Club Meetings and Projects
Rae Mackay - Latrobe Valley Coal Mine Rehabilitation.
Rae Mackay - Latrobe Valley Coal Mine Rehabilitation.
Apr 05, 2023 6:30 PM – 8:03 PM
The Beaconsfield Club
Black Dog
Black Dog
Apr 12, 2023 6:30 PM – 8:03 PM
The Beaconsfield Club
Quilts of Valour
Quilts of Valour
Apr 19, 2023 6:30 PM – 8:03 PM
The Beaconsfield Club
Travel Guide Partners night: Canada
Travel Guide Partners night: Canada
Apr 26, 2023 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
The Beaconsfield Club
Berwick College Presentation Balls
Berwick College Presentation Balls
May 17, 2023 3:00 PM – May 18, 2023 11:00 PM
The Grand
Travel Guide Partners night: Portugal
Travel Guide Partners night: Portugal
May 24, 2023 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
The Beaconsfield Club
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The Rotary Club of Berwick is a group of men and women who take action locally and globally. Each week club members work together completing projects that have a lasting impact.
Locally we support and work alongside community programs and a not for profit organisations in supporting those less fortunate. Our club is engaged in Rotary leadership and educational programs for young people.
Together as Rotarians …
  • We see a world where people unite and take action to create lasting change — across the globe, in our communities, and in ourselves. Driven by a desire to create opportunities, strengthen communities, and find solutions to the tough challenges that affect people
  • We bring together leaders who use their combined expertise to tackle some of the toughest challenges facing our communities.  We find a place for your expertise and passion. Whether you want to lead a project or participate in one, the Rotary Club of Berwick welcomes your involvement.
  • Many members are involved in hands-on projects in our community or in international projects in creating opportunities through sustainable educational development, clean water or disease prevention in helping to break the cycle of poverty.
The Rotary Club of Berwick is part of a global network of 1.2 million men and women - neighbours, friends, leaders, and problem-solvers who join together to make a difference in our communities. 
 
If you would like to give back to your community, get to know a new group of people and are interested in joining us, please contact us at Membership@Rotaryberwick.org
Annual Cemetery Clean Up
Posted by Sam McCurdy:
 
On Wednesday 1st February, members and friends of the Rotary Club of Berwick completed a Working Bee at the Berwick Cemetery.
38 people engaged in various activities to clean up the cemetery.  These included:
  • Painting wrought iron grave surroundings
  • Clearing up fallen leaves
  • Pruning roses
  • Watering plants
  • Removing Christmas decorations and dead flowers from graves
Trevor and Laury at work
 
The painting crew
 
After all the hard work, participants were rewarded with a Rotary barbecue cooked by President Jack Kraan and Graham Johnstone. 
 
The cooked sausages, hamburgers, lamb chops and corn-on-the-cob were complemented with liquid refreshments provided by PP Funno, who did a great job in organising the Working Bee.
 
On a more sombre note, a minute silence was held in honour of two recently deceased Past Presidents of the Club, namely Gerald Treasure (1997-1998) and Dr Graham Tudge (2002-2003).
 
Richard Garvey thanks the  workers
 
On behalf of the Berwick & Harkaway Cemetery Trust, Richard Garvey thanked the Rotary Club of Berwick for their work and continued support over the last 58 years.
2022 'Christmas Appeal' completed
Posted by Sam McCurdy:
 
On Monday 19th December a group of Rotarians completed the final pickup of donations to the 2022 Rotary Berwick & District Benevolent Society’s successful ‘Christmas Appeal’.
 
Mark, Isobel, Laury & Sam at Berwick Market Square Shopping Centre
 
They were collected from the Berwick Market Square and Eden Rise Shopping Centres along with the collection cages, which were returned to the Rotary Shed.
 
Casey North Community Information Support Service (CNCISS) welcomed the final batch of donations as the demand for assistance from families in the local community has increased significantly this year.  The donations will be sorted into hampers for distribution to those in need, making their Christmas much happier.
 
On behalf of the Rotary Club of Berwick, we offer a  big ‘Thank you’ to those schools and Shopping Centres who participated in what was a very successful ‘Christmas Appeal’. They were:
Berwick College
Berwick Grammar School
Kambrya College
Haileybury Junior School
Nossal High School
St Margaret’s Junior and Senior School
Berwick Market Square Shopping Centre
Eden Rise Shopping Centre
 
We also express our appreciation to all those who so generously contributed donations to the ‘Appeal’.
 
My thanks to those Rotarians who assisted me in the placement of the collection cages, picking up the donations, and delivering them to CNCISS in Narre Warren.
 
Well done team!
 
'Christmas Appeal' collections progressing
Posted by Sam McCurdy on Dec 08, 2022
The collection of donations for the Rotary Berwick & District Benevolent Society’s  ‘Christmas Appeal’ is now in full swing.
 
(L to R) Russell, Sam, Trevor, Isobel, and David
 
This week saw collections from St Margaret’s Junior and Senior Schools, Berwick Grammar, and Haileybury Junior School in Berwick. The donations from Haileybury were exceptionally generous and required 6 car loads for their delivery to the Casey North Community Information Support Service (CNCISS) in Narre Warren.
 
Sam & Trevor with the Haileybury Junior School Captains
 
Next week we plan to collect donations and cages from Berwick College  and Kambrya College. 
 
