President Mark addressed the club by describing some of the challenges he sees and asks us all to consider how we as members can work through these and generate some useful actions to move us forward.
Membership is always a challenge - not just for Rotary but for almost any service organisation that asks for a time commitment.
But what drives membership?....it's the overall package that we sell to existing members, guests and anyone that interacts with us. Good events, good speakers and good causes that resonate with a wider group. These are the things that keep us engaged and wanting to carry on with our participation.
But what drives the events and causes? The initiatives that we as members and committees dream up are the gold dust that we sprinkle about the club - we ask for others to join us and drive them into events. We need to ensure that these initiatives will attract the interest of our members and we can leverage them to generate interest to attract new people into our club.
Ours is a slowly decreasing membership and we need to arrest this and increase our numbers. Put your thinking caps on...any ideas can be passed to the Board for consideration...it's up to you. Take action.
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