Our Club concentrates on service and fellowship.
Our lunchtime meeting is at the Hotel Grand Chancellor by the Hobart docks from 1 – 2pm every Thursday.

Service

We raise around $100 000 each year for charitable purposes.

We do this from a variety of activities:

• Art show – provides local artists with the opportunity to exhibit their works in a staged venue. Money is raised by the auction of pieces of artwork, and from a commission on any works sold
• Magic show – local businesses buy tickets to the international Chuck Jones Company extravaganza, for donation to children's groups, with the Club, promoter and performers sharing in ticket revenue
• Sail day – yacht owners donate their boats and crew for a day-long fully catered cruise on the River Derwent. Boats are sold to corporate sponsors for the day.

The funds raised go to many charities:

• Australian Rotary Health Research Fund
• Bridgewater Police & Citizens Youth Club
• Bethlehem House
• Clarendon House
• Derwent Sea Scouts Group
• Edmund Rice Camps
• Interplast Tasmania
• Mentor Resources
• Opportunity International
• Red Cross Roadhouse
• Rotary Foundation
• Royal Hobart Hospital Research Foundation
• Young Endeavour Scholarship.

We believe it is important that every dollar donated to or raised by the Club goes to charity – all members' fees are paid in full by the members themselves, and all work done by members is on a voluntary basis

Fellowship

We have a lot of fun at our weekly meetings. Despite the importance of successfully continuing to support vital fundraising activities, members seem to be able to just as effectively relax and enjoy the company of their fellows, both members and guests.

Do join us at a meeting if you are able. Visiting Rotarians will receive a warm welcome, and if you are a member's guest, we will try and ensure your time with us will be both pleasant and memorable.

Steve Shirley
President
Rotary Club of Hobart
2008-2009

The object of Rotary is to encourage and foster the ideal of service as a basis of worthy enterprise and, in particular, to encourage and foster:

FIRST

The development of acquaintance as an opportunity for service;

SECOND

High ethical standards in business and professions, the recognition of the worthiness of all useful occupations, and the dignifying of each Rotarian's occupation as an opportunity to serve society;

THIRD

The application of the ideal of service in each Rotarian's personal, business and community life;

FOURTH

The advancement of international understanding, goodwill and peace through a world fellowship of business and professional persons united in the ideal of service.