Monday, 3 February 2014

Week 31 Looking Back……. & Looking Forward!


Rotary Engagements since July 1                    202

Been a week of meetings to review how we’ve done so far this Rotary year, and what we’re getting up to the rest of this year plus what we might do next year, always good to be looking at continuity!

With that in mind on Monday I went to a meeting of our Finance Review Committee, looking at the figures for this year so far, checking what we think is coming up and what plans we’re thinking up for the year 2014-2015 and what that might mean so we can set a budget.

Then on Wednesday managed to go to my own club again – we had our partners join us for the evening, although for us that’s pretty usual with Joan being a Rotarian as well.  Our speaker for the evening was also a member of our family, son-in-law Alex, who enlightened us on how TV pictures get from sporting venues to our screens and the vast numbers of people needed to make it happen (and how that number might potentially be reduced by technology in the future).  Great evening!

On Thursday a meeting with our District’s Assistant Governors, looking at how the clubs in our District are getting on and how we can combine to help them.


Terrific workshop on Saturday morning with 25 Rotarians keen to “Get their Message Across”, with presentations on creative ways of marketing our Rotary clubs and encouraging people to join us and hands-on time learning how to update websites.  Looking forward to seeing the results of their efforts in the future.

Saturday evening it was off to Oxford to celebrate the Oxford club’s 90th anniversary.  One of the oldest clubs in our District, the club remains one of the largest in our District and some 70 of us met at the Randolph Hotel, which has been the club’s meeting place for 75 years.  Guest of honour was the Lord Lieutenant of Oxfordshire, Tim Stevenson OBE, who praised the club’s contribution to the community over 90 years.

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