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.

Birthing Kits Packing Event

Thirty three members of Canberra Sunrise, Canberra Sundowners and friends worked together over about 6 hours to pack 600 birthing kits destined for overseas regions where proper facilities for giving birth are not readily available. As well as providing the people power to pack the kits, $3,000 had been raised to purchase the items, including a $500 donation from corporate sponsor Keane Consulting (https://www.keane.com.au/). Birthing Kit Foundation Australia (https://www.bkfa.org.au/) will ship these units to where they are needed, making a tremendous impact on the ground for women in need of them.

The event also provided an opportunity for a number of friends of club members and the Keane Consulting team to participate in one of our community service events, and was a lot of fun.

Corporate Sponsorship Proving Its Value

Last year our club welcomed our first Corporate Sponsor – Keane Consulting. Since that time, the company’s Director, Owen Keane, Melinda Keane and Sean Wood have been regular participants at Canberra Sundowner meetings and community service activities. Both Keane Consulting and the Canberra Sundowners are finding real value in this relationship.

For Keane Consulting, the relationship is an important string in the company’s social ethos and values. Owen and Melinda have stated: “We are really “keen” to live our values, and this means more than simply providing financial support to those organisations we sponsor and/or donate to. This means being active members of our local, Canberra community. We want Keane Consulting to have a social conscience.” For more information on Keane Consulting, check out their website at https://www.keane.com.au/community.html.

For our club, the value is in having additional hands-on support (Keane’s team were involved in our Vinnies sorting day and our Street Library construction activity). This has been supplemented by a recent $500 contribution to our forthcoming Birthing Kit packing event. The community is the real winner out of this relationship.

If your company has a focus on supporting the community and you would like more information on how to turn this into a reality, contact the Canberra Sundowners through Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/canberrasundownersrotary/ or emailing the club on canberra.sunrise@gmail.com.

The Courier: Movie Night Fundraiser 8 April

THE COURIER

The Rotary Club of Canberra Sunrise presents a Movie Night Fundraiser, Thursday 8 April, 7pm, Palace Electric Cinema, New Acton. THE COURIER is a true-life spy thriller, the story of an unassuming British businessman Greville Wynne (Benedict Cumberbatch) recruited into one of the greatest international conflicts in history.

For full details see here.

Bookings: www.trybooking.com/BPLRB

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MUNA

DreamCricket

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Service Above Self

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President-Elect

Vice President

Secretary

Rotary Foundation

Treasurer

Director

Community Service Director

Stephen Bramah

Membership Director

Jen Taylor

Vocational Services Director

John McKenna

International Service Director

Bruce Osborn

Youth Service Director

Jonathan Lyall

Program director and Public Relations Officer

Margaret Atkin

Immediate Past Chair - Sundowners Club

Tara Pullen

Secretary - Sundowners Club

Philippa Butler

Treasurer - Sundowners Club

Samantha Saunders

Chair - Sundowners Club

Emma McVeigh

Director Membership and Community Service - Sundowners Club

Peter Hill

Sergeant-at-Arms

Peter McDermott

Protection Officer

Bob Nield

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