ANNUAL REPORT
ROTARY CLUB OF TERRIGAL 2019/20
PRESIDENT’S REPORT MARY CRAMMOND
Fellow Rotarians and Friends
The Presidential Year of 2019/20 Rotary Connects the World commenced on 4th July.2019 However on 28 June a fantastic change over and finale to Pres. Greg’s year was held.
We were honoured with the attendance of four Past District Governors, at least six Past Presidents, our AG and an abundance of Rotarian Partners. It was especially pleasing to see one of our previous members, who is now with Gosford North back with us for the night.
A number of our members were awarded honours. Geoff Spring was awarded a Paul Harris pin, Peter Halliday a plaque recognising his 45 years of service to Rotary and a Sapphire Pin Paul Harris award, Robyn Radcliffe received a certificate recognising her contribution to technology and Andrew Radcliffe received Rotarian of the Year. It is amazing the talent and knowledge we have within our Club and so wonderful when we hear of all the incredible services our more senior members have given to our community during their long years of service – the quiet achievers of Terrigal.
The admirable achievements of President Greg during his year in office were recognised and applauded. The 2019/20 board members were brought in and are as follows:
Andrew Ratcliff – Secretary. Stewart Whyte – Treasurer. David Mylan – Youth
Lyn Davis – Membership. Jill Hamilton – International and Foundation.
Anne Cantrill– Vocational and Mark Reynolds Community. John Millhouse remains chair of Special Projects.
JULY 2019
Our first guest speaker for the year was Paula Martin. Paula has a long and distinguished business career including board appointments to Central Coast Industry Connect and Projections Plus. Paula had recently been appointed head of the Central Coast Business Chamber.
This was a sad time for our Club as one of our members lost his son to bowel cancer. Sometimes these tragic happenings bring us all closer together and our members certainly rallied around Janet and John Millhouse
Our speakers for the 3rd week in July, were RYLA student Libby Payne and Holly Ayres our home exchange student. What pride, joy and satisfaction we shared listening to these women speak.
The next week saw the commencement of our business meeting. Our business was to CONNECT with each other, share true fellowship, and get to know each other better plus plan our future together for the coming year. Together we started our strategic plan.
On 25 July Hale Adasal, a cultural anthropologist and project manager with Just Enterprise CC. Hale, works for social and environmental justice and is Author of Gavur – a Journey to Belong.
AUGUST 2019
The week following the stimulating talk by Hale, Ben Brown introduced Sally Hetherington OAM who talked with our club about Voluntourism. Sally made us aware of the dangers of voluntourism and stimulated many questions from our members. Sally brought with her wares made by some of the people trained by Human and Hope Association in Cambodia. Sally discussed how she came to realise that for projects to be sustainable they needed to be run by local staff. And for local staff to run organisations/projects, they needed to be empowered. An amazing young women devoted to spreading the word of how our good intentions can be of benefit to mankind rather than detrimental as they have been in the past. Sally has published a book, It’s not about Me.
The following week 8 August, Family Member Rotarian, Kate Reynolds addressed us. Kate was a cardiac nurse in the Intensive Care Unit of a famous English Hospital. As we get older we tend to give more attention to the health and wellbeing of our heart and cardiac system. A stimulating and very personable talk.
Next was our business meeting at which all members contributed to our discussions but the best part was enjoying a video that Mark Reynolds had made. The movie really pulls at the heart strings – very moving and what a Rotary recruitment tool this could be. Marks video was used at our book fair in November and hopefully will get more use throughout the year.
On 22nd August we were privileged to have DG Kalma McClennan joined us for a board meeting and she gave a motivating talk during our dinner meeting.
Our first vocational visit of the year was on 29 August to The Glen Rehab centre at Chittaway Bay. The rehab centre is a culturally sensitive recovery inpatient hospital catering mainly for First Nation people. It was inspiring to see the wonderful work achieved at the centre. Hopefully, The Glen for women will be finished in the next couple of years.
Rotary’s good news for the end of August was that Nigeria has now been 3 years polio free. The world is now 99.9 percent free of polio. Just a few cases left in Pakistan/Afghanistan but as long as these two nations continue to wage war, it is difficult to see polio eradicated here.
