In Gear R O T A R Y C L U B O F B E A U M A R I S W E E K L Y B U L L E T I N Number 43, 16 May 2016

Next Meetings

THURSDAY 19 MAY

VOCATIONAL NIGHT AT KIRKHOPE AVIATION

KIRKHOPE AVIATION, HANGAR 7,

SECOND STREET, MOORABBIN AIRPORT

6:10 PM TO 7:40

WEDNESDAY 25 MAY

MINDLESS MAYHEM

BEAUMARIS COMMUNITY CENTRE

7:00 PM

SEE DETAILS ON PAGE 7

THURSDAY 2 JUNE

MARY CUNNINGTON -

NEW MEMBER TALK

CHAIR: MAX DARBY.

AV: RICHARD JONES.

CASH DESK: TONY MCKENNA & TONY PHILLIPS.

HOST: LYNDA DOUTCH.

THURSDAY 9 JUNE

CHRIS MARTIN -

MY YEAR AWAY

CHAIR: LYNDA DOUTCH

AV: KEN MIRAMS CASH DESK:

CHRIS MARTIN & DAVID HONE

HOST: LOIS LINDSAY

2015—2016

Serving the Community since 1985

Presidents Report Rotary light this week: only the meeting on Thursday; a meeting with Chris Shaw the Chair of the Beaumaris Bendigo Bank and a Foundation Grant seminar on Friday; and the Farmers’ Market on Saturday; this column and administration on Sunday. It wasn’t four week nights out five out, a real bonus! Our meeting on Thursday was excellent as always, our members are some of the best and most interesting speakers we have. Malcolm’s considered and consultative approach, as well as intensive and extensive work is going to mean that we have an excellent year next year as we continue to do good in the world (and enjoy ourselves). I am doing notes for Malcolm from the forum so we don’t miss anything but some of the themes to emerge are : • What balance do we want between local and global projects? Our

budgetary allocations need to fit with our defined balance between local, national and global.

• We are not aiming to have huge financial reserves, as we would rather see the money out working “ Doing Good”

• Local projects should also include national projects , especially so we can fit indigenous projects into our scheme of reference

• Member involvement is very important, projects should include a focus on involvement

• We need to seek a younger demographic and a satellite club may be a mechanism to do this

• The programme will be even lighter and have even more variety • Cooperation with other Clubs is favoured and seen as productive • We have always had “Good Governance”, however we will need to

focus on this even more; it could be a 5th pillar of our strategy. Child safety, Insurance and Liability issues will require even more rigour.

Mike Hede, Malcolm, Ken and I attended the very informative Grants Semi-nar on Friday night, Graham Richardson, who ran the seminar, is an excep-tionally conscientious Chair, his care and dedication means we now have four members qualified for any applications we seek to make to the Foun-dation, both for International and District grants. I will summarise any par-ticular information to send to relevant members. Meeting with Chris Shaw, Chair of the Beaumaris Bendigo Bank showed that there will be many areas in which we can co-operate: Concourse events, community events and marketing. We will be working further with them, I am sure. We discussed that both organisations had a similar goal “growing by doing good in the community “ The Farmers’ Market was another success, lots of the community attended, we did well financially, the day was fine, the BBQ worked, the raffle did well and a substantial donation has been made to Impact the charity making a difference to women and children fleeing violence in the home. I note from Kathy Kaplan’s email of thanks that 96 cents in every dollar donated is directed to fulfilling Impact’s mission. That’s the sort of charity expense to

Contents

1 Presidents Report 2 Notices 3 / 4 President Elect Malcolm's Club Forum Presentation 5 Farmers Market Photos 6 Mindless Mayhem Night Details 7 Club Structure / Picture of the Day

Unless stated otherwise venue is Victoria Golf Club 6.30 for 7.00

Note; As part of our arrangement with Hocking Stuart dis-counts on agents fees are available to RCOB members.

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expenditure ratio we all like to see. See Greg’s photos on page 5. We paid for grass mowing of the site on the Friday, there’s been dis-cussion of a working bee to tidy the grounds of the site; we will see how Heather and Peter go in their negotiations but there might be an opportunity for some hands on work, prior to the next Farmers’ Mar-ket. Any tidy up would contribute to the general good appearance of Beaumaris so we may yet be contributing even more to Civic Pride. Next week we are at Kirkhope Aviation: I’m looking forward to that, see you there, or if not there I will see you the following week at the “Mindless Mayhem” on Wednesday 25th May at the Beaumaris Com-munity Centre, Richard and Rewa have a lot of fun in store for us. I would like to thank everyone in the Club for their contributions. If I thanked everybody who is involved in every event I would name you all, you all deserve to be named, so thank you all.

Yours in Rotary

Trish

Hocking Stuart Sandringham 62-64 Station Street

Telephone: 03 9521 9800

237 Bay Road, Cheltenham VIC 3192 03 8535 7980

Save the Date :

Club Changeover Night

Thursday 30th June.

