RESPONSIBILITY: Southern Mitchell Rotary Board
Through the Indigenous Health Scholarships, Australian
Rotary Health is supporting the next generation of
Indigenous health care providers to achieve an
education that will help them assist their
communities. Each student enrolled in the program is provided with a $5,000 scholarship. The Indigenous Health Scholarship program is a collaborative project between Australian Rotary Health, participating Rotary Clubs, and State and Commonwealth Governments.
RESPONSIBILITY: Rtn. Peter Appleton
This Rotary project to create an Arboretum
on 10 acres near Kilmore with an Analemmatic Sundial has been ticking away for 3 years.
RESPONSIBILITY: Rtn. Andrea Willis
Southern Mitchell Rotary has been involved with
presenting the Kilmore Art Expo along with the
Kilmore Art Society for some 17 years. This
activity provides a means for local artists to display
their creations and our local community to enjoy the event and purchase those creations.
RESPONSIBILITY: Rtn. Rose King
A small team of high achievers from Rotary source
grants and donations to make this annual event
virtually free, plan and co-ordinate all the activity
and put in the hard yards on the day.
RESPONSIBILITY: Rtn. Ian Dempsey
Bees are facing serious challenges due to a mix of
environmental pressures, which threaten not only
their survival but also the health of ecosystems
and agriculture. Bees are crucial to pollination,
which supports food crops and biodiversity. Protecting them means more than saving individual species—it’s about maintaining balance of entire ecosystems. Efforts like reducing pesticide , supporting local pollinator-friendly planting, and practising sustainable farming can help bees recover and thrive.
RESPONSIBILITY: Rtn. Ian Dempsey
This Beuhne Memorial is located near the roundabout
just north of Kilmore on the Northern Highway.
Frederick Beuhne (pronounced Boyner) was a
very early pioneer of the Victorian/Australian
beekeeping industry.
RESPONSIBILITY: Rtn. Rose King
Busking in Kilmore has developed a life of its own and continues to grow. It is a wonderful street event that brings a lot of colour
and energy. It is always held on the Saturday of
the Art Expo and apart from providing
entertainment, it provides opportunities for budding entertainers.
RESPONSIBILITY: Rtn. Lisa Kyllo
We collect clean small plastic lids and take them to
Victorian recycling plants. Any funds raised are
returned to the Shire in community projects.
Please drop off your clean small plastic lids,
metal pull tabs and beer bottle tops at the Rotary Recycle Shop in Kilmore or at the stall at the Wallan Market. Medicine blister packs can be dropped off at participating Chemist Warehouse stores.
Anything smaller than a credit card automatically goes straight to landfill!
RESPONSIBILITY: Rtn. Angelina Cirelli-Salomone
Rotary Youth Exchange RYE is a program that was
created to connect youth from all different
countries, cultures and backgrounds. The program
offers students, an opportunity to spend up to one
year studying abroad and living with a host family. By participating in the RYE program, young people are able to learn and experience another culture, language and way of life.
RESPONSIBILITY: Rtn. Peter Lee
We are advised there are a number of people in our
community waiting for a Guide Dog. We want
to share the call for volunteers to care for puppies
for their first 12 months, with all expenses covered
by Guide Dogs, Vic.
RESPONSIBILITY: Rtn. Angelina Cirelli-Salomone
Established in memory of a former club member, the
bursary reflects the club's commitment to helping
those in need and empowering the next generation
of leaders. The bursary offers significant financial
assistance, helping to cover the costs of books, tuition & other educational expenses. This assistance enables the students to focus on their studies and achieve their goals, no matter their financial circumstances.
RESPONSIBILITY: Rtn. Rose King
If things are a bit tough for you at the moment,
Rotary is here to help. Rotary Free Laundry at:
Wallan Wash laundry – 3/69 High St Wallan
Remote service by phone Friday 10am-1pm.
Laundry Lounge - 41 High St, Wallan. Volunteers on hand - Wed 9am-12 noon.
RESPONSIBILITY: Rtn. Rose King
This program is now underway. Nexus are very
pleased with outcomes to date and will be
conducting an evaluation early 2025.