The next major event of the year was our Pamper Day. Our Pamper committee welcomed 20 women from Coast Shelter Hostels and from the Salvos facility and our team of hairdressers and beauty therapists had a wonderful day adding a little TLC into the lives of these women.
SEPTEMBER 2019
In early September three Rotarians from our Club left to visit our twin club in the Cape Province of South Africa.
On 9 September we joined Erina and Kincumber at Kincumber for a very successful TEK night with guest speaker Bev Campbell talking of growing up in Rhodesia, transitioning to Zimbabwe and moving to Australia.
On 7 September Peter Halliday arranged for a team of his fellow Rotarians to supervise parking at the Central Coast Grammar School spring Fair. Peter and his team collected $1250 which will go to drought relief.
Our club tried to get involved in the Paint4freedom competition but unfortunately the event was cancelled.
Our next happening was Symphony Central Coast in Central Coast Grammar auditorium plus an educational tour through the four families of instruments in an orchestra. We are very proud to sponsor SCC. Also in September members of Symphony Central Coast attended our club and spoke of their work.
Our speaker for 3rd week was Nigel Rochelle from Sailors with Disabilities. This organisation gives people with physical and mental disabilities an opportunity to participate in sailing.
Youth Director, David Mylan set up Future Leaders Connect Web Page and we are awaiting information on community projects for our group to connect with.
Our Club proposed a Bus advertising deal to the Central Coast Presidents meeting but our suggestion was declined.
OCTOBER 2019
October started with a confronting talk by Deb Guild about how family violence affects children. Some of the long lasting effects of violent families include depression, anxiety and trust issues in children.
During October, we started a new format for our meetings that being 6.00 to 6.30 fellowship, 6.30 to 7.00 dinner and 7.00 to 8.00 official club meeting. This format has been well accepted.
Our 2nd week in October welcomed Amanda Yates from Aspect School. Our Club has been a long time supporter of Aspect School and Amanda expressed her thanks for our help.
The 3rd week of October saw a return of James Mabutt to talk about General Monash “before, during and after WW1”. A Great speech.
We ended October with a Halloween gathering at Terrigal Waterfront, Rotary banners flying, dressed up in witches and with lots of food and drink to keep us happy. Lovely fellowship.
NOVEMBER 2019
Our regular alternate Tuesday Coffee meetings commenced on November 5 and were well supported.
Central Coast Council invited our Club to the opening of the newly refurbished Rotary Hall. Our boys held a bbq, Lyn promoted membership and others of us enjoyed fellowship and shared memories of when our Rotarians built this hall.
Ben Brown was appointed media manager in charge of face book and meet-up. Congratulations and thanks Ben.
The beginning of November brought the beginning of the most devastating Australian bush fires ever seen during recorded time.
A very successful book fair was held by our club on 16-17 November raising over $9000 net. Little did we know it would be the last for at least a year.
The next big event of our Rotary Year was our Inaugural Dinner to raise awareness of Family Abuse in our communities. Congratulations to Pia Mylan and her team for a wonderfully successful event. The evening couldn’t have gone better.
As the year began to wind down, Terry Taylor from Hallo World Travel got us thinking about holidays. Terry talked about travelling in India – inspiring talk.
DECEMBER 2019
We had another Symphony Central Coast Concert with the usual dinner for our members post concert at Bamvinos.
Our Annual General Meeting was held by Peter Halliday on 3rd December. Fortunately our board will remain unchanged from last year and Mary Crammond will take the role of President for another year.
We finally finished this busy year with a wonderful Christmas Party at Janet and John Millhouse’s place. The usual wonderful time. We then commenced the New Year at Bill and Norma’s place with another wonderful dinner and evening of fellowship. This will be the last year at Bill and Norma’s because they have sold their home.
JANUARY 2020
We couldn’t have had a better start to the year – the induction of a new member – Lynne Wilson was inducted in the presence of ADG David Rivett. Last year our club was awarded a district grant for the Didi Foundation in Napal and this week, Jan Pryor explained to us who and what Didi did and where our grant money was spent. Our Club joined the Coasties Bush Fire relief program started by a group of caring Terrigal Citizens. Mary attends their weekly meetings.
