Community Projects
Our goals
Our projects focus on creating positive change in the Bacchus Marsh community and beyond. Whether it be fundraising for projects or hands-on work, our Rotarians are ready and willing to do what it takes to achieve our goals of service and support to our community. We also acknowledge that raising funds is possible only due to the support and generosity of local businesses and individuals within our community.
Our goals
Our projects focus on creating positive change in the Bacchus Marsh community and beyond. Whether it be fundraising for projects or hands-on work, our Rotarians are ready and willing to do what it takes to achieve our goals of service and support to our community. We also acknowledge that raising funds is possible only due to the support and generosity of local businesses and individuals within our community.
Ongoing projects
Let's Read - a literacy program for the young
Rotary-SES Christmas Tree Sales: the first and second weekends of December, sales of freshly cut local Christmas trees. All proceeds go to SES and Rotary for local benefit!
Annual Art Show - Queen's Birthday Weekend
WERN - Western Emergency Relief Network: founding member providing support to those in need and the vulnerable.
BBQ Trailer - We have a BBQ trailer and cool room that comply with Australian health regulations.
The Neighbour’s Place Bacchus Marsh, with its fantastic volunteer staff, serves the disadvantaged in our community via the provision of emergency food relief. Our financial contributions assist this organisation to meet its worthy objectives.
Flower and Garden Show - supported and partly sponsored by the Bacchus Marsh Rotary Club.
Projects in Development
Rotary - EndTrachoma Project
During 2022-2023, Rotary Bacchus Marsh is delighted to join with Rotary clubs around Australia in an exciting project, EndTrachoma.
This project was established in 2017 and contributes hygiene products and equipment to remote aboriginal communities in an effort to reduce and hopefully eventually eliminate the preventable eye condition, trachoma, an eye infection that can lead to blindness.
The key objectives of this project are:
- to reduce the incidence of, and eventually eliminate, trachoma in remote indigenous communities
- to raise awareness of the importance of facial hygiene in the prevention of trachoma
- to provide products and equipment to facilitate good hygiene practices in children and their families
- to engage local schools in the fight against trachoma and
- to ensure hygiene kits are distributed in the context of a hygiene education project.
We would like to thank UFS Pharmacy, Bacchus Marsh, for their generous donation in the form of toiletries for our family kits.
Rotary Park Enhancement
We have been working closely with Moorabool Shire Council (MSC) on its project to enhance Rotary Park Bacchus Marsh. Input from our club will be incorporated in the form of the creation of a "Rotary Space" which will provide seating, shelter and information on the history of RCBM and its work over the past 60 years.
A Time Capsule that had been been laid in Rotary Park on 3rd October 1976 was unearthed on August 12th 2020 and its contents were carefully distributed by the members. A new capsule was buried in June 2021 and will later be relocated adjacent to the new Rotary space.
Telford Park All-Abilities Trail and 1000+
MSC has welcomed the concept of RCBM's contribution of a summit shelter and seating for visitors and residents who choose to join the walking trail from the Bald Hill summit carpark.
Chicory Kiln
In April 2022, RCBM joined with the Lions Club of Bacchus Marsh in an energetic and enthusiastic working bee to clear the surrounds of the Bacchus Marsh Chicory Kiln to provide a clean and safe area for assessment of the condition of this historic structure. RCBM and the Lions Club plan to collaborate, with the support and guidance of Heritage Victoria, in a project to restore the building.
Completed/Past Projects
Breakfast Club 2014/ 2019 - Bacchus Marsh Primary School & Bacchus Marsh Secondary College.
Rotarians prepared and served healthy, nutritious breakfasts to the young students twice week. Teachers at both schools reported that the children clearly benefited from both the nutritional and social aspects of these morning meals. They observed improved energy and attentiveness amongst the students.
Rotary-CFA Smoke Alarm Battery Replacement Day for Bacchus Marsh Senior Citizens (This may recommence post-pandemic). This program was taken over by Moorabool Shire Council in 2020
The "Red Ensign": Centenary of Anzac, Bacchus Marsh's second war memorial. Restoration and mounting of the 23rd Battalion Ensign from WW1-a gift and memorial to our town!
Annual Golf Day
Vintage Truck and Trade Show - 2019
Busy Feet - 2014/2015
"TagOff" Graffiti Removal - 2016
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