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Win: $40,000 cash or a new Suzuki car to the same value! Lunch & finger food (at the presentation) is included for sponsors and players. Register online via: PS. Register early, as golf day booked out last year! Annual Charity Golf Day SUPPORTING OUR COMMUNITY : REGISTRATION & PAYMENT Venue: Dorset Golf course (Trawalla Rd Croydon) Light lunch 11am. Shotgun start 12.15pm. Presentation & Awards 5pm
The event where you help us support programs including 4TK - For The Kids, a not for profit organisation that supports and empowers at-risk and disadvantaged youth.
Click Here to Register: Golf Day Nov 29th 2025 is now ready for bookings. - The Rotary Club of Maroondah
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The Club raised 50K+to support our community
Hi Richard, Trish, the Gala organizing committee and everyone at Maroondah Rotary,
What an absolutely amazing night on Saturday! I'm still buzzing from the gala and had to write to say a huge thank you for putting together such a fantastic evening.
From the moment I walked in, the atmosphere was just wonderful. You could feel the genuine warmth and spirit of giving everywhere – it was one of those special nights where you're reminded how beautiful people can be when they come together for a cause.
Johnathon was brilliant as MC – he had everyone laughing and kept the energy up all night, and l am still trying to process his magic. What a natural entertainer! The auctions were fun, and the entertainment was engaging, informative and emotional.
But honestly, what made the night so special was all the Rotarians helping out and all the guests who attended with such big hearts. Everyone I met was so genuine and lovely – it really showed how much togetherness goes into everything you do as a club.
It's clear that this gala was the result of countless hours of planning, coordination, and pure passion for making a difference. You created something that was both meaningful and loads of fun! Â
On behalf of all the Eastern Health guests who attended the evening thank you so much it was such a pleasure to be a part of it. And on behalf of all our patients, families and staff at Eastern Health thank you for caring so deeply for our community and your ongoing support.
Thank you again for such a wonderful evening – it was truly something special.
With heartfelt thanks
Sarah Bartels (she/her)
Community and Events
Eastern Health Foundation
Congratulations and well deserved to Richard Royle, Andrew Brownlie and our President Trish McGee. A fabulous start to the year. Thank you Nick McGowan MP for your ongoing support.
Community service is what we do at Rotary. We do not look for recognition but it's nice to be acknowledged.
We are proud to have a new interact club in Ringwood. Fantastic to see our youth contribute to the community. Thanks Ringwood Secondary College.
Interact Clubs are community service clubs for 14 – 18 year olds. The clubs are based at high schools. Interact Club members design and implement their own service projects. There are at least 2 projects each year: one in the local community or at the school, and one internationally. Rotary supports Interact Clubs to allow them to reach their goals.
    
 
The Rotary Club Of Maroondah was founded 50 years ago as the Rotary Club of Ringwood.
Rotary International and Maroondah Rotary are committed to ensuring diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) across the organisation. Our club now has close to 50:50 male female membership.Â
   Since our Club was formed the district of Ringwood has grown significantly as has the community Rotary serves. Like local government, where Ringwood was amalgamated with other districts to form Maroondah City Council, we too felt, a name change would be fresh, exciting and represent new growth within our growing community.
The name of our Club changed in 15th November 2017 to the Rotary Club of Maroondah. We will continue to partner with and support other Rotary Clubs, Local Business and Community organisations across Maroondah.
- Meetings: - We have the ability to zoom in members as requested.
- Days - 1st, 2nd and 3rd Wednesdays of each month.
- Time: 6:00pm for 6:30pm Start - 8:00pm Finish
- Venue: - Club Ringwood, corner Maroondah Highway & Oban Road, Ringwood.
- Please contact: If you would like to join one of our meetings please send us a message [email protected] to request further details and if you will be attending in person or by Zoom link.
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For Zoom link/Hybrid Meetings: Copy link below into top Web launch bar or click on Zoom Graphic. Wednesday Night 6:30 - 8:00pm
- https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89837297535?pwd=ZuZTg9bHAyE1d6yqnjeS8DaVSuJcKY.1
Charity is that with which no man is lost, and without which no man is saved. — Robert Bellarmine
What we do
Rotary members believe that we have a shared responsibility to take action on our world’s most persistent issues. Our 46,000+ clubs work together to:
- Promote peace
- Fight disease
- Provide clean water, sanitation, and hygiene
- Save mothers and children
- Support education
- Grow local economies
- Protect the environment
Solving real problems takes real commitment and vision. For more than 110 years, Rotary's people of action have used their passion, energy, and intelligence to take action on sustainable projects. From literacy and peace to water and health, we are always working to better our world, and we stay committed to the end.
Learn more about our structure and our foundation and our strategic vision. Get involved
Our mission
We provide service to others, promote integrity, and advance world understanding, goodwill, and peace through our fellowship of business, professional, and community leaders.
