WELCOME TO ALBANY PORT

The Rotary Club of Albany Port is an active club of between 25 and 30 male & female members in the Great Southern of Western Australia. We meet for dinner at 6.30pm every Wednesday at The Albany Club, 33 Aberdeen Street, Albany WA.

Rotary is an amazing international organization that does extraordinary work around the world & provides enormous pleasure and satisfaction to those who belong. This website contains much that will interest people who want to find out more about Rotary and also those who are interested in becoming a member of Rotary.

Rotary is an organization of "service clubs" which means that we work continually to help others in need. We support a huge range of projects at all levels from our local community, Australian wide and to international communities. See our list of notable Service Projects achieved over the last 30 years.

2010: The Radio Auction raised over $20,000 in donations supporting contributions to the Albany Hospice, Senior Citizens, Silver Chain and the RFDS. During the 2009-2010 year the Club made great progress with supporting various Rotary projects including the Youth Camp, Bowel Scan program, PCYC fundraising, and food donations to Food Bank and Aged Concern. Other programs supported Mental Health, Shelterbox (shelters for trauma survivors in tsunamis hurricanes overseas, the Albany Library Oral History, Handicamp, and the ‘Around the Houses’.

2009: The club has already supported the Shelter Box project in response to the Pacific Tsunami and the Indonesian Earthquakes. The Albany Police Community and Youth Centre continues to be a beneficiary of some of our fund-raising efforts each year.

2008: The Radio Auction saw $22,000 handed over to the Royal Flying Doctor Service for medical equipment used on the flights to regional WA including Albany.
The Club again participated in the Rotary Bowel-Scan project, and a donation was made to the Victorian Bush-Fires appeal.

2007: The folding of the Albany Rotary Club brought the opportunity for Albany Port to take on the running of the Rotary Youth Camp at Frenchman Bay Road, Big Grove. This remains a very successful project both from a revenue perspective and from the viewpoint of providing a very good, low cost facility for the community.

2006: The club continued its involvement with the “Around the Houses” event by manning the entry points and selling posters. This generally brought in between $2,000 and $3,000 per event.

2005: The club continued to support a range of youth related programs including sponsored trip on the Leeuwin, RYLA, RYPEN, Siemens Science Schools, Handicamp, and various scholarships.

2003: The club helped restore facilities to families burnt-out in the Tenterden Bushfire, including rebuilding some chook-pens.

1997: The club moved its meeting venue from Tara Hall to the Albany Club in Aberdeen Street, where it still meets in 2009.

1994: “Running of The Balls” yielded a profit of $2,683 for a lot of hard work that involved 5,000 tennis balls rolling down York St. A venture to sell pumpkins turned out to be a loss-maker.

1993: The Radio Auction concept was born and the first auction enabled the club to support donations of around $10,000 that year. By 1994 a profit of over $10,000 was realised and this has steadily grown with each Radio Auction and returns now regularly exceed $20,000 – which enables the club to support a wide range of projects.

1992: A trailer raffle generated a profit of $1,459.

1991: A speculative house was built at Lake Seppings and sold in January 1992 for a profit of $8,000 thanks to a lot of work by members, a generous arrangement with the owners of the block, and some timely loans by some members to enable a smooth completion.

1989: Windmill erected at The Forts. Attendance Exemplar certificates designed, printed and sold with a 10 year profit of around $3,000 – a good outcome.
Oral History Project commenced and this project is still ongoing in 2009, with an endowment fund of $19,000 providing interest receipts to cover around 4 new oral histories each year. 47 interviews have been compiled under this program and the club has recently agreed to fund a further 12 in 2009-2010.

1983: 4 Way Test Speech instituted at North Albany Senior High School and an honour board donated. This project is still going strong.

1982: Gill Creek Scout Camp Shelter erected at a cost of $6,600 and was opened by Albert Van Eyke.

1979: Cleaning up the Old Hospital grounds – now the Vancouver Arts Centre.