Who we are

Perhaps you’ve seen our ladies in red hats dining out or having tea together and wondered what we’re all about.

The Red Hats of the Yarra is a non-profit group of women qualified to wear the Red Hat of the 50+ age group. We are an ever-growing organisation united under the umbrella of a Red Hat to have fun and bond as sisters as we travel through life together.

We raise money for charitable causes, usually for individual women who have suffered hardship. We liaise with other womens’ groups such as Flat Out, Somebodys Daughter Theatre. We are in the process of setting up with IDSA.

We are all helping to develop an enormous nurturing network or women over 50, by joining red-gloved hands and spreading the joy and companionship we are finding within and among the chapters.

We have also discovered a “mission” of sorts: to gain higher visibility for women in our age group and to reshape the way we are viewed by today’s culture.

We are all familiar with groups of the past, which stridently sought to achieve their agendas. Well, we are decidedly UN-strident, but we hope to advance our agenda with good humour and laughter.

If we do not join together under the banner of The Red Hats, but rather remain isolated, in unconnected groups, this will not happen.

Therefore, we are working to build a dis-organization within which we can all connect and eventually take over the world