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.
 
Upcoming Meetings and Guest Speakers
John Oomen District 9640 Governor 2025-26
John Oomen District 9640 Governor 2025-26
Nov 14, 2025
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Southport Yacht Club
Nigel Hennessy AUKUS and Nuclear Submarines
Nigel Hennessy AUKUS and Nuclear Submarines
Nov 21, 2025
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Southport Yacht Club
Visit GC Seaway Tower with Hunter Neuss
Visit GC Seaway Tower with Hunter Neuss
Nov 28, 2025
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Gold Coast Seaway Kiosk
Christmas Dinner
Christmas Dinner
Dec 03, 2025
Bumbles Cafe
Kristy Sanderson VOICE
Kristy Sanderson VOICE
Dec 05, 2025
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Southport Yacht Club
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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:
  1. Youth Development: RYPEN, RYTS, RYLA, Rotaract, & Interact
  2. Bare Your Soles For Kids - Supporting Rotary causes in the community
  3. Circus Quirkus - Purchase medical equipment for the Gold Coast University Hospital’s children’s wards
  4. Arundel Park Riding for Disabled - Providing facilities and horse riding experiences for children with a disability
  5. Now I Can Run - RaceRunners® for disabled athletes
  6. The Salvation Army - Youth Homelessness
  7. Rotary Broadwater Chapel by The Sea - A charming intimate setting to experience your wedding or any of life’s special ceremonies
  8. Gold Coast Hospital Foundation - Supporting patients and their families
  9. Radio Lollipop Gold Coast - Giving young patients a voice
  10. Rotary International - End Polio Now
  11. Seres - Cultivating and catalyzing youth leaders
  12. The School of St Jude - Fighting poverty through education
  13. Manasprings - Grassroots Women Transforming Communities
  14. Give Every Child A Future - Vaccinating 100,000 children across nine Pacific Islands
  15. Griffith University Researchers - Vaccine deployed into malaria-endemic countries
  16. Rotary Kokoda Beach Walk & Run - Annual event empowering youth & helping children living with illness & disability
Latest News Stories
                                                           
  
 
                 
 
 
 
       
 
Meeting: Southport Yacht Club 7:15 for 7:30 1 McArthur Parade Southport
 
District:       9640                       Chartered 30th June, 1980                       25 July 2025
Club No:      9792                       info@broadwatersouthportrotary.org             Volume No. 01-01
 
 
 
Meeting: Southport Yacht Club 7:15 for 7:30 1 McArthur Parade Southport
 
District:       9640                       Chartered 30th June, 1980                       01 Aug 2025
Club No:      9792                       info@broadwatersouthportrotary.org             Volume No. 01-02
The Rotrary Club of Broadwater Southport welcomes Guest Speaker: Neil Kirby,  Joint Managing Director, Travel Masters Nerang and Mermaid  Waters
to update our club members on his companies long term support of Bare Your Soles for Kids.

The Broadwater Sothport Rotary Club would like to welcome Pro Skater, Jesse Noonan head coach of Rock 'N' Slide skateboarding school  and learn how he transforms lives with skateboarding.

Welcome Jesse.

The Broadwater Southport Rotary Club would like to welcome Pro Skater, Jesse Noonan to our moring breakfast meeting. Jesse is  head coach of Rock 'N' Slide skateboarding school  and learn how he transforms lives with skateboarding.
Welcome Jesse.
The Members and Guests of Broadwater Southport Rotary Club would like to extend a warm welcome to our Guest Speaker: Stephanie HO, Solo to the South Pole 2026
Club President Ray McCabbin and Presient Elect Laurie Hamilton cordially extemd an invitation for the members and their guests to attend the annual changerover dinner.
Please RSVP to President Elect Lautie Hamilton by Friday 27th June 2025.
The Broadwater Sothport Rotary Club extends a warm welcome to our Guest Speaker:  Councillor Darren Taylor Division 10 Gold Coast.
We look forward to hearing about the  challenges for growth and the need for infrastructure delivery within the city, while seeking to preserve the unique lifestyle the Gold Coast is known for.
 
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