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Foundation Service Committee
2007 The annual Quiz Night was held on Thursday March 1st and was well attended. A total of £250 was raised for the Rotary Foundation. District 1080 Foundation News
March
2007 The next newsletter. We are still going strong with Foundation in District 1080 with lots of things happening, as you will see in the various sections below. The main emphasis, so far, has been on Matching Grants and getting clubs to understand them better. By doing so, a club is more likely to get involved and see that they can really get value out of the Foundation grant scheme and also understand that we can only go forward by increasing donations year by year. If a member of the team has not visited your club recently and you have questions, please just ask. This newsletter is not just for the club Foundation team , so try and spread it round so that all members can have a greater appreciation of Foundation – THE ROTARY CHARITY. DISTRICT 2006/7
TEAM Hugh
Davies - Chairman Brian
Baxter - Grants Chairman Barry
Catchpole - Ambassadorial Scholars Iain
Livingstone - G.S.E.Teams John
Gillespie Chris
Johnson - Contributions Janet
Coombs Paul
Dover CONTRIBUTIONS We had a super year in 2005/6 with record contributions but so far this year we seem to have lost ground and I would urge your club either to think of ways of increasing your last year’s amount or indeed making sure the club Treasurer is sending in the monies already raised as he normally does. We are being more sophisticated in analysing how each club’s pattern of donations are sent to District/RIBI, so that we can contact them if for some reason their pattern is either up or down. Congratulations to Aylsham, Lowestoft East Point and particularly Ely Hereward, one of our new clubs, for their extra special contributions so far. Please, please get your club to support OUR CHARITY. As you know there are various ways of getting this apart from Fund Raising – Gift Aid, Rotary Credit Card and others which you have already heard about. How many of you have got involved in selling the Credit Card to the club – so easy, and only one use gives £25 to Foundation. AMBASSADORIAL
SCHOLARS We have a number of scholars
at Cambridge ( from USA and
Japan ) and two at the U.E.A( Japan ). They have been involved with various
clubs in talks and other activities and also at the Seminar last December.If you
haven’t heard any of them, please contact Barry Catchpole who will arrange a
visit. Our own scholar, Richard, has been in Toronto since the Fall and has been in touch by email. GSE TEAMS The incoming team from District 2440 in Turkey are arriving at Norwich Airport on Saturday 14 April and are
due to leave for home on Saturday 12 May. The first week will be spent in the
East/South East, the next week is hosted by Downham Market, 3rd. week
hosted by Newmarket and final week in Norwich/Dereham with final rally in
Norwich on Friday
11 May. All clubs are requested to get involved with the team and if you
would like a programme and details of local organiser in a particular week,
please contact Iain – iandml@tinyworld.co.uk
. All clubs should be starting to think about possible
candidates for the next team to S.E.Australia and we want a fantastic response
to this and not the “wimper” we got to the current year, which resulted in
us having to cancel the outgoing team, due to lack of support. DISTRICT
SIMPLIFIED GRANTS This year we got £6,207, which has now been spent with 12 different clubs on projects ranging from – Life Straws to Equipment for a Local Responder Team to Tsetse Fly elimination to Rotary House in Norwich.. We continue to work with clubs to enable them to help Local and International causes and the system is so easy, with very limited paperwork. However please help us with completion reports, as if we do not get these in to Evanston the next year’s grants are in jepoardy, which affects everybody. Please continue to find projects to match with DSGs for next year as although the money has been spent for this year we can start talking to you about future plans. Any queries to Brian Baxter. MATCHING GRANTS As I said earlier, we are making Matching Grants the MAIN
emphasis for this year and have
some really good projects coming forward for these. One of the RI areas for
support in 2006/7 and next year 2007/8 is WATER and we are still looking to
clubs to come forward with ideas for M.Gs. with water as the main aspect. One of
the best ways of doing this is by Groups of clubs getting together to formulate a joint project with the theme of
water. We already have four projects agreed or
being formalised, with groups of clubs getting together. Diss were the first out
of the traps and already have agreement to
start the first part of a two grant scheme for wells in Zambia before the end of
the year. They have
already got another application winging it’s way,as I write, for the second
set of 6 wells, helped by other clubs, and the Joint Norwich/Area East well
project in N.E.Natal will be off before the end of this month. This District has
been woeful in putting projects
forward for Matching Grants in recent years so we have agreed, for this year, a
1:1 funding from the DDF which means that for each £1 a club puts in it will
get £2.50 more in grants from District/RI. Other projects such as Swaffham’s
Cataract opertations in South Africa have been agreed and another 3 are in the
pipeline. Next year SHOULD BE EVEN BETTER.. POLIO PLUS This District, having given more to Polio Plus last year
than any other District in RIBI, is still keen to promote a final push to get
this dreadful disease completely eliminated. So please think of specific fund
raising for this or get, as one club has done, a school or College to be a
sponsor. Clubs will have had Polio Plus newsletters,
keeping us up to date with events, but more is still desparately needed.
District have allocated $5,000 to
match any clubs giving till the end of June and RI will match ours for this
period. Let us know of any giving so that we can make it more. VISITS These are still continuing apace as there is so much to
tell the clubs about OUR CHARITY but unless we are asked we cannot help you. I
have found that going round and talking about Foundation is really welcomed
in clubs and by knowing more
about the latest situation, it results in them being involved in District
Simplified or Matching grants . Please contact any of the team and request a
visit, either to a Club meeting or a Foundation Committee meeting. 2007 CALENDARS More were ordered this year but considering this District had 2 out of the 12 months we could have done much better. I understand that
2008’s is better so that when we get samples and order forms, please get your
club to do as Sally, in Lowestoft East Point, did this year and order 45. It was
only by hard work and inclination that she did it. QUESTIONNAIRE This is now finalised and we are going to distribute them
in the first place to all incoming Presidents at PETS this weekend. Those clubs
not represented will have them sent to
them. I am sure you will find the results fascinating and as a District we can
use the survey in order to improve the information available to clubs and each
club can see how they fare against the rest. I have been asked to give copies
to all other Districts as I understand we are the first to do one in this
detail. GIFT AID I said this last time but the Taxman gets far too much of our money and why not get some back for Foundation. All clubs should try to organise Gift Aid on all members Foundation contributions. If you havn’t already , please start “sweet-talking” your Treasurer if you do not do it as a regular aspect of giving. It is simple and adds a lot to the gift. A Matching Grant with GIFT AID can make a
£1.00 donation into a sum of £4.48. ROTARY CREDIT CARDS We set the target this year for each club to sign up a minimum of SIX members for the card. How many clubs have done this?
As I said above you only have to use it ONCE and Foundation get £25. You
can then forget it or be even more daring and continue to use it and
a small percentage will go to Foundation. Please contact me for forms,
not many clubs have!!! FOUNDATION SEMINAR The District Foundation Seminar in the East on 1 December was a great success and 58 people attended plus helpers from my club, Great Yarmouth. The various presentations were excellent and well received and the Question and Answer session had to be cut short, due to time.Thanks to all of you who came and for those who didn’t, you missed a great evening.We will be having more in other Areas next year. CONTINUE THE GOOD WORK Hugh 01493 369328 e-mail – hwrdavies@bigfoot.com 2006 As every year Members contributed to the Rotary Foundation. There was no Car Rally or Christmas dinner raffle to boast funds but the sucessful Quiz Night added a profit of £228.
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