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MEETINGS & SOCIAL EVENTS
Welcome Sue
The Club is pleased to welcome Sue Appleby as its newest member. Her classification is Optometrist.
Sue is shown here her mentor, Liz Ware and her sponsor, Marie Arendsen.
Recent Events
Tuesday February 14 - Club Meeting at Hampton RSL
Guest Speaker - Inspector Dr Cath Wilkins
Dr Cath Wilkins is the Glen Eira Bayside Local Area Commander Southern Metro Region for Victoria Police. She has been a police officer for 32 years and has worked in operational, corporate and training roles.
Cath spoke about her current role, some of the challenges and how the community can get behind their local police to support community safety.
She is passionate about what she does, knows how to make a difference and wants to build community connections with police.
Tuesday February 21 - Social Night at Il Forno Restaurant.
Members enjoyed good food and each other’s company.
Tuesday February 28 - Club Meeting at Hampton RSL
The monthly Club Forum enables members to discuss future projects, float ideas and monitor continuing projects. The operation of the Farmers’ Market was finetuned.
Also, members overwhelmingly supported a donation of $5000 towards initiative of RC Dachau and RC Ataköy (Türkiye) to provide bread making equipment to the earthquake impacted area in Turkey.
Upcoming Events
Tuesday March 14 - Club Meeting at Hampton RSL
Guest Speaker-Zoe Murdoch - Specialist Secondary School teacher at McKinnon High School
Zoe will talk about 'Community Connections for Youth' - a project involving Hampton Life Saving Club & local schools.
Tuesday March 21 - Social Night.
Dinner at Sandringham Yacht Club. Partners welcome.
Tuesday March 28 - Club Meeting at Hampton RSL
Tuesday April 4 Board Meeting
Only board members to attend
Tuesday April 11 - Easter Tuesday Social Night
Dinner at Little Vietnam, 504 Hampton St. Partners welome.
YOUTH and EDUCATION PROJECTS
Next Pre-School Screening FULLY BOOKED!
We’re thrilled that the next pre-school screening, scheduled for March 18th at Hampton Primary School, is now FULLY BOOKED.
Hampton Rotary Club, in partnership with Uni of Melbourne Audiology and Bayside City Council, and supported by Hampton Primary School, will be delivering the always popular FREE Pre-School Hearing Screening to Bayside children aged 3.5 to 6 years old. In addition, we’re also co-locating a team from the Uni of Melb Physiotherapy Dept who will be offering screening for Large Motor Skills of pre-school children as well. This has now become a popular addition to the pre-school screening program for over a year.
The screening sessions will take place on Saturday 18th March 9am-4pm and are FREE.
Thanks again to Marie Arendsen for leading this project and for organizing the roster of Club members who are volunteering to help out on the day. For further enquiries about this project, contact: Marie Arendsen at: arendsen.m.a@gmail.com
500 Local Teenagers Benefit from Teen Mental Health First Aid Training
Our youth mental health project to directly assist young people in the local Bayside community is growing. We’ve now had confirmed that we will be rolling out the TEEN Mental Health First Aid training course to Year 9 students at Brighton Secondary College in June. This is in addition to the 170 Year 10 students at Sandringham College who will participate in the course in April. This will mean that since we started rolling out the TEEN Mental Health First Aid programmes last year, 500 students in total, across two Bayside secondary colleges, will have benefited from participation at this vital mental health training programme for teenagers.
The Teen Mental Health First Aid training course is developed and accredited by Mental Health First Aid Australia, and designed especially for teenagers, and delivered in the school setting. The delivery of this training forms part of our project partnership with Brighton North Rotary, to help improve the mental health of youth in our local area. We want to thank Bayside City Council and the Rotary Foundation for their support of this Rotary initiative.
For further information about this project please contact:
Christine.lindsey@gmail.com
Join in TeamSport4All Bayside Beach Walk on Tuesday 28th March to Help Disadvantaged Children to Participate in Team Sports
You can help raise funds for local disadvantaged children to get into community-based team sports by joining in a Bayside Beach Walk on Tuesday 28th March organised as part of TeamChallenge 23 from TeamSports4All. This year, Hampton Rotary are sponsoring their Team Challenge, so why not join in as well and help support this fabulous cause.
