The Home Host Program As Sydney prepared for the Games the Rotary Club of Sydney (RCS) worked with the Sydney Organising Committee of the Olympic Games (SOCOG) to develop a community program offering free bed and breakfast in homes for families of athletes. Athletes and their families from many countries needed this support to be...
The Rotary Club of Sydney’s association with The University predates the Club’s inaugural meeting which was held on the 17 May 1921 via Sir T.W. Edgeworth David; a worldwide acclaimed geologist and Professor of Geology at the University. He had served as the scientific officer on the Shackleton Antarctic Expedition and later led the party...
The sale of a Prague Hotel is supporting Indigenous Australian University Students. Hotel Meteor Prague Czechoslovakia George Soukup returned to Prague after 43 years in Australia when ownership of the Hotel Meteor was restituted to the family. The hotel had been confiscated after the communist government seized control in Czechoslovakia following the Second World War;...
In 2011, the then President of the Rotary Club of Sydney, Roslyn McLeod OAM asked Indy Singh OAM to find a project that would build “international bridges of friendship”; this focused Indy Singh’s support for the Rotary Club of Sydney and its charitable projects into a passion to help some of the poorest people on the...
To Rotarians Sir Henry Braddon, KBE, (1863-1955) is notably 1st, 2nd and 15th President of the Rotary Club of Sydney; the only person to hold the position more than once. He was also a Rotary Commissioner for NSW and Queensland, equivalent of a District Governor today, from 1922-27. The first Rotary project in Australia was...
