Welcome to the Rotary Club of Canberra Sunrise
 
 
 
We are a small and motivated breakfast club with members drawn from a wide range of vocations. Our goal is to serve our local community with a strong focus on youth. Our two primary activities are the Model United Nations Assembly (MUNA) which is an event for high school students held annually at the Museum of Australian Democracy and DreamCricket, which provides opportunities for primary school children with disabilities to play cricket. We enjoy the friendship and fellowship associated with Rotary service.
 
You can get full information on what we do and who we are in this leaflet
 
Why not join us at Canberra Sunrise Rotary and help us improve our great community here in Canberra.  Drop an email to canberra.sunrise@gmail.com  We'd love to meet you.
 
Vinnies Clothes Sorting Event
Thanks to the awesome bunch of Sunrise and Sundowner members who worked tirelessly for over 4 hours sorting clothes at Vinnies in Mitchell today. A huge amount of clothes were sorted and will go out to the distribution centres next week. The 27 centres in Vinnies local network raise almost half of their funds used to fund their various programs to give people a hand up.
 
Our team managed to get through a total of 38 bags and made up 36 boxes of stock for the Vinnies Centres. This involved handling over 1100kgs of textiles that have been kept out of landfill and will raise valuable funds for their various programs.
 
We had a lot of fun supporting this great charity.  A great effort.
 
  
 
  
Virtual Tupperware Party Fund Raiser for End Polio
Our Sundowners satellite Club ran a Virtual Tupperware event over the week of 25th October.  Our tupperware hostess Steph donated her 20% commission on all sales through this activity to our End Polio Now campaign for the club. Thanks so much Steph.
There were plenty of great bargains and shoppers were busy - everyone loves a tupperware party!
The results are in.  We raised $1,248 through this event for Rotary's End Polio Campaign.  A wonderful effort.  Thanks to all who participated.
 
CS#1 Freezers Launch
Yesterday President David and last year's Board members Lain, Peter and Rosemary celebrated with Amanda Tobler, CEO of CS#1, Canberra Sunrise's purchase of two mobile freezer eskies for use with their food pantry to extend services to those in need. This is part of a broader relationship that the club has worked to establish with CS#1, which has culminated in a Rotary District Grant to support the food pantry purchases of fresh ingredients.
We are very pleased to be able to support some of the broad set of community activities CS#1 is involved in.
 
Read more about CS#1 here or on their website here.
 
 
 
  
 Please advise visitor attendance or member non-attendance to Helen Deutsch before 12.00 noon Tuesday every week
Upcoming Events
Speakers
YEP Theo Hearder
Dec 03, 2020
YEP exchange experience
President
Dec 03, 2020
AGM
Special Christmas meeting
Dec 10, 2020
Xmas break
Dec 17, 2020
No meeting
President
Jan 28, 2021
First meeting back
President
Feb 04, 2021
Club Assembly
Ms Zakia Patel
Feb 11, 2021
Working with the Multicultural Community
Amardeep Singh
Feb 18, 2021
Experience with the migration process
TBA
Feb 25, 2021
President
Mar 04, 2021
Club Assembly
President
Apr 01, 2021
Club Assembly or Fellowship
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Club Executives & Directors
President
David Elder
President-Elect
David Elder
Vice President
Lynne Duckham
Secretary
Judy Mack
Rotary Foundation
Kim Barrett
Treasurer
Rosemary Everett
Membership Director
Jill Bailey
Community Service Director
Suzie Howarth
Director
Gabrielle Quadraccia
Vocational Services Director
John McKenna
International Service Director
Bruce Osborn
Youth Service Director
Jonathan Lyall
Program director and Public Relations Officer
Margaret Atkin
Treasurer - Sundowners Club
Samantha Saunders
Secretary - Sundowners Club
Cassandra Hearn
Chair - Sundowners Club
Emma McVeigh
Director Membership and Community Service - Sundowners Club
Peter Hill
Immediate past President
Lain (Melanie) Dare
Immediate Past Chair - Sundowners Club
Tara Pullen
Sergeant-at-Arms
Peter McDermott
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