The Brollie Brigade visited our club in January 2025.


The Brollie Brigade
The Brollie Brigade visited our club in January 2025. Brollie Brigade provides hot showers for the homeless from the back of a truck. The truck shown in the attached photograph possesses two hot showers. It is a fully independent service having large fresh water and grey water tanks plus solar panels for electricity and hot water. Jim Mellor from the Brollie Brigade and Lindsey Francis from the Rotary Club of Matilda Bay both described how the shower truck is teamed up with other services which meet at hubs around the metropolitan area. A hair dresser is able to operate under protection at the side of the shower truck. Often also at these hubs are a source of healthy hot food, a street doctor, mobile laundry machines, and clean clothes. One or two street chaplains may also be in attendance for spiritual support.
Jim thanked Rotary and range of corporate and personal sponsors for raising funds and providing expertise to refit the truck.
Jim Mellor, Lindsey Francis and club members in front of the mobile shower truck