2023 Rotary International Convention
27-31 May 2023 Melbourne, Australia.
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Broadwater Southport Gold Coast Queensland
Broadwater Southport Rotary Empowers Youth and
Helps Children Living with Illness and Disability.
Meetings & Upcoming Events
Our club meets for breakfast every Friday, 7:30am - 8:30am at the Southport Yacht Club located at 1 MacArthur Parade, Main Beach, Queensland 4217. You can view a map by clicking here. On occasion we may vary this for social events, vocational or community visits, or meetings with other clubs. Please refer to our calendar for up to date meeting details or check out some of our upcoming events below.
Our Mission
We help young people across the Gold Coast and in other countries to be the best they can be when studying, in sport, and developing leadership skills. We fund facilities and medical equipment to help improve the lives of children living with illness and disability.
Our service projects:
- Youth Development: RYPEN, RYTS, RYLA, Rotaract, & Interact
- Bare Your Soles For Kids - Supporting Rotary causes in the community
- Circus Quirkus - Purchase medical equipment for the Gold Coast University Hospital’s children’s wards
- Arundel Park Riding for Disabled - Providing facilities and horse riding experiences for children with a disability
- Now I Can Run - RaceRunners® for disabled athletes
- The Salvation Army - Youth Homelessness
- Rotary Broadwater Chapel by The Sea - A charming intimate setting to experience your wedding or any of life’s special ceremonies
- Gold Coast Hospital Foundation - Supporting patients and their families
- Radio Lollipop Gold Coast - Giving young patients a voice
- Rotary International - End Polio Now
- Seres - Cultivating and catalyzing youth leaders
- The School of St Jude - Fighting poverty through education
- Manasprings - Grassroots Women Transforming Communities
- Give Every Child A Future - Vaccinating 100,000 children across nine Pacific Islands
- Griffith University Researchers - Vaccine deployed into malaria-endemic countries
- Rotary Kokoda Beach Walk & Run - Annual event empowering youth & helping children living with illness & disability
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Latest News Stories
Arundel Park Riding for the Disabled
On Friday 2nd December 2022 - our club members visited the complex at Arundel Park Riding for the Disabled.
To celebrate extensive renovations for the ARDA caretaker's cottage Southport Broadwater Rotary Club member's joined volunteers, management and friends for a relaxed breakfast and information session followed by a walk through viewing of the beautiful new kitchen and wall cladding and guttering.
It was a really positive end to a busy week for many and fantastic to see so much hard work come to fruition and hear about the excellent services provided by the Riding for the Disabled for so many families in a myriad of different ways. Good news for the horses too - they are off on a month's holiday in the country to feast on green grass and relax by the 'dams' before starting the new year fresh.... Haha.
Radio Lollipop Gold Coast
Our club donated $500 in the 2021-2022 budget to Radio Lollipop that they have used towards purchasing a trolley that brings surprises and games to the kids in the Gold Coast University Hospital.
Click here to visit our Kokoda 80th Anniversary Memorial 'Events' page for all the details.
On Monday, 8 August 2022, Their Excellencies General the Honourable David Hurley AC DSC (Retd) and Mrs Linda Hurley, as guests of Mr George Friend OAM, Trustee, Rotary Kokoda Memorial, attended the 80th Anniversary of Kokoda Day. This event was supported by the Gold Coast City Council, 39th Battalion Association and The Southport School.
Our guest speaker at our Friday Breakfast meeting on April 2022 was Mr Andy Rajapakse, a champion in attracting young people to Rotary. His visionary leadership helped our district 9640 have the largest number of under 40’s in Australia and in Zone 8.
Photographs of ANZAC Day Parade 2022 in Brisbane, the Dawn Service at Surfers Paradise, Gold Coast, and AFL ANZAC Tribute Match, Metricon Stadium, Carrara.
The primary focus of the Institute for Glycomics, Griffith University is translating its drug, vaccine and diagnostic discoveries into social and economic benefit, locally and globally.
