Heirisson Happenings?

Heirisson Rotary Club Strategic Plan -- Membership Drive
Main Points

 
Background
 
The Rotary Club of Heirisson currently has 15 members who share a passion for both community service and friendship. The Club is actively involved in a number of humanitarian projects including:
  • assistance to low socio-economic students at Girrawheen Senior High School
  • supporting in bound Rotary Exchange students
  • supporting volunteer dentists to work with Aboriginal communities in the Kimberley and disadvantaged people in the Perth CBD, and
  • participating in various projects to assist people experiencing homelessness.
Objectives
  • To retain current members
  • To achieve a 100% (15) increase in membership by 30 June 2019.
  • To increase membership to 45 by 30 June 2020
  • Membership to be capped at 55.
Target Group
  • East Perth Businesses
  • East Perth Residents: empty nesters, younger demographic 25-45 year olds
  • Associates of current members
Key Messages
  • Rotary membership provides an opportunity to serve mankind through community service. Here is a chance to do something for others.
  • Rotary provides a supportive environment for its members, particularly in times of need.
  • Rotary provides members an opportunity to network with former and current business leaders.
  • Rotary membership is fun and a place to develop life-long friendships.
  • Rotary is gender neutral.
  • Rotary is inclusive.
  • Through Rotary you become a citizen of the world. There are Rotary clubs in 194 countries.
  • Meeting attendance is not compulsory.
  • All funds raised by Rotary goes to charity. Rotary does not take a cut.
 
Retaining Current Members
  • Make meetings fun and time restricted
  • Meeting attendance not compulsory
  • Occasional family evening meeting (5th Thursday)
  • Ensure members are actively engaged and are given opportunities to lead projects and activities
  • Acknowledge members for their work (through newsletter, pics, mentions at meetings etc)
 
 
Attracting New Members
Who
Strategies and Tactics
East Perth Businesses
  • One key event for East Perth. eg European food festival, Heirisson Island Indigenous food, culture and tourism festival
  • Rotary Club open day
  • Sponsor a Rotary Award for an East Perth Business (eg for assistance with fund raising, for supporting initiatives for the homeless etc.)
  • Partner with key East Perth business eg Education Department
  • Develop a database of East Perth Businesses and contacts
  • Email promotional material then follow up with phone call
  • Contact businesses via linked in
  • Letterbox flyer drop
  • Invite potential members to an event with an interesting speaker (wine and cheese evening)
  • Offer a fee free membership period to new members (three months?)
  • Promote the club at the Eye Contact exhibition (Pull up banner, trifold handouts)
 
East Perth Residents
  • Create a database of new houses for sale and provide promotional material for display (A3 pull up banner?)
  • Identify activities attended by younger demographic and provide a Rotary presence
  • Promotional material in all school staff rooms (trifold)
  • Hold a community event (Royal Hotel?)
  • Advertisement and story in local newspaper
  • Send media release about Rotary community events
 
Associates of Current Members
  • Wine and cheese evening with interesting speaker for club members associates
  • Incentive prize for members who successfully attract a new member
 
 
 

Eye Contact Exhibition at Hale School

Here are some pictures taken at the opening of the Eye Contact exhibition at Hale School on 7th September.  The exhibition was organised in concert with a sleep-out the students were doing that evening on behalf of the homeless in Perth.  Speakers at the opening were Esben Kaas of Anglicare’s Street Connect (who spoke at the Club a few weeks ago) and photographer Phil England.  The event went off very well with positive feedback from the school on the role of the exhibition.

Ken Mullin

 

 
 
 
 
Next Club Meeting:
 
Thursday 20th September 2018.
 
7 am for 7.30 am start Antico Café
 
This Year's Focused Theme
September is Education and Literacy Month 
 

The Rotary Foundation supports education through scholarships, donations, and service projects around the world. 

Rotary members make amazing things happen, like:

Opening schools: In Afghanistan, Rotary members opened a girls’ school to break the cycle of poverty and social imbalance.

Teaching adults to read: Rotary members in the United States partnered with ProLiteracy Detroit to recruit and train tutors after a study showed that more than half of the local adult population was functionally illiterate.

New teaching methods: The SOUNS program in South Africa, Puerto Rico and the United States teaches educators how to improve literacy by teaching children to recognize letters by sounds instead of names.

Making schools healthy: Rotarians are providing clean, fresh water to every public school in Lebanon so students can be healthier and get a better education.

"When you teach somebody how to read, they have that for a lifetime. It ripples through the community, one by one."
 


Rotary Club member

 
Meeting Responsibilities
Weekly Roster for Thursday 27 September
 
Set Up
, Marie
 
Registration
Burnside, Don
 
Weekly Roster for Thursday 4 October 2018
 
Set up
Smith, Warwick
 
Registration
Worthington, Doug
 
Weekly Roster for Thursday 20 September
 
Set Up
Mullin, Ken
 
Registration
Slater, Rod
 
Birthdays & Anniversaries
Member Birthdays
Warwick Smith
September 18
 
Rod Slater
September 20
 
Marie Badoche
September 21
 
Bronwyn Denman
September 29
 

Rotary Quote

 
1964-65 Charles W. Pettengill (civil law practice), Rotary Club of Greenwich, Connecticut, USA.
 
Rotary vision: That every Rotarian would Live Rotary in all facets of his life.
 
“At the Westinghouse laboratories in New York, an interesting experiment was conducted. A great bar of steel, eight feet long and weighing a half-ton was suspended vertically from a chain. Parallel to it on a stout thread hung a cord from an ordinary bottle weighing perhaps a half-ounce….Again and again the small cork was swung against that huge steel bar. For a long time the bar hung motionless but after 10 minutes a nervous chill seemed to go through the bar. Another two minutes and the chill turned into plainly visible vibrations. Those vibrations increased in rapidity and in strength until after 25 minutes the great bar began to swing like the pendulum of a grandfather clock….Rotarians, you and your club projects may seem at times like the cork tapping against the bar, but tap you must, and if you tap long enough the bar will swing.”
 
— Address to 1964 Rotary Convention, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
 
 
Herman Cartoons
 
 
 
 
ClubRunner
  Committee Meetings    
Board Every 3rd Thursday Board Room level 2
St Bartholomew’s House
7 Lime Street East Perth		 6pm
Club Service To be announced To be advised 6pm
Community (Homelessness) Every 1st Wednesday 21 Wittenoom St., East Perth 6pm
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