Presidents Tony & David

Both Presidents,Tony Wallis from Melton Belvoir, and David Ward from the Rotary Club of Melton Mowbray, were out early this morning at the start of a busy day for both clubs. As well as collecting at Tesco’s, as part of the Rotary Awareness Campaign, both clubs are heavily involved with todays semi-final of the Young Musician Compeition

Check this  Rotary Club Grants Olympic Wish and all the other stuff on the ROTARY LINKS  page

This week only if you are unable to attend the meeting will you please advise PAUL DICKINSON telephone number 01664 501920 before 10 am on Monday22nd.

Please Note Our New  Web Address       www.rotarymelbel.org

Want to know more about Rotary International ? Watch This Short Video

Radio Leicester Broadcast   (14/02/2010)

You can listen to the broadcast again by clicking on this Link

ROTARY DAY 23rd Feb

Trailer from ‘The Final Inch’ an award winning documentary by Irene Brodsky

The two Melton Mowbray clubs have agreed to work together on the following:

1. Organise a ‘Window of Opportunity’ by utilising a town centre empty shop front to display Thanks for Life posters.

2. Man a market stall on Tuesday 23rd February for polio eradication fund raising

3. A similar fund raising opportunity inside Tesco’s on Saturday 27th February

4. Working with Interact at King Edward VII and other schools on fund raising ideas such as ‘Purple Pinkie’

For those of you who thought Valentines Day just meant buying some flowers for your partner, try listening  to “Down To Earth”  today  on  Radio Leicester (104.8fm and DAB) at 12.00 noon, you may recognise a few familiar voices, and hear President Tony’s excellent piece on Polio Plus. when we can, there will be a link to the BBC iPlayer to listen to the programme

Look on UPCOMING EVENTS page for information from President Tony about what will be happening for Rotary Day

This has certainly not been an overnight success but the result of twelve months of continued and steady focus on all membership issues not just recruitment.

There have been a number of key elements during that time which have specifically helped our membership drive.  For instance the Zone 18 Membership Seminar back in October 2008 excellently run by Ray Burman, provided many useful ideas (see the ‘Road Map to Rotary Membership’ CD) which we were able to adapt and implement for our club.  Also the formation of a dedicated Membership committee at the beginning of this Rotary year enabled a much better focus on recruitment.

As this is our 25^th Anniversary year we also arranged a re-union with the club for founder and former members, this not only resulted in two previous members rejoining but also emphasised to existing members our particular strengths.  These are that we are a fun-loving club and a club where all our members appreciate and enjoy quality fellowship.  This latter point is one of the most important of all for unless club meetings are interesting, fun and enjoyable prospective members will not want to join.

Certainly we had some success, in September this year, with an Information Evening for prospective members; more importantly though, we found that recruitment is about every member wanting to share something worthwhile with others in the community.  Another key element of our success is that we have worked hard to get maximum publicity for all our activities, especially in the local press.  Our oldest new member is 87 and our youngest is 35 so we must have something that appeals to a wide cross section of the community!

The lessons we have learned over the last twelve months will hopefully, enable us to continue, successfully, with our membership recruitment and retention plans and we intend to repeat the Information Evening format again in March 2010.

Mondays meeting is a Business Meeting, following  Club council at 6.15 for those involved. President Tony is keen to announce to the Club the NEW WEB SITE. The proposal is just to telll members about the WordPress site, and, time permitting, show them with the help of the projecter. Members will be given the WEB ADDRESS of the new site, but those who have joined WordPress already may now learn how to contribute to the site, and add content and posts. Members who only have access to the web site should still be able to put comments on the site if they wish. Obviously we are very much still needing to learn how to make best use of the site. If you get this and wish to discus anything, please contact me. Thanks, Ken