Diversity and new horizons!

On Saturday night 30^th June the Christchurch New Horizons Rotary was chartered with 33 members. 27 were present on the night to receive their Charter Pin and certificate from District 9970 Governor David Drake. 

Shirley Keith the Charter Club Leader, formerly P.P. of Bishopdale – Burnside Rotary, was presented with a PHF in recognition of her efforts over the last 9 months in establishing this exciting new post-earthquake development for Rotary in Christchurch.

The average age of is 42 with seven different ‘cultures’ represented, with a high proportion of female members.  

The club meets every Wednesday 6 - 7.30 pm in the Function Room at Trevinos, 22 Riccarton Road, Christchurch.

A great, fresh web site - well done!!

Diversity a feature of this newly charted Club.

www.rotarynewhorizons.org.nz

A new year - here is a new project!

Do you want your Rotary Club to increase its profile?　 Is there a real drive to heighten the awareness of Rotary in your community?　 Is your Club eager to increase their membership?　 Is there a genuine desire to get serious about attracting new interest in your organization?

A solution:
Encourage your Club to adopt a high profile project - providing a fresh focus, new energy, and public presence.

One such project is the RotaryGlobalRun4Water, which is currently going viral!

Be part of a global group of Rotarians raising funds for water projects by involving your community.　
The web site contains practical advice as to the how to go about creating an event.

Check out this great Blog 

Let’s make a big splash for Clean Water!

Adding to our reputation - good PR

Our image - our responsibilty - our future!!

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STATEMENT:  The image others have of us is a reflection of the image we have of ourselves.  

Each Rotarian is a "marketing agent" for our organisation.  Do our newer members have the knowledge to be able to effectively market who we are and what we do?  

In the attached "Rotary on the Move" newsletter Barry Matheson (Rotary International Director - 2010-2012) states:

".... we are losing far too many members even where we are having a net gain in membership. So what is the challenge? After all we do gain a large numbers of members every year. To be specific we gained 1,100,000 members between June 30th 2003 and June 30th 2012. This is an average of 157,143 a year for seven years. So our product cannot on the face of it be all that bad.
Our Challenge lies with the connect or disconnect if you will between, on the one hand the image we portray, the brand we sell, the promise we offer our members and on the other hand what our clubs actually offer. The challenge in my mind is that we are not living up to what we say we are in many clubs.  "

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