Greater Springfield Rotary is a community not-for-profit organisation, with a focus on serving the Greater Springfield Community as it grows towards being the third largest community in South East Queensland, after Brisbane and Ipswich
If you are interested in getting involved and giving something back to your community, please get in touch with us,
we would love to hear from you
Greater Springfield Rotary Bloodbikes Australia Impact Project
 
Greater Springfield Rotary, have partnered with Bloodbikes Australia to facilitate the sustainability of a volunteer service that directly benefits person in hospitals and healthcare by delivering blood products, medical supplies, and other related medical materials in a timely, efficient, and safe manner.
 
By way of background, Bloodbikes Australia have been operating for over 5 years as a free volunteer service providing a last resort delivery service to healthcare providers and hospitals. The urgent transportation of blood and urgently needed medical products (on occasion transplant organs), have been transported free of charge by volunteers, registered and trained by Bloodbikes Australia. This service meets a current community challenge within Australia by providing a faster method of transportation as opposed to vehicles that are often delayed in traffic, and saving the Health systems thousands of dollars. While fuel costs have been born by the volunteers, as the service becomes better known, and demand increases, an alternative funding arrangement to ensure sustainability of the service is vital, and Rotary has stepped up to meet this challenge.
 
The new ‘Impact Project’ involves a partnership known as the Greater Springfield Rotary Bloodbikes Australia Impact Project. Through this partnership, Rotary will offer an avenue for wider community involvement that offers a facility for donations from within Rotary and from the public.
Trained and certified Bloodbike Volunteers deliver the service, while Rotary will manage donations and ensure the service fuel costs are covered. Together 1000’s of patients will receive timely (often urgent) benefits to their health situation.
 
Currently over 360 volunteers are registered and trained to provide this much needed service across Australia.
With the launch of this ‘Impact Project’ in June 2025 donations from Rotary Clubs and individual Rotarians will be of great value.
 
So - How much of a “run” do you get for your “money” when you donate?
 
The average delivery ‘run’ costs about $25.00 in petrol.  So, donors may choose to base their donation on how many ‘delivery runs’ they wish to contribute to and in turn how many patients will benefit from their donation.
 
$25 - one run,    $50 - two runs,  $100 - four runs,   $ other amount – as many runs @ $25 as you wish.
 
Please contact us for more information
 
We thank all donors for caring and helping sustain this great community service.
24 October 2024 was World Polio Day. Our Rotary Club of Greater Springfield raised funds for the cause through a special raffle at our favourite local hangout. 
 
Greater Springfield Rotary stands in support of Rotary's Australia wide campaign - "Say NO to Domestic Family Violence and YES to respectful Relationships"  As part of this campaign we aim to increase awareness of the issue of Domestic Family Violence and Coercive Control and encourage the community to Stand Up and Speak Up against this behaviour.  We also seek to help victims feel they can get help and will be supported, and in this respect we partner with many agencies seeking to address the same issue.
When you see us wearing our Purple Shirts stop and have a chat
- together we can create change !
 
 
Proud to announce that our club has won the 2023 Jordan Greats 'Community Group' Award as part of the Queensland Day Awards. 
Member for Jordan, Charis Mullen MP shared praise for the club on her social media page and we thank her for her continued support to the club.
Definitely spurring the club on to build and strengthen support within the Greater Springfield community and beyond!
 
Contact us today to join the club in our community projects and social events!
 
Greater Springfield Rotary has once again held a highly successful Annual High Tea, and on this occasion $5000 was raised for the new Westside Transformations project that will be kicking off soon in Camira. 
 
This year's High tea involved a guest speaker presentation from Diane McKendrick, a Life coach, and was sponsored by EQ Technologies.  The event was sold out with 96 attendees and everyone enjoyed a great high team and got involved in the raffle and silent auction that help raise funds. 
 
The transformations program is a national program that helps people regain control of their lives after suffering addiction and homelessness. the Camira program, when operational will be the third in Queensland with successful programs already operating on the Gold Coast and Hervey Bay.

Following the significant floods in 2022, Greater Springfield Rotary worked in partnership with Ipswich City Rotary to provide assistance to many forgotten flood victims in the Ipswich area.

When several suburbs of Ipswich were inundated with flood water there was an excellent response from the community and local authorities. But as months passed and the clean-up was completed life did not return to normal for the many victims that had either lost their homes or suffered significant damage. Repairing of homes was an ongoing issue, and for those who had been renting, or who had no insurance, finding a new place to live and replacing lost furniture,  household items and clothes was a significant ongoing challenge.
 
In addition to helping with the initial response and clean up, Rotary worked to seek out and assist those who remained most in need. Drawing on funds raised by the clubs and through Rotary disaster grants, the clubs of Greater Springfield and Ipswich City visiting many flood victims and those most in need were given assistance in replacing lost fridges, washing machines, and other key household essentials.
 
As Rowarn Luder of Ipswich City Rotary observed at the time “Many flood victims remain unable to return to their homes. Repairs are taking a long, long time, and those that were without insurance are even worse off”. “We have visited people sleeping in friends’ garages, sleeping on friends’ couches, or living in their homes with no fridges, washing machines and limited furniture and bedding”. “Basically, these people lost everything in the floods and are having to start from scratch to rebuild their lives.”

Paul Roger, who at that time was President of Greater Springfield Rotary noted that Rotary's approach was a recovery project is focusing on identifying those most in need and helping them with white goods (fridges/washing machines) purchased from Rotary funding and getting them Rotary debit cards and GIVIT vouchers for purchasing bedding and other essential supplies. Rotary visited every potential recipient and did appropriate due diligence to ensure those in need received what they most needed.  At the time of the 2022 project it was noted that the people that received help from Rotary were extremely grateful, not only for what they received, but because Rotary did not forget them and spent time visiting and listening to them to understand their needs”. Sometimes the chat was more important than the aid.

This project was a great example of the 'IMPACT' Rotary can have when working together with the authorities, partner agencies, and the community, in support of those in need.  An excellent working relationship was developed with Ipswich City Council and GIVIT, and all the flood victims identified and assisted by Rotary were also referred to the council for additional support services.

The photo below shows a happy recipients of white goods. Permission for the photo to be taken and used in Rotary articles was obtained.
 
Rotary continues to contribute to recovery efforts across Queensland after significant floor in the North and in the West over the past year - 2024-2025.
 

 
    2022. Thank you, Rotary. ‘Living in a garage,
     but now I have a fridge for when I find a new home’. 😊
Where and when we meet:
 
We meet on the 1st and 3rd Thursdays evenings at 6.30pm for 7.00 pm start. 
 
 
We occasionally we have a virtual 'zoom' meeting rather than a face-to-face.
 
Join us also for regular social get togethers and special occasions. 
Guests and new members are always welcome.
Please contact our Secretary for details about coming to our meetings.
Club Contact:
Next Public Event:
Regular Meat Raffle
Friday Nights
6.30pm - 7.30pm
Ballistic Beer Springfield
[Win a meat tray from Your Local Quality Butcher Springfield Fair]
 
 
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Are you looking to support Community Projects in the Greater Springfield Area? 
Our club is on the look out for volunteers and/or sponsors to support various community projects.
Please contact our secretary if you would like to help.