Rotary Club of Keilor

27/03/2026

Our guest speaker at Keilor Rotary Club meeting on Tuesday 28th April at the Keilor Hotel at 7pm is Lauren Philpot - Mother's Day Classic Ambassador.

Lauren Philpot is a lifelong Maribyrnong resident and, since her mother's diagnosis and passing with breast cancer, has been a passionate crusader for breast and ovarian cancer research She is the founder of the "Leigh Leigh's" in honour of her mum, and is a Mother's Day Classic Ambassador.
Lauren established the Foundation’s Mother’s Day Run & Walk on the Maribyrnong River a few years back. She says that she did that "not only to raise money and awareness for breast and ovarian cancer but also to promote community engagement by bringing two councils, numerous clubs, and communities together. Everyone is welcome, dogs too!”
This year's Mother's Day Classic on the Maribyrnong is on Mother's Day, Sunday 10 May from Coulson Gardens Maribyrnong with a 10km run and a 4km walk.
Full details at Mothers Day Classic.

Join the Mother’s Day Classic on Sunday, May 10 to walk or run in support of lifesaving breast and ovarian cancer research.

15/01/2026

2025 Christmas Bag Project – Kent said it all

Kent's circumstances and his story of not having anyone to share Christmas with, and asking for his Christmas Bag to be put under his tree so that he had something to open on Christmas Day, is a summary of our whole Christmas Bag project - just multiply it by 100 recipients in similar situations.

The Rotary Club of Keilor has now been undertaking its annual Christmas Bag project for more than 20 years. The project provides Bolton Clarke Community Nurses with 100 Christmas Bags to deliver to their most elderly, isolated, restricted and socio and economically restricted patients in Melbourne’s western suburbs.

As a result of the assistance we received for the project for Christmas 2025, including through product donations, Club fundraising and the support of a Rotary Foundation District Grant, we were able to deliver a value approaching $14,000 ($140 each) to the 100 recipients of the Bags.

The community support this project delivers, and the thanks we get are what makes us come back for more.

10/10/2025

October is the time of the year when our Rotary Club commences planning for its annual one hundred Christmas Bags project. The bags will be distributed by Bolton Clark Community Nurses to their most isolated, restricted and loneliest patients in the Moonee Valley and Brimbank areas. This year we have been grateful to obtain a district grant from The Rotary Foundation and donations from our Rotary Friends, enabling our club to provide one hundred Christmas bags, each in value in excess of $100 for distribution just prior to Christmas 2025

01/03/2025

27/12/2024

100 Christmas Bags - done & dusted for another year
With the assistance of a District Grant from the Rotary Foundation, the Rotary Club of Keilor packed 100 Christmas Bags of some $140 value each at the Aberfeldie Bowls Club in the lead up to Christmas. That District Grant was more than matched by Club fundraising, and member and supporter donations.
Bolton Clarke Community Nurses picked the Christmas Bags up the morning after they were packed, and began delivering them to their most restricted, isolated, socially and financially challenged patients in the Moonee Valley and Brimbank local government areas.
We had a long “production line, and more than 25 Rotarians, family members and friends involved in the packing evening at the Aberfeldie Bowls Club (on a day where the temperature exceeded 40C).
This has been an annual project of the Club for more than 20 years – one that provides plenty of hard work, but lots of reward and good fellowship. Delivery of the bags is also an annual highlight for the Community Nurses – and of course for the recipients.

08/11/2024

Guest Speaker Tuesday 25th February 7pm at the Keilor Hotel
Earlier this year our Club donated more than $16,000 from our Trust Fund to Austin Health. That donation was to fund the purchase of equipment for the Olivia Newton John Cancer & Wellness Centre's gymnasium, to support that facility in providing exercise physiology sessions for its cancer patients.

To acknowledge that donation, and to speak to us on the value of exercise physiology in the cancer journey, Dr Ashley Bigaran, Operations Manager, Wellness and Supportive Care at the Olivia Newton John Cancer & Wellness Centre will be joining us at our meeting on Tuesday 26 November.

Ashley has been a clinician and researcher in exercise physiology for more than 10 years, has conducted extensive research into the benefits of exercise for cancer patients, and is herself an Senior Accredited Exercise Physiologist.

All welcome - just let us know you are coming. $20 includes your meal. [email protected]

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