Thanks to Paul, Serene, Mandy, Warwick, Kate, Melanie and Tracy for helping out at the Tasmanian Special Children’s Christmas Party at the Derwent Entertainment Centre today. We helped out with the drinks in the morning and then with the presents in the afternoon.
Entries Tagged as 'Club projects'
Tasmanian Special Children’s Christmas Party at the DEC
November 6th, 2011 · Comments Off · Community activites
Tags: community activities
Masked Ball (End Polio)
February 27th, 2011 · Comments Off · Club projects, Fun
On Friday night we held our Masked Ball at “The Venue” in Salamanca. We had around 50 people enjoy the food, drinks, music and dancing. We auctioned off sunglasses, two pairs of ladies shoes, a bottle of wine, and three vases of Maltesers. Among the raffle prizes were a Peppermint Cruise, a painting, and a [...]
Tags: event·fun·Fundraising
Walk with Me – St Giles
September 12th, 2010 · Comments Off · Community activites
Four of our club volunteered to be marshals for the “Walk with Me” awareness and fundraiser event for St Giles this morning. We received our instructions and our safety vests before the walk started at 11am from the Parliamentary Lawns. We helped guide the walk around the waterfront and we finished back at the lawns. [...]
Tags: volunteering
Kingston Fun Run/Walk/Stroll
May 23rd, 2010 · Comments Off · Community activites, Fun
Paul, Selena, Lucy, Warwick and Kate with her puppy did the Kingston Fun Walk this morning. Overnight the temperature was a cool 1ºC and so there was much frost around. We started at 9am at the Kingborough Sports Centre and we walked 5.3km down to the Kingston Beach. It took us about 55 minutes or [...]
Tags: Fundraising·walk
Soup making for Louis Van
May 14th, 2010 · Comments Off · Community activites
Tonight we made four different pots of soup at Anita’s house for Louis Van. The soup will be frozen and stored at St Vincent de Paul for use on Louis Van. We seemed to have brought just as much nibbles as soup ingredients but that was all part of the fun of the night.
Tags: Loui's Van·soup making
Rotary Youth Driver Awareness program for 2010
April 22nd, 2010 · Comments Off · Community activites
The RYDA (Rotary Youth Driver Awareness) program for 2010 is currently being held at the Royal Hobart Showgrounds in Glenorchy. It started Monday 19th April and runs through until 5th May. Four of our club (Philip, Julia, Tracy and Warwick) are volunteering one or more days each to help manage the students. The program has [...]
Clean up Australia
March 13th, 2010 · Comments Off · Community activites
Paul, Tracy, Warwick, Anita, Jill and Jeremy cleaned up rubbish in the area from under the Bowen Bridge (Eastern Shore side) to the where the road pokes out into the Derwent River. It is only 300 metres but it took the six of us nearly 3 hours to run out of the special rubbish bags. [...]
Help at the Gate for the Briggs Athletics Classic 2010
February 14th, 2010 · Comments Off · Community activites
Several of our club helped with the ticket collection at the Briggs Athletics Classic on Friday 12th February. We started our roster from 4pm and we finished around 8pm. It was not as busy as the All Schools and Youth Athletics Championships in December last year but it was very busy at times.
Tags: Fundraising
Parking & Ticketing for the All Schools and Youth Athletics
December 7th, 2009 · Comments Off · Community activites
Our club finished helping out with selling tickets and managing parking at the 2009 UTAS All Schools and Youth Athletics Championships from Friday to Monday. The weather was extremely variable, but there was a great turn out. The stamping of people as “Processed” to allow people back in became a bit of fun (for a [...]
Tags: Fundraising·RAWCS
Marshalls for the Christmas Pageant yesterday
November 22nd, 2009 · Comments Off · Community activites
Five members of the club assisted in the smooth running of the annual Myer Hobart Christmas Pageant by being marshals on Saturday. The pageant consisted of about 55 entries from various clubs, schools, businesses and associations as well as the star of the show Santa on his beautiful gold sleigh. Thousands of very well behaved [...]
Tags: event·Fundraising
Phone books completed for another year
November 8th, 2009 · Comments Off · Community activites
We have successfully delivered phone books to the Claremont area. We started on Show Day (25th October) and delivered around 4,000 phone books.
Tags: Fundraising·Phone books
Light the Night – Leukaemia Foundation
October 14th, 2009 · Comments Off · Community activites
On the 23rd September our club president Paul Sayer and Warwick Pease joined with the Rotaract Club of Sandy Bay (inc. Ryan McConnon, Hannah Vermeulen, Emma Piccoli) to walk with an illuminated balloon from the City Hall around the docks and back again. There were speakers talking about their experiences with Leukaemia.
Tags: Fundraising