Participation is just $20 and an event T-shirt can be purchased for $35. All money raised will go directly to helping local disadvantaged children. For every 10 people who register and buy a t-shirt, one child will be given the opportunity to play sport for a year.
To register for the walk, click this link: https://buff.ly/3RgJKdb
RYPEN Camp Coming Up Friday 24th March to Sunday 26th March
We wish to thank Rotary Club of Brighton, through the Early Intervention Federal Govt Grant funding, for assisting to sponsor 3 students from Sandringham College to attend the next District 9800 RYPEN (Rotary Youth Program of Enrichment) camp, coming up at the end of March. This Youth Development Program is for students aged 15-17 years old and is a great opportunity for young people to help them reach their potential, and develop skills in resilience, communication, leadership, teamwork and goal setting…& more.
COMMUNITY PROJECTS
February’s Bayside Farmers’ Market Support for Türkiye Earthquake Relief Project
We’d like to give a big shout-out to everyone who donated so generously at our February market, to contribute toward the Rotary Türkiye Earthquake Relief Project. The money raised at the market went towards purchasing bread making equipment that can make 8,000-10,000 loaves of bread each day. This is providing real on the ground support to those in need - thank you so much for the generous donations.
Beach Clean 5th March (Clean Up Australia Day)
There were several groups collecting rubbish at Green Point on Sunday 5th March. Nearly 15 kg of rubbish was collected by the team of Hampton (3188) Beach Patrol. Disappointingly a lot of time was spent picking up cigarette butts. Whilst it was tricky to count, we estimate >400 butts were collected.
Other notable items included 30 cable ties - 14 straws - 1 nang, 1 homemade bong - Pair thongs, underpants, raincoat - Ball, Shuttle Cock, Frisbee – Plastic bottle lids 30 coffee cups - 23 lids - Hundreds of soft plastics such as food wrappers - small and large pieces of Polystyrene - 6 masks - Fishing line, sinker.
There were lots of grateful beach goers, with one family postponing their swim to help and another offering chocolate many thanks to them.
The Next Hampton Beach Clean Up will take place on the first Sunday in April – 2nd April, 9am-10am.
Hampton Rotary supports this local environmental initiative so if you can assist by volunteering to help with the clean-up, contact Annette Grime for more information – email Annette_grime@hotmail.com
Next Bayside Farmers’ Market – Saturday 25th March
The next Bayside Farmers Market is coming up on Saturday 25th March - 8am-1pm, at Trey Bit Reserve (Jetty Road), Sandringham. You’ll be able to shop for locally sourced fresh produce direct from the farm, gourmet foods and beverages, artisan products from local makers, take-away food & coffee, and enjoy live music …all at a fabulous beachside location!
More details about the market are also available at the market website: https://BaysideFarmersMarket.com.au
Market Volunteers Needed
If you’re interested in joining our volunteer team at the monthly Bayside Farmers’ Market, we’d love to hear from you. It’s only a commitment of 3 hours each month and no experience is necessary…so if you like meeting other locals and want to get involved in a fantastic community event that raises funds for many worthy causes, please get in touch.
If you are interested, then please contact Jenny Fox at 0411 108 248 or email: admin@hamptonrotary.org.au
ROTARY NEWS & EVENTS
Rotary International Convention Melbourne 2023
Registration for the Rotary International Convention Melbourne from 27-31 May 2023 are now open.
For further information, refer to:
https://rotarymelbourne2023.org
WHERE TO FIND US
Club Meetings
Club meetings are held at Hampton RSL, 25 Holyrood Street, Hampton Victoria 3188
Generally, meetings will be Hybrid Meetings and those not attending in person will be able to ZOOM in via the following link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86742462448?pwd=NVpFc2NWYTF5V05JWW5ET0RhbHBLUT09
Details of meetings can be found on our website and you can refer to our website for updates on the upcoming meeting program: https://hamptonrotary.org.au/all-events
New Members Welcome
New members are always welcome to the Rotary Club of Hampton. For more information about the Club, it’s projects, meetings and events, check out the website at: www.hamptonrotary.org.au
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