Committees
We
have five principal committees
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The Club Service
Commitee ensures that the club runs efficiently, and that there is stimulating
and varied programme. It is also responsible for the integration of new members
into the club, with membership and classifications, attendance, fellowship and
friendship within the club. It organises various annual events such as Ladies'
Evening, the Club's Christmas Party, and Charter Night.
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Community Service
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Community service
is the traditional and well-known face of Rotary. It covers help and advice to
the aged, the handicapped, the infirm, young people and all those in need, either
directly or through local charitable organisations. Environmental projects are
part of community service. Thos year we have;
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Citizenship Scheme. – A project involving
local schools. Children form various age ranges are selected by the schools to
visit a number of interesting venues with a view to broadening their knowledge
and awareness of non-academic but educational situations.
These
visits include visits the Reebok Stadium, the Mayor’s parlour in Bolton and the
Houses of Parliament in London.
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Stroke Awareness. – For one day each year
Rotary sets up a booth outside Tesco’s store at Middlebrook and invites members
of the public to have a free blood pressure test. These are carried out by
professional nurses and anyone with raised blood pressure is advised to contact
their doctor for further tests.
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Old People’s function. Each year
we hold a fun night at St Mary’s Hall where 70-80 senior citizens enjoy music,
entertainment, food & drink, courtesy of Horwich Rotary Club.
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Kid’s Out. A number of deserving local
children enjoy a day out at the Camelot leisure park. This jointly funded by
several other local Rotary Clubs.
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Youth Development. The committee works with
local schools to encourage and sponsor various “arts” based schemes and
competitions.
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Physical & Mentally Handicapped Projects. A number
of projects have been funded where the committee feels that additional funds
can make a difference to people lives.
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Horwich Youth Sports Development Scheme. This is
run by a Rotarian and has developed strongly over the last 2 years. It involves
a large number of local children who are encouraged to participate in a number
of athletic events. Membership has grown substantially with the support of
Rotarian funds.
The committee is constantly approached for help by local organisations. We endeavour wherever possible to accommodate, them where funds allow.
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International Service
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International
service promotes worldwide goodwill. It includes emergency boxes, eye camps,
vocational training schools, text books, tools, water filtration units and many
other items for areas of need. Rotarians of different race, creed and custom,
when brought together in fellowship, play an important part in breaking down
prejudice and developing true international understanding. Many Rotarians
volunteer their free time to projects in third world countries to bridge the
gap of world understanding.
The Rotary Foundation, Rotary's
corporate charity, is dedicated to furthering international understanding,
goodwill and peace. The Foundation administers many programmes to aid the needy
and deserving. One of these programmes is the 3-H fund which seeks to alleviate
problems of the disadvantaged throughout the world under the headings of
Health, Hunger and Humanity. The projects supported under this programme are
usually beyond the capability of a single club or group of clubs to support.
The Foundation's most ambitious
project so far has been PolioPlus,
a campaign to help the World Health Organisation and UNICEF immunise the
world's children against polio, measles, diphtheria, whooping cough, tetanus
and tuberculosis. PolioPlus raised over $400 million of which Rotary clubs in
Great Britain and Ireland contributed £8 million.The fund also provides grants,
educational scholarships and opportunities for young people, but not Rotarians
or their close relatives, to visit and study in other countries.
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Vocational Service
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As jobs are key
elements in determining Rotary membership, vocational service draws on the
ethical standards, experience and expertise that Rotarians apply in their work.
Vocational projects support training and job development, provide mock
interviews, encourage the development of skills in employment and foster the
highest standards in business and the professions.
Vocational Committee encourages
young people and adults in their education and training in particular with its
"Youth Opportunities" programme which provides awards to young
persons talented in music or sport etc.
Youth
Liason Officer – Keith Maher 
Graham Southern (foundation)
Rotary
Knowledge Bank
Matching Grants
Rotary
Foundation Matching Grants are a tool that clubs can use to help fund many
types of service projects from $10,000 to $300,000 in size. They build Rotary
fellowship by "Matching" Rotarians from a club or district in one
part of the world with a club or district in another part of the world who work
together to design a project, manage it, with each contributing some funds to
the budget of the project. Additionally, they ask our Rotary Foundation to add
to the club or district funds with an additional "match" of more
money.
Matching Grants written and managed by Rotary Clubs all over the world were
funded by over US $20 million during the 2004/05 Rotary year to help Rotarians
make the world a better, more peaceful place to live. Has your club partnered
on a Matching Grant recently?
If your club is not yet doing Matching Grants, this is the time to get
involved. It is easy and fun and you will meet and become friends with
Rotarians all around the world; many ROTI members have done this for years.
Look at how your club can invest in a project already waiting for help or
develop on and get help from other Rotarians to help your people.
Rotary Foundation Matching Grants help Rotary Clubs and Rotary Districts do
great humanitarian service. They require clubs or districts in different
locales to match themselves and their money on the project. ROTI is an
excellent place for such acquaintance to be made. ROTI is not a clearinghouse
for projects, but our role in the "fellowship" line of action makes
us a natural starting point for Matching Grant opportunities. As ROTI members
become friends and "fellows" in our Fellowship, then Matching Grant
projects will result.
Useful Resources for
Undertaking Matching Grants
- The Rotary International site is full of
information and the necessary forms. This is your natural starting point,
and there is an easy search facility to assist you.
- The MatchingGrants.org is a private Rotary initiative, and
is not underwriten by the Rotary Foundation in Evanston. The goal of this
website is to facilitate communications between Rotarians looking for
projects to finance, and Rotarians looking to finance their local
projects.
- HANDS (Humanitarian Aid Network and Distribution
System) Across the Sea was formerly the World Community Service
Resource Network (WCSRN). Although this is not a Matching Grant site, the
information provided is valuable to anyone wanting to establish a Matching
Grant project.
RI Mission
Statement
At
its June meeting, the RI Board approved a new mission, vision, and set of core
values for Rotary International, reaffirmed that Rotary's motto is Service
Above Self, and adopted the priorities and goals established in the
organization' s 2007-10 Strategic Plan.
Rotary's new mission reads:
The
mission of Rotary International, a worldwide association of Rotary clubs, is to
provide service to others, to promote high ethical standards, and to advance
world understanding, goodwill, and peace through its fellowship of business,
professional, and community leaders.
Dr.Arun
Parikh
PDG RID 3050
Deadline extended! Sign up for the 2008 RI convention by 5 October and
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