Events

The following table contains the Club meetings and events planed from November 2021 to June 2022.

Rotary Club of Hawthorn

Schedule of Club Meetings and Events

Stay tuned for more information. 

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President Andrew and Pam Crockett invite members and guests to our Christmas Dinner on Thursday 16 December at 6.30pm at Kooyong Lawn Tennis Club. Tickets are $77 per person for a two course meal, with drinks at bar prices. Bookings can be made at www.trybooking.com/BVTHW

We look forward to seeing you there.

More information to follow.

Hamish is the Stewardship Coordinator of Teach For Australia. He interned at the ABC's 7:30, before becoming a TV producer for the ABC's Insiders program under the tutelage of Laura Tingle and Barry Cassidy, and then The Project on Network Ten. He departed the media to "find his soul again" and landed a government engagement role at youth organisation Project Rockit before being offered his current role.

In his spare time he is a director of the Ormond College Association and the Project Rockit Foundation, which provides support and strategies for children in low SES communities to tackle bullying.

He is also a competitive rower at the Richmond Rowing Club and loud advocate for greater diversity and inclusion in community sport. He holds a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Public Policy from the University of Melbourne.   

M.C. Anne Scott OAM

 Adam Wake joined Cottage by the Sea in June 2019 after 11 years managing the Lions Village Licola Inc (LVL). Prior to this, Adam held management roles in outdoor education in Australia and internationally.

In addition to a valuable career in outdoor education, Adam holds a law & business degree, has experience in finance as a fund manager and training in mental health first aid, childhood trauma, child protection and a range of professional studies.

His passion has and continues to be working to provide better life opportunities for children.

He found a love of working for children in need when moved from commercially based camp programs to the not for profit sector finding more attention to the individual can be given in a charitable set up.  We find more and more these days that children do not really fit one type or another instead having very specific individual needs.

Adam has a wife and two great kids myself and a taste for outdoor adventure – partly driven out of working with kids:
'We ask them to step outside of their comfort zones in order to grow, so should we.  I competed in some big multi day events – with all my brothers across new Zealand (238km), with his best man 220km running in the Sahara, 222km on my own in the Amazon, and in 2020 a new event called Escape from the Jungle in Belize with my next door neighbour – starting with no food we emerged from the jungle and at the finish line after 5 days 4 hours and 20 mins.  This was just prior to the start of the pandemic'.

M.C.:  TBA

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Gareth Andrews is a former Geelong and Richmond footballer who appears to have led a fortunate life.

He had a successful VFL/AFL playing career for 11 years, including a Premiership with Richmond in 1974. His life in the AFL has continued to this year-52 years-having been CEO for Richmond in the late 1970’s, ABC radio and television commentator for a decade, including a time hosting the National TV Show the Winners in 1986, journalist for The Age for another 10 years, Vice-President of the Geelong Cats alongside Frank Costa and Colin Carter for 15 years during which time the Club has become one of the success stories of Australian sport, both on and off the field, including 3 Premierships.

He is a joint-founder of the AFL Players Association. He is a Trustee of both the Cats and the AFLPA.

Beyond football, he has had a happy and fulfilling marriage and family life, run a series of successful businesses, travelled extensively around the world.

But like most men, there have been many challenges which have tested him. His marriage ended, he has almost gone broke, he has been depressed and suffered extreme anxiety.

He has searched for more. He is living proof of Thoreau’s famous quote that: 'most men lead lives of quiet desperation'.

Five years ago, he recognised that he wasn’t alone in the forest. His search has taken him to interesting places - counselling, meditation, medication, massive amounts of reading, desert retreats, ashrams, mountain tops, homeless kitchens and new affairs of the heart.

In 2012, Gareth established Life Again, a registered Not for Profit charity that educates and helps men to change and lead more fulfilling and purposeful lives. Through writing, public speaking, taking men to the Outback and working with Aboriginals, workshops and personally challenging men, he asks the powerful question, 'Have You Done Your Best Work Yet?' The answers will surprise. He is a story-teller at heart and is with us today to tell his story.

M.C.  TBA

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The Rotary Club of Hawthorn invites members and guests to our Lift the Lid on Mental Health Lunch on Friday 18 March 2022 at Kooyong Lawn Tennis Club. Our guest speaker will be Gareth Andrews, an AFL Club CEO, TV and radio host and founder of the Life Again Foundation. This will be our major fundraising event for the year and will feature fabulous auction items and raffles. Tickets are $75 per head and are available at www.trybooking.com/BTFZY

details to be confirmed

Stay tuned.

More information to come.

?Betty Kitchener, Tony Jorm