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YOUTH SERVICE REPORT 17 FEB 2022

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E-Rotary Club,      Youth Service Report —17.2.2022

 A few exciting events have occurred with our young people in this ‘quiet period of year’:-

* A new Rotaract Club has been chartered from District 9659 RYLA, 2021, “graduates”.

* Nicola Baker participated in a very different NYSF & is looking forward to addressing E-Rotary Club next week meeting.

* Matthew Barratt participated well in the Public Speaking Cluster Competition, but was not able to proceed to the next level.

* RYPEN, 2022, Lake Keepit, April is looming & I understand that Nicky Engert has a number of Oxley High School students involved —hopefully Samantha Rowe being one of them.

* RYLA, May, 2022, Lake Keepit, is also looming  — still looking for an appropriate nominee for this fabulous leadership workshop opportunity.

* Rous RotaKids —- we have Pigs!  The ‘Chan di dasa village Mayor’ (NYOMAN) & council have selected two (2) families to receive a  two (2 ) month female piglet each – the families are soooo excited. Rous RotaKids have ZOOM visiting rights, so hopefully these little piglets see a few months yet.

Rous RotaKids Chartership is locked in for 24th March @ 2.00pm Rous Public School Assembly. President Ken & I have conducted an Internet search for a little time now for Chartership procedures / Ceremony Run-Sheet / appropriate Certificates.

Lyn Duncan   Youth Service.

 

 

 

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Club Assembly minutes 10th February 2022

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THE ROTARY E – CLUB OF DISTRICT 9650
MINUTES DATED THURSDAY 10th February 2022
Meeting commenced 1903hrs closed 2017hrs              Club assembly
APOLOGIES: Warren & Sue, Steve Beaton, Lyn & Steve Duncan, John Beaumont & Nikki

ATTENDEES: Ken & Di Hall; John & Dorothy Barwick; Tanika Douglas; Jill Forsyth; Peter Kenny;  Richard Preston;  Barry Hacker;  John Boag;  John MacKay; Justin Baiocchi

Presidents welcome

Toasts – to the Queen & people of Australia. International toast to Rotarians in Alaska

General Business

  • Ken & Di attended public speaking event last night. 6 clubs were represented. Di invited Lesley Edwards from Bendemeer and Jess Bird a teacher at Oxley High to attend our club as potential new members. Di proposed we as club prepare a certificate of achievement for our public speaking candidate. Di to complete the certificate to be given at upcoming meeting when Matt will present his speech to the club. All agreed.
  • Ken gave virtual PHF presentation to John and Dorothy Barwick – 2 Rubies & 1 ruby badges. He will catch them over the weekend. Congratulations
  • Reminder 3.3.22 Film night for ‘The Duke’ at Tamworth cinema
  • Ken confirmed our application for $4000 district grant has been approved and paid today.
  • Dorothy reported Tahlia Barwick has been short listed as NSW youth of the year finalist. Tanika to send congratulatory email from the club.
  • Di spoke with Matthew at public speaking about other Rotary programs. He is interested in NYSF & Di encouraged him to apply & mentioned sponsorship by the Eclub may be possible.

Strategic Plan discussion

To achieve our goals

  • Still need a charter date for Rous Rotakids
  • 2021 service to complete – $1000 for Torrington fun day and the donation to Mitch Ford family. John Barwick will try to find a community committee to pass on the $1000 and run a fun day. Ken & John to work on wrapping up and a date to travel up to take funds there.
  • The Oxley High potential Interact club has been slowed by covid but there is still interest.
  • We met our commitment re public speaking in supporting Matt. Suggested to him to consider NYSF too.
  • We have funds for 2 NYSF sponsorships so still need another student.
  • RYLA currently has no candidates. Need some desperately 1-week leadership for young adults.

