November for Rotary is the month of the Rotary Foundation and giving to Foundation to make a difference in the world. What is the Rotary Foundation? What do they do? How can we help?
The Rotary Club of North Ryde has had a long-established collaboration with the Rotary Foundation. We give money to the Foundation each year.
Our Bunnings BBQ last weekend profits will go to the End Polio now Campaign. Foundation is a wonderful Rotary impact charity used to help in all the fields that you can see above in this photograph. Rotary Foundation in Australia connects generous corporations’ philanthropies and individuals with Rotary projects that make a significant difference. Australian Rotary Foundation was awarded the Charity Navigator's highest rating for the 17th year in a row. For 17 consecutive years Rotary Foundation has received the highest rating four stars from Charity Navigator, an independent evaluator of charities in the USA.
Peter and I would like to encourage you to have a look at the Rotary Foundation website www.rotaryfoundatioaustralia.org.au and see what it is that can be achieved not just being one Club but being a worldwide organisation that can make benefit and change throughout the world. You can also bequest a gift in your will to the foundation and it would be a wonderful way to have your memory with Rotary after you have gone, live on.
PDG Niranjan Deodhar will be our guest speaker at our next Club Assembly breakfast on Friday 20 November 7.15-8.30am at Dunmore Lang College. Niranjan will be speaking to us about the Rotary Foundation. All members and friends are welcome to attend, please let Club Director Nick Martorana (email: nickmartorana@hotmail.com) know if you would like to attend to hear more about the Foundation as well as hearing from our Pitch for Purpose team from Marsden HS.
Peter and I would like to thank everyone in the Club that have made our job as Joint Presidents so much easier, we're a well-oiled team. The President's position is one of collaboration rather than leadership. We firmly believe in this Club, and we would like to encourage everyone to consider being the President Elect for this year so that we can move the Club on to bigger and better things in the future. Please contact Peter and me if you would like to put your hand up or if you would like to share the role with somebody in the Club over the next Rotary year 2027/ 28.
Enjoy the times ahead as we start to ramp up to the Christmas period. The Tree of Joy will be going up on Monday 15 November in Cox's Road Mall, and we will be sending out a roster for everyone to put their hands up to collect gifts for us to make it easier. We are also ramping up to our biggest event of the year with the Carols on the Common, Sunday 13 December, well and truly in hand and ready to go.
Regards
Bernie and Peter Mason
Joint Presidents 2026-27
To join our Friday morning Club meetings from 7.15am -8.30am via Zoom, click on the link below. All are welcome.
The result of the Bunnings BBQ fundraiser that was held on Saturday 7 November 2026 is:
The club made a profit of $2,617 on the day. Another wonderful result for our club and which enables us to support the Rotary International 'End Polio Now' campaign.
We sold approx. 84kgs of sausages (1,001, that 1 is very important), and 248 drinks.
As always I would like to thank the amazing team from our club, and particularly those who, in sporting terms, played injured on the day, for their continued support and enthusiasm on an extremely busy day, which is evident again from the result, plus the other people who came to help. More helpers, as always, would be greatly appreciated.
In particular I would like to thank those that were there for the whole day, from the start at 7am to the clean up and returning items to the North Ryde RSL Club storage after 5pm: Rob Wilkinson, Nick Martorana, Joint President Peter Mason, Mandy Van and Pam Wood.
We also had wonderful support at different times during the day from Joint President Bernie Mason.
Plus non-club members, who helped at various times during the day: Ian (Mandy's husband), who helped at the start of the day, had a break and came back later. Past club member - Ruth Gosbell Friends of the club - Seb and Annette Lentini Jaimie Polson - father of exchange student Edith
We also had help from Ron Marton, from Riding Develops Abilities Ryde Centre, who came along and bought a sausage sandwich, but also did some spruiking for us, at the entrance to Bunnings, to drum up more business. I would particularly like to thank club member Brian Bailey, who turned up unexpectedly at the end of the day to help clean the BBQ. That was a great help.
Thank you all for your help, time and effort in supporting our club. Our next Bunnings BBQ is on Saturday 5 December, please let me know if you can help for some or all of the day.
The Rotary Clubs of Turramurra, North Ryde and Chatswood/Roseville with the support of Pudding Lane, Newcastle, are supporting “Books in Homes” at Moree East Public School.
1. CLOSING DATE FOR ORDERS: FRIDAY 27TH NOVEMBER 2026
North Ryde RSL has donated $5,700 to the Nepal Flood Disaster, and has done so via RAWCS ( Rotary Australia World Community Service) www.rawcs.org.au
Each month, one of the “international” chefs at the Club showcases a dish inspired by their cultural heritage. In September, Nepal was featured, with several of the chefs originally from that country. Momo dumplings – a popular dish in Nepal – was featured for the month, and the money was raised from the sale of those dumplings, throughout the month. See photos below
The Annual General Meeting for the Rotary Club of North Ryde will be held on Friday 4 December 2026 at 7.30a.m. via Zoom.
Nominations for positions on the Board and for Avenue of Service Committee Chairs will be sought for the Rotary year 2027-28.
Nominees are called for the following positions:
President
President- elect
Treasurer
Secretary
Director x 4
Avenues of Service Chairs:
Club
Community
Vocational
International
Youth
Foundation
For information on any of these positions please go to Rotary District 9685 website:www.rotarydistrict9685.org.au or contact myself or any current Board Members.
