Recruitment Success For The Rotary Club of Frodsham & Helsby
5 New Members Inducted, With 1 New Member To Follow Shortly!
For some time now our Club, along with many other Club's have been faced with the very real problems of recruitment. With the changes in the modern day work ethos and practices and the ever increasing demands on peoples free time, it is no wonder that difficulties are being experienced with the recruitment of New Members into the Rotary movement, and for that matter, other Service Organizations.
With this in mind, our Club formed a special Team to look very closely into the question of Recruitment. This team, under the Chairmanship of Past President Richard Brook, comprised our President Hedley Greaves, VP1 Tony Cervenka, VP2 Malcolm Davies and finally our Hon. Treasurer Frank Queenan. Following an Open Membership Meeting in January, where we entertained 9 Guests, we organised several other meetings designed to be of interest to Prospective New Members. The outcome of this directed initiative achieved results far beyond expectations with expressions of interest being received from SIX of our guests. As a direct result of all the hard work put into this initiative, it was with great pleasure that at our Dinner Meeting on the 12th of May, President Hedley inducted FIVE new Members into our Club.Were it not to have been for the untimely intervention of work commitments it would have been SIX, but be assured that Alan Laird will be inducted as a new Member into our Club in the very near future.
Our photograph shows, from left to right, Fred Bishop, Andrew Donaldson, Ian Tickle, President Hedley, Vince Akers, Eddy Basnett following their induction into our Club.
Gentlemen, welcome to Rotary!
Grant a Smile to a Tsunami Orphaned Child.
On hearing the horrific news of the
Asian Tsunami disaster on the 26th of December 2004, our Club agreed to
support the efforts of the Disaster Emergency Committee by releasing an
immediate donation of £500. Not wishing to leave it there, we
organized events and collections in an effort to raise further funds
that would be used to provide much needed help and support.In view of
the vast amounts of money that was raised world wide, it was decided
that the money raised by the Club would be used, if possible, for a
specific project or cause as opposed to passing it on to a major
Charity.
Recently 5 of our Club members, along with their wives formed a party of 17 people taking aid from Global Care to a School and an Orphanage in Sri Lanka, and the reports from them of their first hand experiences of the tragic effects of the Tsunami helped in deciding where our Club would like to use the money it had raised.
The Rotary Club of Kandy in Sri
Lanka has launched a programme
called Grant a Smile to a Tsunami Orphaned Child . This adventurous
scheme provides for the sponsorship of children who have been affected
by the killer Tsunami which caused havoc in Sri Lanka. The aim is to
get orphans back to school and provide help to them with the hope that
at some point in the near future their guardians might be in a better
position to look after them. Our Club has agreed to sponsor 4 Orphans
for a three year period on this programme which for 30.00 US$ per month
provides for their Education, Clothing, Medicine, Accommodation and
Food. In all it is expected that the cost will be about
£2500, and if any money is left over, we will pass it on to
Global Care a UK Charity based in Coventry who sponsor Schools and
Orphanages in Sri Lanka.
President Hedley Greaves and all the members of the Rotary Club of Frodsham & Helsby would like to thank everyone who donated or helped with our Tsunami fund raising efforts
