Polio Ute Relay

Rotary District 9510 Polio Ute Relay – October/December 2020
Event Co-ordinator: Bob Cooper E: rg.cooper@bigpond.com
 
Proposal:
 
To drive a Mazda Polio ute, suitably decorated in Polio and Rotary advertising material, through District 9510 through the 12 District Areas with staging posts to Adelaide.
Starting on Saturday 24th October (World Polio Day). The Polio ute will become the relay baton as it is passed from club/Area to Area finishing in December.
 
Aims:
  1. To raise public awareness of both Polio and Rotary throughout D9510
  2. To encourage community participation and all clubs’ involvement.
  3. To fundraise for Polio on a larger scale, involving more public donations.
District involvement:
  • Coordination of the concept
  • Provision of the ute
  • Provision of basic promotional materials as needed. Eg. Polio banners, flags, maybe some A4 flyers
  • Organize the polio Iron lung trailer and display equipment from NSW if possible
  • Running of the raffle
  • Establishing a website, Facebook page and other social media needs and advertising
  • Finding sponsorship
Club/Area Staging posts:
  1. Each Area to organise an event to publicise Rotary’s involvement in eradicating Polio world-wide. This is entirely up to each Area and will depend on what is appropriate for each area. Try to involve the general public. It can be fundraising but doesn’t have to be.
  2. Each Area to organise PR for their own event and the passing on of the Polio Ute (baton). Aim for as much media, radio, TV, press coverage as possible. Use local shops etc to display advertising material.
  3. Each Area to drive the Polio Ute to the next staging post.
Staging Post Events:
These are entirely at the discretion of each staging post. Aim for maximum club participation and general public involvement. There may be many parts to an event:
  1. Arrival or departure of ute involving public, media etc. Could park the ute somewhere prominent or include the Polio Ute in Christmas pageants
  1. Evening event such as dinner, film event, quiz night, concert, community event, BBQ
Timescale:
Post Staging posts (trying to have staging posts by Areas together):
This is flexible within 3 or 4 days for each staging post and will need to be worked out individually. The following is a guide only.  COVID19 restrictions may require modifications.
  1. Saturday 24th October is the start of the campaign in Alice Springs -Mbantua, Alice Springs, Stuart-Alice Springs
  2. Midweek ute arrives Roxby District, Port Augusta, Port Lincoln, Whyalla, Whyalla Norrie
  3. Saturday 31st October, ute arrives Port Pirie
  4. Midweek ute arrives Peterborough, Clare, Maitland, Northern Yorke Peninsula
  5. Saturday 7th November ute arrives Broken Hill,
  6. Monday 10th November, Irymple, Mildura/Merbein, Mildura Deakin, Red Cliffs, Robinvale Euston, Wentworth
  7. Saturday 14th ute arrives Renmark, Berri, Loxton, Waikerie
  8. Mid-Week ute arrives Barossa Districts, Barossa Valley, Kapunda
  9. Saturday 21st Elizabeth, Gawler, Gawler Light, Mawson Lakes
  10. Midweek ute arrives Modbury/Golden Grove, Playford, Salisbury, Prospect, Regency Park, Walkerville, Salisbury Rotaract
  11. Saturday 28th November Port Adelaide, West Lakes, Largs Bay, Charles Sturt Grange, Henley Beach, Kidman Park, West Torrens, Glenelg, Holdfast Bay, Somerton Park
  12. Midweek ute arrives Burnside, Campbelltown, Eastwood, Kent Town, East Torrens Rotaract, Norwood, St Peters, Morialta, Magill Sunrise, Tea Tree Gully, Brownhill Creek, Edwardstown, Flagstaff Hill, Hyde Park, Mitcham, Tonsley, Unley
  13. Saturday 5th December Blackwood, Blakiston, Flinders Uni Rotaract, Coromandel Valley, Mobilong, Murray Bridge, Mount Barker, Onkaparinga, Tailem Bend, Stirling
  14. Midweek ute arrives at Victor Harbor, Encounter Bay, Goolwa, Yankalilla, McLaren Vale, Morphett Vale, Seaford, Strathalbyn
  15. Saturday 12th December ute arrives Adelaide, Adelaide Light, Adelaide Parks, Adelaide Central, Adelaide City Rotaract, Adelaide Uni Rotaract, Thebarton Senior College Rotaract, D9510 Online, for final event maybe at Adelaide Oval Test Match where the drawing of the raffle will take place.
The Area Governors will co-ordinate the timing of the Staging Post Event activities with the Rotary Clubs in their Areas (Appendix 1 – Clubs by Area) and arrange for the Polio Ute to be driven to the next staging post.
Fundraising:
  1. The main fundraiser will be a raffle, running from 24th October to 12th December, drawn at the final city event. All ticket butts to be returned to the co-ordinator of the raffle so they can be included in the raffle draw.
  2. Details still to be confirmed but thoughts are for averaging 10 tickets per member in each club at $2 per ticket = 21,000 tickets = $42,000 plus donations from a suitably labelled container.
  3. One main prize, 2 minor prizes, 3 lesser prizes, all preferably donated.
  4. Tickets can be sold prior to each event and at each event.
  5. Each club may fundraise through their own event. Each club will credit the Rotary International Foundation Polio Fund Account with their own sales as their donation to the Foundation End Polio Now campaign.
In Summary:
This will be a tremendous opportunity to unite our 85 clubs in District 9510 increase public awareness through 3 different States and Northern Territory of Rotary and its connection to Polio and raise significant funds for the End Polio Campaign.