Rotary Club of Brighton, Melbourne, AUstralia

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Club News
The Brighton Classic Car Show scheduled for 30 March 2025 promises to be a thrilling event for classic car enthusiasts and families alike. Taking place at Firbank Grammar, 51 Outer Crescent in Brighton, this event is not to be missed.
 
Rotary Club of Brighton Charitable Foundation, with the assistance of a Rotary District 9800 Foundation Grant, has donated a 24hr Public Access Automated External Defibrillator (AED) Tower outside the new Brighton Life Saving Club & Beach House Café buildings, visible from the bathing boxes and the beach.
 
On Saturday November 16, 2024 the Rotary Club of Brighton & Brighton Life Saving Club launched the first 24hr Public Access Automated External Defibrillator.
 
As part of Rotary Club of Brighton’s commitment to Youth Services, our club sponsors a lot of young people with personal development programs and unique opportunities to optimise their potential. The Rotary Youth Sailing Challenge, is a new Youth program that was offered for the first time in 2023 by District 9800, to coincide with the 2023 Melbourne Rotary International Convention.
 
The program will again be supported by our club with sailings in September 2024, plus January & April 2025.
 
The Bayside Art Show will return Thursday 22 May opening night, Friday 23 May to Sunday 25 May 2025, open to the general public. 
 
The Rotary Club of Brighton supported a number of high school students to compete in the Rotary District 9800 Model United Nations Assembly (MUNA) in May 2024. Two of the students, Nicholas Michele and Kenneth Yeung from Brighton Grammar were the event’s winning debating team. 
 
Over the weekend 17 - 18 August 2024, the boys travelled to Canberra to represent our Rotary District in the Rotary’s 25th National MUNA at the historic House of Representatives Chamber in Canberra’s Old Parliament House (now the Museum of Australian Democracy - MoAD).
 
 
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25 Holyrood St
Hampton RSL
Hampton, VIC 3188
Australia
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