Hello Members and Friends
I hope that everyone who attended last Monday’s Social Evening at Lentils enjoyed themselves as well as socializing and dining with friends. Thank you to Gail for her work in planning and coordinating.
I am looking forward to this week’s speaker, Karen Knuckey who will speak to us about “Story Dogs”. Karen will be supported by her companion Penny. We may also have some of the residents from Kithbrooke join us to listen to Karen and meet Penny.
Pop Up Book Sale
Last weekend’s Pop Up Book Sale at AR Photography in Grovedale, proved successful again with more than $700 raised. Thank you to those members and partners who were able to assist Linda and Michael with setup, sales and packing up.
Unfortunately, volunteer numbers were down, and this created a lot of effort and work for those who could assist.
The Club will develop a Planning Calendar, which will be updated and form part of this weekly Bulletin with the aim of assisting members in their plans to support upcoming events.
Rotary Regionalisation
You will remember that at our last meeting online on Monday 21st August, DGE Lesley gave us a brief update on the upcoming Regionalisation Project.
Each Rotarian in our District received an email on Friday 15th August titled “Rotary Region 8 Regionalisation Pilot Update”. If you missed the email, please take the time to find and read the information contained in it. This is important, as I will be seeking your input soon as to which and what type of Rotary Community Group(s) we want to belong to.
Rotary Community Groups
The regional model includes a new way of grouping clubs, with each group of clubs referred to as a ‘Rotary Community Group’ (RCG). RCGs will be based on what clubs have in common, such as geography, type of club or shared language. They will meet in person, online, or a combination of both, and will choose how often they meet.
The RCGs are designed to foster greater collaboration among clubs so they can work more effectively and at a larger scale than they could on their own. Clubs will be able to nominate both a primary and secondary way they prefer to be grouped. Secondary groupings are optional and will mainly be online. For example, a club might want a primary geographic group and also want to join a network of other clubs that are passionate about a particular cause.
The timeline for forming Rotary Community Groups is:
- In September, Rotary and Rotaract clubs will be provided a survey to indicate how they would like to be grouped together for future collaboration on activities and projects.
- District leaders and the Regionalisation team will review the survey results together and work on the groupings, in liaison with the clubs where needed.
- The new Community Groups are expected to be advised to clubs by November.
- RCGs will then meet to determine how they will collaborate together and how the RCL role will work for their group.