Further club discussion

  • Heather Mayne Youth Insearch – Ken proposed $500 donation. Motion moved by John Barwick, 2nded Barry. Carried. Suggested have Heather as a future guest speaker also.
  • Dorothy has 30 Baby kits for PNG ready to go. Thanks to Dorothy for doing this project on behalf of the club. Issues in distribution from Covid. Di suggested perhaps the kits could be used in Australia.
  • Dorothy also has many knitted baby bonnets. Tanika to ask if local hospital could use them.
  • Discussion on social gathering for the club. Covid still a concern. Mentioned that district conference is an opportunity for catchup with club members.
  • Guest speakers- call to members to put forward any suggestions
  • Club P O Box. Do we need it? Motion to Not renew when renewal is due moved by Barry, 2nded John Mackay. Carried. 

Meeting closed with 4-way test
Next club zoom meeting Thursday 24th February 2022

 

 

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AGM MINUTES DATED THURSDAY 9th December 2021

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THE ROTARY E – CLUB OF DISTRICT 9650 – AGM MINUTES DATED THURSDAY 9th December 2021

Meeting commenced 1900hrs closed 1920hrs
APOLOGIES: Di Hall, Justin, Jill Forsyth, Lyn, Warren & Sue.

ATTENDEES:
Ken Hall,  John & Dorothy Barwick, Tanika Douglas, Steve Beaton, Peter Kenny, Richard Preston, Barry Hacker, John Mackay

Welcome toasts to Rotary International, the Queen & people of Australia

Motion moved by Richard to accept minutes from previous AGM, 2nded Barry

Treasurers report presented. Motion to accept moved by Peter, 2nded Barry

Presidents report presented by Ken. Motion to accept moved by Ken, 2nded John Barwick.  

Tanika to circulate copy of the report to all members by email post meeting. 

All club board positions declared vacant by President Ken  Nominations called for each position

  • President 2022 – 23 Steve Beaton nominated. Moved by Ken,2nded John Barwick
  • Secretary 2022 -23 Tanika nominated. Moved by Ken, 2nded John Barwick
  • Treasurer 2022-23 Justin nominated. Moved by Ken, 2nded Barry
  • Public Officer 2022-23 Dorothy nominated. Moved by Ken, 2nded Steve
  • Membership 2022-23 Dorothy nominated. Moved by Barry, 2nded Richard
  • Community Service 2022-23 John Barwick nominated, moved Ken, 2nded Barry
  • Executive Secretary 2022-23 Di Hall nominated. Moved John Barwick, 2nded Steve
  • Vocational Service 2022-23 Di Hall nominated. Moved John Barwick, 2nded Steve
  • Foundation & Rotary International 2022-23 Peter Kenny nominated. M Barry, 2nded Ken
  • Vice President 2022-23 Barry Hacker nominated. Moved Ken, 2nded Peter
  • Youth Officer 2022-23 Lyn Duncan nominated. Moved Dorothy, 2nded Richard
  • President elect 2023-2024 Steve Beaton

Congratulations & welcome to new 2022-2023 club board

Meeting closed 1920hrs

Rotary, The Rotary Foundation

POLIO MOVIE EVENT – THE DUKE

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POLIO MOVIE EVENT – THE DUKE 

The Polio Movie Event is a very popular way for clubs to raise funds for End Polio Now.  It’s also a great opportunity for people in our communities to have some fun together.  With lockdowns in so many parts of Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands, the pent-up demand for a fun event is stronger than ever.

To enable more communities to participate, this year’s Polio Movie Event has been scheduled to start later than usual—from 2nd December.  The movie is THE DUKE: ·“a ridiculously charming British comedy” and “stranger-than-fiction true story”
·with two very popular stars—Jim Broadbent and Helen Mirren.
·Rotary has a three-week pre-release window—it’s not open to the general public until Boxing Day.
·Check out the trailer.
The Duke is a 2020 British comedy-drama film directed by Roger Michell, with a screenplay by Richard Bean and Clive Coleman. The film stars Jim Broadbent, Helen Mirren, Fionn Whitehead, Anna Maxwell Martin, and Matthew Goode. It was Michell’s final film before his death in 2021.
The film was awarded 5 stars from The Guardian[4] and The Daily Telegraph[5] following the World Premiere at the Venice Film Festival.[6] It is scheduled to be released in 2022.

