Membership has been steady throughout the year, with a net increase of 1. The addition of Janice Sinclair to the team, has meant that we have made some progress.
Over and above Janice we had 2 other guests who attended on more than one occasion, but despite repeated attempts to contact them, to try and ascertain why they decided that Rotary wasn’t for them, these attempts were unsuccessful.
An end of year survey was circulated and at the time of writing has had a healthy response. From 38 members we have had the following numbers of responses.
Membership Engagement - General – 27
Membership Engagement - Club Formality – 28
Membership Engagement 1 – 24 (Strangely the one asking about how we are actually doing has had the least engagement!!)
So far the responses have been useful, and also giving a clear indication on where as a club, we are doing things well, and also on areas where consideration has to be given.
Oddly there are a couple of questions where we are unanimous in our thoughts.
I will leave this open for another week or so, and send out a further reminder at the end of this week, with a closing date of Friday 29th May. I will then collate the responses for presentation to Council for the first meeting in June.
Things to consider for next year, (some from survey responses other not), are ensuring we get a wider engagement of members across a wider range of Rotary activities. We all have our favourites but sometimes there is still too much reliance on the same group to do the same things.
Next year, let’s all make an effort to do that wee bit more, come to an extra meeting, help in one of the areas that you may not have helped in the past, go to an extra social event.