Community Service & Vocations Committee
Welcome to
Community Service and Vocation
2011/2012
REACH WITHIN TO EMBRACE HUMANITY
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The Team
• Keith Tovey
(Norwich)
Environment
• Paul McIntee (Felixstowe Landguard)
paul.mcintee@btinternet.com
Literacy
• David Crerar (Felixstowe Landguard)
k.tovey@uea.ac.uk
david.crerar@talktalk.net
Vocation
• Robin Pivett (Woodbridge)
r.pivett128@btinternet.com
Drug Awareness
• Vacancy
Community Projects
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Introduction and Background
5 – 7 mins
Information gathering
15 mins
The RIBI Assembly
5 mins
Short Themed Presentations
25 - 30 mins
• Drug Awareness
- Robin Pivett
• Literacy
- Keith Tovey for Paul McIntee
• Vocational Service - David Crerar
• The Environment - Keith Tovey
• Discussions to identify
• Where do we go from here?
~20 mins
• What should D 1080 be doing?
• Concluding Remarks
~10 mins
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Where does District Assembly fit in?
• The opportunity to hear for 2011 - 2012
RI
• the RI Presidents message
RIBI
• the plans of RIBI
as expounded by the District Governor
1080
• the plans of District 1080
as discussed today
Club
• To start planning for Club Assemblies
[most Clubs hold them in May and June]
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Where does District Assembly fit in?
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The chance to share experience and best practice
The opportunity to learn about new initiatives
The opportunity to meet fellow district officers
The opportunity for District to identify where it
best can help Clubs – e.g. seminars/workshops
• Are projects limited because of lack of resources/
experience?
• Are there new initiatives you would wish to see?
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Some Clubs with falling membership are
finding increasingly difficult to maintain
activities and seek new opportunities
WE HAVE TOO MANY PROBLEMS!!
AND
OPPORTUNITIESARE NO WHERE
TOBEFOUND
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BUT solving problems can create
opportunities
AND
OPPORTUNITIESARE NOW HERE
TOBEFOUND
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• Are we often being negative?
”….There are problems in doing that..”
• But
Problems can often become opportunities
• Think Positively
• Think Laterally
• Think Creatively
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For next 15 minutes
Discuss in groups what you are doing
What are your particularly effective projects
Where you are having difficulties
Enter the information on the questionnaire
REACH WITHIN TO EMBRACE HUMANITY
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• We already have had responses from:
As at 10:00 on 7th April
Aylsham
Downham Market
Felixstowe Landguard
Lowestoft South
Norwich
Reepham
Swaffham
Wisbech
Woodbridge
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• RIBI Assembly Birmingham March 2011
– Key Themes Raised
• District 1080 Initiatives
– Drug Awareness
– Literacy
– Vocational Service
– Environmental Issues
• Where do we go from here?
• How can District support local initiatives?
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RIBI ASSEMBLY 25th – 27th March – Key Initiatives
London 2012
• Already 4 National Teams will have their
training camps within our District
• Can we provide support for overseas Rotarians
and others visiting UK for London 2012?
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RIBI ASSEMBLY 25th – 27th March – Key Initiatives
• How would we respond to
assist statutory emergency
services in the event of a
disaster?
– what expertise have
Rotarians?
– manning registration centres
REMIT FROM RIBI GENERAL COUNCIL
“Develop a contingency plan to assist Statutory Emergency Services
in dealing with the aftermath of disasters.”
However: District Governor Elect Tom wishes to discuss this further
in District Executive before full implementation.
But we should start to identify expertise we already have
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RIBI ASSEMBLY 25th – 27th March – Key Initiatives
• London 2012
• Resilience
• Rotary Spring Clean
RIBI Initiative
• Involve Rotarians, families,
friends in cleaning up countryside
• Equipment provided by Local
Authorities
• Being trialled in some areas
• Plan for a Rotary Day of “Spring
Cleaning” in 2012 - successor to
Focus on the Crocus
– In Suffolk we have related project “Don’t be a Tosser”
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RIBI ASSEMBLY 25th – 27th March – Key Initiatives
• Resilience
• Rotary Spring Clean
• How can we give more prominence to Rotary work
in the Community in the Media?
– RIBI suggests that we formally get involved with BBC
“Children in Need”
• Other organisations have been
involved
• If interested – target
October/November to be
filmed and get most publicity
• Contact Amanda Watkin – DG D1260
– awatkin@peoplerealm.com
07973 3846587
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Vocational Service
Which sectors have the worst reputation for
upholding high ethical standards?
