Anton Crous and Peter Osborne are lifelong mates who have dedicated their careers to making a difference in people’s lives. Together they formed Ability Prosthetics and Orthotics.
Broadwater Southport Gold Coast Queensland
"Broadwater Southport Rotary Empowers Youth & Helps Sick and Disabled Kids."
Our Mission
“We help young people across the Gold Coast and in other countries to be the best they can be when studying, in sport, and developing leadership skills. We fund facilities and medical equipment to help improve the lives of sick and disabled kids.”
We do this through service projects encompassing:
- Youth Development: RYPEN, RYTS, RYLA, Rotaract, & Interact
- Bare Your Soles For Kids - Supporting Rotary causes in the community
- Circus Quirkus - Purchase medical equipment for the Gold Coast University Hospital’s children’s wards
- Arundel Park Riding for Disabled - Providing facilities and horse riding experiences for children with a disability
- Now I Can Run - RaceRunners® for disabled athletes
- The Salvation Army - Youth Homelessness
- Rotary Broadwater Chapel by The Sea - A charming intimate setting to experience your wedding or any of life’s special ceremonies
- Gold Coast Hospital Foundation - Supporting patients and their families
- Radio Lollipop Gold Coast - Giving young patients a voice
- Rotary International - End Polio Now
- Seres - Cultivating and catalyzing youth leaders
- The School of St Jude - Fighting poverty through education
- Manasprings - Grassroots Women Transforming Communities
- Give Every Child A Future - Vaccinating 100,000 children across nine Pacific Islands
- Griffith University Researchers - Vaccine deployed into malaria-endemic countries
- “Rotary Kokoda Beach Walk & Run” - Annual Event Empowering Youth & Helping Sick and Disabled Kids
Meetings & Upcoming Events
Our club meets for breakfast each Friday at 7:30am at the Southport Yacht Club located at 1 MacArthur Parade, Main Beach, Queensland. You can view a map by clicking here. On occasion we may vary this for social events, vocational or community visits, or meetings with other clubs. Please refer to our calendar for up to date meeting details or check out some of our upcoming events below.
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Photographs of ANZAC Day Parade 2022 in Brisbane, the Dawn Service at Surfers Paradise, Gold Coast, and AFL ANZAC Tribute Match, Metricon Stadium, Carrara.
Our guest speaker at our Friday Breakfast meeting on April 2022 was Mr Andy Rajapakse, a champion in attracting young people to Rotary. His visionary leadership helped our district 9640 have the largest number of under 40’s in Australia and in Zone 8.
The primary focus of the Institute for Glycomics, Griffith University is translating its drug, vaccine and diagnostic discoveries into social and economic benefit, locally and globally.
At the BSR Club Breakfast Meeting on Friday 11 March 2022 Social Worker Karen Gosling talked with us about The Transition Care Program (TCP) and how it is administered on the Gold Coast, Queensland.
Rtn George Friend OAM was invited on behalf the ANARE Club, to participate in the official launch of our newest Antarctic Research Vessel RSV Nuyina in Hobart Tasmania on 18 December, 2021.
Chook was born in Tasmania and left school in 1973. I quickly became ‘committed’ to my alcoholism and by 1977 I was in South Australia charged with armed robbery.
Denis Tuttle is an Occupational Therapist, Fulbright Research Recipient Thailand 21-22. Denis was the Broadwater Southport Rotary Club's incoming YEP student from the State of New York some 10 years ago in 2010-2011.
WIN Housing Projects was formed to increase the supply of housing for single women over 50, a cohort reported as the highest demographic of homeless / at risk of homelessness.
Make 2023 the best year ever! The opportunity of a lifetime for Australian students aged 15-18 to study abroad. Rotary District 9640 Youth Exchange Program.
At Broadwater Southport Rotary Club's December 17, 2021 Friday Breakfast, Vice President Howard Manning presented the club's annual donation to The Salvation Army.
Kevin Lawler is now a volunteer at the same court where he was sentenced to prison. As guest speaker, Kevin shared with us his new life as a Salvos Chaplain.
