Events

Long awaited and eagerly anticipated ! This evening starts with a tour of the Castlemaine Cemetery with volunteer Alison.

We meet at the Sexton's Office Cemetery Road Campbells Creek at 5pm. Then after the tour we make our way to the 5 Flags Hotel for the meal - we have tables reserved. Join us for the tour and the meal and fun.

Please accept the invite to join us for the meal AND enter your name/s in the comment prompt if you are joining us for the tour first.

Or call Rita 0409353808 if this is confusing  !

BBQ proved to assist with open day for public to celebrate 150 years of operations. Basic menu, sausages only to be sold.

What do goats, counselling and productivity have in common? Well the answer is closer to home than you might think! Three local participants in the Startup Central Victoria Pre-Accelerator program will join us to share their startup vision.

Patrick Pheasant - Green Goats Victoria,

Anwyn Stekerhofs - Recipe for RESPECT,

and Guri Sandhu - Bloom.

Come and be uplifted by a genuine and enthusiastic presentation.

Opening of the newlty renovatred Toyota & Mitsubishi Dealership premises.

Wednesday 29th October is the Annual General Meeting for our club. Attendance will show support and give acknowlegement to all the work and rewards achieved over the Presidential year for Terry Murphy and the Board of Directors. The process of summarising the activities, finances and outcomes will fill you with pride. We also need your vote !

Good evening, sorry about the late notice.. just had some change of plans. This week Castlemaine Rotary will be delighted to have KLFM presenter Graeme Clarke (also Rotarian) and Red Cross volunteer Mandy Grinblat (or someone just as pleasant and knowledgeable) - to present their part of 'behind the scenes' of community emergencies. As we have now, a month to go before the Summer months arrive please come to this meeting to hear about two of the services that are preparing to help us, if we need, particularly in the case of fire or flood.

4 Rotarians required to assist with erecting a stage for the Pride Festival. Assemble at the Rotunda at 8.00AM.

Come and enjoy the presentation from Lindsay Callaway, owner of Warral Maldon. He is fifth generation beekeeper and been in the business for over 27years. Warral Maldon is run by an experienced team of dedicated staff in Maldon, Victoria, where 2,600+ hives produce over 150 tonnes of honey and 2,000kg of beeswax each year.!

WOW the year is flying ! Lets gather and have some fun. This week Castlemaine Rotary are gathering at The Taproom aka Shedshaker Brewing Company. We have been before and thoroughly enjoyed the evening. Please RSVP so we can reserve the number of places needed.

Erect staging for Resonance Strings Orchestra concert, pull down stage and remove immediately after concert.

Our final opportunity to touch base and finalise arrangements before the Truck Show. Important for key volunteers to be available so that any wrinkles can be ironed out.

It is also our official visit from DG Peter Shepheard. Peter and PDG Michael Lapina visited the Truck Show last year, so Peter understands the magnitude of our endeavours. It's also his best opportunity to combine visits to a couple of further-flung clubs — Castlemaine and Rochester — and while the immediate proximity to Truck Show arrangements is not perfectly ideal, we call on members to take the opportunity to meet Peter and help him get to know our club a little better. 

300 or more gleaming, glistening trucks parked around the oval at Campbells Creek Recreation Reserve! Live music throughout the weekend! Food, drink and entertainment for the whole family! Children <16 free.

This is not some quaint regional version of a proper truck show, but one that truck show lovers should get to at least once. Our Truck of the Show for the last TWO years was recently awarded Best of the Best at the Brisbane Truck Show, competing against winning trucks from shows all across Australia.

Informal debrief on the weekend's Truck Show. What worked? What could be improved? What do we avoid for the future?

We will use our normal meeting room, but order meals from the hotel's menu.

Ho Ho Ho Merry Christmas

Come one, come all !!.

Castlemaine Rotary are celebrating Christmas and End Of Year in Traditional style. The Cumberland Hotel meal will be both Roast Turkey & Lamb with Roast Vegetables and trimmings with a choice of either Pavlova or Pudding for dessert. The set meal cost is $27 per person. Drinks at own cost. Wonderful opportunity to come together and celebrate with family and friends. Please fill in the extra details for your guests when you RSVP.

Provide 2 BBQ''s, cook & serve food that is provided. Supply & errect  gazeedo.

Hi All Michael Annear, head of infrastructure at Council has just asked if Rotary can do. BBQ tomorrow to start feeding at 11am so set up at 10am outside Town Hall. They are opening a recovery Centre for displaced residents and the 12 agencies that are helping with the fires. I said we will do it but is that ok? For about 300 people is best guess. I'm available to help. Any feedback?

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Welcome everyone, please note Castlemaine Rotary are having a special gathering next week.

To bring everyone together

To be informed by President Trevor about Castlemaine Rotary's involvement and the support from the regional Rotary Communities following the catastrophic events for the Harcourt Community on the Catastrophic Fire Day 9/1/26.

To Honour and Remember - we will raise a toast in tribute to Rotarian and friend Phillip Hay RIP

Rotarian John and Heather Clue are opening their hearts and home to allow us to come together next Wednesday (see address and cost details below). Food, tables, chairs, plates & cutlery will be supplied just BYO drinks and a glass per person. We will have EFTPOS access for paying the catering costs and allowing people to contribute to the fundraising if they wish. 