At the end of January, our sponsored PhD student Emma Laird travelled all the way from Melbourne to tell us about her research connecting hearing loss with mental health concerns. Upon completion of her PhD, we shall host Emma again inviting all the clubs who contributed toward Emma’s studies.
Rotary Australia also launched its bush fire appeal.
Next we joined Erina Club in a fund raiser by attending Avoca Cinema to watch Tom Hanks in The Beautiful day in the Neighborhood. A well attended and successful fundraiser for Erina.
FEBRUARY 2020
In early February, David Mylan hosted, at the meeting, 4 students from Terrigal High School, teachers and parents. The students attended RYPEN the coming weekend. The students detailed their hopes and desires for this leadership program. A wonderful evening listening to the goals of young people.
The second week in February our club presented the donations from our Rotary Against Family Abuse Dinner. We felt so proud presenting $1000 to the Glen and $1000 to Coast Shelter. We also presented $1700 to Wamberal Rural Fire Service for the Coasties Bush Fire Appeal. To top this evening off, we welcomed the Captain and two vice Captains from THS who explained to our club their passion to help protect their school colleagues who live with family violence. Erina TEK night was held the next week and 8 of our members were treated to talk by Rev. Bill Crew from the Exodus Foundation.
At our last club meeting of February, we welcomed back our THS RYPEN students from a very wet weekend leadership course. The students who enthusiastically presented their new found knowledge and offered their thanks to Terrigal Rotary.
We attended the Coasties Bush Fire Appeal Dinner and are proud to announce that the Coasties raised approximately $50 000. Three of our members represented Terrigal Rotary at the International Womens Day Breakfast.
MARCH 2020.
In early March at our business meeting, Governance issues were addressed and our new structure will include the Avenues of Service Model.
Eight members attended clean up Australia on March 1st and the after lunch at Wamberal. Great fellowship.
Also in week one of March, 15 of us attended a vocational visit to Chamberlain Manufacturing. Bill Boag’s son provided great insight to the future of manufacturing. Fascinatingly, we saw how robots now working 24 hours a day, saving production time and money. A great vocational afternoon with a delicious bbq lunch provided.
New member Lynn Wilson attended RLI. A few of us female members represented Terrigal Rotary at the International Women’s Day breakfast.
Our world was about to change and in preparation John Millhouse gave a talk about what to do in a Pandemic. We did however get in one more meeting at which Jill, Lyn, Peter Hamilton, Graeme Davis and Mary spoke on their experiences in Africa during last year.
This 2nd week in March 2020 saw the beginning of lock down secondary to Covid-19 restrictions. Our meetings, vocational visit to Coast Shelter, Book fair, District Assembly, District Conference, Ronald McDonald Raffle, Symphony Central Coast, RYPEN and Rotary Adventure in Citizenship were all cancelled. Terrigal Rotary decided that most of their meetings could be online through Zoom and started with our board meeting of 19/3/20. It was decided to have fortnightly club meetings on Zoom and alternate fortnightly coffee meetings on Zoom. We issued a weekly telephone linkup between members and all tried to keep in touch.
APRIL
During Covid-19 restrictions, our club didn’t stop thinking of programs and activities to help our community. We contacted Rotary Club of Helderberg Sunrise and asked for details on their Shelterbag Program. We are awaiting the arrival of a sample shelterbag plus patterns for making them. We have over 1000 rough sleeping people on the Central Coast and believe that the likes of Coast Shelter and/or The Glen might like to partner us in this project. We also started a telephone roster so that each member speaks to another once a month during Covid-19. We heard that Government have approved the land to build Glen for Women. Our Club will find a way to involve ourselves in this project.
Our board meeting this months was again on Zoom. PDG Harold Sharp spoke to our Club about his work with ROMAC and showed us an inspiring video. We also enjoyed a quiz conducted by Andrew Radcliff.
MAY
Late May saw us host a speaker from Helderberg Sunrise Rotary Club. Chris van der Leij told our club about destitution being caused by Covid-19 restriction on African Townships. Our club has agreed to donate $3000, we hope to raise another $3000 and we were awarded a matching Covid-19 district grant of $6000 to send to South Africa.
