Our next meeting will be 6:30pm Wednesday 14 Jun at the Graphic Arts Club, Mascot.
Please advise if you will be attending to info@botanyrandwickrotary.org.au
President's Message
Welcome to this Newsletter of the Rotary Club of Botany Randwick Inc. Our club has been serving the local and international community since 1948.
Rotary promotes the ideal of service through fellowship. Attending our meetings allows members to enjoy the fellowship of other club members, enrich their professional and personal knowledge, and meet other business leaders in their community.
As a Club we support a wide range of local and international projects. As well as a broad range of local and international community projects, we are particularly focused on the Rotary projects, Australian Rotary Health, Rotary Australia World Community Service (RAWCS) and Rotary Oceania Medical Aid for Children (ROMAC) together with The Rotary Foundation.
All are very welcome to any of our meetings in 2023.
At this meeting member Greg Lill will give a presentation on Australian Rotary Health. Greg is also Chair of the District Committee for Australian Rotary Health.
We will also meet Jesse Aldridge, our Indigenous Health Scholar. Jesse is studying Optometry at the University of NSW.
Australian Rotary Health is one of the largest independent funders of mental health research within Australia. It also provides funding into a broad range of general health areas, provides scholarships for rural medical and nursing students, as well as Indigenous health students.
Our last meeting
President Christine reports that at our meeting on 28th May we welcomed Renga Rajan, the District Membership Director and District Governor Nominee for 2024/25, who introduced nine visitors from India, including Mr Raja Govindasamy, District Governor, from District 3000. They were all travelling through Sydney on the way to Melbourne for the Rotary International Conference.
Simon was involved in the development and launch of Nine MSM in 1997, through an investment pipeline of $1M from Kerry Packer. He founded the biggest digital agency in Australia, Hothouse, and looked after many of Australia’s biggest brands, including Coca-Cola, McDonald’s, Toyota, Sydney Olympics and many others.
Simon identified there was a need to do things differently. and Blue Road was born. The market for digital services has changed, primarily because of its complexity. Companies that don’t change with their customers are doomed, and their customers have all moved to digital, particularly mobile.
Simon has 20 years building digital maturity into Australia’s most innovative companies and Blue Road assists to unlock the business potential offered by being digital.
Simon spoke of the key stages in the development of digital platforms from corporate to community, to selling, to service, apps being endless/ limitless. He spoke of the havoc with the health of young people and that streaming has transformed society. Privacy is now very hard to maintain and artificial Intelligence to going be the next frontier.
Tara, from the PCYC, presented a Certificate of Appreciation for the donation we gave that enabled them to buy new boxing equipment - see the item below.
Meeting all the Rotary members from India was indeed an interesting evening and we thank them for choosing to visit.
Proudly Partnered with Sydney Airports Corporation
2nd and 4th Wednesdays of the month at the Graphic Arts Club,
182 Coward Street,
Mascot.
6pm for pre-meeting drinks and chat. The meeting, with dinner, starts at 6:30pm and normally concludes by 8:30pm.
Our Club has supported our local Police Citizens Youth Club (PCYC) in Daceyville through their Fit-for-Life program. This program is designed to engage youth aged 12 to 17 who have been identified as high risk of offending by our local police.
We have donated boxing gloves and padders for up to 40 persons who can participate in a class.
The PCYC is an organisation that encourages young individuals to use physical activity as an alternative to offending behaviour by offering them a safe and supportive environment.
Through this program the PCYC staff, NSW police force and volunteers put on a breakfast for all the students and then drive them to school to ensure 100% attendance on the days they are involved in the program.
The major source of funds required to support projects undertaken by our Club comes from donation collection bins placed at Sydney Airport. For this we are grateful to the ongoing support of the Sydney Airport Corporation.
Following the last airport collection, a small team separated the notes from the coins, and using a "mechanical" sorter separated the foreign and Australian coins. The notes presented another challenge, as identifying the originating countries often involved painstaking research, with great support from Google.
Another team then came together to sort the foreign notes. It was an involved process but a great result and a wonderful team building exercise. The members got to learn different currencies and worked together to sort the majority of the back log. 84 different currencies were sorted in piles on the day. The team worked tirelessly from 12.30 to 4.00 pm being feed tea, coffee and mint slices to keep their energies up. A big thank you to Mark’s mother and past member Andrew's wife Georgina, for donating the working space and sustenance. Thank you to the working team President Christine, Treasurer Richard, Secretary Greg, June, Julie, Paul, Phillip and Laura together with Emmanual from Marrickville Club for your wonderful effort. Apologies from Mark for his poor jokes on the day but they got a few laughs (or moans) to break the monotony.
We are planning another sorting day in 4 weeks. Date and venue to be advised. Jokes are being planned.
June is Rotary Fellowship Month! This is a fitting designation since fellowship is particularly to the forefront with changeovers being very much the priority in June.
Rotary also has Fellowships in many areas, which are based on a friendly association of people who share a common interest, or more broadly as a group of people meeting to pursue a shared interest or aim.
Rotary Fellowships are designated as autonomous, international groups of Rotarians, Rotarian partners, and Rotaractors who join together to:
Share a common interest in worthwhile recreational activities (sports, hobbies, etc.)
Further their vocational development through acquaintance with others of the same profession
Make new friends around the world
Explore new opportunities for service
Have fun and enhance their Rotary experience
Fellowships are open to Rotarians, family members, program participants, and alumni. New fellowships are added frequently; for the most recent list, see rotary.org/fellowships.
To find out how you can join or start a Rotary Fellowship, watch this video
“Fellowship is wonderful; it illuminates life’s pathway, spreads good cheer, and is worth high price.”
- Rotary Founder Paul Harris
The Four Way Test
The Four-Way Test is a non-partisan, non-sectarian ethical guide for Rotarians to use for their personal and professional relationships.
Of the things we think, say or do:
Is it the TRUTH?
Is it FAIR to all concerned?
Will it build GOODWILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS?
Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?
To contact the Club, please email info@botanyrandwickrotary.org.au
Our Club has supported our local Police Citizens Youth Club (PCYC) in Daceyville through their Fit-for-Life program. This program is designed to engage youth aged 12 to 17 who have been identified as high risk of offending by our local police. 
The major source of funds required to support projects undertaken by our Club comes from donation collection bins placed at Sydney Airport. For this we are grateful to the ongoing support of the Sydney Airport Corporation.
June is Rotary Fellowship Month! This is a fitting designation since fellowship is particularly to the forefront with changeovers being very much the priority in June.