – Indigenous Heath Scholarship Ryan DiPietro is a proud Trawlwoolway Palawa man from North East Lutruwitra (Tasmania). Ryan grew up on Wurundjuri Marin-Balluk country in the northern western suburbs of Narrm (Melbourne). He is a fourth-year student at Monash University studying for BA of Medical […]
Special project: SHARE
Special project: SHARE SPECIAL PROJECT: Servicing Humanity & Re-purposing Equipment The Rotary Servicing Humanity & Re-purposing Equipment (S.H.A.R.E.) is an initiative so the Rotary e-club of Change Makers that re-purposes excess medicine, educational and Vocational items for communities in nerd locally, nationally and internationally. Volunteers sort, clean and pack donated hospital, school and baby-care items […]
Special project: Gaby Martinelli
Special project: Gaby Martinelli SPECIAL PROJECT – Gaby Martinelli Cerebral Palsy is a life-long condition that effects body movement, muscle control and posture.It is caused by an injury to the developing brain before, during or shortly after birth. Gaby Martinelle is a little girl with Cerebral Palsy, Displegia, who attends Pascoe Vale North, Primary School. […]
Special project: RIMERN
Special project: RIMERN Rotary Inner Melbourne Emergency Relief Network (RIMERN) is a multi-club Rotary project operating in inner Melbourne. RIMERN provides furniture, appliances, and homewares to welfare agency clients who have experienced homelessness, domestic violence, incarceration. refugee displacement and other crises. The Rotary Club of Pascoe Vale is one of 22 Rotary Clubs from Rotary […]
Brushmen of the Bush Art Exhibition
Brushmen of the Bush Art Exhibition SPECIAL PROJECT “BRUSHMEN OF THE BUSH” ART EXHIBITION A feasibility study was carried out in early 1988 out to see if an art show was viable in the area of Coburg and Pascoe Vale. The response was positive. Following the Rotary Club approach to the Coburg City Council, the […]