THE Rotary Club of Mt Martha is bringing back its beloved Christmas fruit cakes and puddings, just in time for the holiday season.
Locals who have enjoyed these treats in previous years know just how delicious they are.
This festive project is organised by Rotary Darwin South, part of District 9560 in the Northern Territory, with all profits donated to The Rotary Foundation.
Rotary Mount Martha will receive a small portion from each cake sold, which will go directly into the club’s account to help fund local projects.
The cakes are available in a reusable tin for $22 or in a box for $20, making them a perfect gift for family and friends this Christmas.
Rotarian will be selling the cakes and puddings at Benton Square Shopping Centre in Mornington on 6 December from 10am-1pm.
Meanwhile, as the club busies itself with the Christmas fundraiser, Rotarians have also been hard at work in the community, recently donating $1150 to Mount Martha Primary School for their science program.
Rotary Mount Martha president Anne Shaw said the money was raised in just one day following a barbeque appeal earlier this month at Mt Martha Village, thanks to the help of the school’s students and staff and sponsorship from Bendigo Bank Community Bank Mt Martha.
“This is community and it’s creating a relationship – and that’s what I see as the real value of Rotary and the way we’re going,” Shaw said.
The club also recently donated $1000 to the Mornington Community Support Centre for their Christmas appeal; $1000 to the Mental Health Safety Net in Mornington, and a further $1000 for the Ranch 2.0 project, a community-led crisis accommodation project.
Mornington Community Support Centre president Lyn Johnson said they were most grateful for the donation.
“That is a great start to the Christmas appeal, which has just been launched, and I know that apartment one at Ranch 2.0 is now ready for a make-over, so I know that it will be used wisely,” she said.
This month Rotary Mount Martha also celebrated two years of its Containers for Community initiative through the state’s container deposit scheme, having raised a total of $72,000 so far with proceeds going back into community projects.
First published in the Mornington News – 25 November 2025