Chris van der Liej
JUNE
In early June, Covid-19 restrictions were beginning to lessen. However, our club elected to hold changeover on Zoom. DG Kalma, ADG David and ADG elect Liz will attend as well as PDG Graham Money from Helderberg Club.
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Secretary Report
2019-2020 Secretary Report – Rotary Club of Terrigal
The Rotary Club of Terrigal currently has 17 active members and 4 honorary members.
There were 11 Ordinary Board Meetings held this year. The 5.00 pm commencement time for Board meetings is working satisfactorily and allows for effective meetings to be held within the time frame permitted.
Following the introduction of COVID -19 rules, our last three Board meetings have been held on-line commencing at 6.00pm, with Club meetings held on-line commencing at 7.00pm.
There were a number of Business Meetings held during the year to give all members the opportunity to gain more knowledge of the club’s projects, contribute to the development of projects and activities, discuss other initiatives and provide feedback.
Our Annual General Meeting was held on 5 December 2019, at which time the incoming Board were elected and current President Mary Crammond was elected for a second term. President Elect Nominee for 2021-2022 Mark Reynolds was duly elected.
5th Thursday social events were implemented last year and have proven to be successful and provide an opportunity to get to know members and interact in a social atmosphere.
A Social Committee has been formed and whist COVID-19 rules have interrupted planned events ,these will continue to be arranged for next year.
The recurrent budget allowance for the Secretarial Program of $100 was adequate. This year an amount of $340 was also allocated for renewal of our badges but not spent at this time.
I hold the Club credit card that can be used for approved purchases.
I am the nominated Public Officer for the Club with NSW Fair Trading. The Club holds a valid Charitable Fundraising Authority.
The Club has completed the Insurance Compliance Declaration forms and submitted them to the District Insurance Officer. Special events are subject of notification to the District Insurance Officer and risk assessments are completed and submitted as required.
Andrew Ratcliff
Secretary
10 June 2020
Treasurer Report
Treasurer Report as at 9/6/20 - Robyn Ratcliff
Donations made this Rotary Year 2019 - 2020
South African Feeding Programme | 11,500 inc District Grant |
Rotary Foundation | 1140 |
End Polio Now | 700 |
Walk to Cambodia | 50 |
Coast Shelter | 1500 |
ET Australia School Gosford | 700 |
The Glen Wyong | 2000 |
Coasties Bushfire Relief | 1700 |
Drought Relief | 150 |
Youth Programme RYPEN | 1650 |
Easter Raffle Ronald McDonald House | 1000 |
Leadership programme RYLA | 875 |
School for Life Uganda | 1100 |
Quirindi Farmers | 30 |
Citizenship Awards | 100 |
Aspect Central Coast School | 3000 |
Smith Family | 650 |
Community Report
Mark Reynolds – Community Director
In my first year as Community Director, I have learned many aspects about what it means to be a Rotarian.
This report outlines some of the community projects that I have been involved with directly, and is also a compilation of other reports from the Directors of the various roles and activities that our club is involved in within our local community.
Thank you to all our members for their contributions to the Terrigal community.
Bus Advertising
In an effort to raise Rotary’s profile and to attract new members, a proposal was put forward by our club to the other Central Coast clubs to conduct bus advertising for a year. The advertising would have given us exposure across the Central Coast, 7 days a week over a 12 month period. The annual cost would have been shared equally amongst all the clubs at a weekly cost of $10 per club. Unfortunately, we couldn’t get the other clubs to agree to this commitment, therefore our committee agreed not to pursue the idea on our own.
Clean-up Australia Day.
On Sunday March 1st 2020, commencing at 10.00am our members and friends gathered at Terrigal Rotary park to do our bit for Clean-up Australia Day. Working in pairs for 2 hours, we collected an assortment of rubbish along Terrigal Drive between Willoughby Road and Bellbird Avenue Terrigal. The amount of rubbish collected would have easily filled a good sized box trailer. Afterwards, we met for lunch at the Wamberal Surf Café and compared notes on the variety and unusual items that were collected. A big thank you to everyone who participated and we look forward to next year’s Clean-up Australia Day.
Bowel Care.
