DISTRICT CONFERENCE


ROTARY DISTRICT CONFERENCE 13/14 OCTOBER 2017 - AGEAS BOWL, SOUTHAMPTON


yourself, form a plan and take action” As this is exactly what Rotary clubs do, we couldn’t


resist it as the theme for Conference 2017


This conference will be different and will attempt to deal with the issues facing Rotary today.


It will be a time to socialise and catch up with friends but it will not be about paying other charities to promote themselves with expensive “high profile” speakers.


our role as facilitators in the community and how we can build on our strengths, not highlight our weaknesses.


FRIDAY


better with the business community. Hear from successful businesspersons and how they view Rotary. Get hints and tips on how you can establish business connections to further your work. How you can use the Four Way Test as a great sales tool.


• Stuart Robertson – Commercial Director of the Ageas Bowl. He will tell us how the site has grown from an open field in 2000. How they have diversified the business so that only 40% of their revenue comes from cricket.


• Wendy Martin – Managing Director of Peter Green furniture store. A Rotarian who has combined a successful career with her Rotary activities. Daughter of the founder, Wendy now controls one of the largest furniture businesses in the South of England.


• Donna Wallbank – Donna will be RIBI President in 2019/20. She has built a successful hairdressing chain in South Wales and clearly can combine being a successful business woman and a successful Rotarian. Who better than Donna to tell us how business and Rotary can work well together.


• David Linakar – A Rotarian with a strong message about the 4 Way Test. How it came about and how it is a powerful tool for us all to use.


• Projects where businesses and Rotary have worked well together. Three examples of a successful partnerships.


• Presentation of Rotary CSR Accreditation Awards. Giving public recognition to those businesses that have helped Rotary to help their communities.


SATURDAY


“Rotary taking a fresh approach”. Despite what many members say, Rotary will not be dead in 10 years. But we will need to change.


This is the day to concentrate on how we can work We are concentrating on links with the business world,


changes. Giving working examples of what those changes may be and how clubs can bring some of those changes about.


ourselves but we can act as the catalyst and bring other parties together.


• Crowd Funding. An exciting new RIBI initiative which will see our projects opened up to the whole world.


• Social Media – Lisa Burnett, a Rotarian


Maidenhead will help us understand and, maybe, even use social media for our own ends.


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• Business contacts – Hear how clubs have benefited from actively engaging with their business partners.


• Finding out what your community needs. Without doubt all communities and Rotary clubs can identify a need to help carers, both young and old. Inner Wheel will talk about the work they do to help carers. Ken Ebbens will explain the work he and the Portsmouth based clubs are doing to help. Other speakers can tell us what Rotary can do to help.


clubs to come together and find ways to combine their resources to help the cause.


mental health. Whether it be in the young, the disabled or the old, men or women, it affects us all in some way. Tim Mason will describe the work that the Alzheimer’s Society is doing. Other speakers will be helping to guide us down productive paths to help. It is too big a job for clubs to tackle on their own but together we can make a difference. Come along to hear how your club can play a part.


Mike Sanders District Governor


W ROTARY1110.ORG I E EDITOR@ROTARY1110.ORG 13 The other big problem hitting today’s society is But more importantly it will be an opportunity for We are facilitators. We do not have to do all the work Today we will be focusing on how to make those “Genchi Gembutsu” (from Toyota) “Go and see for


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