6.30 for 7 pm at Victoria Golf Club,

$50 per head.

Rotary Raffle; Impact for Women Inc. The raffle at this month’s Farmers’ Market was in aid of Impact for Women Inc., a charity committed to making a difference to Victorian women and children fleeing extreme violence at home. Intimate partner violence is responsible for more ill-health and prem-ature death in Victorian women under the age of 45 than of any oth-er well-known risk factors, including high blood pressure, obesity and smoking. 59% of the health impact experience by women is anxiety and depression. Victoria Police Family Violence Incident Reports are on the increase and in 2015 exceeded 70,000. The numbers show that 7 in 10 wom-en murdered in Australia are victims of family violence. We are very proud to support the work of Impact, you can find more at

http://www.impactforwomen.org.au/ Bayside Council produces a fact sheet on Family Violence in our

area; it can be found at

http://www.bayside.vic.gov.au/living_in_bayside/

Family_Violence_Factsheet.htm

Actively seek a younger demographic

Promote Image

Be seen

Strengthen relationships with community groups

Create a strong on-line presence

Have Fun

Plan a varied activities program

Encourage common interest activities

Maintain a Light-hearted approach

Future/Opportunities

Look for more challenging projects and let go of “stale” projects

Be a leader in cooperating with other Rotary clubs on sig-nificant projects

Work closer with local communities

Assess viability of a satellite club geared to a younger demographic

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President Elect Malcolm Sawle leads a

Club Forum.

Malcolm’s presentation is summarised below.

Club Vision Beaumaris Rotary is an energetic, fun-loving, forward-

looking Rotary club, that wishes to continue to grow stra-

tegically, and provide all members with opportunities to

serve, while undertaking worthwhile and sustainable pro-

jects, in its local and global communities.

Provide Service

Optimise use of members’ passions and interests

Undertake projects within RI six areas of focus

Maintain equitable balance between local and global

Strengthen Club

Engage all members meaningfully

Support member education and training

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Goals/Projects

All activities/projects/donations run as projects with re-

quirement for each to have a project manager

All “projects” to be assessed on their merits

Reserve portion of annual budget for unidentified projects

and contingencies

Continue regular meetings at VGC but introduce more

variety into meeting format

Member Engagement

All members are invited to initiate projects.

Members who do not have specific club roles should serve

on at least one standing or project committee.

All members are expected to participate in a service pro-

ject or fund-raising activity during the year.

Newer members are encouraged to take advantage of

learning opportunities as presented.

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CLUB STRUCTURE 2015 / 16 UPDATED 2/11/2015

BOARD CLUB SERVICE

President Trish Smyth Director Malcom Sawle

PE, VP Malcolm Sawle Auditor Tony Phillips

Secretary Roy Seager Program Greg Every

Treasurer James Glenwright Meeting Attendance Malcolm Sawle

Foundation Mike Hede Communications David Lea

Branding / PR / Memb’ship Megan Glenwright Fellowship Richard Jones

International John Beaty Photographers Max Darby, Greg Every

Youth Service Vacant Almoners Charmaine Jansz & Geoff Stringer

Community Chris D'Arcy Chair /Host /Cashiers /AV Roster

Fundraising Heather Chisholm Youth Protection Officer Malcolm Parks

On to Conference Ken Mirams

TEAM MEMBERS

International Community Youth Fundraising

Fred Hofmann Geoff Abbott David Rushworth Harry Wolfe

David Langworthy Mary Sealy Tony McKenna * Roger Frewen

Geoff Stockdale Richard Shermon Chris Martin Geoff Stringer

Ross Phillips Tony Phillips Vivienne Zoppolato David Hone

Malcolm Parks Lynda Doutch Lois Lindsay Charmaine Jansz

John Manks John Van Dyk (?) Royal Melbourne Golf Antony Nixon

Concourse Festival Ken Mirams Jim O'Brien Mike Hede

Richard Shermon Chris Werner Adrian Culshaw Peter Flude^

Kerrie Geard Branding / PR / Memb. David Hone# Clem Quick (Team TBA)

Jim O’Brien Lynda Doutch Robert McArthur* MUNA / NYSF

Masters Golf Parking David Lea Heather Chisolm^

James Glenwright Martin Fothergill Adrian Culshaw (LOA)

^ Farmers Market # Indigenous Project * District

John Sime Tim Dark Richard Jones Heather Chisholm

Mary Cunnington (Team TBA) Max Darby Kerrie Geard

Protective Pachyderm

Photograph by Yaron Schmid, Nation-

al Geographic Your Shot

Elephants stroll the Serengeti Plain in

Tanzania. Yaron Schmid was able to

capture this image as the herd passed—

but the endeavor required patience. “I

waited quietly with the car turned off for

hours, hoping they would continue in our

direction, one of the larger bulls marched

head-on toward us and then waited

while the rest of his herd kept a dis-

tance. I lay on the floor of the car,

looking up toward him. This is what I

got.”