A fun and productive strategic planning meeting was held on 6th July.
Integrating feedback from the recent club health survey and building on club achievements in the last year I envisage a fun year ahead. We will send to you all the updated strategic plan for your consideration and feedback once it has been formatted.
From our meeting on the 6th, cooking is going to be an important fun part of the year and Rotarian Shelley will start the cooking ball rolling with a damper recipe at our meeting on the 9th August.
See Shelley's recipe further down in the Bulletin.
From the Treasury Team
We welcome Jeff to the role of Treasurer and he will keep us informed re our club finances, semi annual dues etc.
Jeff invites any member who is interested in learning about this important part of the club to contact him, he welcomes assistance in the role. Jeff can be contacted at: jeffp5040@gmail.com
We are a very busy Club - below is a snapshot of the projects that we are currently involved in.
The Three C's Cafe
The Three C's Cafe Check-in, Connect, and Chat is a virtual cafe space facilitated by members of the GNMRC who have been trained to offer a supportive environment for Nurses and Midwives to share mutual experiences, concerns, and feelings in a confidential, safe space.
The cafe sessions are available via a zoom link which you will be given once you register for a session. Each cafe session will last one hour.
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.
Wendy McIntosh and Cecelia Flom head up this project.
The Florence Nightingale International Foundation (FNIF), the charitable arm of ICN, launched the Girl Child Education Fund (GCEF) in 2005 with the mission of supporting access to education for the orphaned daughters of nurses in developing countries.
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.
Rudson is continually updating our club social media of Facebook and Instagram and Deborah Jackson updates our Twitter. As you feel OK to do so follow us and share postings that you think would be beneficial for colleagues in your organisations and collegial groups to view. Let us all work together to promote our fabulous Rotary Club.
As always, Rudson welcomes your input and comments and can be contacted on
In Rotary, July is a time of new beginnings, a time to reconnect with each other across distances and differences and to respond to change, a time to show Rotary Opens Opportunities.
Joy Matthews is currently teaching at Central Queensland University and based in Bundaberg, QLD, Joy also works at a small rural multi-purpose hospital and health centre in rural Queensland. Before settling into teaching joy worked in the parts of Australia that most people never get to see, from the Tanami Desert to the Torres Strait Islands, and across the top end from the Indian Ocean Territory to Arnhem Land. Joy describes herself as a “MacGyver nurse”, where working in unusual locations with limited resources means you sometimes have to be a jack of all trades, creatively working with what you have, not what you wish you had!
Zoom link: (Please note: club meetings and education sessions will all be the same zoom link that we have been using for meetings)
Fun Weekend ! Join us for a weekend of shenanigans, fun and laughter.
Where? Caloundra
When? Friday 9th to Sunday 11th September 2022
Why? ... because Caloundra offers many activities like
golf, the beach, cafes, walking, restaurants ... as members of the GNMRC, we can create our own fun time together. No pressures just a good time to look forward to.
If you cannot make the weekend do not worry we will be organising a virtual get tougher during that weekend for members who cannot attend in person.
RSVP your interest by 30th June to Mhairi Mackinnon - wine37@optusnet.com.au. If you want to find out more about this fun time email Mhairi for more information.
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 agenda's 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
Next education meeting 26th July
Next club meeting 9th August - goes speaker - Jenny Weaver Birthing Kit Foundation (Australia)
28th-30th October - Zone 8 Rotary & Rotaract Build Together Conference - Canberra Australia
2023
24th-26th March - District 9620 Conference Leadership Hands, Mind Heart & Mind Brisbane Australia
27th-31st May - Rotary International Conference - Melbourne Australia
11th-14th June - ICM Triennial Congress - Bali Indonesia
1st - 5th July - ICN - Congress - Montreal Canada
GNMRC - Culinary Delights
with Shelley Nowlan
Introducing the damper
Damper is a bread made from wheat-based dough. Flour, salt and water, with some butter if available, is lightly kneaded and baked in the coals of a campfire, either directly, or within a camp oven over a fire. However, we will do the cooking in a contemporary house hold oven. When cooked as smaller, individually-sized portions, these damper ‘bush scones’ are often called ‘Johnny Cakes’.
Our Club Information Brochure
We have created a Global Nurses and Midwives Club Brochure that we can use to give out to people in they are interested in joining us or want to know what we are about.
Please have a look at the Brochure and distribute it to Nurses and Midwives who you think would be interested in Joining our Club.
If you would like to present to other Nursing colleagues or to other Rotary Clubs in your area about the Global Nurses and Midwives Rotary Club Wendy and her team have created a Powerpoint presentation and notes to assist you.
As with all the documents that are referred to in the Bulletin these resources are available for you to download from the website. Just log in to the Member's area and choose the documents tab. Our website address is https://gnmrotaryclub.com/
Have you accessed the Members Website?
The Members area of the Global Nurses and Midwives Website houses a lot of information about our club.
You can find all the documents that are discussed at meetings and in the Bulletin, plus check your own details, communicate with other Members and there is an App you can download so you can access info anywhere, anytime.
