Events

We are going to dinner and taking a peddle tour of the Perth City Christmas Lights. The best part, someone else is peddling for us. Our hosts will cart us around the city in comfortable rickshaws. This is an invite-only event. Ask your favourite Rotarian for an invite!

Belonging to a family with both parents as boat refugees from the Vietnam War, Christian’s hardships inspired him to found Elucidate Education in his Year 12 bedroom 6 years ago.

He is passionate about using technology to break barriers in education and leads a not-for-profit organisation operating a platform providing free learning support to an audience of 78,000 users per year. Christian’s mission is to ensure all secondary students have the opportunity to achieve at school, regardless of their socioeconomic or geographical background. 

Complementing his social impact is Christian’s work experience within management consulting and corporate development for Australia’s largest grain handler. Christian is a graduate of Curtin University and the International Honours Program at Stanford University where he majored in Technology and Innovation.

Our monthly social event will be held at the Globe Restaurant, 495 - 497 Wellington St,, Perth (Opposite Yagan Square)

Robert Hicken, the founder & CEO of GPNow (https://www.gpnow.net/) will be at the Rotary Club of Subiaco to tell us more about how we can make a difference to the average person on the street in Ukraine through telehealth in partnership with a WA home-grown initiative. They've been operating a shoe-string budget to provide primary health care to the most vulnerable in order to relieve the pressure on a health system suffering the effects of war. The medical practitioners are mostly Ukrainian doctors (refugees) who can't practice abroad and would have probably taken on a janitor's job just to feed their families.

There is a potential for funds to be raised in support of this project through an online platform know as "Benevity" that many large North American and European companies promote to their staff for charitable giving.

How to apply the power of your mindset in achieving your goals. An artful activity will be conducted where we will be listening for automatic negative thoughts that can and will arise as people are learning new skills.  Through the activities we will explore how to accept the emotions that come when you are in your stretch zone, making mistakes and learning.  Learn how to recognise, deal with and reframe thoughts such as perfectionism and disappointment, which are helpful in persevering and working through uncomfortable situations.  Tips and tools wiill be given on how to think with a growth mindset in all parts of life.   

Fiona Perrella is a Resilience educator.  She started her career as a Human Resources professional, Consultant, Trainer and Life Coach working with organisations and individuals to assist people challenge their thinking and change their behaviour to achieve success. When her young children entered the school system she was moved to change her work focus as she realised her own daughter’s unhelpful thinking was developing into issues with self-esteem and confidence – the same issues that her clients in the corporate sector were facing.

In 2012, she founded Strength Heroes.  Strength Heroes uses art and play to develop resilience skills in children. Strength Heroes work with families with early years and primary aged children, schools, childcare providers, Out of School Hours Care programs, local councils and other organisations. Their unique approach has seen it grow steadily in making an impact on children’s wellbeing in WA.  In 2022, Fiona Perrella was named a finalist in Commissioner for Children and Young People Mental Educator category of the WA Mental Health Awards.

This is a normal meeting, except the venue has changed.

Steve will tell us about the installation of the recycling container bins at Royal Perth Yacht Club. Ten bins have been delivered which will are emptied each week by the recycler. 

He is a regular patron of Rotary Club of Subiaco’s -  Stirling Markets gourmet bacon and egg roll stall😊.

Long serving member of the Rotary Club of Mt Lawley. Not at long as some Rotary members a special acknowledgement to Mr Bill Benbow PDG and his father’s former apprentice at Government print😊.

Currently, Community Service and Fund-Raising Committee Director 

Recently, helped establish a joint venture with the Royal Perth Yacht with Containers foe Coins project.

This will be a club board meeting.

Please join us for an evening of getting to know Elizabeth Quay and surrounds. 

Meet at 5:45pm at Mends Street South Perth to catch the 6pm ferry over to Elizabeth Quay. 

6:30pm drinks at 18 Knots rooftop bar

7:30pm dinner at Six Senses Thai Restaurant

Return to South Perth via ferry

If you are unable to come to South Perth , please join us at either the bar or the restaurant at the respective times.

We look forward to a fun evening together. 

Organ and tissue donation can suddenly affect anyone in the community though we all imagine it won’t happen to us. It helps to have considered the issues involved in such an event before being confronted by the unimaginable. Tara Lowther will give a personal account of her road to transplantation and Marg Martin will talk about the largest organ donation event in the world, the World Transplant Games, to be held in Perth from 15 - 21 April 2023.  Events like this need many willing volunteers in order to take place. Both speakers are immensely grateful to the donors and their families who gave them ‘the gift of life’, the greatest gift of all.

Tara had a double lung transplant in 2011- I was diagnosed with Cystic Fibrosis at 6 weeks old, spent the rest of my life in and out of hospital for repeat chest infections. The disease progressively got worse and I was listed for transplant around 2008. After waiting 2.5yrs I finally got the call to get lungs.  The op has been unbelievably successful and I am now a sports teacher, have lived in London for 8 years, traveled loads, continue to use sport as a way to look after the lungs and stay as healthy as I can be.

Marg had a liver transplant 26 years ago and has attended six World Transplant Games and seven Australian Transplant Games.

https://worldtransplantgames.org/ 

https://transplant.org.au/

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.

Please join us at our next Dining Hub dinner in Subiaco for local residents and friends. 
 

Please see attached flyer. 

‘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.

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.