Bowel Care is an initiative of the Cancer Council of Australia. It is designed to detect early signs of bowel cancer for people typically over the age of 50. The Rotary clubs provide a service to the community by collecting the kits from Bowel Care Woy Woy, delivering them to the chemists and then collecting the unsold kits from the chemists and returning them back to Bowel Care Woy Woy. Our club delivers to 7 chemists in our area. The amount of kits distributed were determined by the number of kits actually sold during the previous year. Each kit had a retail price of $20.
These are the results.
- Kits delivered - 535
- Kits sold – 257
- Kits returned – 278
- Value of kits sold - $5140.00
Unfortunately this year’s results were marred by the Covid 19 pandemic.
Thank you to all the chemists that participated in this important community service. A special thank you to David Mylan for his involvement and distributing the kits to the chemists this year and over the past years.
Community Activity Extra
Mary Crammond - President
PAMPER DAY
The annual Pamper day was held at the end of August 2019.
The annual Pamper day was held at the end of August 2019.
We pampered 20 women from Coast Shelter Refuges and The Salvos facility. Our Clients, who were pampered by a team of volunteer hairdressers and beauty therapists, were given a hair wash, cut and blow dry plus arm and hand massage as well as a manicure. Tea, coffee and delicious cakes and sandwiches were served in a beautifully decorated premises. It was a truly beautiful and satisfying day.
Rotary Terrigal Says No to Family Abuse
Our team lead by Pia Mylan held an inaugural dinner to support our efforts at breaking the cycle of family abuse in our community. We had speakers from Coast Shelter, The Glen and the private sector. The event attracted over 80 attendees and we raised in access of $2000. A lovely meal was served with raffle tickets and a fun auction (with celebrated auctioneer Michael Hickey) helped make the evening a tremendous success. Music was provided by our phenomenal good guitarist, Tim Beasley. In January we held a special Club evening where we proudly donated our takings to Coast Shelter and The Glen.
Terrigal High School - Pupils against Family Abuse
THS seniors are championing this program after talking with our Family Abuse committee members. The pupils are putting together a program of bringing awareness of Family Abuse issues into their school, creating a system to help identify pupils at risk and offer services to help pupils effected by FA issues and help break the cycle. We are in ongoing talks with pupils and staff.
Rotary Terrigal Says No to Family Abuse
Our team lead by Pia Mylan held an inaugural dinner to support our efforts at breaking the cycle of family abuse in our community. We had speakers from Coast Shelter, The Glen and the private sector. The event attracted over 80 attendees and we raised in access of $2000. A lovely meal was served with raffle tickets and a fun auction (with celebrated auctioneer Michael Hickey) helped make the evening a tremendous success. Music was provided by our phenomenal good guitarist, Tim Beasley. In January we held a special Club evening where we proudly donated our takings to Coast Shelter and The Glen.
Terrigal High School - Pupils against Family Abuse
THS seniors are championing this program after talking with our Family Abuse committee members. The pupils are putting together a program of bringing awareness of Family Abuse issues into their school, creating a system to help identify pupils at risk and offer services to help pupils effected by FA issues and help break the cycle. We are in ongoing talks with pupils and staff.
Community Activity Extra:
Membership Director – Lyn Davies
Book Sale extra –
During the COVID Lockdown we received $170 for the sale of some books in the Waterfront Estate village, Kincumber - while the library was shut down.
ARH PhD Hearing Health
TOPIC: Intervention to improve mental health and wellbeing in adults with hearing loss. University of Melbourne, VIC Awarded in 2017
Co-funded by the Rotary Club of Terrigal
Emma Laird is a PhD candidate in The School of Audiology and Speech Pathology at the University of Melbourne. Rotary Clubs and other groups supported our Club in raising $33,000 towards this scholarship which is taking about 4 years to complete. We so enjoyed meeting Emma in January and look forward to inviting our Rotary Club sponsors and Emma to our Rotary Club Meeting in 2021 to hear the outcome of her amazing research.
Book Fair Report
The last book Fair / fundraising activity conducted by the club was on Saturday, 16th and Sunday 17th Of November. I can’t provide Gross or net figures as to the amount raised, other than to suggest that we grossed about $10,000.
