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Welcome to the March Service News, linking
you to news, resources and information from all of RIBI's Service
Committees. It is emailed, monthly, to all 37,000+ members, and
honorary members, whose email addresses are on the RI database. If
Club Secretaries are aware of members with an email address, but not on
the RI database, please forward to them (and add their details to the
database). Service News editions are archived on the RIBI website, in
the Updates area.
If you cannot read this email properly (due to your
email settings), click on this link and a web page
showing the email as intended will open.
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Online registration for the 2014 RIBI Conference
in Birmingham will close at midnight this Sunday, 30th March.
So don't delay - Book your place at
the conference and be part of a special 100th anniversary
celebration of Rotary in these islands.
The RIBI Conference Team
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In this months'
Community Newsletter, headlines
& topics covered are:
- Rotary Week 2014: Updates
- Rotary World’s Greatest Meal to Help End Polio
- Rotary Global Swimarathon
- Stroke Association
- Stroke Awareness
Day – Are you ready for it?
- BBC Children in
Need
- Update from Rtn
Paul Fisher
- Hearing Link
- Rtn David King tells us about this new project.
- The Woodland Trust
- Remembering 100
Years & planting of new forests.
- Live Below The Line
- From 28 April -
02 May, join in a UK wide event of living on £1 a day for 5 days
- Community Emergency Support
Dates for your diary:
- 29th March - Earth Hour
- 31st March - Closing date
for submissions for UK Flood Appeal
- 7th April - World Health
Day
- 11-13th April - RIBI Conference in
Birmingham
- 23rd April - St George’s Day
- 28th April - 2nd May - Live
Below The Line
- 1st May - Action on Stroke
Month
We’re For Communities!
Mukesh Malhotra, Community Service Chairman
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Our April Newsletter can be found on the website here.
The Woodland Trust
has announced their Autumn Planting programme. Over 4000 packs of trees
FREE for Schools, Communities and Groups are now available on
application for planting in November 2014. Applications should be
made through their web site NO
LATER THAN 4th SEPTEMBER but preferably as soon as
possible. Trees can be obtained in packs of 30 for a copse, 105 or 420.
What about a copse to commemorate the First World War?
The Sustainability Trust
founded and run by Rotarians is worth further investigation. They have
several very worthwhile environmental projects which they undertake all
over the world, and provide a useful source if you are looking for
something to support abroad.
Proposed Environmental Resolution for the RI Council of
Legislation has been widely circulated to
District Governors. As well as adopting it in your own District, would
anyone, with Rotary contacts abroad, try and get them to support and
endorse the Resolution as it will carry much more weight then something
coming just from RIBI?
Now is a good time to organise a Spring Clean
before grass and weeds start to grow. Involve other organisations,
schools and youth groups if you can. Just picking up litter yourself
helps.
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The April Newsletter is available for
download here and contains articles on:
- Kenya expedition
opportunity
- Unsolicted e-mails
- Disaster updates
- Charity Miles
- Egypt - Joint UNICEF
possibilities
- Molavia - Salvation
Army possibilities
- Lithuania - ICC
possibility
- India - Sanitary Pad
project
- Pestalozzi
International Village
- Libya - Psychosocial
project
- Nepal - Water &
Sanitation project
- Nepal - request for
project info.
Have fun,
Mike Parry, International Service Chairman
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We are pleased to announce that we will be launching the
public facing pages of our new
website in April. The new website has the same look and
feel as the RI website and has been designed to be easier to navigate.
We are still in the process of liaising with the various
committees regarding the content of the members area, which is much
more complex. Therefore, in order to make sure all pages are up to
date, the members area will be launching in the new Rotary year. In the
meantime, the existing members area will still be available as usual.
David Ellis, Marketing, PR & Communications Chairman
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Changing Clubs
I am still receiving stories from clubs that have
successfully changed structure, activities, or even club culture and
have, as a result, increased their membership. Please continue to let
me have your tips on how to make clubs more engaging, fun and vibrant. Send
your stories to: davidhoughton955@btinternet.com
Big Bang
What a great event and a really successful initiative to link Youth
Service with Membership Development opportunities. Thank you to Donna
and her team. Your club may well receive interest from those who
attended the event, especially with the knowledge gained of what Rotary
can offer young people in our service to our communities. Please let me
know if you have enquiries so that we can capture the benefits accrued
from this event.
Webinars 2014
The next webinar will take place on Thursday 24th April from 19.00 to
20.00. Please note the change of date from that originally published.
We will look at a Step by Step Guide to Innovative and Flexible Rotary.
Please register using this link.
Should you wish to feature other subjects in our webinar programme,
please let me know - davidhoughton955@btinternet.com
District Restructuring
Full details of an Update and Report to the General Council in February
2014 can be found on the RIBI website as part of the General Council Meeting Minutes.
Summary details of the district consultation at the end of last year
have now been published and can be found here also.
David Houghton, Membership Development & Retention
Chairman
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Rotarians, please forward this to any Rotaract club your
club sponsors as Service News can’t go to them direct. The latest news
from the Rotaract Committee can be found here on the RIBI website.
RIBI Conference
Firstly, a big thank you for the 2 responses, (yes, just
2) to last month’s plea for help with manning the Rotaract stand in the
Rotary Showcase due mainly to the concurrent running of the New
Generations breakout on Saturday afternoon. Colin Sullivan (D1180)
isn’t attending the conference but was prepared to give up his whole
Saturday to support Rotaract even though he has never previously been
involved. Truly Service Above Self. Thanks also to Peter Stone on
behalf of the Rotary Club of Lichfield for their offer of help. Very
much appreciated at a time when we need to more actively support
Rotaract, some of the future custodians of Rotary in RIBI.
Training Seminar - 17th May 2014
A date for the diaries of all District Rotaract Chairs (DRC) and
District Rotaract Representatives (DRR). A not to be missed interactive
workshop day at Alcester – the closest we can get to an RIBI Assembly
type event. Call notices will go out soon but your attendance is vital
to help Rotaract grow.
New Rotaract in Great Britain & Ireland (RGBI)
website
The RGBI team has worked hard over the last year to
revitalise its image and provide a website that can help development
membership in these isles, whilst also providing useful resources to
both Rotary and Rotaract members. Please do take a moment to view it
here: www.rotaract.org.uk
Roger Heath, Rotaract Committee Chairman
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Action: Club Secretary
Electing New
Member – 7 day letter
As a result of numerous requests from club secretaries
for a copy of the 7-day letter, we have created an example of a very
simple 7-day letter that clubs can use. We have compiled the
example from a cross section of 7-day letters currently used by clubs,
and hope that club secretaries will find this example document
useful. Click here to download the 7-day
letter which is available in Word format.
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