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Welcome to the North Ryde Rotary Club

We meet In Person

Fridays at 7:15 pm

Herring Rd.
North Ryde, NSW 2113
Australia

Three times a the month: 1st and 2nd Friday via Zoom; 3rd Friday at Dunmore Lang College - 7.15 for 7.30am to 8.30. am. Check our website http://northryderotary.com for details.

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The 2026 North Ryde eFun Run for Youth Mental Health- Another successful Campaign!

Thank you to everyone who supported the North Ryde eFun Run for Youth Mental Health this year!

We have raised $17424 so far for youth mental health from the eFun Run and approximately another $1400 from the Macquarie University Parkrun BBQ and raffle!

A huge thank you to the team of helpers from North Ryde, Ryde and Macquarie Park Rotary Clubs who turned up at 6.30am on Saturday to set up and work at the MQ Parkrun Fun Run!

North Ryde: Rob, Brian, Peter, Nick, Mandy, Ian, Binoe, Pam, Bernie and Garry and our Winter Rypen Candidate, Natalie.

Ryde: Geoff, John, Bob, Kathryn, Malcolm and Cecilia

Macquarie Park:Craig, Trina, Heather and Trevor

Also a big thank you to the team from Community Bank Homebush and North Ryde, Kavitha, Fiona, Alexis and Jacky, who gave out the Goodie Bags to the Parkrunners when they finished the 5km course!

The Goodie bags would not have been such a success without the wonderful support from North Ryde club member Pam Bennett, who supplied nearly all of the goodies to go in the bag! Thank you very much, Pam!

We are very grateful for the support from James Tran and Community Bank Homebush and North Ryde for the sponsorship of the Parkrun BBQ which covered the costs of all the food, drink, sign and flyer printing and also supplied the bags!

Congratulations to our raffle winners;

Greta Q - 1st prize winner - one year's membership to the Sports and Aquatic Centre Gym

Ronan - 2nd Prize winner - a signed Sydney FC jersey

John - 3rd Prize - a MQ University Hoodie

Our thanks to Peter Boyle from MQ Sports and Aquatic Centre for the generous donation of prizes and to the support given to us to enable the BBQ at Parkrun. Also a big thank you to Nic Dew and the team at the Lifespan Health and Wellbeing Research Centre for inviting us to be part of this very special event!

If you would like to see a video of the day click on this link: https://www.facebook.com/reel/2309591159448880

It is not too late to donate. The website will stay open for donations until 20 June 2026 if you would like to contribute.

https://rotary-north-ryde-efun-run-for-youth-mental-health-2026.raiselysite.com/

The proceeds will go to Australian Rotary Health, for research into youth mental health and support programs; Macquarie University's Lifespan Health & Wellbeing Research Centre's Cool Kids Program and KidsXpress supporting children who have experienced trauma.

This is the first year KidsXpress have partnered with us for the eFun Run and have done an amazing fundraising campaign! Through their network they have raised over $12000, and still counting, through the eFun Run!

What a fabulous effort from everyone!

Regards

Pam

Pamela Wood

2026 North Ryde eFun Run for Youth Mental Health Coordinator.

For more photos see here or in photo albums below

Four Bridges Walk and Bay Run 17 May 2027

To start the North Ryde eFun Run week this year , a small group of keen Rotarians and friends walked across four bridges starting at Cunninghams Reach Park, Linley Point, at 8.00am on Sunday 17 May 2026 . The walk included Figtree Bridge, Tarban Creek Bridge, Gladesville Bridge and Iron Cove Bridge. The team continued the walk around the Bay run at Drummoyne and stopped for a welleparned break at a cafe on the way. The keen walkers then decided to walk back to their cars at Cunningham Reach Park! So it was actually a 7 Bridges walk after all!

For more photos see here or in photo albums below.

The 2026 DIGIT Week

The 2026 DIGIT Week finished on Friday 15 May with the students returning home. They arrived in Sydney on Sunday 10 May and started visiting organisations on Monday 11 May.

This year we had 2 students from McIntyre High School in Inverell, Samantha and Jorwil and 4 students from Forbes High School, Lucy, Tristan, Drake and Aidan. We also had the pleasure of having Fran, a Support Teacher from Forbes High School join us this year.

