The Club is now putting up its old photos online. Have a look at yourselves from 'yester year' Rotary Functions!
At last, we now have an 'OnLine' source of information about Rotary, in the form of courses.
Rotary Learning and Development
An online, self-paced way to learn about Rotary adn to develop as Rotarians.
The courses outlined below take from 15 mintues to 2.5 hours. Some courses have multiple parts.
Have a look. If you always wanted to know more about a Rotary subject, it is now listed here:
Click on this Link! (You will be asked to sign into your account 'My Rotary', so go look for your ID and Password)
Australia is very fortunate this year, as the Rotary International President is coming to a special Dinner on 23rd September 2019 at the Epping Club, so please put this date into your diary now!
for more information contact PDG Gina Growden, see below:
If you haven't listened to Gemma's story, then this is a must for you! March 7th for lunch at North Leagues Club. Cammeray. See the Flyer:
The Rotary International President has introduced the possibility that our District 9685 would merger with District 9675, due to falling membership. Read his full report attached: and watch videos (click here and here)
Monday night, 14th December 2018, our Club held its annual ‘Giving Night’ and Christmas Party.
Many organisations received funds from our Club, read on.... and for photos!
Our Speaker on 3 December 2018 was Patricia Laird, the Principal of the Naremburn School, Willoughby Road, Crows Nest.
Patricia presented an overview of the school and it's activities. Students who have exhausted the support offerred in their mainstream school may be referred to Naremburn School through a referral process. The school provides individualised education aimed at addressing each student's academic, emotional, vocational and behavioural needs. The program caters for students in years seven to twelve.
Currently the school requires new, specific school books, a list is shown below. If you would like to make a donation to the school this Christmas, then the purchase of a book on the list would make a substantial difference to one of the school's students. Just let our Secretary Mark know that you have a book for collection and he will arrange to pick it up. You may send an email to our Secretary Mark, using the email service on our Website. Click on 'read more' to see the list of books.
On Monday November 5th, our club have the pleasure of Neil Howie (Roseville Chase Rotary) representing the District Foundation Committee (City North Zone).
In terms of the Foundation, we were reminder that 92% of its funds goes into its projects etc, whilst only 2% is spent on Admin, and another 6% on promotion. Quite a remarkable statistics, since some charity spend upto 50% of their $ on their overheads. In terms of the Crows Nest club, last year we have contributed $US13,800 an average of $452 per member, well above the average. Well Done!
A quick re-cap on their contributions. Firstly their District grants which they match $ or $, a club’s contribution to a local project(up to $6,000). Our contribution to a MRI machine at RNSH, and the Taldumande youth program are two of Crows Nest’s recent examples. District has $130,000 available for 2018/19. Their Global grants for international projects range from $30,000 to $200,000. These require an international club & district to contribute. Completed projects include examples of a Dialysis machine in Fiji, and beds for Children’s hospital in Sierra Leone. Our current project is the SoYouCan water project in Kenya. Both District and International grants have sustainability as the key, and must line up with at least 1 areas of focus. (Peace, disease, education, clean water, saving children & growing local economics)
Foundation’s key international project in POLIO Plus which has the yearly number of Polio cases drop from 350,000 in 1988 to 22 last year and this year. Over 400 million children are vaccinated every year. Also interesting to note is the recent PNG cases(14) are Vaccine derived, as opposed to ‘wild polio’. Worldwide the Rotary foundation’s $150million has been supported by the Gates Foundation’s $300million. PP David Dean is happy to take any enquires on Polio Plus.
Bruce thanked Neil on behalf of the club for his update/refresher on the Foundation.
Phoenix House - recent visit...
Throughout the year, many of our Members visit outside organisations who play a part in our Community. This week, our 'Youth Director' visited the Phoenix House, in Crows Nest, where he was met by the CEO, Edmund. A Tour of the facility followed, together with Edmund relating the many Programs they run for the benefit of our local Youth.
