Rotaract Working Bee
Rotaract Central Lakes is about bringing together individuals committed to making a difference. Unlike traditional Rotaract groups, we welcome members of all ages, united by our desire to give back to our community.
Having been up and running for about a year now we’ve done some re-painting for Happiness House, delivered firewood to those who needed a little support over winter, been out and cleaned huts as part of the FMC Love our Huts campaign, and organised a Hiking Buddies programme over summer which had a selection of both day and overnight hikes.
When we were getting started, we talked about why we wanted to do this. Why are we trying to make things happen?
We settled on:
- People – we want to do projects that change lives and build community
- Plant – we want to do projects that leave our place better than we found it
- Play – all while having fun
We also thought about, again, why come together – why not just do this on our own as individuals?
So we realised that we wanted to be guided by: “Greater than can be done by one”.
This is about how if we want to make the changes we see in the world then we need to come together to make a difference.
We aim to do projects that need a team, the slightly harder things to get done but that people would love to see happen in our community.
We’ve got the following events coming up:
- Hospital Gardens working bee on 15 March, from 9am.
- We are looking for people who can do some weeding, hedge trimming
- We are also looking for people who can wield a chainsaw to help us trim trees that are blocking the lighting in the carpark
- Feel free to turn up – no RSVP required
- FB event
- Eyre Mountains Wilding Pine
- We are heading into the Eyre Mountains on 5 April to do some early intervention on the wilding pine population up there.
If you’d like to be involved, or have a project for us please email centrallakesrotaractclub@gmail.com
