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Mar 14, 2023 5:45 PM
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Trees Australia. Tree planting with school students. Activities that make a Real Difference.
Mar 14, 2023 5:45 PM
Bruce has a small business called Trees Australia where he takes groups, especially school students on tree planting excursions. The presentation will examine environmental problems in WA, young people’s response to those problems, and the solutions Trees Australia use to give young people the hope and confidence to tackle large scale environmental rehabilitation projects. Bruce grew up on a farm near Kojonup in the Great Southern, attended Marcus Oldham Farm Management College in Geelong, Victoria and came home to run the farm. He was an early adopter of what is now No-Till cropping and was the first farmer in the Kojonup area to run an all cropping farm business. After leaving farming he went to university and in 1999 he graduated from the Curtin University Graduate School of Business with a Master of Leadership and Management degree. This experience led to another change in direction and in 2008 he started what is now Trees Australia with the goal of giving young people hope that they can solve large scale environmental problems. Since he started Trees Australia, 6000 school students have planted over 450,000 seedlings in Perth and regional WA. Wherever possible he uses a scientific approach to make management decisions for planting projects based on the results from his own trial plots planted by the school students. Bruce also organises the Two Knowledges bushwalk, a joint presentation by an indigenous educator and a western trained ecologist who demonstrate how western science and Noongar science overlap and support each other. Bruce is Deputy Chair of WA Landcare Network, volunteers for the Bicton Environmental Action Group, and the Friends of Ken Hurst Park. In 2019, he was made a Paul Harris Fellow by the Rotary Club of Melville for his activities supporting the club’s environmental goals. |
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Mar 21, 2023 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
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Mar 28, 2023 5:45 PM
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Promoting Play in People's Lives
Mar 28, 2023 5:45 PM
‘Play’ in its many guises is ‘good’ for children, adolescents, adults and seniors. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, the newly revised Early Years Framework, the Be You programme from Beyond Blue, the WA Curriculum in use in schools and Early Childhood Australia sit behind the WA Play Strategy which advocates for children’s right to play. Play is also important for adolescents, whose brains are still developing until their mid-20s. Play addresses adolescent developmental needs for greater independence and ownership in their lives, opportunities for physical activity and the ability to demonstrate competence. For adults, play can relieve stress, improve brain function, stimulate the mind, boost creativity, improve relationships and keep them feeling young and energetic. And for seniors, play is an opportunity to reintroduce wonder, create new friendships, improve brain function, prevent memory problems, improve optimism and reduce stress. In this presentation, Marie will outline the importance of play, ways you can incorporate more play into your life and the lives of those you care about and ways you can advocate for play in the broader community. Biography As Director of Facilitating Conversations, Marie helps organisations, schools and individuals to have conversations about things that matter to them. Organisational, professional, community and product development are made easier through planned processes which harness the capacity of a group and hold the group through uncertainty to achieve outcomes. |
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Apr 04, 2023 5:45 PM
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Huntington’s disease and its impact in the Community
Apr 04, 2023 5:45 PM
This year, Brightwater is undertaking a major fundraising appeal to build a new purpose-built home for people living with Huntington’s Disease, a condition that impacts how the brain works. It gets gradually worse over time and is fatal. Children of a person with Huntington’s disease have a 50% chance of inheriting the gene and developing the disease, so it crosses generations and impacts whole families. Brightwater is a highly regarded Western Australian leader of innovative and contemporary aged care and disability services. Nicola Bedwood has worked for Brightwater for 4 years and manages a small team responsible for the overall management of corporate relationships, partnership engagement, program development, volunteering services and delivering on philanthropic targets. Nicola uses her experience and knowledge to create a vision and strategy for building and cultivating relationships that connect corporate supporters with Brightwater’s mission, and the personal journey stories of Brightwater’s residents and clients, as well as securing long term and lasting funding sources through strategic partnerships and programs.Prior to her time at Brightwater, Nicola she was responsible for the overall management of operations and marketing of an icon in the WA market, Channel 7’s Telethon. The Channel 7 Telethon Trust is a registered charity, governed by a Board of Trustees, dedicated to raising funds for children, benefiting a range of children charities. |
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Apr 11, 2023 6:00 PM - 8:30 PM
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An African Tail – the story of Funda Nenja
May 02, 2023 5:45 PM
Funda Nenja roughly translates from isiZulu as ‘learning with a dog’. The aim is to develop respect and compassion for all living beings by using dog training as a vehicle.The project runs in the township of Mpophomeni, near Howick, in the KZN Midlands of South Africa. An average of 50 - 70 children and their dogs attend the weekly dog training sessions which happen on Friday afternoons at a primary school in the township. Children on the program learn about animal welfare and how to train their dogs while learning self-discipline, commitment and responsibility which encourages personal growth and self-worth. The overall health and welfare of the animals is monitored for disease etc and dogs needing veterinary attention are given free veterinary care. Funda Nenja also sterilises dogs registered in the dog school programme free of charge. The well-being of children is cared for by the services of a Social Worker who engages with the children and intervenes if their families need support in areas such as counseling, accessing vital documents for social grants or referrals to other agencies. Biography: Adrienne Olivier is the founder and current general manager of Funda Nenja, a registered South African NPO, which was initiated in 2009. Adrienne trained as a primary schoolteacher, but has been a professional dog training instructor and canine behaviour consultant with her own dog school since 1988. After a long career as a judge and high level competitor in dog sports, Adrienne turned her attention to promoting animal welfare in her local community in the KwaZulu Natal Midlands of South Africa. After a few years of volunteering at the local SPCA, Adrienne founded Funda Nenja which works in a semi-rural township populated, in the main, by African people living on the breadline. Today Funda Nenja is recognized as a unique groundbreaking organization and receives funding from both national and international sources. In addition, it has inspired several other similar projects to be launched in various parts of South Africa.