100%
80%
60%
40%
20%
0%
From RIBI Assembly 2011
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Companies
perceived to have
high ethical
standards
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District 1080 Activities
Drug Awareness
Robin Pivett
(Woodbridge)
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Substance Misuse Key Objectives
Reduce demand
Restrict supply
Build recovery
Give people alternatives to fulfil their lives
Assist and support treatment services
Support recovery to an individual / family
Use your professional skills
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District 1080 Activities
Literacy In England
Literacy Officer is
Paul McIntee
(Felixstowe Landguard)
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Background: Moser report 1997
 Some 7 million adults in England - one in five adults
if given the alphabetical index to the Yellow Pages,
cannot locate the page reference for plumbers.
 One in five adults has less literacy than is expected of an
11-year-old child.
 The situation for numeracy is both worse
 Estimated that over 30% and may be as much as 50%
have numeracy problems.
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although data for numeracy is not as robust
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Background: National survey 2003:
Literacy of Adults
Numeracy of Adults
40%
28%
25%
11%
46%
16%
16%
2%
5%
3%
25%
44%
Competent: GCSE "C"
Entry Level 3 = Age 9
Entry Level 1 = Age 5
Functional = Age 11
Entry Level 2 = Age 7
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Background: What about schools?
5A-G
5A-C
5A–C
incl
Maths &
English
Source: DCSF
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Ambition for 2020
95% of adults to achieve functional literacy and numeracy,
(up from 85% and 79% respectively in 2005).
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90% adults qualified to at least Level 2 (69% in 2005)
68% adults qualified to at least Level 3
40% adults qualified to at least Level 4. (29% in 2005)
Level 1: GCSEs, O-Levels or equivalent at grades D-G;
Level 2: Five or more GCSEs, O-Levels or equivalent at
grades A*-C;
Level 3: Two or more A-Levels Guilds
Levels 4 & 5 1st and 2nd Year of BA, BSc, BEng (etc) or 1st
and Final Year of Foundation (Fd) Degree
Level 6: Final Year of Bachelor Degree
Level 7: Higher Degree: MA MSc, MBA
Level 8: PhD
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How are our clubs helping with Literacy?
Replies from clubs at end of literacy month:
Dictionaries 4 Life – sometimes as presentations to
groups of students, sometimes as prizes to
individuals
e.g. Felixstowe Clubs give Dictionaries to all Year
6 students
Youth Speaks – sometimes as a competition,
sometimes as a certificate for all.
Whenat is
Rotary
Literacy
Helping classes
infant
/ primary
schools with
reading, some involve
wives / partners
Month???
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Youth drop-in centre
Making large-print books available
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Where to next?
• In District 1080 we are evaluating:
“Is the Dictionaries4Life project making a difference?”.
• Felixstowe Clubs have given Dictionaries4Life to all year 6
students in the area
• Provides a unique opportunity to investigate how effective
project has been
• Follow-up research with Secondary School Students on the
extent to which they are using Dictionary.
RESULTS WILL BE PUBLISHED IN DUE COURSE
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District 1080 Activities
Vocational Service
David Crerar
(Felixstowe Landguard)
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The Second Object of Rotary
...................to encourage and foster:
High ethical standards in business and
professions, the recognition of the worthiness of
all useful occupations, and the dignifying of each
Rotarian's occupation as an opportunity to serve
society;
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The 4-Way Test
"Of the things we think, say or do:
1. Is it the Truth?
2. Is it Fair to all concerned?
3. Will it build goodwill and better friendships?
4. Will it be beneficial to all concerned?"
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Speech on Vocational Service
by Past RI President Ragendra Saboo
Edited version on Internet and on Disc
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District 1080 Activities
The Environment
Keith Tovey
(Norwich)
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District 1080 Initiatives for the Environment
• RIBI: Rotary Spring Clean
• Promotion of Initiatives for
– Renewable Energy,
– Recycling,
– Saving Energy and Money
• Water saving initiatives in Suffolk and
Essex water area
• Promotion of RIBI Environment Award
- deadline January 2012
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District 1080 Initiatives for the Environment
• RIBI: Rotary Spring Clean
• In Suffolk
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District 1080 Initiatives for the
Environment
• Rotary Spring Clean
District 1080 has 135 miles of coast
line and numerous miles of river
banks/ Broads etc etc
A critical issue is the waste/ litter
discarded on our beaches and in
countryside – often through a lack of
awareness of the impact.
