I invite you all to join us this Tuesday evening for our Club Changeover, commencing at 1830 AEST. As usual our meeting room will be open at 1800. Details, including the run sheet are included in this bulletin.
Semi annual invoices have been issued and I would ask that all members make their payments by the due date.
Major initiative for the club - Turkish Student Nurse Fundraiser
All members are encouraged to participate in some way in this initiative. Hold a fund raising event, visit a local Rotary Club and give a presentation, donate a recipe for the e-recipe book we will produce, promote our initiative on your social media in your workplaces. We will establish a Go Fund me link.
Below is the first video that we have produced which we can use to promote what we as a Rotary Club are doing to assist our Turkish student nurse colleagues.
Nursing Essentials Conference on the 20th & 21st July
Here is the link for the fund raiser that is being organised by Sue (thank you) and as you know some of our members have volunteered their time to be involved over the 2 days. For those of you who live in Qld especially please forward this link to colleagues and invite them to come along.
We also now have a page on our website dedicated to the fund raiser and I invite all of you to invite colleagues to share the link and reason for the conference.
Link for conference - copy and paste into your server
Global Nurses & Midwives Rotary Club - GNMRC e-Cook Book - a project all members of the club can participate in
Our writing team Maria, Shehla, Dolly and Wendy are delighted to say we are now ready to do the next step in our GNMRC e-cook book. Please open the attachment below to find out more information and also to see the information that the writing time invite you to present to us in order to create the e-book. We envisage our readers with be Rotarians, nursing & midwifery colleagues and more general public who like cooking and stories.
Gold Coast Benji
Some members met Gold Coast Benji at one of our meetings in 2021.
Benji has raised millions of dollars for various charities over a number of years.
Benji and his handler Karin Kolenko have volunteered to assist us.
Charter President Wendy shakes hands with Gold Coast Benji who is going to assist our club fund raise for our Turkish Student Nurse Fund Raiser and will join members presenting at the conference in Sunshine Coast next month
We need you, our members, to make this the best Rotary Club possible.
Two other fundraising possibilities. We would appreciate if someone can volunteer to coordinate the following:
Gold Coin Donation day
The role would require a member to contact universities / hospitals / professional bodies about our Turkish Student Nurse Fundraiser and the club and invite them to have a Gold Coin Awareness Day to assist our colleagues in Turkey.
Let us all work together to make this the best possible Rotary Club we can.
2nd Club Changeover 13th June 20231830hrs start Qld time
President Mavis will induct President Elect Sally to the Club President role which Sally will officially commence on the 1st July 2023. We will also announce Paul Harris Fellow Recognition from the club for this current Rotary year.
Have you registered with MY Rotary yet ?
A big thank you to all members who have registered with My Rotary between September and now.
My Rotary really is a rich resource of ideas about RI and different roles within clubs.
Project Portfolio leads are Louise Webber & Jules Aitken. Louise and Jules are open to suggestions from members. Louise and Jules have recently emailed members to contact their local rotary clubs to tell them about our Fundraiser for the Turkish nurses. Please use the template provided and the recommendations for how to approach your local rotary club.
Education Lead
Nicole Purcell has the role of Education Lead for the club. Nicole is looking forward to ensuring quality education / information sessions for our members on the 4th Tuesday of each month.
If you have an idea for a presenter / topics please let Nicole know, she would love to hear from you. Nicole can be contacted at kelsoqueen29@gmail.com.
Club Projects
We are a very busy Club - below is a snapshot of the projects that we are currently involved in.
Hello Rotarians As you are aware the Three C’s Cafe Check in Connect Chat is one of our major projects. The Three C’s Cafe offers a virtual space for colleagues to come into for a chat about professional matters of interest to them / and a space in which to be supported. The cafe is open to colleagues where ever they are in the world. The cafe is open to members of this club and non members.
Shelter Box is an exceptional organisation that our Club has partnered with. They provide emergency relief to people around the world who have been made homeless by natural disasters and conflict.
We have pledged to fund five Shelter Boxes each year for the next 3 years. The cost is $1000 per Shelter Box and we raise funds for this through raffles and events held at Education Conferences conducted by the Nurses for Nurses Network and Education at Sea.
A big thank you to the work of Sue, Jason and Louise to make this happen. Shelterbox is very active in Turkey and Syria due to the recent devastating earthquakes.
The Rotary Solar Case has been developed, first and foremost, to provide light in remote health centres, aiding health workers where the availability of electricity is problematic at the best of times. The ability to provide portable lights for village birthing assistants is a major priority in areas where women often give birth in village huts or village health centres where the light from kerosene lanterns or mobile phones is otherwise the best available alternative.
If you want to know the date of any of the Club Meetings or Events then go to the events page on the website.
Meeting agendas and minutes are sent out by the club Secretary attached to an email a few days before the meeting takes place. If you are not receiving those emails then contact the Club Secretary on secretary.gnmrotaryclub@gamail.com
2023
13th June GNMRC Changeover
1st - 5th July - ICN - Congress - Montreal Canada
2nd July District 9620 Changeover
20th & 21st July - 2 day conference Nursing Fundamentals on the Sunshine Coast Qld. - Major event for the Turkish Student Nurses Fund raiser - all members invited to attend
District 9620 - District Changeover
We belong to District 9620 and each week a Newsletter called the GIST sent out to all Rotarians in that District.
The district changeover is 2nd July.
Who wants to attend? Our own PP Wendy Mac is MC for the event