Menu will be BBQ lamb (with vegetarian options), boiled chats with salads and for dessert will be cakes and fruits. And the traditional Tea/Coffee afterwards.!

Please come, bring your partner/family, past members most welcome - it is a time to come together.

Annual event supporting the Australia Day celebrations. 

President Trevor has invited Michael Annear Director of Infrastructure and Development to speak at this meeting on Wednesday regarding the Harcourt Community Stage. This will be a big process for the Castlemaine Rotary Club. Please come and be part of this important opportunity and project.

Next week, Wednesday 4th February, Sage Siebler will be Castlemaine Rotary's guest and will talk about the most recent RYLA camp.

These are always memorable evenings. Be great to see everyone there.

Continuing the Youth theme, once again our club sponsored Year 10-11 students to attend the National Youth Science Forum. AJ Moon and Nate Loosmore will be telling us about their 9-day NYSF experience at the Australian National University, Canberra.

Brevity is the soul of wit. Rotary FFF for 18th Feb was booked for New China. That has been postponed. We are booked for Five Flags Hotel. All invited.

This week is Speaker Week and Castlemaine Rotary will welcome, thank and appreciate Tania Butterworth as she presents the recovery of the community following the Fire tragedy for Harcourt and surrounds that started January 9th 2026. The tragedy, the recovery, the volunteers, the logistics and the tremendous emotions are certainly complex and it has been amazing to read and acknowledge all the effort please come and share the evening with Tania.

Join us for dinner at the Cumberland and Club Night with President Trevor.

Rotary has committed to support Applefest on Saturday 7 March. We will have a rotary marquee where we can chat with members of the pubic and talk all things Rotary. The Applefest Committee is expecting to be inundated with lots of visitors and has secured some parcels of private land for additional parking. They are now seeking Rotarians to volunteer as parking attendants for a 1.5 hour shift in the morning and then afterwards invite you to enjoy the festivities and of course drop in to the Rotary Marquee.

Tasks: See Volunteer signup list for shifts

Marquee Setup: 8.30am – 9.30am

Marquee Welcome & Chat [please wear Rotary top / badge]  10.00am-11.30am

Parking First shift:  9.30 to 11.00am

9.15am meet at Cumberland Hotel to carpool to Harcourt. 9.30am report to Volunteer marquee corner High & Victoria Sts for instructions.

Parking Second shift: 10.45 to 12.00 or when park full

10.30am meet at Cumberland Hotel to carpool to Harcourt. 10.45 report to volunteer marque for instructions.

Not one but TWO youth speakers this Wednesday evening!  

Please come along and listen to two of our youth scholarship recipients and find out how their participation in the respective programs has impacted on them.

AJ Moon - NYSF [National Youth Science Forum]

Sage Siebler - RYLA [Rotary Youth Leadership Awards]

As always, please RSVP by 1pm on Tuesday and note if you have any guests, dietary requirements, or don't require a meal in the comments column.

Darcy and Emily Driscoll from the Goldfields Equine Centre have provided very popular entertainment for children at the Truck Show over the past two years. We love it when a young couple create a new business in our community and invite you to join us this coming Wednesday evening for a vocational visit to learn more about what they do. Guests of Rotarians welcome. Please register by 1pm on Tuesday so we can organise catering.

6.00pm  Tour and overview of the business [closed footwear recommended]

7.00pm  BBQ tea $20 [BYO drinks]

Please reach out to a fellow Rotarian if you would like to share a ride to the venue.

Rotarians and interested members of the community are invited to join us on a tour of the Donation-Distribution Centre for the Harcourt Fire Relief effort.

5.00 - 6.00pm at 7 Johnstone Street, Castlemaine [formerly Castlemaine Mitsibushi].

Volunteer coordinator, Tania Butterworth, will show us around and answer any questions.

You can read a summary about Tania and her talk at Rotary in February HERE

Afterwards we will gather at the Maurocco Bar for FFF pizza and fellowship 6.00-8.00pm.
NB: Please register for FFF for catering purposes via invitation email to members on 22 March or contact Kerry Anderson on 0418 553 719 to be included.

Our FFF Night this month is at the Maurocco Bar at the Private Midland Hotel. Drinks can be purchased at bar prices and we will order in a variety of pizzas and other treats from Big Jims to share. Cost $20. Family and friends welcome.

PLEASE NOTE:

Beforehand, there is an optional tour of the Fire Relief Donation-Distribution Centre, 7 Johnstone Street Castlemaine, 5.00-6.00pm. No need to book.

Cooking & serving free Hot Dogs at the State Fesival finish being held at the sunken oval.

Food donated by Don Smallgoods. We will have a donatiion container if people are so inclined.

Club Night ! This week we will have a visiting Rotarian, Gary Pinner, from Rotary Bendigo South. He will explain and discuss his research into establishing an Emergency Relief Network in Central Victoria. Some members may have heard about WERN and RIMERN or RAWCS ! please come along to find out what these acronyms stand for and how castlemaine Rotary might be able to be involved.