Introduction
Welcome to the website of the Rotary Club of Seaford-Carrum Downs. Rotary is an organisation of business and professional persons who provide humanitarian service, encourage high ethical standards in all vocations and help build peace and goodwill in the world.
Chartered in 1971, the Rotary Club of Seaford-Carrum Downs has provided financial and active support to community charities and organisations for more than 30 years. Amongst those organisations are: ROMAC, Skye and Carrum Downs Fire Brigade, Seaford Life Saving Club, St John's Ambulance, Frankston Hospital, Peninsula Health, RACV Car Rally, Frankston SES, Austin Breast Cancer Research, Action Aid Australia, Kananook Primary School and hospitals Australia-wide through the "Barrel Man" project.
The Club also provided financial support for Rotary programmes to assist surgical teams to perform work in the Pacific area and life saving surgery for an East Timorese child in Australia.
The special annual events for the Club are:
- Barrel Man's encouragement awards
- Naturalisation ceremony in conjunction with the City of Frankston
- The Les McNamara Scholarship Awards, which provides two major scholarships for a student at Monterey Secondary College and a student at Patterson River Secondary College. This programme commenced in 1989.
- Local Business Service Awards
- Carrum Downs Community Festival
Friends of the Seaford-Carrum Downs Rotary Club
Chairman: PP Tom Newman OAM |
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Friends of Seaford-Carrum Downs Rotary is an association with the Rotary Club of Seaford-Carrum Downs by invitation to friends or associates.
Friends of the Rotary Club of Seaford-Carrum Downs is not a substitute for membership of the Club and regular attendance is not required.
Aims and Objectives
- To support and encourage the activities of the members of the Rotary Club of Seaford-Carrum Downs.
- To maintain contact with the Club and to be informed of Rotary activities both locally and worldwide.
- To contribute experience and wisdom when needed.
- To support and assist, where possible, with fundraising and major club events.
- To enjoy fellowship and social occasions with the members of the Seaford-Carrum Downs Club.
- Friends of the Rotary Club of Seaford-Carrum Downs will receive information from the Club by way of the Club Bulletin The Tea Tree whisper; weekly by email, and on special occasions by normal (“snail”) mail and by direct contact with The Friends of Rotary Chairman and from the sponsor-member.
- Friends are invited to support fundraising and fellowship events organised by the Club, particularly the major functions conducted by the Club annually. These include the following annual programmes: The Barrelman's Awards, The Business Awards, The Les McNamara Education Scholarship Awards, the Citizenship Programme with the Frankston City Mayor and our Annual Changeover Dinner.
- Friends are invited to assist the Club with the cost of administration of Friends of the Rotary Club of Seaford-Carrum Downs by donation each year.
- Members of The Family of Rotary are automatically members of this programme and are not required to pay an annual fee.
- Friends of the Rotary Club of Seaford-Carrum Downs is not a substitute for membership of the Club and regular attendance is not required nor encouraged other than by offering the prospect of full membership .
- In this regard Friends are invited to contact our Membership Chairman John Berends regarding full membership of the Club. Details are available from your sponsor Rotarian.
- Membership of the Friends of Rotary is subject to an annual review by the Board.
- Membership will lapse upon the absence of a sponsor Rotarian and or minimal participation from the Friend, as decided by the Club Board.
- Former Rotarians are welcome to join Friends of the Rotary Club of Seaford-Carrum Downs.
For further information regarding joining Friends of the Rotary Club of Seaford-Carrum Downs, contact:
Friends Chairman .
Forthcoming Events
| VENUE | DATE | DETAILS |
| Sands | July 4, 2006 | Tracey White's Autobiography; Club Forum & Board Meeting |
| Sands | July 11, 2006 | Emily & Laura; The Banana Project in Northern Thailand |
| Sands | July 18, 2006 | PE John Berends; Rotary International Experiences |
| Sands | July 25, 2006 | Pippa Hansen; Frankston Sports Injury Clinic |
Youth Service
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The Barrelman's Award
Over the past 15 years, our club has asked the principals of local primary schools to nominate a Year 6 student to receive The Barrelman's Award for Enthusiasm. The primary schools selected are: Ballam Park, Carrum Downs, Frankston, Overport, Rowellyn Park, Seaford North, Seaford Park, Seaford, St. Anne's and Nepean Special School.
This award is aimed at students who show enthusiasm, achievement, initiative and community awareness. Each awardee is presented with a book voucher. The books are chosen by the awardee and are later re-presented at a special Rotary dinner which family and friends are invited to attend. The Award is so-called because it was instigated by Les McNamara OAM, who is known as "The Barrelman" due to his ongoing project known as: "Operation Small Change". Under this project, collection barrels are placed in hospitals with the aim of collecting donations for the hospitals concerned.
Photo Gallery
The club is involved in many different ways in supporting our local and international communities. Pictured below are some of the activities of Seaford-Carrum Downs Rotarians.
CHARTER CLUB MEMBERS JULY 1971. TONY GUNN CHARTER PRESIDENT |
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Centenary of Rotary
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The greatest celebration in Rotary's history commemorates the organisation's first one hundred years of service. In more than 31,000 communities worldwide, Rotary clubs organised centennial community projects that Celebrate Rotary while fulfilling an important need in their area.
To commemorate the 100th anniversary, the Rotary Club of Seaford-Carrum Downs ran a "Rotary Centenary Essay Competition", which was open to Year 7 students at Monterey, Patterson River and Carrum Downs Secondary Colleges.
The winner was Tyler White, Monterey Secondary College for his essay titled: "Rotary Camp". Tyler received $200.00 and a certificate.
The first runner-up was Tayla Wilson, Patterson River Secondary College for her essay: "Polio Eradication". The second runner-up was Patrick Bacon, Monterey Secondary College for his essay: "The Work of Rotary". Tayla and Patrick each received $100 and a certificate.
Monterey Secondary College was awarded $500.00, a Rotary Centenary Crystal Obelisk and a certificate.
The topic of the essay was: 'Research and describe a significant project that Rotary has undertaken internationally or in our local community'. Download competition details (MS Word document).
Our congratulations go to the prize-winning students and to all of the students and faculty members participating in the competition. We were very pleased to have had excellent support for this program from all three secondary schools invited to participate. We plan to continue the competition in our next Rotary year.
For further information regarding the competition, please contact: Tom Newman.
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Winning School Presentation L to R: Ms Susan Hackwell (English Co-ordinator, Monterey Secondary College), Mr David Louden ( District Governor) |
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