President's Message

Mary Engert

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Speakers
Keilor Hotel Manager
Jul 14, 2026 7:00 PM
Presentation of defibrillator to hotel
District Governor Graeme Hope
Aug 25, 2026 7:00 PM
District Governor address to members
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Birthdays & Anniversaries
Member Birthdays:
  • David Bourke
    July 20
  • Ted Haydon
    August 21
Join Date:
  • Craig Pett
    July 1, 2025
    1 year
  • Beverley Thoms
    July 12, 2022
    4 years
  • Harold Simpson
    July 27, 1993
    33 years
  • Mary Engert
    August 1, 1992
    34 years
  • Jeanette Lynch
    August 4, 1992
    34 years
Home Page News
NICU bed at the Royal Children's Hospital
Hospital Melbourne.
💙 ROTARIANS CHANGING LIVES FROM THE VERY FIRST BREATH 💙
Every baby deserves the strongest possible start in life.
The Rotary Club of Keilor is proud to be part of the Rotary Butterfly Bed Collective, established by the Rotary Club of Pascoe Vale, a
group of Rotary Clubs coming together to sponsor a NICU bed at the Royal Children's
Hospital Melbourne.
When Rotary Clubs work together, small contributions create a big impact by helping provide
critical care for our youngest and most vulnerable patients and giving families hope during
their most challenging moments.
🦋 Helping fragile butterflies take flight.
💙 Supporting life from its very first moment.
🤝 Rotarians changing lives from the very first breath.
#Rotary #PeopleOfAction #NICU #RoyalChildrensHospital #RotaryButterflyBedCollective#ServiceAboveSelf
 
                                    

 
Mother"s Day Classic Ambassador
Our guest speaker for our meeting on April 28th is Lauren Philpot Mother's Day Classic Ambassador.
 
Lauren Philpot - Mother's Day Classic Ambassador
 
Lauren Philpot is a lifelong Maribyrnong resident and, since her mother's diagnosis and passing with breast cancer, has been a passionate crusader for breast and ovarian cancer research She is the founder of the "Leigh Leigh's" in honour of her mum, and is a Mother's Day Classic Ambassador.
Lauren established the Foundation’s Mother’s Day Run & Walk on the Maribyrnong River a few years back. She says that she did that "not only to raise money and awareness for breast and ovarian cancer but also to promote community engagement by bringing two councils, numerous clubs, and communities together. Everyone is welcome, dogs too!”
This year's Mother's Day Classic on the Maribyrnong is on Mother's Day, Sunday 10 May from Coulson Gardens Maribyrnong with a 10km run and a 4km walk.  Full details at Mothers Day Classic
 
              
 
2025 Christmas Bag Project – Kent said it all
 
Kent's circumstances and his story of not having anyone to share Christmas with, and asking for his hamper to be put under his tree so that he had something to open on Christmas Day, is a summary of our whole project - just multiply it by 100.
Kent's representative situation, his delight and his thanks, underline the community value of this project, and reinforce why it continues to be such a rewarding one for our Club and its members.  
The Rotary Club of Keilor has now been undertaking its annual Christmas Bag project for more than 20 years. The project provides Bolton Clarke Community Nurses with 100 Christmas Bags to deliver to their most elderly, isolated, restricted and socio and economically restricted patients in Melbourne’s western suburbs. 
It’s a massive effort every year to fundraise, seek cash and product donations, pick up, store and eventually pack the bags for the Community Nurses to collect and deliver in the days leading up to Christmas. Packing is an all of Club effort, and this year we had some great volunteers and family members to support us on our packing night.
As a result of the assistance we received for the project for Christmas 2025, including through product donations, Club fundraising and the support of a Rotary Foundation District Grant, we were able to deliver a value approaching $14,000 ($140 each) to the 100 recipients of the Bags.
Look at the photos and read the storyboards – they are what convince us to come back every year.
                           
Rotary Club of Keilor's 100 Xmas Bag Project
As Christmas approaches, the Rotary Club of Keilor is again busily preparing for its annual ‘100 Christmas Bags’ project.
For more than 20 years, this project has seen 100 gift bags distributed by Bolton Clarke Community Nurses to their most isolated, restricted and loneliest patients in the Moonee Valley and Brimbank local Government areas.
Often, recipients of the Christmas Bags do not have a network of family, friends or community, and the Club’s aim is to offer these people some small measure of comfort and joy at Christmas time. The bags always contain basic food supplies, toiletry and personal care items, as well as some seasonal ‘goodies’ that, together, go some way to providing meaningful support and an uplift in spirit.
‘The generous Christmas Hampers received by our clients from the Keilor Rotary Club have been wonderful and have really made a difference to the people who received them,’ said a representative of Bolton Clarke Community Nurses after last year’s distribution. One recipient, Anica, said â€˜I am very surprised as I don’t receive many surprises nor gifts. It brought tears to my eyes, and it has made my Christmas feel wonderful.’
The President of the Rotary Club of Keilor, Norm Darper, explained that the project depends heavily on the Club’s own fundraising, as well as monetary and other donations to fill the bags. In 2025, the Club is also grateful for the support of The Rotary Foundation, in the form of a District Grant for the 100 Christmas Bags project.
 
