SOME INTERESTING STATS.
Last week I put in a piece about Regionalisation, and how important it is for a YES vote to support the Pilot Project in Rotary Zone 8 for the period 2023-26.
Chris W had mentioned in his introduction to Regionalisation a couple of weeks ago some disturbing facts re Rotary International, and Membership numbers.
In the past 10 years, our world Rotary membership had remained static at around 1.2 million members BUT 1.4 mil had both joined and left our volunteer army in that time!
On a regional basis, Zone 8 Rotary has the following statistics:
Rotarians … 24,042
Rotaractors …. 889. Total membership; 24,931
Rotary Clubs …. 1022
Rotaract Clubs …. 69. Total Clubs: 1091
Of which: 31% of Rotary members are female, those under 40 yrs, 4.2%, over 60, 48%
(Rotaract not included)
Average Club size: Rotary, 23 members, Rotaract, 12 members.
As I understand, the membership decline has been quite significant in our 2 WA Zones, and hence the need for us to ReDistrict into Rotary WA, District 9423.
This takes place from 1st July, next year…. A fait accompli!
Kenn
I recently visited Carnarvon (Ray Philp) and saw this amazing promotion of Rotary only to find out the club had folded a few years ago. Maybe we need to look at these regional towns where Rotary was very active, to explore how we can support a renewed Rotary presence by understanding the changing needs to attract new members.