2026 HandOver Dinner
President Gisela Birch hands over the Presidency of Nedlands Rotary to Andrew Brooks.
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2026 Olive Anstey Nurse of the YearNedlands Rotary Club hosted the 2026 Olive Anstey Nurse of the Year Awards at Nedlands Golf club on Thursday 7th May. Awards were presented in three categories, Excellence in Leadership, Excellence in Innovation and Excellence in Professional practice. The overall winner was Robert Mundy. (pictured below) 
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Farewell Trattoria ValdarnoToday Nedlands Rotary held it last meeting at Trattoria Valdarno. The site is being redeveloped. We honored our hosts Rosa and Enzo Strangio - great supporters of our club over many many years and who served us the best Rotary breakfast in WA. Rosa was our special guest and was interviewed by Tim Lyons for a lively and fun discussion.
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RYE INBOUNDS 2024-25 FAREWELL Nedlands Rotary exchange student Antoine presenting district RYE Chair Jill Hanna with a bouquet of Flowers.
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President Gisela takes the Helm. |
The David Cruickshank Award 2025/26  At our meeting today we were joined by Clinical Nurse Rheumatologist specialist Debbie Tunbridge from the Perth Children's Hospital, who was able to tell us about Camp Freedom, a 4-5 day live-in camp for children aged 7-17 living with rheumatoid arthritis and various related conditions. |
Rotary Youth Exchange |
Guest Speaker - Nedlands MLA Dr Katrina Stratton |
RYE Outbound Student Madison HarveyPresident Richard Lugg presents outbound student Madison Harvey with her RYE Blazer at our regular Breakfast meeting. Madison will be hosted by the Rotary Club of Armentieres Val De Lys in France, District 1520.   |
Welcome Elis from SwedenNedlands Rotary welcomes Elis Brogeby our RYE from Sweden to his first Rotary Meeting.  Pictured with Elis, is Marieke Taylor and Andrews Brooks |
Presentation of David Cruikshank AwardAt a regular club breakfast meeting, Nedlands Rotary made a presentation of the David Cruikshank Award for Service to Vocations to Ron Manners. Pictured is Ron Manners receiving the award from Rotarian Lucas Roosendaal.  Pictured below Ron Manners with wife Jenny.  |
Presentation of Community Service AwardAt a regular club breakfast meeting, Nedlands Rotary made a presentation to Thomas Bates in recognition of his graphic design work in producing the Lifeline cards over the past 20 years.  |
Presentation of a Community Service Award At a regular club breakfast meeting, Barry Ryall presented a Rotary Community Service Award to Natalie Bird for her 15 years of dedicated service to Lifeline.   Pictured Barry Ryall with Natalie Bird Pictured : Natalie Bird, Russell Squire - Community Fundraising Co-ordinator at Lifeline,Barry Ryall & Charles Bro |
Rotary Suicide Prevention and Lifeline CardsA small subcommittee of the Youth Committee (Nedlands) commenced researching in the year 2000 for a suicide prevention project for youth in our community. This was following the suicides of three young men known by Nedlands members in a six month period. We researched many projects, attended several Seminars and spoke to experts in the relevant fields. Most projects were rejected as too expensive or not relevant for our community context. We wanted something simple, a resource relevant to the issues of suicide and to appeal personally to young people. We were attracted to the idea of giving the young people a card with the phone number of an appropriate Counselling Service. The service needed to be 24-hour and answered by suitably trained personnel who could not only deal with suicide related issues but also drugs, family conflict and any other difficulties encountered by young people. We decided on the Lifeline 24 hour service which is accessed for the cost of a local call anywhere in WA.     |
Nakuru Hope: Rotary: Changing Lives.Through the Rotary Club of Nedlands, we are indeed Changing Lives. Located in the slums of Kaptembwo, Nakuru, Kenya a whole community now has access to water through receiving a Global Grant received in 2015. Access to water has allowed a change throughout the 270,000 community. Giving opportunities of work through the washing of clothes for others, giving higher personal hygiene conditions, health: changing habits from collecting water from drainage, improved flushing sanitation within improvised toilets of the slums. Changing Lives through providing education, food, and refuge to a further six children who attend the Nakuru Hope school. The opportunity of an education allowing them to be able to pursue a future, follow their own dreams, and inturn for them to change lives. The Rotary Club of Nedlands also provides a fundraising platform for Nakuru Hope which has assisted with the procurement of our school bus and library and the future development of over 300 children and 50 orphan/abandoned children.    |
Rotary’s Response to the 1918 Flu Pandemic
This is how Rotary responded to the influenza pandemic that began in 1918 and came in three waves, lasting more than a year. The Rotary Club of Berkeley, California, USA, meets in John Hinkel Park during the 1918 flu pandemic. |
Rotary at the Start of the United Nations
During World War II, Rotary informed and educated members about the formation of the United Nations and the importance of planning for peace. Materials such as the booklet “From Here On!” and articles in The Rotarian helped members understand the UN before it was formally established and follow its work after its charter. Many countries were fighting the war when the term “United Nations” was first used officially in the 1942 “Declaration by United Nations.” The 26 nations that signed it pledged to uphold the ideals expressed by the United States and the United Kingdom the previous year of the common principles “on which they based their hopes for a better future for the world.”
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History of Women in RotaryWomen are active participants in Rotary, serving their communities in increasing numbers and serving in leadership positions in Rotary. The 1989 Council on Legislation vote to admit women into Rotary clubs worldwide remains a watershed moment in the history of Rotary. “My fellow delegates, I would like to remind you that the world of 1989 is very different to the world of 1905. I sincerely believe that Rotary has to adapt itself to a changing world,” said Frank J. Devlyn, who would go on to become RI president in 2000-01. The vote followed the decades-long efforts of men and women from all over the Rotary world to allow the admission of women into Rotary clubs, and several close votes at previous Council meetings.
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Young Inventor Eco-Friendly Bricks Come Full Circle
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First Club in Philippines Opens Door to Rotary in Asia
The club would be the only one in the country for more than 12 years. Eventually, Manila club members organized Rotary clubs in the Philippine cities of Cebu (1932) and Iloilo (1933). Iloilo club members then started a club in Bacolod (1937), and Rotary continued to expand across the country. |
An estimated 500 million people worldwide became infected. Many cities closed theaters and cinemas, and placed restrictions on public gatherings. Rotary clubs adjusted their activities while also helping the sick.
Rotary and the United Nations have a shared history of working toward peace and addressing humanitarian issues around the world.
Every hero has an origin story. “I was 10 years old when the entire journey started,” explains Binish Desai. It began with a cartoon called Captain Planet, an animated TV series from the 1990s about an environmentalist with superpowers. Desai can still recite the show’s refrain: Captain Planet, he’s our hero / Gonna take pollution down to zero! “That tagline stuck in my mind,” he says. “I wanted to do something to help Captain Planet.”
In early 1919, Rotarian Roger Pinneo of Seattle, Washington, USA, traveled to the Philippines to try to organize a Rotary club in Manila. Leon J. Lambert, a Manila business leader helped Pinneo establish the club. Several months later, on 1 June 1919, the Rotary Club of Manila was chartered and became the first Rotary club in Asia.
