Events

Castlemaine Rotary Club has a display Booth at the District Conference Showcase over the weekend of April 13th & 14th at the Bendigo Secondary Collage. We are showcasing our local program with the Loddon prison Read Along Dads.

To support our involvement volunteers are sought to help man our Booth. Volunteering at our Booth will also provide the opportunity to view other Clubs & Groups projects and events that will provide valuable connections and information for our Club.

A very special FFF with a parting gift to Rotary Castlemaine from Scott Buchanan. Scott and partner are soon moving to coastal NSW.

In the delightful ambience of the McClure household in Castlemaine’s northern reaches, this month’s FFF will be serenaded by Scott Buchanan’s Piano Bar presence. Relax and chat over a plate of lasagna and salad, with BYO drinks, with Scott tinkling the ivories in the background.

It all sounds perfectly sophisticated and hedonistic!

The evening will also support Winters Flat Primary School music program.

Vegetarian and gluten-free options available.

Details TBA

Provide BBQ for Falcons womens football team training night as part of reconciliation week.

Details TBA

We are supporting Nation Tree Day 2024 by providing a BBQ at the Langslow Street School site for the tree planting volunteers

Next Wednesday, the fun continues with our first Speed Dating Club Night — a serious, but fun, opportunity to get a better understanding of how this Club works.

Sometimes it seems like there's a big black box and things appear magically from it, but the truth is that there's plenty of preparation and planning behind the scenes. It is really important that we have as many members as possible come along and join in and perhaps discover new ways they can help out! 

This session is not just for newer members! Members can tend to be pigeon-holed into certain roles, which can become boring and repetitive over time. This is a chance for long-time members to investigate new roles within your Club.

If you're unfamiliar with how speed dating works, you get to spend a short time — about 10 minutes — with a Club leader to talk about their role in the Club. Then you move onto another Club leader to talk about their role, and so on.

You will have the opportunity to rotate through two panels of four Club leaders across two speed dating sessions, with delicious Chinese food in between.

We are meeting at Castlemaine Bowling Club, Berkeley St Castlemaine — a much better venue to conduct multiple conversations! Normal dinner fee applies, drinks from the bar.

Two speakers will join us — Jeremy Furze, Town Folk Festival director, and Azzy Jay, director of the Fringle Festival. Both will talk to us about these upcoming festivals being held in Castlemaine.

Bryn Davies from Really Local is joining us to explain what Really Local does. 

Joel Meadows from YIMBY will be telling us about his innovative community composting scheme.

Joel is an engaging speaker and passionate about composting and its benefits. If you are interested in sustainability, gardening and/or composting, this is one not to be missed.   

Your assistance will enable our Club to make benifits of a $500 donation for our volunteer work.

Duties are for one task only, using push brooms to keep the show judging area clean from sheep marbles & hay. Lunch will be provded for the midday session. 

You will also enjoy the expereince of an important rural sheep farm activity.

After a very dramatic Wednesday evening in Castlemaine resulted in our regular meeting being cancelled due to flooding at the Cumberland, our next outing is FFF Night at the Guildford Hotel 6.00pm - 6.30pm start
 
Importantly, we need to confirm numbers to the venue by Sunday 15 Sept, so we need registrations by midday Sunday.
 
Order and pay from the Hotel menu, drinks from the bar. Partners and family are most welcome.

Rita will be working to reschedule Joel Meadows to tell us about community composting, so keep an eye on the Bulletin!

Erect 6x9 Marquee and staging

Community Service Director Jane Anderson has an entertaining and informative evening planned for Club Night.

Past District 9800 Governor and current District Foundation Director Grant Hocking will visit us and speak about all things Rotary Foundation.