Apart from fun and fundraising, this year’s event also provides an opportunity to help your local cinema to recover from the pandemic.  The amount paid to the cinema would not normally be less than $10 per seat and a typical ticket price might be $20.

To arrange an event, talk to the group booking person at your cinema and make sure they plan to offer this movie to the public.  The cinema can then make all the arrangements to source the movie from the distributor, Transmission Films—there’s no need for clubs to get involved in that.

To assist you in promoting the event, we’ve created a template that your club can use to create your own marketing materials:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ux7cepjt3id5iwx/THE_DUKE_Poster.pptx?dl=0

It’s a PowerPoint file—simply insert your club name and event details and: ·save it as a PDF and arrange for your local printer to produce posters and handouts; ·save it as a graphics file and post it to your social media, website, newsletter, etc.

It would be great if you could arrange showings of THE DUKE in your community.  Let’s make this year’s Polio Movie Event a blockbuster—and End Polio Now!

Kind regards                                ROB BYRNE   Rotary Liaison Officer

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World Polio Day is 24 October 2021

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Join us for World Polio Day
24 October
World Polio Day 2021 Visit endpolio.org
Take action for World Polio Day!
Rotary International President Shekhar Mehta says that polio eradication can be achieved if Rotary members stay committed. He calls on every club to offer support this World Polio Day.

Watch and share President Mehta’s World Polio Day video message.
Watch the video

Tell us how your club is supporting Rotary’s polio eradication efforts for World Polio Day.
Register your club’s participation

Help Rotary eradicate polio by making a donation in honor of World Polio Day. Your contribution will be tripled by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Donate to PolioPlus

World Polio Day messages are sent to a broad range of polio eradication advocates, including:
• The RI Board of Directors and directors-elect
• The Rotary Foundation Board of Trustees and incoming trustees
• Past RI presidents
• District governors, assistant governors, and governors-elect
• Rotary and Rotaract club presidents
• Regional leaders (RRFCs, RCs, RPICs, E/MGAs, and End Polio Now coordinators)
• District Rotary Foundation chairs
• The Communications Committee
• End Polio Now newsletter subscribers
• PolioPlus committees (the International PolioPlus Committee, End Polio Now: Countdown to History Campaign Committee, Polio Eradication Advocacy Task Forces, PolioPlus national advocacy advisers, national PolioPlus chairs, district PolioPlus subcommittee chairs)
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Join us for World Polio Day
World Polio Day 2021 Visit endpolio.org
24 October is World Polio Day!
As World Polio Day approaches, the Rotary community is getting ready to amplify our message about eradicating polio to protect the world’s children from this devastating disease.

Together, we’ve made tremendous progress. Now it’s time to intensify our fight to make polio the second human disease ever to be eradicated. Last year, the World Health Organization’s African region was certified free of wild poliovirus, showing that eradication is possible even in very difficult circumstances. The wild poliovirus remains endemic in just two countries: Afghanistan and Pakistan. We can use World Polio Day to advocate for the support we need to end polio in countries where it still paralyzes children.

Inspire action
Take action for World Polio Day by promoting the importance of polio eradication, raising funds, and planning events. Let’s engage our communities in the fight against polio — because as long as polio exists anywhere, it remains a threat everywhere.

