Greetings Fellow Rotarians,

 

Yours in Rotary,

 

Sally Morch 

President

Rotary Club of Ngāmotu

0274738554

 

Club Forum: Led by Wally Garrett

 

Wally used as the basis of our Forum discussion  quotes from: 'Creatures of Habit"

Understanding and disrupting the patterns of service club membership decline.

By Mark Huddleston from the Rotary Club of Seaford (South Australia)

He's a much sort after strategist, commentator, presenter and trainer in membership development.

 

Wally provide thought provoking discussion on the following:

What motivates you to come to Rotary and why do you belong?

Regular  contact with members for community projects , hearing from community leaders, engaging with youth, learning about members and  cementing friendships.

Where is the Club likely to be in 5-10 years time?

Likely to be irrelevant if there is a continuation of an ageing and declining membership that doesn't reflect the community demography in age, ethnicity and diversity.

Why do we continue to organise club meetings that have little appeal to younger members:

Toasts and Grace(non secular), Fine sessions for the sake of it rather than for genuine member misdemeanours.

Shrapnel box what's it for?

Why do we produce Bulletins (too wordy) that no one reads and for that matter a website/ facebook page that members are unaware of or contribute nothing towards!!

Why do members not apologise for meetings  correctly and not arrange to have their roster duty carried out by another member?

Why are projects supported by a few members not the whole club?

Where is our Strategic Plan for 5-10 years time?

Why don't we do a club SWOT analysis; David Gibson offered to do this.

Should we be meeting at a different time:  Breakfast, Luncheon with cheaper meals and shorter meeting times for working members?

We have insufficient members who are still working.

We lack the skills to promote our Website and Facebook pages. Indeed many members reluctant or unable to use these avenues for information about club happenings and events yet these are the very things members we are trying to attract, look at in deciding whether to join or  not.

This is being addressed with a District 9940 Saturday 13th September Zoom meeting on Facebook conducted by Ramola Duncan (Past President Rotary Club of Awapuni) can't wait, more about this after the session.

Editor Note

 

A lively discussion with great participation from a very well attended meeting.

Many points raised were no different to our last forum on the same subject in November 2020. In fairness we have seen a slight membership gain since then.

 

On reflection I offer the following:

We need to organise a special meeting inviting a prominent young New Zealand Rotarian to be our guest speaker that can project an appealing image of what made them join Rotary  and how our club could be more relevant to younger working members.

This should also be an opportunity to invite potential members.

Maybe a better alternative to this could be to host a Chamber of Commerce BA5  (We are members) and invite the prominent young Rotarian  (Ramola would be ideal) to address the meeting. After all the Chamber of Commerce members are the very people we are trying to attract. 

 

INVITATION - DINNER AND CUE THEATRE NIGHT AT INGLEWOOD ROTARY CLUB TUESDAY 2ND NOVEMBER 2021 5.30 FOR 6pm

Dear Presidents and members,

 

Please accept this invitation on behalf of Inglewood Rotary Club members to attend a group social dinner and show night at our recently renovated Rotary House for dinner and then seeing the latest production at Inglewoods Cue Theatre on Tuesday 2nd November 2021, called Unoriginal Sin.  By all accounts a great comedy. 

At this time I would like to get an idea of numbers asap and get seats on hold.  I will advise in due course of the dates I require firm confirmation of numbers and payments to be made. 

 

David Tristram - Nominated as one of Creative Black Country's prestigious 100 Masters, David Tristram is one of the UK's most popular and performed comedy playwrights. On average, one of his 29 published comedies is being performed somewhere in the world every single day. 

 

Dinner and show is $45 per person and Inglewood Club will have a raffles on sale as well. Refreshments on sale.

Please join us for a fantastic night.

 

Gloria O'Dowd

President

Inglewood Rotary Club

0224570258

 

Please advise Sally if you are interested