Community
23 May, 2025
Rotary welcoming fresh faces
THE Rotary Club of Camperdown is encouraging residents to sign up as part of National Volunteers Week celebrations.
The club has been servicing the Camperdown community since it was chartered in 1948 and continues to have a number of ongoing services to this day.
These include recycling hearing aids, glasses, blister packets, plastic bottle tops, batteries and printer cartridges, supporting youth programs through Rotary Australia, and sending mobility aids from op shops overseas to support countries in need.
The club has also had a hand in establishing a number of community groups, including Meals on Wheels, Little Athletics and Camperdown Probus, and helped to establish the Camperdown Courthouse committee and the Corangamite University of the Third Age.
Camperdown Rotary Club secretary Graeme Fischer said volunteering with Rotary was “a lot of fun”.
“There’s companionship and fellowship,” he said.
“We do quite a few vocational visits, and we’ve got a few planned for the summer.
“Our meetings are generally at 7.30pm at the showgrounds.
“People are welcome to join us and share if they have an idea about something to go and see.
“There’s been a lot of places we have been to, and there’s lots of things to see in the community.”
Other regular work, which the club is seeking more helping hands on, includes cleaning up part of the Princes Highway west of Camperdown as part of the Keep Australia Beautiful Adopt a Highway program, selling showbags at the Camperdown Show each year alongside the Corangamite Hockey Club, and running the monthly Sunday markets.
The markets, which have run since 1987, also have volunteers running tours of the Camperdown clocktower.
“We could do with a few more volunteers at the Sunday markets when we’re manning the clocktower – it’ll be nice if a few people in the community could put their hand up for that,” Mr Fischer said.
“We’re only asking an hour a month for that.
“We have two meetings a month, so it’s not as though it’s a huge commitment – those two meetings might include a vocational visit or a visit to another club.”
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