As you are aware the Book Fair scheduled for April this year was cancelled. Donations have trickled in since then and going forward, we are well stocked. We currently have six pallets of books again stored in the ‘rotary’ container. It is planed to move all stock collected at Erina Heights into the container prior to the next sale to simplify the process of moving stock into the Scout Hall. Collapsible tables and other book fair paraphernalia stored at Erina Heights can be moved to the Scout Hall by private vehicles thus eliminating the need for the hire truck to call at this address.
Going forward, it may be possible to have a book fair in November. This will of course depend on circumstances at the time. In any event we believe that by reducing the rows of tables inside the hall we could ease congestion. (This may involve setting up trestles outside). Hand sanitizer would have to be provided and possibly some control needed at the entry point particularly during the Saturday morning peak period, if functions of this type are restricted to a certain number of people.
Regards
John Millhouse
Youth Report
Director – David Mylan, Acting Director – Lynne Wilson
Acting Youth Director Lynne Wilson advised the meeting that current activities and liaison with schools for Youth programs has ceased at the present time due to Covid19 restrictions and school closures. As soon as it becomes viable, the club will approach the school with available initiatives. RYLA was held this year and our club funded one student. Summer RYPEN was held despite being interrupted by floods, although the participating students were able to take part in most activities. RYPEN students came to talk to the Club both before and after the camp. We have again supported a student through The Smith Family and, separately, a student at E.T Australia in Gosford. Winter RYPEN, MUNA and the Science Challenge have all been cancelled this year, due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Membership Report
Membership Committee –Lyn Davies (Director), Mark Reynolds, Mary Crammond, Jill Hamilton - and all members who keep engaged in our work and support Club growth.
Membership Statistics: We have 17 Active, 3 Honorary and 3 Family members.
Our ClubRunner account allows us to manage memberships & retention and maintain an up to date member’s directory.
Social Media Contacts: Since re-vamping our website and being more active on Social Media we are delighted to have had a number of enquiries and visits from people interested in joining Rotary and/or working with us.
We warmly welcomed Family Members Suellen Whyte and Norma Boag in 2019. And with great pleasure we inducted Lynne Wilson in January 2020 as our newest Rotarian member.
Recently we farewelled PP David Mylan, family member Pia Mylan and Honorary member Ben Brown who have all moved on in Rotary. We wish them well in the Rotary eClub of Greater Sydney and, for Ben, the new Social Impact Network. We thank them so much for their contributions over many years and look forward to keeping connected with them all.
Hearty congratulations to both Michael Hickey OAM and Harold Sharp OAM who were honoured this week in the Queen’s Birthday Honours for their wide community work.
COVID19 has of course been our biggest challenge - finding ways to ensure everyone was still connected, well informed and engaged. Social Activities got off to a great start but have of course been severely curtailed by COVID19. We look forward to finding different and increasing opportunities to re-engage in the next Rotary year. Zoom meetings… have been the saving grace enabling a wide reach, interesting programs… and some challenges or are they opportunities?
Vocational Report
Director - Anne Cantrill
The Terrigal Rotary Club had a vocational visit organised by Bill Boag on the fifth of March to Chamberlain Manufacturing at West Gosford. The visit was well attended by Club members and the robotic displays were informative and interesting. Unfortunately, the proposed Club visit to Coast Shelter on the 18th of March and the Rotary Awards for Vocational Excellence evening were cancelled because of Covid-19 restrictions. Better luck next year.
International Report
Director Jill Hamilton 2019 - 2020
Our on-going support beneficiary has remained the School for Life, Uganda.
This Rotary funded school was founded by Annabel Chauncey together with David Everett, Australians, in 2008, as a response to her vision of world class education for the rural poor in Uganda. Rotary has been a major partner from the beginning, and fund raising is always needed to keep the school running, and supporting vocational development in the immediate village, Katuuso.
We donated $700 this year to sponsor a child for the year, and a further $700 towards the school’s Building project for a Girl’s Boarding House.
Through President Mary’s connections in South Africa, we had a very successful visit to our Sister Club, Helderberg Sunrise, in the town of Somerset West, in September 2019. This may prove to be a friendship exchange, in the next couple of years, when we hope that members of Helderberg Sunrise, are able to visit us.
