The current President is Jim Joseph who was originally a member the daughter Rotary Club of Scarborough Beach, which amalgamated with the Rotary Club of Scarborough in circa 2008. The Club meets every Thursday morning at newly renovated Scarborough Surf Club at 6.45am.
The Club's main projects are Wheelchairs for Kids, the Karrinyup Swapmart (held every Sunday morning) and Rotary Youth Exchange. For more information on the Club Click here
The Rotary Club Of Saint-Petersburg
Next year Gordon Booth and Julie will be visiting St Petersburg as a friend told me we Moscow. So we are Russian to get there. Tonight the International toast is to the Rotary Club St Petersburg (known as the Rotary Club Leningrad until 1992) was registered in Rotary International on September 28, 1990, and the Charter of registration in Rotary International was presented to the Club on October 24, 1990 (the day of presentation of the Charter is considered official date of establishment of the Club). Andrey Taledovich Ibragimov was the first President of the Club and, in fact, its founder. In 2007, Rotary Club Saint-Petersburg merged with Rotary Club Severny Sphinx. It meets at restaurant "Zhelanie", 23, prospect Dobrolyubova every Wednesday at 7pm.
It's projects include:
Sponsoring erection of the memorial plaque to the “Siege Well” at the Fontanka emb., 23;
Supply of medical equipment and specialized medical accessories to the first city Hospice for children;
Sponsoring erection of the monument to academician Andrei Saharov;
Repair and decoration works of the premises at the Children’s Orphanage “Fedor”;
Sponsoring of the installation of a special lifting equipment for wheelchairs to the school N25 of Petrogradskiy District for the handicapped children.
Sponsoring boilers to heat water for the Children’s Hospice.
Rotary club “St.Petersburg” sponsored: seven Rotary Foundation scholars (3 to the USA, 2 to Germany, 1 to the UK and 1 to Canada); five young people to participate in the youth exchange programs for a one year study at the US high schools; eleven young people to the summer camps in European districts (Belgium, Netherlands, UK, Franceв, Finland; hosted in St.Petersburg: for 14 days six Rotaractors from Italy, Belgium, Switzerland, Finland, Netherlands; seven Group Study Exchange groups.; High School student from the USA for one year study at a Russian school and staying in the families; youth exchange group from Ukraine with staying in the families; organising a two days cultural programs for the youth exchange students studying in Finland in 1993-2003.