President’s report – Meeting #8 – 1st November 2018
PRIDE OF WORKMANSHIP AWARDS - Dinner at the Southport Golf Club
Fantastic evening, our Club presented awards to 8 worthy recipients representing 8 local businesses. All nominees were presented with a Rotary Pride of Workmanship glass trophy, each awardee gave us a short talk about their achievement. Congratulations to the awardees for a job well done.
Kathy raffled a cute Teddy Bear and raised $675 for the Drought Relief effort in Western Queensland. Well done
It was good to see a strong support from the Club with 23 members in attendance plus 49 guests.
A special thanks to Past President Kathy Hogan, and her team, for making this event possible and for being the MC for the evening, to Rob Ffrench who introduced and explained the concept behind Pride Of Workmanship and all the volunteers for their assistance. As President I did a short presentation about Rotary and about our Club.
Sunday 4th November Rowan, David, Phil and I represented our Club at a District Membership Retention Seminar with very interesting and entertaining keynote speakers. Here below is a summary of Mark Huddleston’s presentation:
- The following statistics show Rotary in Australia has a membership crisis –
- Mark’s top 5 reasons why more members are leaving than joining are:
- Rotary is no longer seen as relevant.
Our clubs are smaller, our members are older and less of us are working.
Our perceived capacity to network and serve our community has decreased.
- Ineffective external communication.
Our messaging is inconsistent, confusing, under resourced and often misdirected.
- The volunteering landscape has changed, but we have not changed our practices.
- We have become obsessed with processes, and not focused sufficiently on outcomes. Ie Meeting-centric rather than Service-centric
- We’ve become comfortable and apathetic.
- Rotary’s most valuable resource is the time our members are prepared to give.
- Potential member groups are time-poor:
- Students – study + part-time jobs
- Younger professionals – establishing careers and job workloads
- Small business owners – working extended hours to survive
- Those with jobs and young families – balancing life demands
- Business executives – work and travel commitments
- Busy people don’t have a lot of time to give, so the time they give must be effective and productive – Are our meetings a productive and effective use of our volunteer’s time?
- Clubs attracting busy people focus on ‘Less Meeting – More Doing’
- Hands on projects attract younger members.
THE ROTARY FOUNDATION – XMAS RUM AND FRUIT CAKES
HOOHOOHOO XMAS is coming ...
Get in quick to place your order of yummy Rotary Christmas Fruit Cakes and contribute to the Rotary Foundation (see attached flyer). Same low price as last year $16.50 ($2 is credited to our Club's contribution to Rotary Foundation).
These cake tins make a great gift to your clients, suppliers, family and friends.
Order before the 25th November so we can get them by the Christmas party on the 6th December
HOW TO ORDER:
Your name:
Number of cakes: X $16.50 = $
(Note there are 8 cakes per cartons)
BSB: 124-022 ; A/c: 21667632
This is our programme until the end of the year:
- Nov 25 – Birthday Sunday Lunch 12.00 PM at Randhawa's Indian Cuisine Emerald Lakes, Shop 6/3027 The Boulevard Carrara.
Cost $20.00. Cash Bar, BYO Wine Only Charges $6.00 per Bottle
Please RSVP to Chawki ASAP
In October November and December we celebrate the following birthdays:
Lyn McArthur, Catherine Bonifant, Peter Laurens, John Lander, Margaret Prentice, Narelle Flanagan, Joyce Kertesz, Margaret Grummitt, John Goldstein, Martin Reisch, John D'Anna, Rowan Johnstone, David wood, Beverly Daw, Ester Chan, Carolyn Dower, and Noel Grummitt.
- Dec 6 - Christmas Party – Mark that date! 6.00 pm. Come in dressed in white and red. Be entertained with Christmas carols by the Salvation Army’s brass band, have a bit of FUN with the secret Santa (bring an unusual gift max $20), enjoy a traditional Christmas fare.
- Dec 20 - Breakfast in the Garden and AGM
JUST FOR LAUGTH: talking about membership....
“I don’t want to belong to any club that would have me as a member”.
Groucho Mar
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