RIBI May Issue of the Service News

Fri, May 25th 2012 at 12:00 am -

RIBI Service Newsletter for M

 

Rotary GB&I Committees and Resource Groups News

Welcome to the May 2012 Service News, linking you to news, resources and information from all of Rotary GB&I's Service Committees and Resource Groups. It is emailed, monthly, to all 30,000+ members whose email address is on the Rotary GB&I database. If Club Secretaries are aware of members with an email address, but not on the RI database, please forward to them (and, ideally, add their details to the database.) Service News editions are archived on the Rotary GB&I website, in the Updates area, and members are no longer required to login to gain access. 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. Back to top

Membership Development & Retention

One of the first Satellite meetings in Rotary GB&I goes live: An excellent success story about a club that has used new freedoms to increase membership and diversity can be found here. Many clubs could benefit from this approach. Raising the profile... in order to attract new members: As we invest in raising the profile of Rotary, we need to ensure that the funds are spent wisely. No amount of profile will have any positive effect if the product isn't ready. Is YOUR club ready? Will potential Rotarians want to join? Are some changes needed to make the club meetings better use of time, more enjoyable? These challenges are being faced in other parts of Rotary too. Click through to read more. A Corporate first?: The Rotary Club of Epsom has inducted (24/5/12) its first Corporate Member - Epsom Coaches Group. Is this a firts in Rotary GB&I? And have you got Corporate Members ready to join? Please let Peter Davey, committee chairman, know. Membership webinars x 2: Two membership webinars have been planned, for 2.00pm on 19th June 2012 and at 5.30pm on 26th June 2012. Whilst the main presentation content - how best to take advantage of the forthcoming Public Image/ Awareness Campaign to attract new members - will be the same for both webinars, each webinar will end with a live Q&A session. Please note the dates for now, but details of how to register will be in the Members' Newsletter on 8th June. Back to top

Marketing, PR & Communications

Polio eradication "Emergency plan" launched: Despite an historically low figure of just 55 cases by mid May, Polio has been declared a "global emergency" by the Global Polio Eradication Initiative after "explosive" outbreaks in countries previously free of the disease. Read more on the Rotary GB&I website, with quotes from RI President Kalyan Banerjee on the BBC website. Polio and the Vatican: President Burman was interviewed on Vatican Radio (click to hear the interview) yesterday regarding the emergency action plan launched by the Global Polio Eradication Initiative. Rotary was also mentioned briefly on BBC Radio 4's PM programme. Updates on Rotary GB&I website: this Updates section on the Rotary GB&I website is well worth keeping an eye on. Not only does it keep you updated on news and events specifically for members, it also lets you know about changes and additions to all areas of the Rotary GB&I website: such as when new or amended documents have been added to the website, or that there are answers to frequently asked questions, or even that the phone lines to the Secretariat are down. We're for Communities: latest news on this exciting initiative, which helps us all explain and 'sell' Rotary to the public in a simpler, more compelling way, along with a new video, leaflets, badges etc materials available via the Rotary GB&I Shop. See the Membership committee news above for details of two webinars in June. Rotary GB&I Presidential Handover: Celebrate the Handover with John and Sheila Minhinick in beautiful Perthshire - Sunday 1st July. Click for details. Back to top

New Generations Resource Group

Keep an eye on the New Generations Resource Group pages for regular updates. Click to view a video of the wonderful Rotary Young Citizen Awards winners at the Bournemouth Rotary GB&I Conference on the Rotary GB&I website. Back to top

Community Service Resource Group

All the latest Community service news about... The Queen's Diamond Jubilee The Big Lunch Kids Out Dementia Excitement of Science has been postponed Know Your Blood Pressure - KYBP  Environmental Update Olympics / Paralympcs - just around the corner. See the newsletter at the bottom of the page. Daily Mail & Rotary Spring Clean: The Daily Mail wants to feature anything that Rotary may be doing next week with a Spring Clean theme... a lot could be happening on the back of Jubilee events etc. Please email anything that your club may be doing that you think is noteworthy to Rebecca Warner, Rotary GB&I's PR Officer, rebeccaw@ribi.org and copied to the resource group's Stephen Lay, Lay@mineit.co.uk Please include details of community events taking place over the next two weeks; contact details; the clubs involved; the communities involved. Thanks. Back to top

International Service Resource Group

All the International Service news is in the May newsletter on the resource group's home page, including: Dentaid - A Dental Surgery in a Wheelie Bin Rotarians Against Child Slavery International Facebook Page Sand Dams Latest Club Annual Returns - deadline Back to top

Vocational Service Resource Group

Saying Grace...: the topic of this month's Vocational newsletter, at the bottom of our home page. Back to top

Leadership Development & Training

Membership webinars x 2: Two membership webinars have been planned, for 2.00pm on 19th June 2012 and at 5.30pm on 26th June 2012. Whilst the main presentation content - how best to take advantage of the forthcoming Public Image/ Awareness Campaign to attract new members - will be the same for both webinars, each webinar will end with a live Q&A session. Please note the dates for now, but details of how to register will be in the Members' Newsletter on 8th June. Back to top