Welcome to our guest speaker Rob Molhoek MP, State Member for Southport.
Rob has an extensive range of not-for-profit board experience that he will share with the members of the Rotary Club of Broadwater Southport on Friday 24th January 2025.
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
TOP LINKS
Latest News Stories
Gold Coast University Hospital Visit
A few club members visited the Gold Coast University Hospital recently to check out the recently acquired Examination Chair. It is located in the Child Protection Unit which is a fabulous area colourfully decorated to help ease the trauma of children who are suffering from physical or psychological trauma.
Amav Prabhu
National Youth Science Forum recipient, Amav Prabhu (centre) spoke to the club members about the amazing experience he had at the event. He will cherish the time he spent there and made some great connections both professionally and personally. We wish him all the best.
Griffith University Institute for Glycomics
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.
Ability Prosthetics and Orthotics
Anton Crous and Peter Osborne are lifelong mates who have dedicated their careers to making a difference in people’s lives. Together they formed Ability Prosthetics and Orthotics.
