Events

Please join us for a fun two hour shift, Christmas gift wrapping at Forest Hill Chase. 

Choose from Mon-Fri Dec 8-12, 11am-3pm.

Register now at this link or email robyn.stokes02@icloud.com. 

Gold coins raised will assist Operation Cleft, while we have fun interacting with the community.  

Materials supplied. Location confirmed in Dec.

Suzanne Hall from Visy Recycling will speak about the Container Deposit Scheme which it operates across Victoria. 

Chair: Stephen Mather. Desk: Diane Fisher & Bernie MIllane 

CDS Vic will provide shared benefits to the community, environment and circular economy including:  

• more and better recycling  
• reduced litter - cut by up to half 
• new jobs and economic opportunities across Victoria, including for charities and community groups 
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Members and friends - Join us for a relaxed Christmas party at Pavilions.

Outdoor & inside seating, table tennis and billiards, cocktail style with light food. 

BYO drinks

6:00 for 6:30pm 

Room at top of external stairs beside Miss Lucy cafe. Street parking available.

$35pp BOOK HERE. 

Reflections from visit to Ethiopia, from Tony and Robyn Stokes who did a Field Monitoring Visit with a team and in partnership wtih Inernational Needs Australia. we can't wait and INA are jointly funding the E-WASH project there.

 Chair Bruce McEwen Desk: Diane FIsher 

Coffee ctchup at Red Cup Cafe (across the road) after the meeting for those who can make it. 

Operation Toilets trading as we can't wait.

Monique Smith, District Conference Chair D9815 &D9830: be inspired. Sharing excitement and finer details.  

Also Trish Carr, Rotary Community Group East Leader will briefly update our club on the RCGE project digital "Mental Health adn Wellbing Contact Card" opportunities & challenges. 

Chair:  John Elrington.       Desk: Diane Fisher 

Join us as a club with friends, we fund, prepare and deliver free cheese sandwiches to participating local primary schools for students without lunch. A small service with a big impact. Usually outside ALDI.  Ring Robyn 0406607310.

Chair:  Diane Fisher

Desk: Andrew Catford & Brian Martin

Hybrid: Tony Stokes

Gate Roster. Please register on arrival in Council offices & get gate allocation. Many thanks for your service.

7:30-9:15 Ashley Coleman-Bock

9:15-11:00am Louisa Lam.

11:00-12:30pm Andrew Munroe

Any concerns ring Malcolm Chiverton: 0417 355 592

Updates from Youth and Community Services Chair Malcolm Chiverton and Environment Sustainability Chair John Elrington.

Chair: Christina Chia

Desk: Andrew Catford & Brian Martin

Hybrid: Tony Stokes 

Operation Toilets trading as we can't wait.

No morning meeting. Rather attend Chinese New Year Festival at 7pm. Book here.

Learn more and book HERE.

No morning meeting in lieu of Addressing Classroom Hunger. 

Join us as a club with friends, we fund, prepare and deliver free cheese sandwiches to participating local primary schools for students without lunch. A small service with a big impact. Usually outside ALDI, at Forest Hlll Chase.  Ring Robyn 0406607310.

International Women's Day 2026 breakfast at Box HIll Town Hall. Book here.

Operation Toilets trading as we can't wait.

No morning meeting in lieu of Addressing Clasroom Hunger 

Join us as a club with friends, we fund, prepare and deliver free cheese sandwiches to participating local primary schools for students without lunch. A small service with a big impact. Usually outside ALDI at Forest Hill Chase.  Ring Robyn 0406607310.

Session led by Bianca Lobo, Clubs Diversity, Inclusion and Culture Chair. How to attract and retain younger members. 

English Corners started five years ago in Box HIll. Now also meeting weekly at Brickworks Burwood.  Meet Mr Minwen Wu, who brings amazing energy to this very worthwhile project, providing English conversation opportunities (and fellowship) for migrants in Whitehorse and beyond.   

Wings of Hope Lanka (WOHL) was established in 2013 by Rebecca Alexander, and partnered with Mukti Australia in 2016. Rebecca is WOHL Chief Operating Officer. 

WOHL invests in the lives of over 200 children and their families living in the tea plantations in central Sri Lanka, and an urban slum community in Colombo. Children sponsored by Mukti Australia receive access to tuition, educational supplies, and access to basic health care and nutrition. 

Young adults receive skills training and vocational support. Parents, particularly the mothers, receive skills training, income generation opportunities, workshops on parenting, family planning, child protection and rights awareness. WOHL also seeks to improve the living conditions and housing of families. In times of disaster, they seek to offer relief such as food rations and emergency housing. 

RCBHC with WeCan'tWait have supported improved household latrines for the tea garden families. 

A thanksgivng response after Cyclone Ditwah.

Operation Toilets trading as we can't wait.

No morning meeting in lieu of Addressing Classroom Hunger 

Join us as a club with friends, we fund, prepare and deliver free cheese sandwiches to participating local primary schools for students without lunch. A small service with a big impact. Usually outside ALDI at Forest Hill Chase.  Ring Robyn 0406607310.

Session led by International Chair Stephen Mather. 

Operation Toilets trading as we can't wait.

Isabel has over 30 years of working experience focusing on increasing equity and working with governments to develop at-scale poor-inclusive urban sanitation . Since 2017 she has worked on consulting assignments in Asia with World Bank, ADB, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, WaterAid, GIZ and others. From 2005-2016, she was a Senior Water and Sanitation Specialist with the World Bank's Water and Sanitation Programme (WSP) and worked with Government departments and agencies to develop pro-poor urban sanitation programs in Indonesia, Vietnam, the Philippines, Pacific Island countries and South Asia. Previously, she worked in Southern and East Africa for UNICEF, DFID, KfW, AfDB, DANIDA, consulting firms and NGOs. She has an engineering Bachelor's degree and a Master's from the Water, Engineering and Development Centre (WEDC), Loughborough University, UK and is currently based in Melbourne, Australia.

Join us to learn more. 

No morning meeting in lieu of Addressing Classroom Hunger 

Join us as a club with friends, we fund, prepare and deliver free cheese sandwiches to participating local primary schools for students without lunch. A small service with a big impact. Usually outside ALDI at Forest Hill Chase.  Ring Robyn 0406607310.