Each year our club is involved with a range of community charity doorknocks. Our members assist as drivers for organisations such as: Blue Care, Qld Cancer Fund, Salvation Army Red Shield Appeal and Guide Dogs.
We make an annual donation of twenty cooked chickens to Francis Holmes Management who organise a Christmas Lunch for the Homeless.
Around October each year we organise a wheelbarrow full of "Christmas cheer" and sell raffle tickets at local shopping centres. This has been a successful fundraising activity and allows us to support a local charity.
For a week in March each year we promote the sale of Bowel Scan kits from shopping centres around Toowoomba. Club members also collect completed kits from pharmacies to deliver for pathology testing. The Bowel Scan programme is now an annual event involving all Toowoomba Rotary Clubs.
This year we will hold our sixth annual Trivia Night on 25th May 2006 at Regents on the Lake. These evenings have the typical Trivia format with teams of six competing for the annual Trivia Trophy. Approximately 150 people attend and join in the fun and take advantage of the multi-draw raffle.
$1600 was raised last year with the majority of the funds presented to the Toowoomba Hospice.
Vouchers and prizes were donated by: -
- Care Flight
- City Finance
- Plantation Plants
- Downs Micro Systems
- Empire Theatre
- Spotted Cow Cellars
- Cartoon & Graphic Designs
- And members of the Toowoomba City Rotary Club
Our club has been hosting groups from the People to People Ambassadorial Program since the mid 1990s. This involves finding host families for a busload of American teenagers and their teachers from various American states for three nights in the middle of the year. During their stay in Toowoomba we organise activities and an evening of fellowship with the club.
We generally raise about $2000 from this activity.
In 2005 the Centennial Project of the combined Rotary Clubs of Toowoomba was a large picnic Rotunda, built at the Perth St end of Lake Annand Park. This was presented as a gift to the city of Toowoomba.
The club is involved in the annual Harley Davidson motorbike convoy to raise money for the Queensland Cancer Fund. This involves promoting pillion passenger rides on the Harleys and the accompanying bus for half day scenic tours in Toowoomba and the surrounds.