The public donations made at the Shopping Centres at Eden Rise and Berwick Market Square will be collected in the week beginning on Monday 19th December.
 
A big thank you to those members who have helped me with the recent collections, namely Russell Fellows, David Anderson, Isobel Caulfield and Trevor Watson.
 
Berwick District Woodworker's Club donations
Posted by Sam McCurdy on Dec 08, 2022
Every year at Christmas, the members of Berwick District Woodworkers Club create a range of beautiful wooden toys for distribution to families in need, via several local welfare organisations. This includes a generous allocation to the Casey North Community Information Support Service (CNCISS).
 
To assist with the toy distribution, Rotarians from the Rotary Berwick & District Benevolent Society collect the toys allocated to CNCISS and deliver them to the Narre Warren centre.
 
Sam & Vanessa with a selection of the wooden toys
 
This year, Gus Dominguez and Sam McCurdy collected and delivered 4 carloads of wooden toys, which were gratefully received by the CNCISS staff.
 
The toys will make many children very happy over Christmas.
 
Thank you to the members of the Berwick District Woodworkers Club for all your creative work.  Well done!
 
Art Screen delivery – Rye Community House
 
Posted by Jane Moore on Nov 18, 2022
 
For those who don’t know, the Rotary Club of Berwick has an Art Screen Hire service!
We’re an enthusiastic and experienced group, delivering art screens across the eastern /south eastern suburbs of Melbourne and the Mornington Peninsula. The team, led by Rotarian Trevor Watson, have over 18 years of art screen hire experience.
The screens are light and extremely versatile with many imaginative configurations possible to create just the right atmosphere. Oil or acrylic paintings, school artwork, tapestry or any other hanging art can be displayed.
Today we delivered 15 screens to the Rye Community House to a delighted Denise, for their art show, opening at 5.30pm on Friday 18 November running through until 3.00pm Sunday 20th. www.ryech.org
This is the 7th art screen hire event since 16 September!
All money raised is used to fund many projects both locally and internationally.
Tree Planting at Grasmere Wetlands
Posted on Sep 01, 2022
Posted by Sam McCurdy, with photos provided by Jane Moore and David Anderson:
 
At 10:30 am on Sunday 28th August, a group of approximately 35 volunteers met at Grasmere Wetlands, off Inglis Road in Berwick, to plant 1,000 trees and shrubs.  After the preceding cold and wet days, we had a beautiful sunny day for the work.
 
 
The team of volunteers was made up of members of the Rotary Club of Berwick and the community, the St Margaret School’s Interact Club, as well Vadasna Gunawardena from Nossal High School with her parents Vichi and Vichithrani.  Vadasna was volunteering as part of her Duke of Edinburgh award.
 
Simonette Charles, met us there with a Ute filled with all the equipment needed for planting the seedlings.  Simonette is an Environmental Projects Officer with the Community, Education and Engagement team at the City of Casey.  She explained the purpose of the plantings is to establish a wildlife corridor along the new Cardinia Creek re-alignment.  The trees and shrubs planted will:
  • provide protection for wildlife to safely move along the Creek,
  • provide a habitat for local birds and animals,
  • protect the Creek, which in turn provides a home for fish species, such as the threatened Dwarf Galaxies fish,
  • improve stormwater quality and
  • provide a beautiful place for local residents to enjoy.
The seedlings had already been placed on the ground by the City’s contractor, where each was to be planted.  This meant the volunteers job was to dig a hole using the implements provided, plant the seedlings, and ensure that the soil was tightly packed around the surface, to ensure that the potting mix did not dry out.
 
 
 
The volunteers split into teams of two or three, with one creating the hole and the others placing the seedling in the ground and packing the soil around the surface. Eric Boon and his wife Wendy were well prepared, using a battery driven drill to create the holes for their seedlings with minimal effort.
 
 
Although the task to plant 1,000 seedlings in 2 hours, appeared to be unattainable, the goal was achieved within 1.5 hours.  This allowed the volunteers to retire to the barbecue prepared by Trevor Watson and Jack Kraan, with liquid refreshments supplied by Funno, to reflect on a job well done.
 
 
This was a very successful community effort that was organised by Jen Marshall and Jack Kraan.  It sits comfortably within Rotary’s 7th Area of Focus, ‘Supporting the Environment. 
 
Well done to everyone involved!
 
The Four-Way Test
Extracted by Sam McCurdy from a Facebook post by DG Bill Degnan:

The Four-Way Test, was created in 1932 by Rotarian Herbert J. Taylor when he was asked to take charge of a company that was facing bankruptcy.

This 24-word test for employees to follow in their business and professional lives became the guide for sales, production, advertising, and all relations with dealers and customers, and the survival of the company is credited to this simple philosophy.

The Four-Way Test was adopted by Rotary in 1943 and has been translated into more than a hundred languages and published in thousands of ways. It is now a test used by Rotarians world-wide as a moral code for personal and business relationships, and can be applied to almost any aspect of life.

 
 
Rotary members should not use The Four-Way Test to look at others, but rather to look at themselves in considering the ramifications of a thought, statement, or action.
 
It should not be a window through which we look to judge others. It is a mirror at which we look to judge ourselves. 
 
Evan Burrell - Changemaker, gave a lot of thought to what each of the Four-Way Test questions asked of us and came up with the step-by-step process above, to give some real clarity behind these most often recited questions.
 
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