Community Service Activities 2000-2001

This Rotary year the Community Service Committee spent close to $20,800 on a wide variety of projects.

Australian Rotary Health Research Fund - assistance to this Fund which researches health matters, particularly mental illness.

GROW - financial assistance to this community based self - help group which is also concerned with mental illness.

Trees for Life - growing/planting of 1000 trees was undertaken - at Clare and Hope Forest.

Teen Challenge - the Club provided new furniture, curtains and cooking facilities for the Hindley Street "Drop In Centre" which assists street kids and the homeless. The Club also provided turkeys and hams at Christmas and sponsored/assisted with breakfast on a regular basis.

SA Ambulance - 1000 emergency medical information books were purchased and distributed within the Unley area.

Royal District Nursing Society - financial assistance in setting up new centre and provision of special equipment.

Indigenous Medical Scholarship - continued support to Olivia O'Donoghue ($2500 per year) in her progress towards a medical degree. Support was also given ($550) to a final year nursing student in danger of losing her place in the system.

Red Shield Appeal - financial assistance was given to launch this appeal and the Club also matched Club collections on a dollar for dollar basis.

Julia Farr Foundation - the proceeds ($1000) of our two stalls at the Unley Way to Go were donated to this organisation.

Aged Care - we are organising the design, layout and planting of "Aroma Gardens" in two Unley nursing homes.

Preserve Planet Earth - a small group participated in the Olympic Landcare project in Adelaide's South Parklands.

Local Projects - these included:
· Carols in the Park
· Christmas Hamper for needy families
· Christmas cakes for senior citizens
· Citizenship ceremony
· Charitable donations were made to:
· Gordon Reid Memorial
· Club 200 Foundation
· Eastern Community Mental Health
· University of SA
· Phoenix Society

Vocational & Youth Service Activities 2000-2001

Vocational Visits:
- Parliament House.
- Adelaide Symphony Orchestra rehearsal.

National Youth Science Forum - one successful applicant who later presented positively to the Club.

Siemens Science Experience - three successful applicants.

TocH Camps - one child & one leader were sponsored for two camps.

Australian Festival For Young People - donation to assist disabled children to attend "Come Out" festival.

National Schools Volleyball Cup - assistance to Unley High School teams.

YMCA Camp - two children sponsored to camp on Kangaroo Island.

Livewire - Gary Tonkin was a volunteer mentor to a participant in this program.

Teen Challenge - sponsorship of a Saturday barbecue.

Vocational Talks by Members - short talks were arranged and presented at dinner meetings.

RYLA - one applicant sponsored.

RYPEN - three students from Concordia were sponsored.

Australian Business Week - one student from Concordia was sponsored.

Police Officer of the Year Award 2000 - 24 nominations were received from around the State and John Hookings from Tumby Bay was the successful nominee.

International Service 2000-2001

Avoidable Blindness Project - This project had the support of our World President and became a major expenditure item of this committee, being progressed as a joint project with the Rotary Club of Bombay South and the Rotary Club of Hong Kong. The focus of the project is to set up a Cornea Retrieval Centre in Bombay (Mumbai) and assist those people who are corneally blind. A Matching Grant Application has been lodged and is currently being processed by Rotary International. Our contribution is around $10,000.

Sandakan Hospice, Malaysia - Along with the Rotary Club of Sandakan we supported, by way of airfares, ($2000) the presence of Australian professionals at a palliative care course.

Seeds for Alieu, East Timor - Two shipments of maize seeds have been purchased and sent to East Timor (approx $1000) with transport of both consignments being provided free by the Australian Army.

School desks for PNG - With the acute shortage of school desks in PNG the Rotary Club of Lae organised to manufacture them locally and our donation of $1000 produced 15 school desks.

RAWCS Support - We contributed $360 to the RAWCS Supporter program which was based on $10 per member. In addition we gave $1000 to four selected RAWCS projects (India, China, Thailand and Papua New Guinea).

Donations in Kind - Eighty cartons of school books were collected from two schools and delivered to Rotary's Collection & Despatch Centre for distribution to needy schools overseas.

Christian Blind Mission International - An amount of $500 was sent to CBMI to assist their eye clinic which lost buildings and equipment in the Indian earthquake.

Club Service Activities 2000-2001

President's Emergency Fund - the Club would donated $1000 to rotary International's Indian Earthquake Appeal.

Annual Bowls Match vs Mitcham - this year Unley hosted Mitcham Rotary Club but, despite an excellent evening, unfortunately lost the annual bowls match.

Rotary Ride for Research - Our Club hosted a group of 53 bike riders from Rotary District 9810 for lunch on the Unley Village Green in early April. This was a good Rotary exercise and helped the group in their money-raising venture.

Fellowship Activities:
· Visits by the Rotary Clubs of Mitcham and Noarlunga East.
· Two joint meetings with Group 6 Rotary Clubs and a meeting visit to
  Mitcham Rotary Club.
· Partners nights
· Tree planting weekend at Clare (in conjunction with Community Service
  Committee).
· Woodstock Winery Luncheon.
· Country Lunch at Past ADG Bob & Maria Mills' Mount Barker property.
· Christmas Dinner at Mt Osmond Golf Club
· Film Evening/visit to Marion Megaplex
· Club Birthday dinner
· Annual Bowls evening vs Mitcham Rotary Club
· Visit to Parliament House (organised by Vocational & Youth Committee)
· Adelaide Symphony Orchestra rehearsal (organised by Vocational &
  Youth Committee).
· Police Officer of the Year Award dinner (organised by Vocational &
  Youth Committee).

Programme - Members enjoyed a well balanced array of guest speakers at dinner meetings encompassing a wide variety of interesting topics.

Fundraising - The Thrift Shop remains our major source of fundraising income with Gross Sales being $56,097.85 for the eleven months to end of May. This figure is expected to be around $61,000 for the full year to June 2001 (last calendar year sales were $59,000) and would then constitute around 95% of our fundraising income.

The balance of fundraising income (approx $2000) was derived from our weekly wine raffle, our weekly lucky square raffle, sale of Rotary Christmas cakes, Christmas cards, Entertainment books and Emergency Medical books.

In addition to the above our Ladies auxiliary organised a Christmas raffle which netted approx $700 (for specific designated projects).