RESPONSIBILITY: Rtns. Kit Holland & Ian Dempsey
We are totally committed to supporting disadvantaged
people in our community, as well as promoting
environmentally sustainable principles of recycling
and reuse of materials. Our “Rotary Recycling Op
Shop” volunteers are a key ingredient to our success, and we thank every one of them for their total commitment and dedication.
84 Sydney Street, Kilmore. Open 9.30-3.00 Mon to Fri and 9.30-12.30 Sat.
RESPONSIBILITY: Rtn. Paul Lloyd
This project is designed to support 1,100 Primary
School children and their teachers at St. Vincent’s
Primary School in Southern Madagascar. The
area has suffered six years of successive drought in
addition to Covid-19 which is forcing families in rural communities to resort to desperate measures to survive. Donations will be used to provide food, clean drinking water, medicine and school equipment to help parents keep their children fed and to stay at school.
RESPONSIBILITY: Rtn. Roger Morgan
It is only 50-60 years ago when Iron Lungs were widely
used to help Polio victims stay alive. Rotary has
been working to eradicate polio for more than 35
years. Our goal of ridding the world of this disease
is closer than ever. As a founding partner of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, we've reduced polio cases by 99.9 percent since our first project to vaccinate children in the Philippines in 1979.
RESPONSIBILITY: Rtn. Kit Holland
We are always on the watch for playgrounds that are to about to be dismantled in readiness for new equipment to be installed. If you become aware of this happening, please let us know
so we can save the equipment from landfill.
RESPONSIBILITY: Rtn. Angelina Cirelli-Salomone
RYLA is a program that provides an opportunity for
young people to develop their leadership and
communication kills. It focuses on teaching how
to use teamwork, problem-solving, communication
and critical thinking to become better leaders. This is designed to help young people become more aware of the impact their actions can have on the world around them.
RESPONSIBILITY: Rtns. Kit Holland & Ian Dempsey
Southern Mitchell Rotary is assisting with the
funding of these programs to help ensure students
are not deprived of an education due to hunger.
Participating schools to date are Kilmore Primary,
Wallan Secondary and Broadford Secondary.
RESPONSIBILITY: Rtn. Rose King
Rotary Recycle Op Shop makes available $50 vouchers
for children’s school and sporting shoes. The
vouchers are redeemable at Kilmore’s Booteek
Shoes who have kindly offered a 10% discount
on all shoes purchased with a voucher.
RESPONSIBILITY: Rtn. Ian Dempsey
We have chosen to work in a large area feeding the
creeks that flow into the Goulburn River and
eventually into the Murray River. In normal
conditions, thirty (30) tonnes of salt per square
kilometre leaves this area annually. Since the inception of this project 23 years ago, over 123,000 native trees have been planted on bare hilltops and other areas within the district.
RESPONSIBILITY: Rtn. Rose King
Southern Mitchell Rotary is introducing Well-Being
Wagons. These little garden wagons are filled with
activities such as colouring pencils, books, jigsaws,
games, balls etc. Each school receives two wagons,
age based. One for ages 5 to 8 and the other, nine till 12. These will be used during playtime and lunchtime for children that find themselves sitting alone with no friends. Schools are Kilmore Primary and Beveridge Primary.
RESPONSIBILITY: Rtn. Roseanne Whitten
A small team of high achievers from Rotary source
grants and donations to make this annual event
virtually free, plan and co-ordinate all the activity
and put in the hard yards on the day.
RESPONSIBILITY: Rtns. All of us!
Rotarians treat everybody with kindness, no matter who you are or where you come from. It's like a big family of friendly folks just trying to make the world a better place. Whether it's helping out at a local laundromat for the needy, organising a charity event, or simply lending an ear for someone who needs to talk, Rotarians are always there to spread positivity and show some love and kindness to all.
ROTARY ISN'T ALL ABOUT COMMUNITY VOLUNTEERING. WE LIKE FUN AS WELL!
Our Rotary Cup Day BBQ was hosted by Peter and Judy Appleton in their lovely garden on a sensational Kilmore day (weatherwise). As usual, we pretty much fixed all the world's problems except that election in the USA.
