RAWCS Presentation and Club Citation

Our meeting held Tuesday August 15 was held at Club TOTEM Balgowlah. 19 members and guests attended.

After welcoming our members and our guests, DGN John Campbell, Robert and Anne Thompson and Denise Horan; President Roger handed over the meeting to John Campbell. 

John presented a 2022-2023 Citation from Rotary International President, Jennifer Jones to PP Rick van Brugge who accepted on behalf of the club. John explained that this award is given to a club that achieves a significant number of club goals in the year.

Also , a most welcome award, the Presidents Award for Service 2022/23.

Presented to Sue Terry who was away at Changeover in June. Congratulations Sue!

RAWCS Presentation

PP Michael Mead gave a presentation on “What is RAWCS” (Rotary Australia World Community Service Ltd) plus outlined his experiences with two overseas projects (Myanmar & Timor Leste) and the many benefits generated by using RAWCS for projects.

Key points:

* RAWCS works in harmony with the ROTARY FOUNDATION and delivers Humanitarian aid through the Australian Regional Network of Rotarians, Clubs and Districts.

* It achieves this in 4 major ways; Projects, Rotarians against malaria, Donations in Kind (now called Rotary Australia Repurposing Equipment) and Communications.

* RAWCS has established a staffed office in Norwest to process the administrative, accounting and banking functions .

* Provides the club and its partners with tax deductibility for donors, project accounting, internal audit and secure currency transfers at low rates.

Overseas project - Medical Mission, Myanmar 2014/15

Overseas project  - Timor Leste 2016: Water, Violence against Women, Sustainability, Green games.

 

Clean water from a Bio-filter

 

President Update:

Roger outlined the recent two successful events; Quiz night and Youth/RYPEN evening. He thanked Lindy and Pascal and their respective teams, together with David and Sally for the Quiz night and the 5 students who presented on the Quiz night.

Afternoon tea at CNB, where the State governor attended: Key members of CNB gave presentations on the social issues in the community.

Key items from District President’s Meeting included Club Goals, NYSF future, Insurance and Club projects, Regionalisation, Domestic Violence Project, Youth projects cooperation discussion at next meeting and District Conference on 15-18th March 2024.

 One key requirement is that all projects must receive Board approval and Rick van Brugge will be the contact for the insurance needs.

Fundraising:

1. Quiz Night: Lindy thanks all who assisted. Over 100 people attended and in excess of $6K was raised. 

2. Volunteering to give out bibs for City2Surf: Lindy thanked Michael Brent, Bev Yarich, Sue Terry and Michael Mead for joining her.

 

 3. Car Rally: Awaiting available dates from Northern Beaches Council. (end Oct/ early Nov)

 4. Golf. The possibility of a fun twilight, 9 hole competition is being investigated. Further work to be completed.

 5. In the Bag: Sue Terry outlined the plans and is nominated as our Domestic Violence Project. Details and flyer have been emailed to all members. Further information will circulated.

Youth:

Pascal Grant thanked all who made the RYPEN/Youth night so successful. The full report is available on the previous blog

RYLA, RYPEN and Interact programs: the possible leveraging of various Youth activities and achievements between clubs will be discussed at the cluster meeting in early September.

Membership:

Sue Terry outlined the arrangements for a special workshop meeting to be held at TOTEM on Tuesday August 29, 2023. Full details will be forwarded – it will be a working dinner with 3 groups with members from each avenue of service team.

Forward Planning: 

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 Finally: