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RIMERN (Rotary Inner Melbourne Emergency Relief Network)

This Rotary multi club community service project collects donated furniture, appliances & household goods & makes them available to clients of member welfare agencies to set up their secure homes. These clients have experienced homelessness, domestic violence, incarceration, refugee displacement, loss through unemployment, illness or natural disaster. We have a warehouse in East Brunswick & work with 26 of Melbourne's major welfare agencies to supply orders to clients all over inner Melbourne.

Ripley Valley State Secondary College

Education provider

Rise Above - Capital Region Cancer Relief

Rise Above - Capital Region Cancer Relief Provides financial assistance to cancer patients of all ages and types of cancer in the Canberra/Queanbeyan region. Our aim is to ease the financial pressures that are placed on individuals and their families when a loved one has been diagnosed with cancer, allowing the patient to concentrate on dealing with their cancer diagnosis and treatment.

Riverstone Neighbourhood Centre and Community Aid Service Inc

Riverstone Neighbourhood Centre is a long established, not for profit charity providing services and programs that are engaging, meaningful and culturally respectful for individuals and families. We offer a diverse range of opportunities for vulnerable people across the life span. We build community capacity, aim to improve life opportunities, promote social cohesion through belonging and inclusion, and support vulnerable individuals and families. We facilitate improved access to essential services and provide enhanced opportunities for connection with our available halls, meeting space, youth centre, community shed and community garden. We build community connections by facilitating local interagencies, community consultation and enabling community engagement on issues of concern, particularly during times of crisis, such as the lockdown during the COVID-19 pandemic, and now with the recent floods in the Hawkesbury.

Riverview Neighbourhood House Association Inc.

We provide services to vulnerable and disadvantaged people within the Riverview and surrounding community. We also provide the community with free sanitary items for women, and free computer and phone services. Whilst organising and planning new programs, projects, and events, we are always busy facilitating the day-to-day operations of the community centre.

Our most accessed services would be Feeding the View (food relief), Skilling Queenslanders for Work (training and upskilling), and referring to other support services. We are constantly assisting the community in the best ways we can, and we are always here for whatever the community needs.

ROBWC Inc

ROBWC Inc formally Reaching Out Because We Can … are an organisation that has been helping the families in crisis, homeless and less fortunate communities of Melbourne for over 7 years. We make up ‘You are Special’ food bags each week to be handed out, filled with non-perishable food items. We source and take clothing, toiletries and blankets with our food bags to various suburbs, with the majority in the City of Greater Dandenong.
We also fill houses with white goods, furniture, linen, household items, toiletries and clothing … everything that is needed to make it a home. There has been a huge increase in the number of families coming out of the pandemic, the less fortunate and people with various disabilities: physical, emotional and mental. We take time to chat with those we help and refer them to other agencies and individuals who can further assist them.

Rockhampton Flexible Learning Centre - Youth+

Youth+ seeks to respond to the needs of young people disenfranchised and disengaged from education. They provide a place and an opportunity to re-engage in a suitable, flexible learning environment.

Youth+ seeks to build honest and authentic relationships with young people, their families and communities, supporting and celebrating the uniqueness and dignity of each person.

Youth+ is guided by the vision of Edmund Rice about the empowering service of education, to achieve personal and community liberation through educational experiences that enable transformation.

Ronald McDonald House Charities North Australia

Ronald McDonald House Charities North Australia opened our, state-of-the-art Ronald McDonald House adjacent to Townsville Hospital in 2004, offering a safe place to stay for over 100 people a night. Through our accommodation and support services, we strive to keep families together when life gets turned upside down due to a child’s illness.

Our Programs are run by a tirelessly hard working team of staff and volunteers, aided by the generous support of our donors, sponsors, corporate partners and local community.

Roper Gulf Regional Council

Serves the communities

Rosewood and District Support Centre Inc

We provide Community Centre services and programs that are responsive to community needs, accessible to all, dynamic and flexible in our approaches, and provide individualised support to all in living in Rosewood and the surrounding rural areas of Ipswich.

Rotary Club of Bairnsdale Sunrise

A dynamic, social & active club which meet at 7am on a Wednesday morning and are at their desks or the coffee house by 8.30am.
Approx 43 active members - 2/3 are females and we are always placing 'Service Above Self'.