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May 02, 2023 5:45 PM
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May 09, 2023 5:45 PM
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Solar Buddy - Information Session
May 30, 2023 6:15 PM
Solar buddy is a non profit, Australian charity that assists in rectifying the problem of energy poverty. They build awareness and provide a simple sustainable option for people living in darkness. The solar lights are non toxic, renewable and have proven to make a difference in literacy, health and economics for the family where solar lights are given. One in five people in the world do not have access to grid energy. The impact is profound. The impact of lack of lighting limits students to only be able to study in daylight hours. The impact of simple solar light on reading results is huge. Students literacy has increased by a third due to being able to read in the evening under the powerful solar light. Sheree is a teacher at Churchlands Primary School. She has been involved with Rotary for more than 15 years. Her mission as the sustainability coordinator at CPS is to encourage students to give back and think past their own lives. Students get the opportunity through the solar buddy program, to have lessons on energy poverty, and learn to put the solar kit together that makes the solar light by following the steps, just like building lego. Students also write a letter to send with the solar light. Students really love putting the kits together and they love the thought of helping other students in third world countries. https://www.youtube.com/@SolarBuddyorgLtd https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2uB40xz7sY https://www.youtube.com/@SolarBuddyorgLtd https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUEwJLjXjmU
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Jun 06, 2023 5:45 PM
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Jun 13, 2023 5:45 PM
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Study Abroad: France
Jun 13, 2023 6:15 PM
Recently, Sophie embarked on a life changing exchange to France. She attended Sciences Po, Lille for a semester, met students from around the globe who had the same passions and interests in global issues as she has. She also gained a different point of view from attending the host university.
She is currently in her last year at UWA, studying history, politics and international relations. Outside of university, she works as a swimming coach for the swimming club, UWA West Coast. Throughout her life, she had moved countries as a result of her mother’s work. They were in Fiji, Australia and Scotland. The experiences that she had gained from living in these countries have heavily shaped my outlook of the work. Her experiences are one of the main reasons as to why she chose to pursue a double major in history and politics. |
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Jun 27, 2023 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Please join your fellow Rotary members, family and friends on Tuesday 27 June at 6.00pm for an evening of fellowship and the celebration of the Rotary Club of Subiaco’s past year.
This will take place upstairs at The Regal Theatre 474 Hay Street, Subiaco.
Everyone is welcome. Please join us for a cocktail evening (semi formal).
Cost: $40.00 per person, including food and first beverage. Drinks can then be purchased from the bar.
Please RSVP via the link below by Friday 16 June.
For more information, contact Debby on 0401 013 777.
We look forward to an enjoyable evening whilst supporting our local Subiaco community! |
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Jul 04, 2023 5:45 PM
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Jul 11, 2023 5:45 PM
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Enabling People to Do More
Jul 11, 2023 6:15 PM
How can we encourage more employers to harness the power of diversity and employ more people with disabilities? More importantly, how can you develop a mindset where you approach challenges as disguised opportunities? The guest presenter today is an entrepreneur and activist who uses stories from his lived experiences to illustrate important life skills about resilience, opportunity and determination. As a young boy growing up with spastic paraplegia; firstly, in the Hills area of Perth, and then later in the wheatbelt of Western Australia, he has gone on to TAFE and then Murdoch University where he graduated with an Arts Degree. For speaker enquiries contact: Adam Hewber – adam@abilityheroes.org.au or 0433 921 376 For more information visit: https://www.ableadam.com.au/ and https://abilityheroes.org.au/ |
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Jul 25, 2023
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Aug 01, 2023 4:26 PM - 6:00 PM
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Aug 08, 2023 5:45 PM - 7:15 PM
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Aug 15, 2023 5:43 PM - 8:00 PM
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Sep 12, 2023 5:45 PM
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Maiden Speech
Sep 12, 2023 6:15 PM
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