The Rotary Club of Templestowe is one of 50 Clubs in Rotary District 9810, Victoria Australia. D9810 is one of 22 Districts managing over 1100 Clubs in Australia and more than 530 Districts managing over 33,000 Clubs worldwide. Some useful links to local, national and international resources are listed on this page.
Please take the time to browse these links as they in turn provide a huge range of additional links to more Rotary information and resources from those sites. Click on the links or the logos.
Rotary International Rotary is a worldwide organisation of business and professional
people that provides humanitarian service, encourages high ethical
standards in all vocations and helps build goodwill and peace in the
world.
Clubs may differ from each other in demographic terms, meeting times and venues, but all have the same aims of making the world a better place, locally and internationally, while at the same time strengthening established friendships and creating new ones.
Each President of Rotary International selects a theme for the year they hold that office. RI President John Kenny's 2009/10 theme is designed to concentrate efforts towards securing Rotary's future through growth and management of projects both locally and well "beyond the parish pump" that would falter should Rotary's future falter.
The Rotary Foundation The mission of The Rotary Foundation is to support the efforts of
Rotary International in the fulfillment of the Object of Rotary,
Rotary's mission, and the achievement of world understanding and peace
through local, national, and international humanitarian, educational,
and cultural programs.
The Rotary Foundation is a not-for-profit corporation that supports the efforts of Rotary International to achieve world understanding and peace through international humanitarian, educational and cultural exchange programs. It is supported by voluntary contributions from Rotarians and friends of the Foundation who share its vision of a better world.
District 9810 lies to the east of the Melbourne Central Business
District. The district boundaries encompass parts of the eastern and
south eastern suburbs of Melbourne and then stretch eastward through
the Yarra Valley and the beautiful Dandenong Ranges. At approximately
3200 square kilometres, District 9810 is one of the smallest in area of
the 23 Districts in Australia.
From Port Phillip Bay to the Ranges, District 9810 stretches from the
southwest corner at Hampton to Chelsea along the bay, moves north east
from Hampton to Templestowe, and then east across to Healesville, south
to Upper Yarra, and meander west through the hills to Monbulk and
Emerald. Moving south west through Rowville you end up back in Chelsea! You've just travelled about 200 kilometres and
probably passed our District Governor somewhere on the road! There are currently 50 Rotary clubs in District 9810 and we have about 1350 Rotarians involved in all areas of Rotary service.
Rotary Down Under ROTARNET is the gateway to the official website for Rotary Down Under. It links to
information about Rotary, and Rotary Down Under, the Rotary Down Under
magazine, the Australian Rotary Health Research Fund - a Rotary down
Under project, Probus, The Australian Youth Exchange Program, the
Rotary merchandise online catalogue. District websites and Club
websites are found by post code, alphabetically and through the
District index.
Rotarnet is linked to as many Rotary web sites. Many Rotary Down Under Club and District web sites are hosted on Rotarnet. Rotarnet aims to aid communication and provide information for Rotarians and their communities.
A Rotarian Action Group (RAG) is a voluntary association of Rotarians who unite themselves for the purpose of conducting international service projects that advance the Object of Rotary. Comprised of individual Rotarians, spouses, Rotaractors and friends from around the world, RAGs are a relatively new feature of Rotary life.
The aim of Rotarian Action Groups is to develop a worldwide network of persons with a common interest in a specific humanitarian cause who will work together proactively on projects of international and local scopes. Any Rotarian interested in the work of any RAG is invited to visit their website, use their references and other materials and consider becoming a member.
You can link to a document summarising a number of things that can be done under RAGs at this following link
Rotary is a worldwide organisation of business and professional
people that provides humanitarian service, encourages high ethical
standards in all vocations and helps build goodwill and peace in the
world. 
