• Working with and supporting the Variety Car in Yeppoon (photo of PP Neil & President Greg)
• President Greg & Peter Long helping Bailey make a prosthetic hand.
• Dolls knitted by member’s wife and provided to the Rockhampton Base Hospital, Children’s Ward
• Supplying fruit trees for Jack’s Paddock in Yeppoon
• Assisted to construct the Liberty Swing shade structure
• Our Carol Gorton, the RYPEN Chair
• Rotary Youth programs including sponsoring a NYSF student
• Partnering with Qld Linen Service to provide Linen to Bridging Health Inc for their project at Tanna Island in Vanuatu

Donations

• To Salvos Yeppoon for the Wednesday morning breakfasts
• Yeppoon SHS for Student Breakfasts

How We Raise Funds

• • Annual Rotary Golf Day
  • Catering at the Village Festival on Gala Opening Night
  • Lotto Boards (2 per year)
  • Trivia Nights
  • Bunnings Sausage Sizzles
  • Old Bags High Tea

• A shelter over outdoor seating at Mount Morgan Hospital
• Public BBQ at Australia Day celebrations funded by local council
• National Tree Day in support of and funded by Local Council
• Public BBQ for Youth Week funding by Local Council
• Rotary Award Presentation night for Local High School
• Rotary Award Presentation day for Local Primary School

Fundraising

• Monthly BBQs at Dan Murphy
• Annual St Patrick’s Day memorial Bowls day fundraising for polio
• Australia Day celebrations
• Fund-raising BBQ at School Festival
• Operate food outlet at Rocky Swap
• Raffle at Mount Morgan Show

Current and recent projects;

Assisting Meals on Wheels Hosting YEP student Working with the local scouts group through the current district scout management to improve youth involvement in that organisation Involvement in group 2 RYDA program with year 11 high school students Clean up Australia

Annual and recent donations;

Sponsor local youth to participate in programmes such as RYPEN, YEP, Youth science programme, Rotary foundation Polio Plus Rotary Health Booyah Project to assist young offenders program

• Constructing two accommodation units for people with disabilities at Red Cross Centre
• Refurbishing Shannon Park Girl Guides club house and complex
• Refurbished Leichhardt Park “Rotary Entrance” for council
• Assisting council in developing Swadling Park
• Provided free food at Commonwealth Games Batten relay
• Annual Secondary School Quiz over two nights for 12 schools in Group2
• Annual Bursary at Rockhampton Eisteddfod
• Rotary Youth programs and YEP with Rotary Club of Venado Tuerto, Argentina

Annual or major donations

• Polio Plus and Foundation
• $25K annually to cancer research from Bird Calendars
• Capricorn Helicopter Rescue
• Salvation Army
• Royal Flying Doctors
• Sponsor school bus, a teacher and student at School of St Jude in Tanzania
• Prizes for schools at School Quiz
• $5000 towards Emu Park RSL 1914-18 war memorial
• Purchase a bus for the Rockhampton Special School
• Interplast and ROMAC

How We Raise Funds

• Operate the Rocky Swap on first Saturday each year
• Produce and sell Bird Calendars
• Operate a meat tray stall every Saturday at shopping centre
• Operate a food outlet at annual Rockhampton Agricultural Show

Rockhampton South Rotary Club is a member of the worldwide Rotary Organization chartered on 25 August 1972. Postal Address: PO Box 918, Rockhampton 4700. Also manages Athelstane Bowls Club