Helen's Headlines - 18th July 2011

It's official. We're hopeless at darts!

Last night, John gave us a run down of the game of darts and had set up a dartboard for us to compete against each other. Thank you John for taking the time to explain the game and how it’s played. We also welcomed back Paul and hope that he has a speedy recovery!

The Committee Directors had a Board Meeting last night where a few things were discussed but the bulk of the action items for the new Rotary year will occur at our next Club Forum where the committees will talk with their members and come up with an annual plan. We will advise what these will be during our club meetings.

Our business cards are ready and will be distributed in the next week. You would have seen the samples on your tables last night. Use these business cards to hand out to potential new members and visitors to our club as these have our contact details.

Other than that, I will represent our club at the D9810 Marketing Committee breakfast Meeting this Saturday at the Buckingham. This group looks at how Rotary can be marketed in the southern regions of our District. I hope to come back to our club with some ideas of what we can use ourselves or share with the other clubs. One thing is for sure, marketing Rotary is critical but it’s up to the clubs and districts to do the best they can to promote their projects into the community. RI has a plethora of marketing tools (billboard adverts; print ads; banners; logos etc) but the cost is borne to the club to use these in printing and banners; and how and where they are to be displayed or promoted. Hopefully our own Club Marketing and Membership Committee can come up with some ideas to action using the Sunday Market to promote Rotary to the public.

On Saturday night, Andrew and I are looking forward to attending RC BMC’s Changeover Dinner but I’m afraid that all my nice frocks for this black tie event have strangely shrunk in the wash so I need to find something to wear.

I hope you have a wonderful week and see you all at the Saeng Thai Restaurant at 6:30pm next Monday night for some lovely Thai food and socialising with our friends and partners.