Where and When we Meet | Rotary Club of Bentleigh Moorabbin Central

Our Club meets weekly.

With us going into and out of lockdowns, we meet when we can in person or we meet on Zoom. Either way, you are very welcome to join us. To see where meetings are being held, check out our events listing here.

Meeting in person:

We meet at Cilantro, (location details below), which is the training restaurant at Holmsglen in Moorabbin, Victoria. We are now adding the facility to join these meetings on Zoom as well, (details below).
A full buffet breakfast is made available and cost is $25. Meetings always finish no later than 8.30am.

Note re parking at Cilantro – it is free on Wednesday mornings up until 8.45am. Regarding any other occasions where you may be on campus, you would need a parking permit.

Occasionally we may meet elsewhere and / or at a different time – please check the list of coming events on this page to confirm.

Meeting on Zoom: 7.30am Wednesday. Meeting ID 3532621046 Pwd 3191 or click here. Never used Zoom? Click here.

Members are required to register themselves and any guests using the facility on the Events page. Refer instructions here.

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Welcome to our Club!

We meet In Person

Wednesdays at 7:10 a.m.

Cilantro Restaurant, Holmesglen TAFE

Moorabbin Campus, 488 South Rd
Moorabbin, VIC 3189
Australia

Meetings are also on Zoom. Meeting ID 3532621046 Pwd 3191 Please check website to confirm venue and time. https://rotarybmc.org.au/events

Venue Map

Club Meeting Sept 3 2025 Ken Mirams

Posted by Ian Ballantine on Sep 03, 2025

Our Chairperson today was Linda O'Brien. Guests this morning included Guest Speaker, from the RC of Beaumaris, Ken Mirams.

In addition, we were joined again by Gabriela Ammendola and Bruno Santi.

In all we had 18 in attendance at Cilantro.

Following breakfast we heard from Ken Mirams on the subject of Youth Protection riles and guidelines in Rotary.

Club Meeting Aug 27 2025 DIK

Posted by Karin Soster on Aug 27, 2025

Ron was our chairperson for this morning's club meeting at Cilantro. Guests included Colleen D'Offay, our guest speaker, and Nicky Chung. Charles and Karin attended via Zoom.

Ron commenced the meeting with 1 minutes silence in recognition and to honour the service of the 2 recently slain policemen in Porepunkah, and pay respect to their families. Terrible and very sad - our hearts go out to them. All of our community is impacted by such events.

Cilantro Dinner August 2025 SES

Posted by Karin Soster on Aug 21, 2025

Kellie Carruthers was chairperson for this evening's club meeting at Cilantro, where club members, partners and guests were treated to a wonderful three course meal prepared and presented by Year 4 students of the Cordon Bleu Cookery School.

A special welcome to our guest speakers - Andrew Holden and Clarine Wheeler from SES, and accompanied by Clarine's husband and her parents.

CLUB ANNOUNCEMENTS

RYDA Event - Monday 25/8. Julie called for two more volunteers for Monday's RYDA event for students at Cheltenham Secondary College, adding lunch and morning tea will be provided.

BMC Board Meeting - President Grant reminded board members of the next board meeting on Monday 25/8 and to submit their board reports to Secretary Karin by the coming weekend.

GUEST SPEAKERS - SES Moorabbin Unit - Andrew Holden and Clarine Wheeler

Album of pics HERE

Club Meeting August 13 2025 Bert d'Unienville

Posted by Karin Soster

M

arg Lucas was our chairperson for today's club meeting at Cilantro. Nicky Chung and Gary Ramage were visitors, and Charles joined via Zoom.

CLUB ANNOUNCEMENTS

Monday 25/8 - RYDA event at Sandown Greyhound Racetrack. Ron is still seeking volunteers to help out at the RYDA event for Cheltenham Secondary College. Tasks involve shepherding students to the correct location at the racetrack for their training sessions. Ian and Grant advise the task is simple, and rewarding, with training going a long way to improve driving outcomes for students planning to get their driver's licence.

Friday 15/8 - Pizza, Pasta and Poetry fellowship event. Linda is still taking numbers for this event. Attendees are requested to bring along a poem with a prize for the 'winning' presenter.

Thursday evening 21/8 - is the date for our next club meeting at Cilantro, in place of the usual Wednesday meeting, with SES Moorabbin Branch as our guest speakers.

Club Meeting August 6 2025 Conference

Posted by Karin Soster on Aug 06, 2025

Jo Impey was chairperson for today's club meeting at Cilantro. Charles joined the meeting via Zoom, and Gary Ramage was a guest. Jo acknowledged the staff at Cilantro.

INTERNATIONAL CLUB TOAST - Rotary Club of Makati, Philippines

Ian B introduced a return to our club's past practise of international club toasts, and conducted a toast to R.C. Makati in the Philippines. The R.C. Makati commenced in 1966 and has 130 members - the majority of whom are in business or hold professional positions. They seek sustainable projects with a high impact and meet many of the 7 areas of Rotary focus with projects in health, environmental programs, educational and vocational programs. The club commenced the Eradicate Polio pilot program in 1979 to immunise children in the Philippines, and which became the forerunner to the Polio Plus program launched by Rotary International in 1985. A video was shown on one of their educational programs. The club has sponsored 12 new clubs, received many awards, and is a large contributor to Rotary Foundation. Four club members are current contributors to the Arch Klumpf Foundation.

Their website is here.

A copy of Powerpoint Presentation can be found here. To keep file size down, it excludes this video.

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