Club News
New Aussies Chat 2 Belong!
Combined Rotary/Rotaract meeting
Combined Rotary/Rotaract meeting
Each month, recent migrants (new Aussies) can practice their English or chat about things they'd like help to resolve while mixing with locals instead of only migrants from their home country. Our 'Chat 2 Belong' group helps new Aussies more quickly feel they really belong.
Combined Rotary/Rotaract meeting
Combined Rotary/Rotaract meeting
Combined Rotary/Rotaract meeting
Our Rotary club meets every few months with Adelaide City Rotaract Club. At the recent gathering, we assembled many End Trachoma kits that went up to Tennant Creek High School
'End Trachoma' kits
Combined Rotary/Rotaract meeting
Train ride Mt Barker to Goolwa
Items we gathered for facial hygiene kits to give indigenous kids in the Northern Territory.
Train ride Mt Barker to Goolwa
Train ride Mt Barker to Goolwa
Train ride Mt Barker to Goolwa
In August, our Club took a day out with a SteamRanger ride from Mt Barker via Strathalbyn to Goolwa for a lazy lunch and mooch around... life's tough, yes?
Fred's Van
Train ride Mt Barker to Goolwa
Catherine House working bees
Every few weeks, club members pitch in to prepare, pack and distribute 50-70 evening meals to Adelaide's homeless or disadvantaged in the city.
Catherine House working bees
Train ride Mt Barker to Goolwa
Catherine House working bees
Catherine House supports distressed women with crisis or long term accommodation. We've been landscaping some of their properties in many working bees over a few years now.
Fundraising BBQ at Bunnings
Some tree planting in the city fringe
Some tree planting in the city fringe
Among our many fundraising enterprises, Rotarians lovingly convert tasty snags into financial support for many community projects with positive social impact.
Some tree planting in the city fringe
Some tree planting in the city fringe
Some tree planting in the city fringe
A hardy bunch of Adelaide Light Rotarians braved a drizzly June weekend to establish some new plantings along the creek at Gladys Elphick Park on the city's western edge near "Karen Rolton' Oval.
Many projects in the pipeline...
Some tree planting in the city fringe
Many projects in the pipeline...
Last year's birthing kit assembly resulted in 600 kits sent to Papua New Guinea and Africa. This year we've scheduled tree planting and fence repairs in bushfire affected areas and...
Coffee Conversation
New members and many 'Friends'
Many projects in the pipeline...
Some members who are able to meet mid morning on a weekday, enjoying a springtime 'coffee conversation' at White Picket Café.
Grange wine raffle
New members and many 'Friends'
New members and many 'Friends'
Our annual Grange raffle with four excellent prizes was highly successful again. Just 1,000 $5 tickets and 3 prizes of expensive, desirable wines and 4th prize $100 cash for non-drinkers
New members and many 'Friends'
New members and many 'Friends'
New members and many 'Friends'
Rob and John congratulate new members, Maria and Alex on joining our Adelaide Light. Apart for their own activity, they've introduced many volunteer 'Friends' of our Club.