Rotary Club of The Entrance

Service Above Self

What is Rotary?

Rotary is a worldwide organisation of business and professional leaders that provides humanitarian service, encourages high ethical standards in all vocations, and helps build goodwill and peace in the world. There are approximately 1.2 million Rotarians belong to more than 35,000 clubs in 168 countries.

There’s something that all Rotary club members have in common: we take action. As community volunteers, we reach out to neighbours in need. We build, support, and organise. We save lives. We work locally and globally.

Around the world and around the corner, 1.2 million men and women of Rotary –

Get involved with their communities
Connect with other professionals
Share their time and experience with young people
Support global causes such as eradicating polio and malaria
Use their skills to help others

If you are interested in becoming a Rotarian you are welcome to attend any meeting of the club. Simply turn up at one of our meetings and introduce yourself, or contact us. We are always looking to increase our membership so that we can better support the community’s needs. You will be joining a group of people who love to help the community while having fun.

You are invited to come to a introductory meeting to meet the team
Call Don on 0421 838 504 to let us know you are coming.

We meet on the first and third Tuesdays of the month, at 6.00PM for 6.30PM in one of the downstairs Tasman Rooms at:
Mingara Recreation Club, Mingara Drive, Tumbi Umbi.

Why Join Rotary?

Membership of the world’s most active and respected service organisation enables you to:

Become connected to your community
Work with others in addressing community needs
Interact with other professionals in your community
Assist with Rotary’s international humanitarian service efforts
Establish contacts with an international network of like minded professionals
Develop leadership skills
Involve family in promoting service efforts.

Avenues of Services

Rotary has the following Avenues of Services, the foundation on which club activity is based:

Club Service – focuses on strengthening fellowship and ensuring the effective functioning of the club
Vocational Service – encourages Rotarians to serve others through their vocations and to practice high ethical standards
Community Service – covers the projects and activities the club undertakes to improve life in its community
International Service – encompasses actions taken to expand Rotary’s humanitarian reach around the globe and to promote world understanding and peace
Youth Service – fosters programs that can open up channels of communication between the young people in a community and the leaders of the community. Through various youth programs Rotarians can serve as role models for the many service activities that can be developed.

The main objective of Rotary is service – in the community, in the workplace, and throughout the world. Rotarians develop community service projects that address many of today’s most critical issues, such as children at risk, poverty and hunger, the environment, illiteracy, and violence.

Rotarians also support programs for youth, educational opportunities and international exchanges for students, teachers and other professionals and vocational and career development.

The Rotary motto is Service Above Self.

Objectives of Rotary

The Objectives of Rotary is to encourage and foster the ideal of service as a basis of worthy enterprise and in particular to encourage and foster

The development of acquaintance as an opportunity for service.
High ethical standards in business and professions the recognition of the worthiness of all useful occupations and the dignifying of each Rotatian’s occupation as an opportunity to serve society.
The application of the ideal of service in each Rotarian’s personal, business, and community life.
The advancement of international understanding, goodwill , and peace through a world fellowship of business and professional persons united in the ideal of service.