The Rotary Club of Devonport North is involved in several projects throughout the year - the major projects are listed here.

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1. Learn♦Grow  This program is an initiative of The Rotary Club of Devonport North to address malnutrition throughout the world by developing a program to grow the best local foods to meet nutritional needs.

For more information please visit separate web page on this site - see link above  

For more extensive details of the project visit the Learn♦Grow website:    (Click on Icon)

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2. Golf Day: A Charity Golf Day is held each year with the proceeds being donated to the Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia for research purposes. This event is held in October and each year one or more AFL players are invited to participate both by playing in the event and at the post golf celebration and auction. These players have traditionally been local boys who have made a name for themselves playing in the national AFL competition. Capacity fields have always ensured a very successful day with several thousands of dollars donated each year to this very worthy cause. The 2010 event will be held on Sunday 24th. October 2010 at the Woodrising Golf Club and the major sponsor again will be Harvey World Travel. Over 150 players participated last year to make this a very successful event with over $6000 being donated to prostate cancer research. Please click here for link to entry form. Golf Day Entry Form

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3. Breakfast in the Park: Each year on the last working day prior to Christmas Day the club stages the annual Breakfast in the Park. This is held at Roundhouse Park, Victoria Parade on the foreshore of the Mersey River. Members of the public, both private and corporate citizens are invited to attend this event for breakfast with the option of bringing their own breakfast or enjoying a hot breakfast cooked and served by club members. Santa Claus pays a visit during the morning handing out sweets to guests and various competitions are held for those attending. Face painting is available for children and this has proved very popular over the years the event has been staged. Guests can dress in Christmas attire and there are prizes for the best dressed person, and also the best decorated table. This event is growing in popularity each year and patrons look forward to starting the Christmas celebrations with this event.  The 2009 event was held at Roundhouse Park on Thursday 24th December 2009 commencing at 7.00 am. with over 360 people enjoying to morning. Numbers were down slightly from last year due to the threatening weather which fortunately held off until after the event concluded. Tasmanian Alkaloids has been the major sponsor for this event for a number of years and the club is very appreciate of this support.

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4. Devonport Motor Show and Swap Meet: 

See for photos from 2009 Car Show.

For more details and entry forms for the next event please go to the entry form page  (Click on icon)

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5. Rotary Youth Driver Awareness Program (RYDA)  This program targets “awareness” and “attitudinal change” and seeks to encourage year 10 students, who are on the verge of driving or at least are actively thinking about it, to take a more responsible attitude to motoring. Comprising six sessions, it is a one day event held at a non-school site. The programme co-ordinates the efforts of local road safety experts, driving instructors, the Police, recovering victims of road accidents, drug & alcohol educators and financial service personnel in such a way that students are made aware of the privilege and responsibilities of owning and driving a motor vehicle.

This programme is for grade 10 secondary school students and was held this year at Camp Clayton, Turner's Beach from June 15th - 21st 2009. The program was presented to 13 schools between Latrobe and Burnie over 8 days with a total student attendance of 1028 with 55 supporting teachers. All 9 Rotary Clubs from Latrobe to Wynyard were involved in providing group leaders and road marshals for each day and we had adequate numbers for all but one day. A tent crew of up to 3 Rotarians from the Rotary Club of Devonport North erected the shelter tent for the stopping distances demonstrations each morning and dismantled same each afternoon. We had most of the same enthusiastic presenters as last year with the exception of the finance session. Last year's finance presenters declined to be involved again so we invited Margy Badcock from ANCA insurance brokers and she successfully presented all 48 sessions. We also had counsellors on hand from the Road Trauma Support Group and they were able to help 8 students from the Police sessions. The programme was also conducted in December 2009 with one day sessions at Smithton and Queenstown supported by excellent assistance of the local Rotary Clubs.

Our motto for this programme is "If we can save just one life or serious injury, the program is worthwhile"

See website for more details of national programme.