welcome to our Rotary website

We are an active voluntary club based near the centre of Newcastle, about 150 km north of Sydney. We are involved in community projects and raise money for various charities. Why not come along and see how we operate and what fun we have?

 

We currently have 21 members. We anticipate 1 more in the next couple of months. This does not include our Friends of Rotary. We have members from various professions and industries, including education, banking, ambulance service, insurance, accounting, web design, nursing, business consulting, construction, public relations, property and wine.

 

We hope to keep members, indeed, anyone interested, fully informed on what we are doing and what we have recently done via our weekly bulletin. You can subscribe here.


Our speaker on 7th March was Ben Brown, who told us about his trip to Perth doing the National Youth Science Forum. Here he his with Peter Perriman.

You can download his presentation, We are the NYSF. Please note that this is a large, 15.1MB Powerpoint file.

Overseas Visitor

We were lucky to have a visit from Kevin Graham, a visitor from the Mersea club in Essex, UK. He is out to see his daughter who does track work at Broadmeadow. He is photographed here with our VP, Julie Bevan.

Rotarian of the Year

Lyn Thorpe is our 2011 Rotarian. Over the past year her activities included assisting with cleft lips and palate repair operations or with general surgery, travelling to such places as Egypt in July and China in September  2010 and West Timor in January, Bangladesh in February. Read more...

Lyn has described her activities in China in this small file. 3 photos are in the gallery.

Prospective Members

If you are thinking of joining, your first visit is complimentary, i.e. the club will pay for your breakfast. Note: this is different to bringing along a guest and only applies to people interested in joining Rotary for the first time.

If you are considering becoming a member why not come along? Simply fill out our contact form to let us know that you will be attending. Be assured we will look after you. We are a very friendly club!

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Oz Harvest

The Art with the Artist evening on the 12th April raised over $4000 with proceeds going to Oz Harvest and our club.

Friends of Rotary

We have a new class of member for those who wish to help our community projects but who don't have the time to come to our weekly meetings. Cost is just $20 p.a. You can read the Information Sheet (54kb PDF)and download an application form (49kb PDF) here.

Photo Gallery

Lots of photos! Get to the gallery here. Send CB any photos that you would like uploaded.

New Website Address

Following policy from the District 9670 Electronic Communications Committee, we have acquired the domain newcastlesunriserotary.org.au. We will be keeping the existing domain newcastlesunrise.org.au. Both can be used to accesss the website or to send us email.

Our contact, Geoff, who helped us with our gardening at the Hunter Wetlands Centre has retired. Our next gardening date is Saturday 12th May.

Cooking at Ronald McDonald House

Next cook-up is on 19th June followed by 2nd October, both Tuesday evenings.We will probably be cooking a Mexican meal of bean, chicken and beef tortillas. Lots of fresh ingredients and hopefully even more good comments from the diners!

Our annual Golf Day is taking place on Friday 25th late May so keep that in mind, allyou avid golfers. Once again, it will be at Merewether Golf Club. more...

Read the President's 2010-2011 review in PDF format.

 

RAWCS?? What is it? We have a Flash video compiled by the Rotary Club of Salamander Bay, which is well worth watching. 13MB in size so only if you have a broadband connection. Click here to view.

Lyn and Bill have been working in China and Vietnam. Lyn is off to Africa later in April.