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 25 members, thus reaching our target of 27 by June 2011. We anticipate a couple more before in November. 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.


Trivia Night

A great sucess in June, raising over $1900, but being refined for the next one, which will be on the 24th February 2012.

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.

Cooking at Ronald McDonald House

Next cook-up is probably in February. On June 21st we cooked a very successful Mexican meal of bean, chicken and beef tortillas. Lots of fresh ingredients and even more good comments from the diners!

Read the Shelterbox Australia newsletter.

June 2011 (2.15MB)

"Haiti one year on" (277 KB)

"Shelter Box Year in Review 2010" (6 MB)

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!

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.

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R.A.W.C.S. and Shelterbox

The trivia night on the 17th June raised over $1900 with half going to R.A. M. and half to Shelterbox.

Well done everyone.

Friends of Rotary

We now 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 a directive on policy from the district Electronic Communications Committee, we have acquired the domain newcastlesunriserotary.org.au. We will be keeping the existing newcastlesunrise.org.au one. Both can be used to accesss the website or to send us email.

Mel Hayes, our GSE candidate, has been to Texas in the first half of 2011. We should be hearing from her on the 10th August at our breakfast meeting.

We did some more work at the Hunter Wetlands Centre on Saturday July 10th, planting about 100 plants. This is in addition to the 200 we planted earlier.

Peter Lewis visited us on 20th July and drew a couple of caricatures, one of Julia Gillard and one of Bill Walker...


click the image to see a larger version in the photo gallery.

Our club had its Changeover Dinner at Customs House on 24th June. There are some photos in the gallery.

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