Friendship Exchange
Three members from our club plus one member from Gosford North and one from Kincumber, enjoyed a friendship exchange with our Twin Club, the Rotary Club of Helderberg Sunrise in South Africa. HS provided accommodation and meals at fellow Rotarians homes and then generously funded our stay at a guest house. Every day of our week long visit was full of both tourist and Rotary activities. Extreme hospitality and generosity were shown to our members by these lovely South Africans in this exceedingly beautiful country.
Shelterbag Project
We are awaiting arrival of a sample shelterbag and pattern from South Africa so that we may decide if we can make this a viable and sustainable project. Holdups have been caused by Covid-19 restrictions in South Africa.South African Feeding
Three members from our club plus one member from Gosford North and one from Kincumber, enjoyed a friendship exchange with our Twin Club, the Rotary Club of Helderberg Sunrise in South Africa. HS provided accommodation and meals at fellow Rotarians homes and then generously funded our stay at a guest house. Every day of our week long visit was full of both tourist and Rotary activities. Extreme hospitality and generosity were shown to our members by these lovely South Africans in this exceedingly beautiful country.
Shelterbag Project
We are awaiting arrival of a sample shelterbag and pattern from South Africa so that we may decide if we can make this a viable and sustainable project. Holdups have been caused by Covid-19 restrictions in South Africa.South African Feeding
Our club received a $6000 Covid-19 matching District Grant to help our Twin Club RCHS, in the Cape Province with Feeding the starving populations prohibited from working because of Covid 19 restrictions. After hosting the community chair of HS at a Zoom talk, we raised $3500 but now have to raise
another $2500 to match this grant.
Didi Foundation
Through the Rotary Club of North Lakes- Toukley, in our District, we were able to provide a platform for seeking a District Grant to their Didi Project in Nepal. The programme is bringing support to locally developed educational and training support for girls in Nepal. This project also introduced us to the viability of seeking a grant for the South African Feeding programme, brought on by Covid-19, through our sister club Helderberg Sunrise.
Days for Girls is a charity which makes and promotes sustainable sanitary protection for girls at school in countries where poverty dictates that older girls start withdrawing from regular attendance at school. Local branches make kits from fabric, which are then distributed to countries in need. Sustainability is developed by teaching local groups in country, to make and sell kits at little more than cost price. A kit, being washable, is designed to last for two years,
We donated to our local group $500
Foundation Report
Director – Gina Growden
The Rotary Foundation, being Rotary’s Charity, is a vehicle for Clubs and Districts to provide humanitarian and education projects around the world. Clubs wishing to carry out a small, short term project which addresses a need either in the local community or internationally, can apply to the Foundation for a District Grant. Global grants are much larger grants ($30,000 plus) and are used to fund longer-term (multi-year) projects supporting large international activities with sustainable, measurable outcomes in one or more of six specific areas of focus - including Water and Sanitation, Maternal and Child health, Promotion of Peace and Fighting Disease.
The Rotary Foundation is funded by donations from both Clubs and individual Rotarians.
The Rotary Club of Terrigal has a long history of financially supporting The Rotary Foundation but has not recently applied to the Foundation to fund a local or international project. President Mary has investigated the possibility of the club receiving Foundation support for a project with our sister club in South Africa and has been advised by the District Foundation Chair, PDG Bruce Lakin, that a District grant will be available for this project during the 2020-21 Rotary Year.
Personal Giving to the Foundation
Members were encouraged to renew their membership of, or join the Centurion program of the Rotary Foundation which involves a personal donation to the Foundation of $100 Australian per year. Approximately half of all Club members are Centurions. In addition, one member made a monthly donation of $100 resulting in a total donation to the Foundation of A$1200 for the year.
Club Support
For the past few years the Club Board has agreed to send a donation to The Rotary Foundation in lieu of gifts to guest speakers at club meetings. This tradition was continued in 2019-20. A special donation was also made this year to Rotary’s End Polio Now Campaign which aims at raising $50m globally, which, if successful will be matched 2 for 1 from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to fund the campaign to rid the world of polio. The polio eradication campaign was a Rotary initiative which began over 30 years ago and has now led to polio close to being eliminated.
For every US$1,000 donated to the Foundation clubs are given 1000 points which enables then to recognise a club member, or member of the local community with a Paul Harris Fellow recognition.
Gina Growden
Foundation Director
2019-20