Another beautiful day and another fantastic meet up .. this time for a Breakfast BBQ at the park for the Rotary Club of Burleigh Heads. Thank you to the team of Allan Barnett, Terri Taylor for the menu selection and the set up ably assisted by Charles Kilby. Ron Mullins for helping with the cooking and clean up, Greg Evans for the pack up and thank you also to all the members who showed up today to support this out-of-the-box activity.

Life at the Rotary Club of Burleigh Heads = always fun, interesting and sparks healthy debates every time. Thank you also to the Burleigh Rotaractors, Blake and Catlin, and to guests Howard and Trish who showed up and joined in :)

And last but not the least, our youngest Rotarians-to-be, Alex Barnett and Liam Zirilli. You boys are just a pleasure to have around :) 

Visit us anytime, on a Thursday, when we meet at 7am at the Surf Club in Burleigh. 

 

 

Our meetings and attendance just gets better and better ! Today we had a fantastic speaker, Stephanie Collins, from the Endeavour Foundation,which is is an independent organisation established in 1951 with a vision to support people with an intellectual disability to live their best life – starting with equal access to education and life-skills learning. The clients who visited us along with the staff from NDVR were a lovely, friendly bunch of people and we hope to continue our association with them,when we help them build a beautiful herb/vege garden in their facility. Thank you Richard Diaz and Graham Jones for coordinating this project,and Cr Pauline Young for the contact with this organisation. We had a few other visitors today as well and it was lovely to welcome fellow Rotarians once again to our club. Please get in touch for more information on today's meeting or speaker. 

Special mention and thank you Michael Shambrook for standing at the door to welcome visitors and David Ungar for his stellar work at the front desk and last but not least, Allan Barnett for his AV set up each and every week. 

 

 

The photos say it all ! An absolute ripper of a day at Burleigh Heads Surf Club and our Reflect, Respect and Celebrate Australia Day Lunch was an amazing success, celebrating all things Aussie! We also recognised one young local hero, Noah Connors, the local Rural Fire Brigades, the Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary Volunteers and the CWA with Outstanding Community Service Awards. Thank you to the National Australia Day Council for sponsoring the event as we not only had a lot of fun, but we got to say a huge THANK YOU to our fellow volunteer organisations. Our team of organisers led by Allan Barnett pulled off an amazing event and this made it a memorable day for everyone who attended. Makes us all proud to be in this beautiful country. 

A Vibrant Breakfast Meeting at the Surf Club saw a full house with a guests and new members. Great to see everyone and the energy in the room was positive and uplifting. While facing hard times, this is a good place to come and get the support of member friends. So reach out for the friendship and fellowship of Rotary, Burleigh Heads. Returning member, Morgan, being welcomed back to the fold ! Great to have him back at the club. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Our final meeting of 2020 with special breakfast food,champagne and our annual Hard Quiz on Rotary and General Knowledge-won by our President John!

And the winner is ..... our Club! We were very excited to find out this week that our Club was the November winner of the Grill'd Nobby's Beach Local Matters Community Group, and we will receive $300 which will be very useful and be used for local community service projects.

Last Thursday night  was a very successful Dinner Meeting and it replaced our usual Breakfast meeting. We had local comedian, Josuha, whose name was misspelt by the doctor who delivered him .. and the jokes kept on coming ! 

This event sold out and all COVID regulations were followed. Social distancing was observed and the humour throughout the night was kept clean ! 

 

Special mention to our members who brought along guests. Thank you all for turning up and supporting us.

A big thank you to Nick, Tina and his team at the club for excellent service with the food and drinks. 

Join us for breakfast any Thursday morning and follow us on Facebook (Rotary Burleigh Heads) We have a few more exciting things happening in the next few weeks before we go on a break over Christmas. 

 

BUSY BUSY BUSY ! Another lovely day at Burleigh Heads and another awesome meeting of our Club. We had an induction of THREE new members today and Rowan Johnstone from the Rotary Club of Gold Coast did the honours. He was also our Guest Speaker today and shared some wonderful ideas to keep our Club thriving and flourishing. Thank you to all members who make the time to attend and actively take part in Club activities :) You make all the difference!

 

Another well attended social lunch at Grill'd Nobby's Beach mainly for us to get together but also to add out tokens to the jar to try and will Community Group of the month!

 

 

Our speaker today was Kerrie Cox from Body Connection. Kerrie gave a great presentation providing several tips on how we can all look after ourselves a little better by listening to what our body is telling us. A snapshot of just some of the tips are to slow down when you eat, be present and aware (when you eat) for a deep impact on your metabolism, choose quality and eat with your body's rhythm.  

Kerrie is also offering free 30 minute consultations if you are interested. Please contact us for more information. 

 

Her presentation covered some keys areas of the challenges and the changes in club membership. Jessie’s first experience of Rotary was as a participant of RYLA in 1987, and she maintains an active interest in Rotary’s youth and leadership programs to this day.  She is keenly interested in membership development, and is co-author of ‘101 strategies for recruiting and retaining members’. A most interesting talk and we hope we continue to get the benefit of Jessie's passion and drive for all things Rotary ! 

Despite having to work through the Covid-19 restrictions period, our shipping container of much needed mediacal and educational equipment and supplies has arrived in Dili,Timor Leste,been unpacked and now being ditributed to the hospital, clinics and schoools that were designated to receive relevent items,including major medical equipment to the Dili Hospital,two Dental Chairs, and many desktop and laptop computers to schools. a very successful projetc finally complete after 8 months of collaboration with other Rotary Clubs,including Dili Rotary Club,our Rotaract Club, other community organisations,and a District Grant.

  

Our speaker today was Lola Mashado from Relationships Australia (Queensland). 

Relationships Australia (Queensland) is a leading provider of relationship support services for individuals, families and communities.