Roadshow
Since the vehicle has been in use, footfall has varied from a few hundred up to almost 200,000. From an analysis of feedback reports it is clear that large crowds do not necessarily provide the best results for attracting the public to visit the Roadshow. Tis information has helped plan the ongoing use of the vehicle.
Te Roadshow continued to be a valuable backdrop for Rotary’s public face at outside events. Te unit provides a high degree of respectability for our organisation and it also appears to provide a renewed pride in Rotarians engaged in working on it and visiting.
RI staff at the recent Birmingham Convention came to visit, having heard so much about the RIBI Roadshow. International visitors to the Convention came to visit and many expressed a desire to have their own version in their own country. Geoff Shelmerdine, the Roadshow Manager, has been asked to produce an article on the Roadshow for the RI ‘Rotarian’ magazine. Te committee is disappointed that Conference voted to permanently close the Roadshow vehicle.
Competitions
Te PR Trophy went jointly to the Rotary Clubs of Brickhills and Stamford St Martins. Te Club Bulletin Trophy went to the Rotary Club of Abertay and the award for the best District Magazine was won, for the second consecutive year, by District 1190 for Rotary Northwest. Tere were no nominations for the Humanitarian Reporting Award.
For the second year the “Ordinary Rotarians Doing Extraordinary Tings” award attracted a large number of outstanding nominations. At the Edinburgh Conference the winners, in five categories, were showcased with short videos and on stage interviews.
John Minhinick
Chairman, RIBI Communications Committee 2008-09
COMMUNITY & VOCATIONAL SERVICE COMMITTEE
Te Committee comprises five members and a Liaison Governor. Meetings are attended by the Vice President, the two Zone Literacy Coordinators and servicing staff. From time to time other people are invited. Te RIBI Environment Group is a sub-group of the Committee. Te Committee met three times, once by audio-conference. It planned and presented at the RIBI Assembly and SACCS, and prepared and serviced the RIBI Conference stand. Te committee promoted, processed and adjudicated on the club award projects within its remit.
Community & Vocational Service projects
Te Committee is mindful of its dual role, with “Community” being the most easily identifiable in club projects. Clubs have a varied mix of local projects together with those national projects listed in the Opportunity to Serve Library. We stressed
the importance of local projects as the face of the local club who are always looking for new members. At Assembly we made separate presentations on “Community” and “Vocational” to emphasise the two arms of the Committee’s work.
Firm favourites
Two tried and trusted events continue to draw good support from clubs - Rotary Kids Out day and Rotary Stroke and Health Awareness day. Te former is probably the only charity that contributes money to Rotary programmes although only now at £1 per participant. Some 400 clubs took part in the Rotary Stroke and Health Awareness Day now in its seventh year. Health related organisation booklets were available for use at these events.
Committee activities
• The Committee continued to provide the high level of support and encouragement to our District Community & Vocational Service Chairman with nominated committee members responsible for each Rotary District and for each area of service listed in the Opportunities to Serve online directory.
• We communicated with districts via the well received Community & Vocational Service Newsletter and encouraged feedback.
• We continued to promote the importance of the Community & Vocational Service work as being the public face of the Rotary club in the local community from which members are drawn.
• We encouraged entries for the RIBI Awards. • At RIBI Assembly we reviewed ongoing projects and focused on:
• Literacy as a major RI Emphasis including the Dictionary 4 Life Project. 78,000 dictionaries have been distributed in the current Rotary year including 15,000 sent to nine overseas Districts funded by UK and overseas clubs. Free samples were distributed at the RI Convention, the RIBI Conference and Assembly. Over 500 clubs from all 29 RIBI Districts participated in the project.
• RIBI Environment Day 6th June 2009, organised in cooperation with the RIBI Environment Sub Group.
• The Leonard Cheshire Partner Project. • Preparing district chairmen for the logistics of doing the job • Stressing the club leadership plan and the need to work in partnership with other committees.
As always, we all owe a debt to the committee volunteers who commit their extra time and energies for all our benefits. I personally thank all the committee members for their hard work and support.
Colin Bryant
Chairman, RIBI Community & Vocational Service Committee 2008-09
ROTARY TODAY ANNUAL REPORT AND ACCOUNTS APRIL 2010
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