Rotary Club of Maleny in Maleny, Queensland | Non-profit organisation

Rotary Club of Maleny

Locality: Maleny, Queensland

Address: PO Box 70 4552 Maleny, QLD, Australia

Website: http://www.malenyrotary.org

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25.01.2022 Another nominee, Sherri Dan, who will be presented with a Pride of Workmanship award at our presentation dinner this Saturday night. There are 6 recipients in total for 2020.

24.01.2022 Did you know that polio has been 99.9% eradicated and the wild poliovirus is now only in 2 countries - Afghanistan & Pakistan? Watch this fascinating video from 2019. Africa is in 2020 polio-free too!

22.01.2022 This is being supported by ESRAG - Environment Sustainability Rotary Action Group. If you're interested go ahead and register now. Even if you can't make the actual time, you'll get a recording of the forum.

21.01.2022 Maleny's iconic "Rotary Calendar" is here and on sale now!

20.01.2022 MALENY CLUBS UNITE AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE Speakers at a recent public focus meeting at the RSL Hall in Maleny to discuss community responses to domestic and ...family violence (DFV), emphasised the theme that it is time for us all to act and to call out incidents whenever it is safe to do so. One of the first initiatives of Speak Up Now a collaboration of Quota, Zonta, Rotary and Lions clubs in Maleny and the Blackall Range the invited audience included representatives of organisations across the range, and featured speakers from Sunshine Coast providers of DFV programs. In opening the meeting Rotary president Greg Williams reminded the audience that one woman was killed in Australia every week by a man known to her. So what should be our role, because every one of us has a role to play in this problem, what should we say to the victim or to the perpetrator; how can we call this behaviour out? he said. Speakers emphasised that the Sunshine Coast hinterland was not immune to DFV and that it occurred in all levels of society and from all walks of life. Maleny’s Fiona Dempster, with a stellar public service career behind her setting up women’s help programs, and also the White Ribbon movement, spoke about her current expression of women’s plight in DFV through her illustrative designs of little white books of tile and paper. Fiona is passionate about the idea of bystander intervention. Silence helps no one. We have to learn to step in and find a way to ‘have a conversation’ with those we see in trouble before it escalates. It’s time for a change, she said. A Queensland Police initiative, Vulnerable Person’s Unit (VPU) was established as the result of learning and understanding what was needed, what ‘worked’ rather than simply putting perpetrators in gaol or fining them and letting them go home to re-offend. Officer-in-Charge of the Sunshine Coast region program of VPU, Senior Sgt Kate Teasdale, was passionate about her work in this area. Our priorities are ‘prevent, disrupt, investigate and respond’ and our strategies are based on these. One of our aims is to strengthen our partnerships with community support agencies, said Senior Sgt Kate. Stacy Oehlman Coordinator of Suncoast Cooloola Outreach Prevention and Evaluation (SCOPE) explained their services included safety planning, risk assessment for women, and for men. Our figures indicate the extent of the work we do. For instance in the three months January to March this year we provided service and referral to 541 women; high risk assessments for 245 women; court mention assistance for 483 women; and 345 men’s referrals to appropriate services for assessment and help, said Stacy. Men’s DFV counsellor and facilitator at Sunshine Coast UnitingCare, Karen Marsh, said their services covered crisis accommodation; children’s counselling helping them deal with exposure to violence; and men’s behavioural change programs. We hold 16 week rolling group sessions so that men coming in at week 1 can see the effect of the therapy on those ending their counselling in week 16. The basis of our work is teaching men not to ‘react’ but learn to ‘respond’, said Karen. Audience members were amazed at the amount of help, from crisis accommodation, strategies for ensuring the safety of women and children, to counselling for men available on the Sunshine Coast. Calls were made for more, and more effective, education in primary school, more acknowledgement and support from men’s sporting clubs, each one of the audience leaving with the determination to ‘change the culture’. A spokesperson for Speak Up Now said the committee would review feedback from the audience, and information from the speakers in considering their next moves. We have already arranged for signage including men’s support phone numbers to be placed in men’s toilets across the Range and these are currently being rolled out. We will keep our focus group informed of our next moves and suggestions, and how they can help. In the meantime we hope some of our audience may be inspired enough by the speakers to give us some initiatives we can consider, as soon as possible, she said. Rotary Club of Maleny Maleny Blackall Range Lions Club Zonta International

17.01.2022 Great #Rotary initiative!

16.01.2022 Rotary Maleny in action ...and for a very long time, just over sixty years :-)

14.01.2022 Excellent News!

13.01.2022 'Supporting the Environment' is the new 7th area of Focus within Rotary International. As a long time supporter of the environment, Paulette Steele has joined ESRAG Environmental Sustainability Rotary Action Group and will create an Environment group in the Rotary Club of Maleny. Remember, the Rotary Club of Maleny was founded 61 years ago around creating Mary Cairncross Reserve. So, its beginnings were to do the environment. Watch this short video for more information.

12.01.2022 TURNING RED TO END DOMESTIC VIOLENCE Maleny has joined townships across Queensland by having a red bench in a public location as a permanent reminder that domes...tic violence occurs within all our communities. The local bench is supported by Speak Up Now - Stop Domestic and Family Violence (a combined local group with representatives from Zonta Club of the Blackall Range Sunshine Coast Hinterland, Maleny Blackall Range Lions Club, Rotary Club of Maleny and Quota International Of Malenyy clubs). It was successfully achieved through the practical actions of Maleny Quota International, which originally donated the bench around 20 years ago, the Rotary Club of Maleny, which supplied the red paint, and Maleny Mens Shed members Malcolm Baker and Rick Townsend, who completed the renovating and painting of the bench. The Red Bench Project was launched in May by @redrosefoundation.com.au . Its aim is to have at least one red bench in every local government area in Queensland. Quotarian Jan Olde and Councillor Winston Johnston - Division 5 Sunshine Coast Council shared the honour of unveiling the bench outside Maleny Post Office in the Riverside Centre, last Friday, October 9. https://issuu.com/glasshouseco//edition_14_october_2020/7 See more

12.01.2022 Another nice write up by Sunshine Valley Gazette - Pride of Workmanship Awards

12.01.2022 It was a fabulous and fun night on Saturday night at the 2020 Pride of Workmanship awards presentation dinner held at Tranquil Park. So many happy smiling faces and even a few happy tears!

11.01.2022 Proof 'Rotary Connects' and sometimes it leads to extraordinary and wonderful things happening between people! https://www.abc.net.au//merimbula-receives-bushfi/12531970?

09.01.2022 Have you put your nomination in yet for either an outstanding employee/volunteer in your organization or someone you know who does a fantastic job? Only a few days left before we have to close nominations! Direct message here for a nomination form or contact Paulette Steele directly.

05.01.2022 END POLIO NOW - Rotary in Action More than 1 million Rotary members have donated their time and money to eradicate polio, and every year, hundreds of members work with health workers to vaccinate children in countries affected by polio. Rotary members work with UNICEF and other partners to prepare and distribute informational materials for people in areas that are isolated by conflict, geography, or poverty. They also mobilise to recruit fellow volunteers, assist in transporting the vaccine, and provide other logistical support.

02.01.2022 A little Rotary History from almost 50 years ago! #rotaryclubofmaleny #malenyrotary