The Club Supports the following Organisations and Projects

St Vincent De Paul Smith Family Collingwood College - Driving Program
Scholarships for primary, secondary and tertiary students in Ben Tre Province Vietnam including sponsorship of a presentation day and certificates for those students and students sponsored by others and a bicycle as a prize for best student
Richmond Asian Business Association – Victoria Vietnamese New Year Festival
Alice Springs Indigenous Youth Horticultural Training
Dancehouse, a component of the City of Yarra Youth Arts project.
Live Wires, an organisation which provides after school care and activities for children in the Collingwood High Rise flats – Five year commitment.
Salesian College, assisting students who are building houses for disadvantaged people in Cambodia
Independence Australia (formerly the Paraplegic and Quadriplegic Association to assist them in their important work for mobility handicapped people.
Wheelchair Sports –assistance with provision of hands on support, but it is expected that this will develop.
Happy Football Cambodia – an organisation which runs a programme of soccer in Cambodia among homeless young people including sponsorship of a team in the Homeless World Cup.
Uganda - provision of kits for birth and neo-natal care.
Life’s Little Treasurers Foundation – an organisation which provides support for families with premature babies

Collingwood College provided assistance for 3 students for a trip to China

Collingwood Knights Football Club – a club which is comprised of people from the Collingwood/Fitzroy High Rise – Rotarian Gerald Fanning provided hands on assistance. The club paid for the team’s annual presentation dinner

Fair Play Soccer competition (a local activity of Happy Football Cambodia) by both provision of assistance at their competitions at Victoria Park in April and October and financial help.

Evolve an organisation which provides support and mentoring activities for adolescent boys and girls considered “at risk”. Previously this was confined to Typo Station, well known to Rotary, but next year they are proposing to develop activities in the City of Yarra.

Steps Outreach Service which is headquartered in Collingwood but which conducts it activities principally among homeless youth on the steps of Flinders Street Station and which is entirely privately funded.
Women’s Mentoring Programme, run in conjunction with the Collingwood Neighbourhood Justice Centre, which assists women who have been charged with summary offences but not yet come before the Court. The programme was created as a result of a report which was commissioned and paid for by the Club some years ago.

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