Rotary Club of Ballina-on-Richmond

High profile Community Service Club in Ballina which has been serving the Ballina community through COVID and through the latest disastrous flooding. Since the 28th of February BOR has been working non stop in all forms of Flood Crisis assistance. Most recently the club fundraised almost $800,000 to be distributed around Ballina Shire and most recently in Broadwater township and the local rural community. Vouchers were distributed in $500 lots to flood affected residents. We are now holding Community get-togethers so that neighbours and rural communities have the opportunity to meet up for a night of fellowship with a positive speaker helping flood affected residents cope with their current difficult situation.

Rotary Club of Dee Why Warringah

Our club, on combination with other Rotary Clubs creates change to improve the lives of people locally, across Australia and around the world in the areas of peace building and conflict prevention; basic education and literacy; disease prevention and treatment; water sanitation and hygiene; community economic development; maternal and child health and supporting the environment.

Rotary Club of Maroondah

We are a very active Club involved in both community and international projects. We have provided anything from socks to blankets, from mobility vehicles to breast cancer screening equipment. Some of our projects include Disaster Relief, Uniting Wesley Homeless Assistance, Ringwood Men's Shed, Supporting Mental Health Research, Reaching Out Because We Can (homeless), Maroondah Community Assist, Irabina Autism Services Sensory Garden, Drought Relief, Angel Boxes.

Rotary Club of Port Macquarie Sunrise

We are a club with a diverse range of members. We aim to be a vibrant and relevant club that promotes a code of ethics to our members whether they are conducting their business, personal and community lives whilst actively support community projects both locally and internationally.

Rotary Club of Port Phillip

Over many years the Rotary Club of Melbourne South has worked diligently within the City of Port Philip to help address issues and create a more successful and caring community.

Rotary Club of Sydney Darling Harbour

The Rotary Club of Sydney Darling Harbour is a fun, dynamic and inclusive club that does some amazing work in the community at a local, national and international level and are focused on giving a ‘hand up’ rather than a ‘hand out.’

In terms of our demographic, we have quite a range of ages, some ‘less experienced’ young professional members, as well as several ‘more experienced’ Rotarians who have a wealth of knowledge and are really great mentors to those who are new to Rotary.

Typical annual projects include (but are not limited to): Boxing Day lunch for the homeless in Sydney, donating clothes/laundry detergent to The Station; a Sewing School for women in Nepal; scholarships for women at risk; building water wells and toilets in India; tree planting with Sydney City Rotaract; clothes collection and fundraiser for Dress for Success; four separate BBQ fundraisers; sponsoring young people to attend the Rotary Youth Leadership Awards and much more.

Rotary Club of Warialda

Non for profit community organisation , helping people in need through drought , hardship mentally and financially

Rotary Club of Wauchope

Our aim is to contribute to our local and international community and through those efforts make the world a better place.

Rotary Club of Yarraville

The Rotary club of Yarraville is a community service organisation supporting local groups, businesses and people in our area and is a small, diverse and dynamic Club focusing on local community issues; we are a group of locals from within and around the Yarraville area with a mix of men and women - people of different ages and nationalities with one thing in common. We love to make a difference in the community and have fun doing it. This is a family friendly young club where you can have a say in projects and get involved in local as well as larger district projects.

Roundabout Canberra

We accept donations of excellent quality baby items and equipment and provide them to social services in Canberra and surrounding regions for clients in need.

Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital - Metro North Hospital and Health Service

Metro North Health enables people to deliver excellent patient-centred care and high quality health services.

Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital Foundation

RBWH Foundation is the charity arm of Royal Brisbane and Women´s Hospital – Queensland’s largest and busiest hospital. The Foundation´s primary purpose is to raise money to purchase vital pieces of equipment and to fund world-class clinical research conducted at the hospital.

Royal Flying Doctor Service Queensland Section

RFDS QLD operates 19 aircraft from nine operational bases located in Brisbane, Cairns, Townsville, Rockhampton, Bundaberg, Charleville, Mount Isa, Longreach and Roma.

The RFDS's emergency retrieval service operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week, delivering the finest care to more than 290,000 Australians each year, that's one person every two minutes. This iconic service has expanded to provide regular transfers of patients for life-saving surgery such as organ transplants and heart surgery, delivering critical support to those who need it most.

The RFDS also delivers a broad range of essential health care services to rural and remote communities, including general practice, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health, child and family health, social and emotional wellbeing, women's health and Drought Wellbeing Services.

Royal Flying Doctors Service - South Eastern Section - Dubbo

The RFDS works to overcome this, providing a comprehensive range of health services to these communities.