Leaflet from District 1690
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Recycling Opportunities
Look out for recycling opportunities
which also make money.
•Save paper & reduce landfill
•Promotes Rotary
•Raises funds for Foundation
On sale for £2-50 per pack or special offer at Assembly -- 5 packs
for £10. All profit goes to Rotary Foundation
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District 1080 Initiatives for the Environment
• Getting the best out of FITs: Save Money? and the Planet
• Demystifying RHIs and get paid while your are heating your
home?
• Is your business ready for CRC?
Can we help by giving advisc to Rotarians or more
generally to the public at large?
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Joined up Rotary: serving Communities and the
Environment
• Along with District 1240, District 1080 is the driest part of UK,
and there are increasing pressures on water resources.
• Essex and Suffolk Water Initiative via their CSR Budget.
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• Essex and Suffolk Water want to partner Rotary to
promote these water saving kits among general public
What is required?
Get public to sign
up for kits on form
A simple exercise
working with the
community and
gaining publicity
for Rotary
Clubs MUST be based in E&SW area, but signees on form can
be outside. Clubs outside area could partner a Club within.
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Company: __Rotary Club of
XXXXX_____________________
This form should be used to record where and when Water Saving Kits have been distributed.
Please emphasise to everyone requesting a pack that the shower aerator is not suitable for electric showers and the Save-a-flush is
only suitable for toilets fitted before January 2001. If this reduces the need for a pack, but the requester still wants other water-saving
products, please ask them to email demand.planning@eswater.co.uk with their request.
Friends/family/neighbours can also request a Water Saving Kit by telephone 01268 664360 or by visiting www.eswater.co.uk
Field marked with * must be filled
Date *
Name and address
10/08/09
Joe Bloggs, 21 The Street, CM4 9DP
Requested water
saving pack? *
□ Yes
□ Yes
□ Yes
□ Yes
□ Yes
□ Yes
□ Yes
□ No
□ No
□ No
□ No
□ No
□ No
□ No
Signature *
J Bloggs
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District 1080 Initiatives for the Environment
• There are some good Environment initiatives within District 1080
• But nothing has been put forward from this District for the RIBI
Rodney Huggins Environment Award for many years.
Number of District
Entries
Category
Number
Club Projects
14
5
1040
Club & School Projects
2
3
1200
School Projects
1
2
1010, 1110
Club/Schools/Youth
1
1
1030, 1070, 1120, 1130, 1140,
Schools/Youth Projects
4
1170, 1180, 1190, 1270, 1280
• Have you thought of entering your Club or sponsoring a School or
Rotaract Club for a Rodney Huggins Award?
Projects include:
Deadline is January 2012
• Recycling Schemes, Nature/Wildlife Garden Projects (sensory
gardens), War Graves Restoration; Carbon cutting in a Club
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• How can District help on the initiatives in 2011 – 2012?
• We are creating a database of current and desired initiatives so
that
• We can help clubs planning new initiatives with experience
from other clubs
• Experiences can be shared and the benefits to the
Community will be greater than the sum of our individual
initiatives.
Now its over to you
• Would seminars on any of the topics covered by beneficial to
your Club or initiatives you might have with the general public?
• Using Questionnaire 2 as a guide – identify where you would
like to see help
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• What other activities should District 1080 focus on?
• What particularly significant projects in
Community and Vocational Service within District
1080 should we promote?
• Are there any areas that we should encourage RIBI
to adopt for the future?
• Should we consider supporting (both financially
and through service) a single District Wide Project
for one or two years and then move on to another
one?
• Would such single larger projects have more
prominence in publicity terms?
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Further Joined up Rotary:
The Environment and Drug Awareness
Collect Milk Bottle Tops
• Save the Environment
• Help people with alcohol and drug related issues
• NOTE: Only tops with 2 or 4 are suitable at present
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The Team
• Keith Tovey (Norwich)
k.tovey@uea.ac.uk
Environment
• Paul McIntee (Felixstowe Landguard)
paul.mcintee@btinternet.com
Literacy
• David Crerar (Felixstowe Landguard)
david.crerar@talktalk.net
Vocation
• Robin Pivett (Woodbridge)
r.pivett128@btinternet.com
Drug Awareness
• Vacancy
Community Projects
• This presentation will shortly be on D1080 Website, but in
meantime can be accessed at:
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http://www2.env.uea.ac.uk/cred/creduea.htm
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