A big ‘Thank You’ to the people who hosted the students for the week. Narelle Barker, past member of the Rotary Club of Epping, who hosted Drake, Bruce Jacob and Louise Prentice, from the Rotary Club of Epping, who hosted Jorwil, Peter Garrard and Janet Stacey, from the Rotary Club of Epping, who hosted Aidan, Brian and Sue Bailey, from Rotary Club of North Ryde, who hosted Samantha, Mark and Terrie McConnell, past member of the Rotary Club of North Ryde, who hosted Lucy, Tristan and Fran.

I also had Mandy Van, President of the Rotary Club of North Ryde (Monday), Brian Bailey (Tuesday and Thursday) and Terrie McConnell (Wednesday) join us on our visits during the week.

David Martin, from the Rotary Club of North Ryde, organised the following week for us.

Each day we would meet at the Dunmore Lang College carpark, for the hosts to drop off their student, before we headed off.

Monday – 11 May:
Cochlear at Macquarie University
North Ryde RSL Club
Rural Fire Service Head Quarters at Sydney Olympic Park
Sydney Adventist Hospital
Dinner with the Rotary Club of Epping

Tuesday – 12 May:
University of Technology Sydney Library
University of Technology Sydney Engineering
Cisco
IBM – where they provided pizza for dinner
After dinner we walked to the Sydney Opera House

Wednesday – 13 May:
Google
Ferry from Pyrmont Bay Wharf to Circular Quay and return to Barangaroo
Microsoft
Laser Tag, Ten Pin Bowling and dinner at Strike Macquarie Centre.

Thursday – 14 May:
Macquarie University
Dunmore Lang College Student Accommodation
Next Sense
Riding for the Disabled Marsfield – presentation preparation
Farewell Dinner and Student Presentations.

Friday – 15 May:
Return home by train.

Fran, the teacher from Forbes, spoke at the Presentation Dinner on Thursday and could see what a difference this visit had done for the students and was going to go back to her school and promote the DIGIT week for future students.

The week was a great success due to all the time and effort that David Martin put into pulling everything together. From getting the students to come from the schools, finding host families for them to stay with and then contacting the organisations for us to visit. David also provided details of Metro and train timetables and platforms of where and when we had to be in a certain place.

Thank You David.

Regards

Garry Maloney

Community Service Director

Visit to Cisco on Tuesday 12 May.

In the photo from left to right: Marion - Cisco, Varun - Cisco, Garry Maloney, Jorwil - McIntyre HS, Tristan - Forbes HS, Lucy - Forbes HS, Samantha - McIntyre HS, Fran - Forbes HS
Drake - Forbes HS, Aidan - Forbes HS, David - Cisco, Hugh - Cisco, Brian Bailey.

Our visit to IBM on Tuesday 12 May. Shows the Thank You message left by the students to IBM for having us visit them and the pizza for dinner.

The other lady in the photo is Carmela from IBM who spoke to us during our visit.

After IBM we went to visit the Sydney Opera House for the photos below. Brian was taking a phone call.

Our visit to Microsoft on Wednesday 13 May. In the 1st photo is Dan Bowen, from Microsoft, and Terrie McConnell, host family for Lucy, Tristan and Fran.

A couple of photos from our visit to Next Sense on Thursday 14 May.

On the far left is Amal, and on the far right is Laura, both from Next Sense.

An Invitation to the Rotary Club of North Ryde's 2026 Annual Changeover Celebration Dinner

The Four Way Test

What Is Rotary?

Rotary is a worldwide organisation of more than 1.2 million business, professional, and community leaders. Members of Rotary clubs, known as Rotarians, provide humanitarian service, encourage high ethical standards in all vocations, and help build goodwill and peace in the world.

There are 34,000 Rotary clubs in more than 200 countries and geographical areas. Clubs are non-political, nonreligious, and open to all cultures, races, and creeds. As signified by the motto “Service above Self”, Rotary’s main objective is service — in the community, in the workplace, and throughout the world.

OBJECT OF ROTARY

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

•FIRST: The development of acquaintance as an opportunity for service;

•SECOND: High ethical standards in business and professions; the recognition of the worthiness of all useful occupations; and the dignifying of each Rotarian’s occupation as an opportunity to serve society;

•THIRD: The application of the ideal of service in each Rotarian’s personal, business, and community life;

•FOURTH: The advancement of international understanding, goodwill, and peace through a world fellowship of business and professional persons united in the ideal of service.