Club Services

Centennial Flag Pole at Five Ways intersection, Crows Nest
Chartered Rotary club of Northbridge
Established the Probus Club of Crows Nest
Financially supported charities include:
Microsearch Foundation, Bushfire Appeals, North Shore Community Centre, Crows Nest Community Centre, Spinal Injuries Research Foundation, “Enough is Enough”, 3H Fundation, RNS Cancer Research Fund, RNSHeart Research Foundation, NADOW, Flood Appeals, Jenny Trust Fund, Prostate Cancer Research Foundation, Childrens Hospital Westmead, Paulian Villa Retirement Village Northbridge, Rotary Foundation plus many more worthwhile causes.
Sister Club with the Royal Rotary Club of Kuala Lumpur, Seremban and Tamworth West.

Community Services

Funded setting up of Peer Support in State Schools
Purchased equipment and provided funds to Mater Hospital Rectal and Colon Cancer Detection Centre.
Set up Bicentennial Library and Equipment for RNSH Hand Microsurgery Unit.
Purchased a Renal testing unit for RNSH Renal Unit
Purchased Cot death Monitors for RNSH
Purchased equipment and supported the Helping Hand Mission
Furnished units in the North Sydney Retirement Village
Painted and provided equipment for North Shore Day Child Nursery
Painted and provided equipment for Adolescent Refuge in North Sydney
Rebuilt Girl Guides Hall
Provide and deliver food parcels for aged and infirmed.
Participate in annual Salvation Army Red Shield Appeal.

Vocational Services

Provided team members for FAIM projects
Sponsors Annual Pride of Workmanship Awards.
Sponsored training of 12 Malaysian nurses training at The Mater Hospital.

 

  
International Services

Since 1997 the Rotary Club of Crows Nest has implemented about 80 projects providing better basic education in the small Chinese County of Binxian, in the Province of Shaanxi.
These projects include:
Financial support for the education of more than 200 children year. These are the children of desperately poor families who are forced to take their children out of school due to financial constraints. Our help has enabled those children to return to school.
A total of 3,000 local teachers have attended annual training courses in subjects ranging from basic curriculum to English and Computer teaching.
19 New primary schools have been built.
2 Old Primary schools have been totally renovated
1 Middle school has been totally renovated.
More than 7,000 reference books and dictionaries have been supplied to 30 primary schools.
Support for the County Central Library which has been transformed from an inefficient hoarder of books into a model interactive lender of books.
The promotion of reading in 49 villages by introducing training programs for primary school staff and supplying more than 13,000 books for them to lend to students,-teachers and villagers.
The supply of more than 1,000 new student desks and chairs to numerous schools
The repair by local tradesmen of more than 1,500 student desks and chairs for numerous schools.
The supply of various educational tools such as televisions and VCRs for remote schools
Providing assistance to students with medical problems, including the supply of 70 wheelchairs to those in-need, most of them polio victims.

Youth Services

Supported 12 Scholarships for Malaysian students
Sponsors Group Study Exchange Students for overseas visitsand hosts them locally
Sponsors candidates for RYLA, Childrens Camp Vision Valley,Rotaract and Careers Market.
Organised a camp for children from remote country areas
studying through NSW Education Department Correspondence School.
Home hosted for 12 months students from overseas countries.
Sponsors Annual Speech Contest for local Year 10
and 11 students.
Supporters of Model United Nations Association, Girl
Guides, Scouts,