Volunteering

Volunteering can be a rewarding way to contribute to your local community and together with that you can meet people with common interests.

If you are interested in Volunteering please contact:

Michelle Hales - Community Development Officer

Telephone: (08) 8671 0010 Fax: (08) 8671 0452
Email: Community Development Officer


Community Organisations and Service Clubs

Friends of Arid Recovery



Incorporated - Under the parent body - SA Friends of Parks
The Friends of Arid Recovery is a volunteer organisation that supports the aims of Arid Recovery by encouraging and facilitating community involvement.
Committee meets monthly, member days at the Arid Recovery reserve monthly and working bees and other voluntary tasks at the reserve as needed communicated to members.

PO Box 147
Roxby Downs SA 5725
Contact: Telephone: Bus: (08) 8671 8282 Fax: (08) 8671 3287
email: Friends of Arid Recovery
Web: Arid Recovery

Outback Multicultural Group

For Further Details Contact Jo Culf  Telephone:  (08) 8671 9020 

Outback Smart

Outback Smart is a new initiative of the Roxby Downs Environment Forum promoting and encouraging sustainable living in Roxby Downs and the surrounding areas.Outback Smart is working to give people the skills, knowledge and confidence to make easy, practical changes to their homes and everyday lives to become more environmentally sustainable.

Outback Smart consists of the Energy Friends and Living Smart programs.

Energy Friends provides free home energy assessments to identify areas where householders can save power and water and reduce their costs. Living Smart is an award-winning six week environmental education program which will teach you how to live a more simple, healthy & sustainable lifestyle.

Outback Smart is a community partnership between BHP Billiton, the Roxby Downs Environment Forum and Conservation Volunteers Australia.

To find out more about Outback Smart look for us at the Roxby Downs Market Days or Contact:  Environment Forum

Relay for Life - Roxby Downs Town Oval October 16 & 17 2010

Relay for Life is more than just a fundraiser.  It is an opportunity to get together with your community and celebrate cancer survivors, remember loved ones lost to cancer, and fight back against a disease that takes too much.

For more information about the Relay for Life event contact:

Kate on 0418 820 249 or Coral on 0439 086 929

Web:  Roxby Downs Relay for Life

Rotary Club of Roxby Districts

The Object of Rotary is to encourage and foster the ideal of service as a basis of worthy enterprise and, in particular, to encourage and foster:
FIRST. The development of acquaintance as an opportunity for service;
SECOND. High ethical standards in business and professions, the recognition of the worthiness of all useful occupations, and the dignifying of each Rotarian's occupation as an opportunity to serve society;
THIRD. The application of the ideal of service in each Rotarian's personal, business, and community life;
FOURTH. The advancement of international understanding, goodwill, and peace through a world fellowship of business and professional persons united in the ideal of service.
We officially Charted as a club 'Rotary Club of Roxby District' on June 14th 2008 which is a first for Roxby Downs. We have members from Roxby, Woomera and Andamooka and are aways looking for new members.

ROXBY DOWNS SA 5725
Contact: Sandy Sumsion President Rotary Club of Roxby District Mobile 0400 366 619
Meetings: Dunes Cafe (Cultural Precinct) Richardson Place, Roxby Downs on the 1st and 3rd Monday of each month, excluding public holidays. Dinner is $15.00 - Just let us know you are coming.
Times: Meet at 6.15 pm for a 6.30 pm start

Roxby Downs Community Garden

Roxby Downs Community Garden Committee
C/- PO Box 85, Roxby Downs   SA   5725
Cherie (08) 8671 2924

Roxby Road Safe

For Further Details Contact:  Peter Keller 
Telephone:  (08) 8671 0010

Royal Flying Doctor Service - Roxby Downs Auxiliary (Incorporated)

The Royal Flying Doctor Service Roxby Downs Auxiliary is a non-profit organisation, established in 1987, which aims to raise money for the Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia. The Roxby Downs group is one of several auxiliaries in South Australia. Our fundraising activities include raffles, selling of RFDS souvenirs, Tag Along Tours, the Irish Christmas Dinner (held annually in June) and the Giant RFDS Auction (held annually in September). In 2007 the RFDS made 92 landings at Olympic Dam. That means every forth day, assisting someone in our community. Across South Australia around 45,000 people were assisted by the RFDS last year, with a staggering total of 230,000 people assisted Australia wide for the year. With the support of the Roxby Downs Community, approximately $100,000.00 was raised in 2007 alone.

PO Box 120, ROXBY DOWNS SA 5725
Contact: President Marie McCormack Tel: (08) 8671 0228
Secretary Cherie Gaskin Tel: (08) 8671 2924
Email: Royal Flying Doctors Service Roxby Downs Auxiliary
Web: Royal Flying Doctors Service
Meetings: Monthly Meetings held at Roxby Downs Club
Times: 7.30 pm to 8.30 pm every second Tuesday of the Month - All Welcome.

The Cancer Council

Roxby Downs Branch - Red Sands Foundation
For Further Information
Contact:  Vicki Hatty - President  Mobile: 0409254016