Membership and Public Image Report to 2024 AGM
As delivered by Douglas Scott
After welcoming Morag Prince into the club we currently have 28 members and 4 honorary members. Of the 28 members, 4 do not attend and several more are infrequent attenders. That narrows our pool of participants when it comes to projects and events, so as we have acknowledged for several years now, we need to ask more people to join the Rotary Club of West Fife. Rotary GB&I Board have plans for a North Star project that aims to grow Rotary by 60,000 members by 2028. We can all look forward to seeing how Rotary GB&I can help us achieve this.
Attempts to interest new members have been through the recent Wine Tasting event, the Crossford Chronicle, our website and by having a presence in the Dunfermline Press. Noticeboards in Crossford, Culross, Saline and Steelend have carried an invitation to find out more about the club.
Public image has been enhanced by the Youth competitions that have run including the Primary School Quiz. Positive publicity has also been achieved for the SpecSort project that the club started during this Rotary year.
Two years ago we had 509 followers on Facebook this time last year we had 644 and now we have 1040. In the same timescale we had 178 followers on Twitter, 178 this time last year and we now have 185. We started with 186 on Instagram, last year we had 198 and now we have 205.
Our website has been updated regularly and provides news and information for both members and interested parties. Our youth competitions again ranked high on search engines due to the frequent updating of our website and providing information that users actually want to find.