Vision statement
Together, we see a world where people unite and take action to create lasting change — across the globe, in our communities, and in ourselves.
4TK - For The Kids - offers youth a safe and inclusive community space
by providing them with a place where they feel welcome to socialise, free to relax and comfortable enough to ask for help.
4TK is open to youth aged 13 to 25.We offer a range of programs, resources and qualified staff to create a welcoming space for our youth..
OUR VISION
Caring for and empowering disadvantaged and at risk youth.
OUR MISSION
To empower Victorian youth to become independent and live healthy lives where they are able to contribute to community.
We listen to our youth, believe in them and empower them.
OUR VALUES
Trust . Respect . Community . Inclusion . Purpose
All Angels School Senga Bay, Malawi – Secondary School Sponsorships
Why are we doing this? All the international development experts say that things will improve in developing countries when girls are educated to at least the end of secondary school.
They will return to the villages and ensure their own children are educated and contribute to the improved well-being in the village.
Girls who complete high school: Understand more about health and nutrition Follow those principles in their own families Have fewer children Are healthier and can contribute more to their village.
ROMAC History
ROMAC commenced in March 1988 out of the actions of an Australian Rotarian who, with a group of surgeons, visited Lambasa in Fiji. They found the child mortality rate as high as 25% in some places. They quickly identified that lack of medical and surgical facilities and skills for children of the island nations in Oceania, was a major cause. Rotary faced the challenge to assist an 18-year-old Fijian girl whose right leg was threatened if immediate surgery was not performed.
During the next four years, eight children were brought to Australia for major, often lifesaving, surgery. Soon 20 Australian Rotary clubs were caught up in the success of each case and assisted in various ways. ROMAC established five regions representing clubs in the west, east, south, north and centre of the country.
A New Zealand region was formally established in 2004 and treated its first patient, from Vanuatu, in December 2005. The inaugural New Zealand region representative was Trish O’Reilly and Dr Max Morris, the first New Zealand Medical Director.
It was a slow and steady process to promote the objectives and raise awareness of ROMAC in the New Zealand region, but the number of patients treated in New Zealand has risen to more than 25 patients per year.
ROMAC in New Zealand and Australia enlists assistance from medical experts, hospitals, nurses, physiotherapists, pathology and radiology services, airlines, sponsors and other supporters. Today ROMAC is providing surgical treatment to around 30-40 children from Oceania every year – we are making a huge difference in their lives.
Rotary Supports this great initiative,
Feed One Feed All
Started with Lillie Giang (Founder and President) and a group of friends who formed a mobile kitchen to cook emergency relief food for the community during the Kalorama Storms in 2021. Since then, the demand has only kept growing and so Feed One Feed All was born to help those in our community who need it most.
Community Policing Vehicle
The Rotary Club of Croydon & Montrose is proud to have an on-going arrangement with Victoria Police where the club provides a vehicle for the Community Policing activities in the Maroondah Region. This vehicle displays the Rotary Club of Maroondah emblem and is used by the Proactive Policing unit, Youth Resources officers and the Multicultural Liaison officers for work within the community.
Our club and community members immensely appreciate the officer’s commitment as they allow us to move and live safely in the community.
Why We Joined Tooth Buddies…
Many people join Tooth Buddies as sponsors, to support a great toothbrushing program, that is grassroots and effective. For our family, we have been fortunate and blessed to be able to also join with our yacht, as volunteers; sailing from Brisbane to help in remote villages.
Tooth Buddies supports the Gudfala Tut Skul toothbrushing program (GFTS) in Vanuatu. In August 2022 , while we were there, we had the privilege of introducing the program into ten primary schools across remote West Ambae.
Having now seen it in operation, I am categorically convinced this simple, yet effective program is of vital importance to the children of Vanuatu.
The program helps alleviate issues with tooth decay and long-term dental problems with the provision of a daily in-school supervised toothbrushing program. Without this program many children have no access to a toothbrush or fluoride enriched Made in Vanuatu toothpaste.
Vanuatu is a beautiful country, and her inhabitants are friendly and kind, however, dentists are few and far between making oral health care incredibly difficult to access.Â
GFTS partnering with PVC Health, a local health program run by the Vanuatu Presbyterian Church, are making great inroads educating young children, along with their teachers and parents, in good oral health hygiene practice. This aligns perfectly with the goals set out by the Vanuatu government in The People’s Plan.
So why did we join Tooth Buddies?? … because it’s so practical, every dollar goes where it’s needed and it’s a wonderful way for us, as a family, to give back; putting our faith into action.
WHAT’S NEXT?
The key to getting the most out of your Rotary or Rotaract membership is to get involved in ways that suit your interests. The time and energy you invest will yield rich rewards. You can shape your club by talking with club leaders about your ideas, and as a member, you, too, are eligible to be a club leader. Over time, active members find that the connections they make through Rotary and Rotaract become lifelong friendships.