Use the World Polio Day Toolkit to find resources and tips for planning activities and promoting a polio-free world. Inspire others to join us by hosting virtual and community events, creating fundraisers, and sharing posts on social media.
Download the World Polio Day Toolkit
Register your club’s participation in World Polio Day to show how Rotary, Rotaract, and Interact clubs around the world are taking action to eradicate polio. If you register your events, fundraisers, and promotions by 14 October, you’ll get early access to a download of Rotary’s World Polio Day Global Update one week before the program will be shown on 24 October on Rotary’s Facebook page and endpolio.org.
Register your club’s participation
Use Raise for Rotary to start an online fundraiser to benefit The Rotary Foundation’s PolioPlus Fund for World Polio Day. Then, share it with your network! The top Raise for Rotary World Polio Day 2021 fundraisers will be featured on My Rotary.
Start a fundraiser

World Polio Day messages are sent to a broad range of polio eradication advocates, including:
• The RI Board of Directors and directors-elect
• The Rotary Foundation Board of Trustees and incoming trustees
• Past RI presidents
• District governors, assistant governors, and governors-elect
• Rotary and Rotaract club presidents
• Regional leaders (RRFCs, RCs, RPICs, E/MGAs, and End Polio Now coordinators)
• District Rotary Foundation chairs
• The Communications Committee
• End Polio Now newsletter subscribers
• PolioPlus committees (the International PolioPlus Committee, End Polio Now: Countdown to History Campaign Committee, Polio Eradication Advocacy Task Forces, PolioPlus national advocacy advisers, national PolioPlus chairs, district PolioPlus subcommittee chairs)
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Lift The Lid Walk for Mental Health

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If your club is looking for a new Community Service project, we’ve got just the event for you.
As we approach our annual Mental Health Month campaign, we’re encouraging everyone to get outside for a walk and help us Lift the Lid on Mental Illness. Whether you live near a scheduled event or even if you are in a lockdown area, we’ve found a way to get everyone walking this year!
Mental health should be on everyone’s agenda and that’s why the Lift The Lid Walk for Mental Health is just that, a walk, not a race. It offers members of our communities an opportunity to get together, to have a chat, “Lift the Lid” on mental illness, and in the process, raise much needed funds for mental health research.
With the amazing support of Rotary clubs so far, we’ve already grown to 15 locations committed nationally to holding Lift the Lid Walk events in their communities in 2021. We’re growing every week and you can see these locations on our website.
After all the ups and downs this year has thrown at us, we thought it was really important to try and get as many people involved as we could. However big or small your club is, in addition to our traditional event options, this year we can get you walking through our new extra simple, virtual neighbourhood format. All you have to do is register your club’s interest to be involved, pick a date and encourage your members and friends to register and get walking.

To find out more and register for this year please fill out the Expression of Interest Form and return it to us.

WE ALL HAVE SOMEONE TO WALK FOR!!!

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Rotary Foundation Australia new website launched

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As you may know, Rotary Foundation Australia (RFA) is one of The  Rotary Foundation’s eight Associate Foundations around the world.  We enable Australians – both individuals and organisations – to make tax deductible gifts to the Foundation.
I am pleased to announce that RFA has just launched a new website: RotaryFoundationAustralia.org.au.  It provides material that is highly informative – both to the public and to Rotary members.  Please click the link and visit the site, I think you’ll find it very useful.
For Rotarians, a key resource in the site is the My Foundation page.  Think of it as the go‑to page you’ve always wanted, with links to a whole range of resources, such as how-to’s,  brochures and forms, as well as frequently used pages in rotary.org.
The site also displays stories about grant-funded projects that Australian clubs have pursued to deliver significant and sustainable impact.  Our clubs have so many great stories to tell about their amazing grant-funded projects and I would encourage you to submit stories for inclusion in the site.
Can I also encourage you to include links to the site in your club and district websites, social media pages, etc.? This will help to raise the profile of Rotary in Australia and the great outcomes that we all deliver.

A key audience we aim to influence through the site is corporations and wealthy individuals who may be interested in helping to fund large Rotary projects.  If you have:

  • a great project that is in need of significant funding, or
  • contacts with a corporation or wealthy individual who may wish to support Rotary with a gift of A$50,000 or more,

please contact me (PDG Maurie Stack) at rfa@rotary.org.

Rotary Foundation Australia looks forward to supporting your endeavours by helping you to fund high-impact projects – it’s by making an impact that Rotary thrives.