 
                                                
  
Club News
NICU bed at the Royal Children's Hospital
Hospital Melbourne.
NICU bed at the Royal Children's Hospital
Hospital Melbourne.
💙 ROTARIANS CHANGING LIVES FROM THE VERY FIRST BREATH 💙
Every baby deserves the strongest possible start in life.
The Rotary Club of Keilor is proud to be part of the Rotary Butterfly Bed Collective, established by the Rotary Club of Pascoe Vale, a
group of Rotary Clubs coming together to sponsor a NICU bed at the Royal Children's
Hospital Melbourne.
When Rotary Clubs work together, small contributions create a big impact by helping provide
critical care for our youngest and most vulnerable patients and giving families hope during
their most challenging moments.
🦋 Helping fragile butterflies take flight.
💙 Supporting life from its very first moment.
🤝 Rotarians changing lives from the very first breath.
#Rotary #PeopleOfAction #NICU #RoyalChildrensHospital #RotaryButterflyBedCollective#ServiceAboveSelf
 
                                    

 
Mother"s Day Classic Ambassador
Mother"s Day Classic Ambassador
Our guest speaker for our meeting on April 28th is Lauren Philpot Mother's Day Classic Ambassador.
 
Lauren Philpot - Mother's Day Classic Ambassador
 
Lauren Philpot is a lifelong Maribyrnong resident and, since her mother's diagnosis and passing with breast cancer, has been a passionate crusader for breast and ovarian cancer research She is the founder of the "Leigh Leigh's" in honour of her mum, and is a Mother's Day Classic Ambassador.
Lauren established the Foundation’s Mother’s Day Run & Walk on the Maribyrnong River a few years back. She says that she did that "not only to raise money and awareness for breast and ovarian cancer but also to promote community engagement by bringing two councils, numerous clubs, and communities together. Everyone is welcome, dogs too!”
This year's Mother's Day Classic on the Maribyrnong is on Mother's Day, Sunday 10 May from Coulson Gardens Maribyrnong with a 10km run and a 4km walk.  Full details at Mothers Day Classic
 
              
 
2025 Christmas Bag Project – Kent said it all
 
2025 Christmas Bag Project – Kent said it all
 
Kent's circumstances and his story of not having anyone to share Christmas with, and asking for his hamper to be put under his tree so that he had something to open on Christmas Day, is a summary of our whole project - just multiply it by 100.
Kent's representative situation, his delight and his thanks, underline the community value of this project, and reinforce why it continues to be such a rewarding one for our Club and its members.  
The Rotary Club of Keilor has now been undertaking its annual Christmas Bag project for more than 20 years. The project provides Bolton Clarke Community Nurses with 100 Christmas Bags to deliver to their most elderly, isolated, restricted and socio and economically restricted patients in Melbourne’s western suburbs. 
It’s a massive effort every year to fundraise, seek cash and product donations, pick up, store and eventually pack the bags for the Community Nurses to collect and deliver in the days leading up to Christmas. Packing is an all of Club effort, and this year we had some great volunteers and family members to support us on our packing night.
As a result of the assistance we received for the project for Christmas 2025, including through product donations, Club fundraising and the support of a Rotary Foundation District Grant, we were able to deliver a value approaching $14,000 ($140 each) to the 100 recipients of the Bags.
Look at the photos and read the storyboards – they are what convince us to come back every year.
                           
Rotary Club of Keilor's 100 Xmas Bag Project
Rotary Club of Keilor's 100 Xmas Bag Project
As Christmas approaches, the Rotary Club of Keilor is again busily preparing for its annual ‘100 Christmas Bags’ project.
For more than 20 years, this project has seen 100 gift bags distributed by Bolton Clarke Community Nurses to their most isolated, restricted and loneliest patients in the Moonee Valley and Brimbank local Government areas.
Often, recipients of the Christmas Bags do not have a network of family, friends or community, and the Club’s aim is to offer these people some small measure of comfort and joy at Christmas time. The bags always contain basic food supplies, toiletry and personal care items, as well as some seasonal ‘goodies’ that, together, go some way to providing meaningful support and an uplift in spirit.
‘The generous Christmas Hampers received by our clients from the Keilor Rotary Club have been wonderful and have really made a difference to the people who received them,’ said a representative of Bolton Clarke Community Nurses after last year’s distribution. One recipient, Anica, said â€˜I am very surprised as I don’t receive many surprises nor gifts. It brought tears to my eyes, and it has made my Christmas feel wonderful.’
The President of the Rotary Club of Keilor, Norm Darper, explained that the project depends heavily on the Club’s own fundraising, as well as monetary and other donations to fill the bags. In 2025, the Club is also grateful for the support of The Rotary Foundation, in the form of a District Grant for the 100 Christmas Bags project.
 
 
                                                
  
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